Beth G. I still don't see why they didn't have Athena be the one to deliver the message. It would make a lot more sense as seeing how she's the goddess of wisdom and war.
Yeah, this is almost as bad as the Disney version, where they made her his mom. But at least there, they had the excuse of it being for kids, so they didn't want Herc to be the result of an extramarital affair. What's this movie's excuse?
She is married to Zeus so it's not like it's unfounded and she can't do anything against zeus himself because the olimpians tried that before and failed
@@albertschoise8091 those aren't vamps, they should have been original monsters because they work far better that way. The wolves and meh as far as transforming furry creatures go
And shockingly, Kellan Lutz actually got a Teen Choice Award nomination for Best Actor in an Action Film. What little respect I had for the Teen Choice Awards has now been diminished.
Kristen Stewart won two Teen Choice Award for Best Actress in a Fantasy Film for Twilight. After seen Kellan Lutz got a nomination lost all respect for them. Now seeing Stewart winning a Best Actress award (let alone two) made me lose more respect even more. Did I mention the Twilight series won a couple Teen Choice Awards? I will not mention who Kristen and what movie Twilight beat for those award or otherwise I bet you will go crazy and I will be responsible for a massacre. Justin Beiber.... you are no longer my most hated subjectin the entertainment industry.
Yahiko25 Well, what was primarily shocking about that nomination wasn't the quality of the film, but rather the box office returns, which were dismal. How many teens actually saw it? It doesn't make sense.
"Zeus save us all." Exactly the same thought the mythologists who went to see this in theaters had. And there is NO excuse for having to skip the R rating for this one!
Omg I thought I was seeing the lesser version! Then you said it was "The Rock's" movie and totally had me fooled! And yea "The Asylum" have had an excellent run!
So basically, Legend of Hercules is a bad mixture of Hercules, 300, Gladiator, Robin Hood, and the story of Sampson? fun. Also, you should review 300: Rise of an Empire at some point.
Something left out of every adaptation of hercules is his intelligence. Hes always portrayed as a brute, when in the myths he had a pretty good education and oursmarted gods and titans. His main weapon of choice was his bow and arrows, though he also used a club as it made sense alongside his strength, but his massive bow was what he used when he didnt just use his strength. For god sake, he outsmarted atlas without even trying! Or when he used his intelligence and charm to convince queen hippolyta queen of the amazons to not Only lend him her most prized possession but also to run away with him and MARRY HIM. Only reason she didnt is the amazins were convinced he was kidnapping her/hippnotized her (heh) to come with him and she was killed in battle by accident. Turns out, hercules was just that charming. He was also even smart enough to realize that the only way to skin the body of the nemean lion was to use the only thing that could- the creatures own claws. Even in portrayals of hercules where the skin is impenetrable, they keep out that detail for no reason
I personally enjoy myths being twisted, in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson he is clever as a demigod but doesn't care about others and is very arrogant which I actually enjoy because it turns an epic hero overcoming odds to a cunning manipulative boy
@@isdrakon9802 exactly. He hated Hera so much that he was willing to let the world end if they didnt also further humiliate the river god whose horn hed stolen milennia ago as part of his own way of sticking it to Hera (who tbf is a raging bitch)
@@ConnorNotyerbidness I can't really blame her, she's stuck with zeus who's known for his one night stands just as much as being king. Being the goddess of marriage it's not out of possibility for her to feel each act of infidelity and it certainly makes seeing children from her husband and another women. Gods are also more petty than toddlers
@@isdrakon9802 but hera treats her only 2 actual children HORRIBLY. She threw hephaestus off mount olympus because he was ugly and Crippled him. And treats ares horribly (ok tbf ares IS horrible but still Hera isnt a saint. And she murderes so many people because she didnt like how her husband was unfaithful
The animated credit sequence was amazing for the rock Hercules movie, just seeing them actually work together to take down all the laborers was totally awesome. The movie was average but they killed my best character, the puppy man LOL
“Did you catch that?” No, I was cleaning my glasses right when that happened. But I watched again and turns out, my glasses didn’t need to be cleaned to see that cut. Heck, I could have seen it with my glasses off.
