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The sound track for this is a good song, but obviously unrelated to the movie.

That said, the strikes of the scorpion part way through are timed perfectly with the beats of the music. So, there's that.

Meanwhile... if you aren't clinging to your youth... swigging large dregs from that bottle of nostalgia you've got on your bedside table...

This movie looks like it'll be a fun ride. I'll go, and I'll buy the popcorn.

If, however, you are reminiscing about the days of yore, telling your children about the days before cell phones were smaller than a 4 pound block of Velveeta cheese product...

then you should go out and rent the original Clash of the Titans, the famous 80s stop action adventure starring a young and sexy Harry Hamlin playing Perseus.

For those of you who don't know about the allure of the original Clash of the Titans, I'll provide a bit here. You see, the movie represented the apex of the stop action fantasy figures fighting live actors. The stop action figures were done with the help of Ray Harryhausen [wiki] and were also seen in other movies like 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts. Clash of the Titans was released in 1981, and folks were still reeling from the Star Wars phenomenon. So, CGI advanced and stop motion action went back into the closet until the day Robot Chicken would descend horribly, oh so horribly, onto cable TV.

The plot of this Clash of the Titans is rumored NOT to be exactly the same as the one from the 1981 movie. And a hearty "THANK YOU, ZEUS!" comes from me upon that rumored tidbit. While I don't mind the retelling of mythological tales, please don't put me to sleep between special effects, I beg you. There are ways to introduce the Greek gods without making them all esoteric one minute and petty and vain the next.

Anyway, I can't wait. I love a good scorpion strike.

And one more thing.

Beware the Kraken!

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