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@cruel_fortuna wrote:
I know they took great liberties with all those movies & the mythology is all messed up but darn it all if I don’t swoon any time Loki or Hector shows up on my television screen.
( I take it this means you hated the Mummy movies too, since they totally messed with Imhotep’s real-life counterpart & the bit about renaming Nefertiti to Nefertiri )
@fortuna: Sorry, no I don’t hate any of it at all!!! Fantasy and swoonable actors make them all worth watching more than once for sure. The Mummy movies and many modern day quest movies like National Treasure, even the Indiana Jones movies all keep them alive to various extents. I shouldn’t suggest I am such a purist as to insist on correct or nothing when it comes to story. After all, all myth evolves with the times, and sometimes contradicts itself. I much prefer retelling than nothing, and I do love that filmmakers are introducing myth to a new generation. I would just like them to somehow inject more layers, for mythology inspires philosophy, open-mindedness, and possibility. Yet I know that can’t be easy to do, although ONCE is doing it marvelously for its genre, and without question rearranging some of the facts as we “knew” them. Mediocre was a poor choice of words, and should have specified “mediocre in the accuracy of classical retelling”.