What's weird is that both movies went the same sort of "slightly greater realism" route. ... which went SO WELL with that last Robin Hood movie. Gee, it's like people LIKE fantastic elements.
Sean, what you said regarding Iphicles and Heracles is correct...but Zeus and Amphitryon did not impregnate Alcmene at the same time, but rather on the same day. What happened was that Amphitryon had to go to war and promised his wife that he would return within three days' time. Zeus then disguised himself as Amphitryon and made love to her. He also made the three days that Amphitryon traveled home seem like one day. When Amphitryon got home, he made love to his wife, and I guess both men fertilized the same egg. As you said, Greek mythology is weird.
I first watched this at 3 a.m. on Christmas Day at my grandpa's house in 2014..... And I still hold that as the best part of that Christmas. We had an intervention regarding my uncle Jim's alcoholism.
Amphitryon is pretty much bargain basement Leonidas here (right down to Adkins putting on a Scottish accent). Oh and Renny Harlin's other credits besides this and 'Cutthroat Island' include 'Die Hard 2', 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 4', 'Cliffhanger', 'Deep Blue Sea' and 'The Long Kiss Goodnight'. He also directed 'Driven' so he's no stranger to slashed budgets and shoddy visual effects.
You would think a movie set I Ancient Greece would be r rated every movie I've seen based in that time period was violent as hell with dismemberments be headings all sorts
I want to add that people in general did bring their family to the wars as camp followers and such. Not the battlefield but they did travel along on campagins, there had to be cooks, cleaners, whores and smiths, since not many soldiers could acctually work a forge really well. So that a king takes his wife and child isn't a true strange thing. Although many movies wants us to believe that a battle is an agreement between armies to come somewhere without tents, wagons with food and water and other convenient camp stuff.
Wasn’t the Emperor Caligula raised on the battlefield? If I remember correctly, his father, Germanicus, was a great war hero who took little Gaius and his mother on campaigns with him. The soldiers under his command loved the little boy so much that they nicknamed him Caligula (“Little Boots”).
pretty sure the dagger was his mother's, so stabbing the king with it to finish him was symbolic revenge or symbolically carrying out his mother's will or something, I think.
This is genius! I mean the review, not the movie. The movie's about as smart as a decapitated hydra. Come to think of it, for being based on a myth, there isn't much mythical about this film (apart from that mythical spray tan): you've got two gods, an immortal lion, a lightning whip... that's it, really. Stoked for the Halloween review!
They might have been going for she hit an artery, but it still doesn’t make a lot of sense, as even if that’s what they meant, she still would have bleed out.
Obviously this movie didn't start life as a Hercules movie, but a movie set in Ancient Greece/Rome about a guy named Alcides. They just slapped names from the Hercules mythology onto the characters (and kept the name Alcides for some reason) once the Dwayne Johnson Hercules movie became known. That's why this movie is about as faithful to the source material as DragonBall Evolution.
Actually the name Alcides does come from the myth. His mother and (foster) father originally gave him that name, but later renamed him Heracles (meaning "glory of Hera") in an attempt to placate the goddess. It didn't work.
Oh, OK. But I still say this movie didn't start out as a Heracles (or Hercules as they call him) movie. Because it still seems like a non-Heracles movie with the names slapped on it.
Hera is the queen of the gods and actually is an apt goddess to pray to for safety and victory since technically she can grant those who please her power and kingship. She did offer Paris all of the world if he chose him for the golden apple. Hebe is a daughter goddess of Hera /throws book-/ There are enough Crete royalty they couldve used. Its probably just used as a weird angle for the Hebe and Herc romance since they do end up together in the myths. Though Herc had a mortal wife first too named Megara who was a princess from Thebes. Alcmene, Zeus is the worst parent ever. He doesnt really care if his kids, mortals or gods die or anything really. I mean his wife vents her jealousy and anger on them and Lightning gigolo doesnt really do anything to stop her. Also its Hercules/ Herakles, not depowered Samsonnn. Hercules has always had his supernatural strength. He never needed to pray for them, its part of his 'demigodness' or being able to drink divine milk. Pardon Im really fond of the myths but yes this is a bad movie even without the weird diverse non canon ideas. Also he didnt really do anything great or legendary despite the title. He kind of just somehow murdered a tyrant and well thas it. Herc became a legend more for his 12 labors than anything.
