Today is "Clash of the Titans"
Starring Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Neil McCarthy and Laurence Olivier
Far be it from the gods to actually have reasoning in their designs woven with jealous traits and vanity flaws, but for some reason, a hero is born out of this mess and comes to greatness via the bumblings of sea-worthy coffins, decent amphitheater living conditions and extravagant gifts. The hero spies the princess Andromeda (Bowker) sleeping, before her dreaming soul wanders into a cage that's flown by a giant buzzard. So up front we know we are dealing with swamps, rivers to underworlds, mount Olympus and a city riddled with curses and bonfires galore. A world of asylum-like craziness.
Perseus (Hamlin) is the son of Zeus and in love. While he claims the right as Andromeda's future betrothed due to answering a riddle correctly and Zeus (Olivier) having punished Calibos (McCarthy), which of course has Thetis (Smith) vexed to no end, he still must fulfill some dreaded task. Calibos being Thetis's son and Andromeda's former lover was dropped like a hot potato when he was deformed. His mother then dropped her marbled statue's head upon the wedding proceedings of Andromeda and Perseus. Now Perseus must undergo a grueling adventure of lurking in witch's cave-like shrines, isles of the dead and a host of creatures that either threaten or squeak persistently at him. He has the aid of a timid flying horse named Pegasus. The goddess Aphrodite (Andress) has very little to say but has somehow fixed this whole thing to work out in her favor by way of a stone-rendering spell that she came up with to make Medusa what Medusa was.
The sparse army which accompanies Perseus does fine in battle but still end up dead when there's a surprise around every corner. Medusa's head survived a lot longer in the plot than Medusa as a whole, did. Delivering a killing blow to an ancient sea-monster.
This has been my Movie Review. In my mind's eye I see a headache.
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