He killed him with the dagger because the tyrant killed his mother with the dagger. Both Lutz and Atkins were in Expendables movies. By the way, there IS an Asylum Hercules called Hercules Reborn (2014). Hercules is more of an antihero and is played by a WWE star (and he's not bad). The movie looks like a decent pilot for a cheap 90s TV show like Tarzan or Beastmaster the Series and also has next to no connection with the myth. The main character is a military commander who needs Hercules' help to fight the general who started a coop. The main character's sidekick is the main guy from the notorious film Doom Generation (1993). Hercules is a main side-character.
22:06 The 3D is not an excuse for this. Immortals (2011) was also filmed in 3D, with the SAME BUDGET as this movie AND a more-famous cast (and Kellan Lutz, ironically), and its visuals were gorgeous. It looked like a moving Caravaggio painting with costumes by Salvador Dali. And Sin City: A Dame to Kill For was shot in 3D, with a HUGE A-list cast, and it had amazing visuals - and it actually cost LESS than this movie. The way I see it, there are only 2 possibilities: 1. This movie is the result of a real-life version of The Producers. Renny Harlin and crew took the shittiest script they could find, raised $70 million for it but only spent $5 million on filming it, and then when the film bombed, they pocketed the rest. 2. Renny Harlin is mentally retarded. Considering the fact that there's a scene in this movie where a person is heard talking but their mouth isn't moving, I think this option is the more likely.
Awesome as always,and good to hear that ending catchphrase again :) and btw, while I really cant defend his performance in this movie,Scott Adkins is a really good actor in my opinion,he just gets shitty movies every now and then. and he does have a small fanbase from his role in the movies "Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing" and "Undisputed 3: Redemption",2 great fighting movies in my opinion and can recommend them if your looking for an ok movie with some kickass fighting. cant wait for next month.
I'm think of 3 horror movies that could be a candidate for the next Cinematic Excrement episode that is trying to be scary but failing. Could it be The 2010 Nightmare on Elm Street remake, one of the Piranha movies or The Purge since he did mention his short thoughts on that movie in his Purge: Anarchy vlog review?
I want to like this movie because goddamnit I want Scott Atkins to have more roles in bigger movies. The only two big movies I can think that he has been in recently have been this, and a brief fight scene in the brothers Grimsby.
+StevenMetalSlayer 117 The Disney version is a really good version, even if it's very whitewashed from the source material. But really, could Disney really do the story as is? And it still mostly holds up, except for elements of Herc and Meg's relationship feeling forced, the uneven climax, and Herc's decision to remain on Earth as a mortal raising the question that if Zeus could make him that again, why couldn't he do the same to make him a god again in the first place, or Meg immortal as well. But still, very solid entry.
Am I the only one who thinks Cutthroat Island is Smeghead's "Let's Play Bart's Nightmare" or "Melvin Brother of the Joker"? Please Review Atlas Shrugged 1 and 2 (And Upcoming 3) I kid you not when I say it makes Twilight look like The Nolan Batman Trilogy. They recast the movies TWICE!
Justin An Wow, for every movie that come out, less they gain. It seems that they didn't learn nothing. I think that Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite (in a lesser degree) show much better Ayn Rand philosophy and the consequences of it.
Personally them taking liberties on the source material would annoy me less if we ever *had* a faithful adaptation. To my knowledge, every movie adaptation of Hercules ever deviated completely from the original story to the point of being unrecognizable - and given how awesome the original legend is, I resent that.
Have you seen the 2002 remake of Rollerball, Mr. Smeghead? It's the perfect everything-in-the-movie-FAILS movie for you to review just like Legend of Hercules and Nu Image/Millennium Film's archive footage shark attack movies. Keep up the gr8 work with your awesome reviews!
The one thing I love the most and nobody ever spend a thought on it, is some idiotic company naming a Rum after one of the most ruthless madmen who ever sailed seas. It's like having some cookies called Stalin or some Milk named Hitler, maybe have some sweets called Wayne Gacy. :D
...Okay, I’m not gonna lie: Hercules going Hyrule Warriors on the soldiers with two stone blocks on chains is _freaking awesome._ Same with the lightning whip. Shame the rest of the movie sucks.
If you get a chance you should review Manos the Hands of Fate. It was directed by a fertiliser salesman (who never directed anything else before or since), had a camera that couldn't film more than about 40 seconds at a time and couldn't record sound, and none of the actors had ever starred in a film before.
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Hera HATED Hercules! She's basically the reason he had to run all over the place and fight monsters. She wanted to make his life miserable.
Beth G. I still don't see why they didn't have Athena be the one to deliver the message. It would make a lot more sense as seeing how she's the goddess of wisdom and war.
Tyler Hill Ares was the God of War, but Athena was the Goddess of Battle Strategy, so it still works.
Yeah, this is almost as bad as the Disney version, where they made her his mom. But at least there, they had the excuse of it being for kids, so they didn't want Herc to be the result of an extramarital affair. What's this movie's excuse?
She is married to Zeus so it's not like it's unfounded and she can't do anything against zeus himself because the olimpians tried that before and failed
She also tried to kill him when he was a baby by placing snakes into his room. That backfired, however, when he killed them.
This movie does to Greek Mythology what Twilight did to vampires and werewolves.
Robert Treacy did this movie make the awesome gods and titans become just dumb?... eh theres still some awesome left
@@albertschoise8091 those aren't vamps, they should have been original monsters because they work far better that way. The wolves and meh as far as transforming furry creatures go
It's funny you mention Twilight because Kellan Lutz was in both Twilight and in this movie.
And shockingly, Kellan Lutz actually got a Teen Choice Award nomination for Best Actor in an Action Film.
What little respect I had for the Teen Choice Awards has now been diminished.
Kristen Stewart won two Teen Choice Award for Best Actress in a Fantasy Film for Twilight.
After seen Kellan Lutz got a nomination lost all respect for them. Now seeing Stewart winning a Best Actress award (let alone two) made me lose more respect even more. Did I mention the Twilight series won a couple Teen Choice Awards? I will not mention who Kristen and what movie Twilight beat for those award or otherwise I bet you will go crazy and I will be responsible for a massacre.
Justin Beiber.... you are no longer my most hated subjectin the entertainment industry.
You can't take Teen Choice Award seriously. There were some nominations and winners far worse than Kella's.
Yahiko25 Well, what was primarily shocking about that nomination wasn't the quality of the film, but rather the box office returns, which were dismal. How many teens actually saw it? It doesn't make sense.
Why did you have any respect for them in the first place?
@@hail_void8844 Exactly.
The irony is that the Dwayne Johnson's version of Hercules was also pg-13 ; And that movie was WAY more violent than this piece of crap.
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Even Power Rangers and Pokemon had more violence than this piece of crap.
How ironic.
Yahiko25 Powerpuff Girls has more violence.
That movie actually wasn’t too bad. Showed a version of Hercules outside of all the myths and legends.
@@robertwalker5794 it was boring to me. I watched both and the rock version is just better in everyway
I love that the "off camera voice" clearly says "hokey pokey"!
To think this same director once made movies like "Die Hard 2" and "The Long Kiss Goodnight." Oh, how the mighty fall...
Don’t forget PRISON!
@@TheRealNormanBatesAnd Cliffhanger
Disney's Hercules was one of those movies that took great lengths with both the Greek and Roman myths and managed to be great regardless.
And that movie had the likes of Danny DeVito and James Woods, which is a nice touch.
Yeah, but they just borrowed from their own Pinocchio animated film and Superman (1978).
@@lynngatrell7965 I can't believe I'm saying this, but watching makes me appreciate them turning Amphitryon and Alcmene into Ma and Pa Kent.
Did I hear that off-camera whispering voice say "Gichi Gichi Ya Ya Da Da" and "Hokey pokey"?
All I could think was "Why did he use that knife?" "It was his mother's knife!" like the Martha scene in BvS.
I call this movie H.I.N.O. (Hercules In Name Only).
"Zeus save us all." Exactly the same thought the mythologists who went to see this in theaters had. And there is NO excuse for having to skip the R rating for this one!
Omg I thought I was seeing the lesser version! Then you said it was "The Rock's" movie and totally had me fooled! And yea "The Asylum" have had an excellent run!
So basically, Legend of Hercules is a bad mixture of Hercules, 300, Gladiator, Robin Hood, and the story of Sampson? fun.
Also, you should review 300: Rise of an Empire at some point.
I'd throw in Titanic too because of the clichéd romance angle.
+teheyepatch That or Romeo and Juliet, which was an obvious inspiration for Titanic.
I'd throw in Thor as well due to that cliché lighting-sword scene.
And god of War apparently.
@@olufolarinoduntan9097 thor is a bit of a stretch
Something left out of every adaptation of hercules is his intelligence. Hes always portrayed as a brute, when in the myths he had a pretty good education and oursmarted gods and titans. His main weapon of choice was his bow and arrows, though he also used a club as it made sense alongside his strength, but his massive bow was what he used when he didnt just use his strength.
For god sake, he outsmarted atlas without even trying! Or when he used his intelligence and charm to convince queen hippolyta queen of the amazons to not Only lend him her most prized possession but also to run away with him and MARRY HIM. Only reason she didnt is the amazins were convinced he was kidnapping her/hippnotized her (heh) to come with him and she was killed in battle by accident. Turns out, hercules was just that charming.
He was also even smart enough to realize that the only way to skin the body of the nemean lion was to use the only thing that could- the creatures own claws. Even in portrayals of hercules where the skin is impenetrable, they keep out that detail for no reason
Connor notyerbidness EXACTLY!!! Bane is a better adaptation then most!
I personally enjoy myths being twisted, in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson he is clever as a demigod but doesn't care about others and is very arrogant which I actually enjoy because it turns an epic hero overcoming odds to a cunning manipulative boy
@@isdrakon9802 exactly. He hated Hera so much that he was willing to let the world end if they didnt also further humiliate the river god whose horn hed stolen milennia ago as part of his own way of sticking it to Hera (who tbf is a raging bitch)
@@ConnorNotyerbidness I can't really blame her, she's stuck with zeus who's known for his one night stands just as much as being king. Being the goddess of marriage it's not out of possibility for her to feel each act of infidelity and it certainly makes seeing children from her husband and another women. Gods are also more petty than toddlers
@@isdrakon9802 but hera treats her only 2 actual children HORRIBLY. She threw hephaestus off mount olympus because he was ugly and Crippled him. And treats ares horribly (ok tbf ares IS horrible but still
Hera isnt a saint. And she murderes so many people because she didnt like how her husband was unfaithful
Holy crap, this DOES look like a mockbuster! How did this even see the light of day?
You are hands down the best and funniest movie reviewer/critic of horrible movie genre!!!!! Hollywood can suck it!!!!
This isn't just a rip-off of the Hercules, but 300 too. XP
The significance of the dagger at the end of the movie was that it was the same dagger that killed Alchemene
I am so glad you mentioned the Greek and Roman names. That always pisses me off...
I prefer the Rick way of doing Roman and Greek, basically the same damn assbags
The animated credit sequence was amazing for the rock Hercules movie, just seeing them actually work together to take down all the laborers was totally awesome. The movie was average but they killed my best character, the puppy man LOL
Man, now I want to rewatch Kevin Sorbo's Hercules.
Mr Christian played pagan demi-gods. I find that ironic.
@@marccolten9801 ah but that was before the head injury. He only went mega Christian after his head injury
@@cannibalbunnygirl I didn’t know about his head injury. So what’s everyone else’s excuse?
“Did you catch that?” No, I was cleaning my glasses right when that happened. But I watched again and turns out, my glasses didn’t need to be cleaned to see that cut. Heck, I could have seen it with my glasses off.
What's weird is that both movies went the same sort of "slightly greater realism" route. ... which went SO WELL with that last Robin Hood movie.
Gee, it's like people LIKE fantastic elements.
3:15 The gibberish says "Hoky-Poky" clearly.
The "hangin' out" Birdemic reference literally slayed me. It was a couple of seconds, but they were clearly more thought out than this film. xD
Sean, what you said regarding Iphicles and Heracles is correct...but Zeus and Amphitryon did not impregnate Alcmene at the same time, but rather on the same day. What happened was that Amphitryon had to go to war and promised his wife that he would return within three days' time. Zeus then disguised himself as Amphitryon and made love to her. He also made the three days that Amphitryon traveled home seem like one day. When Amphitryon got home, he made love to his wife, and I guess both men fertilized the same egg. As you said, Greek mythology is weird.
Yes, he knows that they didn't impregnate her AT THE SAME TIME. What he means is that she was pregnant with both of the kids at the same time.
Spartacus & Hercules in one movie somehow isn't the best thing ever.
I like the part where Hercules is himself, Samson, & Kratos simultaneously.
MonochromeTrouble For a second I thought you said “Sportacus” and I was going to say, that WOULD be the best crossover ever
I didn't even know of this film's existence during the time of its release. I only recall seeing advertisements for the other movie.
Tyrant Gregcag Same here. Not a good sign.
I first watched this at 3 a.m. on Christmas Day at my grandpa's house in 2014..... And I still hold that as the best part of that Christmas. We had an intervention regarding my uncle Jim's alcoholism.
Amphitryon is pretty much bargain basement Leonidas here (right down to Adkins putting on a Scottish accent). Oh and Renny Harlin's other credits besides this and 'Cutthroat Island' include 'Die Hard 2', 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 4', 'Cliffhanger', 'Deep Blue Sea' and 'The Long Kiss Goodnight'. He also directed 'Driven' so he's no stranger to slashed budgets and shoddy visual effects.
Another great video. Also, Sean, I think if you're able to withstand this, you'll be able to go through "The Spirit."
I hope the producers of this movie know how much you loved the editing, especially in that first battle scene.
THIS IS NOT SPARTA!
i think you know why i said this...one the fighters look like king Leonidas from 300!
TheAtheistGamer Worst Gerald Butler wannabe I've ever seen.
This is blasphemy!
Renny Harlan's first US film was PRISON, a special effects sodden slasher film, starring Lane Smith, and Chelsea Field from circa 1986
This film killed more of my brain cells than years of heavy drinking ever did
You would think a movie set I Ancient Greece would be r rated every movie I've seen based in that time period was violent as hell with dismemberments be headings all sorts
Actually twins being born of different fathers is a thing. It’s called Superfecundation.
I was just thinking, "Even _without_ the Asylum, you'd never run out of material!"
Not from the Asylum, you say?
my brother would call lightning whip cheathacks
When I saw that lightning whip, all I can do was raise an eyebrow and ask 'When did Leon Belmont join the fight?'
Did Hercules ever use anything that is even like a wipe
I want to add that people in general did bring their family to the wars as camp followers and such. Not the battlefield but they did travel along on campagins, there had to be cooks, cleaners, whores and smiths, since not many soldiers could acctually work a forge really well. So that a king takes his wife and child isn't a true strange thing. Although many movies wants us to believe that a battle is an agreement between armies to come somewhere without tents, wagons with food and water and other convenient camp stuff.
Wasn’t the Emperor Caligula raised on the battlefield? If I remember correctly, his father, Germanicus, was a great war hero who took little Gaius and his mother on campaigns with him. The soldiers under his command loved the little boy so much that they nicknamed him Caligula (“Little Boots”).
Hey Smeghead, can you review Doogal?
pretty sure the dagger was his mother's, so stabbing the king with it to finish him was symbolic revenge or symbolically carrying out his mother's will or something, I think.
I would be so under-informed if this channel did not exist! Thank you for letting me know all about movies I will definitely never see!
This is genius! I mean the review, not the movie. The movie's about as smart as a decapitated hydra. Come to think of it, for being based on a myth, there isn't much mythical about this film (apart from that mythical spray tan): you've got two gods, an immortal lion, a lightning whip... that's it, really. Stoked for the Halloween review!
This movie has the same product design as Meet the Spartans (and same cinematography too). Not a good sign!
Great review as always. 22:50, I can't stop laughing to myself
That rock-chain-whip scene honestly had some of the worst modern CGI I've ever seen. How Summit thought that'd be passable is so far beyond me.
Riley Whidden Agreed.
This new episode made my week! Loved the pirate guy cameo, that dude may have the worst accent I've ever heard, but he's darn entertaining.
hey I like the Disney version of Hercules
"THAT'S THE ROMAN NAME!" *bitchslap* Excellent!
8:20 Maybe it was bring your kid to work day at the battle.
Perfect insertion of the DOOM song, sir.
21:20 I bet I know Renny Harlins favourite Sengoku Basara character.
"Did you catch that?"
What, the fact that one of the UK's shops is named after this location?
Yeah, it's not funny, I just couldn't resist.
Not even one of our good shops
25:19 unless her heart is located in her arm pit, I think she could survive a wound just under her clavicle.
They might have been going for she hit an artery, but it still doesn’t make a lot of sense, as even if that’s what they meant, she still would have bleed out.
Obviously this movie didn't start life as a Hercules movie, but a movie set in Ancient Greece/Rome about a guy named Alcides. They just slapped names from the Hercules mythology onto the characters (and kept the name Alcides for some reason) once the Dwayne Johnson Hercules movie became known.
That's why this movie is about as faithful to the source material as DragonBall Evolution.
Actually the name Alcides does come from the myth. His mother and (foster) father originally gave him that name, but later renamed him Heracles (meaning "glory of Hera") in an attempt to placate the goddess. It didn't work.
Oh, OK. But I still say this movie didn't start out as a Heracles (or Hercules as they call him) movie. Because it still seems like a non-Heracles movie with the names slapped on it.
DerangedAvenger Oh yeah, that's entirely possible.
That Hercules series from about 30 years ago was great!
Brilliant, a new episode! And as good as ever :)
Hera is the queen of the gods and actually is an apt goddess to pray to for safety and victory since technically she can grant those who please her power and kingship. She did offer Paris all of the world if he chose him for the golden apple.
Hebe is a daughter goddess of Hera /throws book-/ There are enough Crete royalty they couldve used. Its probably just used as a weird angle for the Hebe and Herc romance since they do end up together in the myths. Though Herc had a mortal wife first too named Megara who was a princess from Thebes.
Alcmene, Zeus is the worst parent ever. He doesnt really care if his kids, mortals or gods die or anything really. I mean his wife vents her jealousy and anger on them and Lightning gigolo doesnt really do anything to stop her.
Also its Hercules/ Herakles, not depowered Samsonnn. Hercules has always had his supernatural strength. He never needed to pray for them, its part of his 'demigodness' or being able to drink divine milk.
Pardon Im really fond of the myths but yes this is a bad movie even without the weird diverse non canon ideas. Also he didnt really do anything great or legendary despite the title. He kind of just somehow murdered a tyrant and well thas it. Herc became a legend more for his 12 labors than anything.
He invaded the Kingdom of Argos because they had a sale on.
He killed him with the dagger because the tyrant killed his mother with the dagger. Both Lutz and Atkins were in Expendables movies.
By the way, there IS an Asylum Hercules called Hercules Reborn (2014). Hercules is more of an antihero and is played by a WWE star (and he's not bad). The movie looks like a decent pilot for a cheap 90s TV show like Tarzan or Beastmaster the Series and also has next to no connection with the myth. The main character is a military commander who needs Hercules' help to fight the general who started a coop. The main character's sidekick is the main guy from the notorious film Doom Generation (1993). Hercules is a main side-character.
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The 3D is not an excuse for this. Immortals (2011) was also filmed in 3D, with the SAME BUDGET as this movie AND a more-famous cast (and Kellan Lutz, ironically), and its visuals were gorgeous. It looked like a moving Caravaggio painting with costumes by Salvador Dali. And Sin City: A Dame to Kill For was shot in 3D, with a HUGE A-list cast, and it had amazing visuals - and it actually cost LESS than this movie. The way I see it, there are only 2 possibilities:
1. This movie is the result of a real-life version of The Producers. Renny Harlin and crew took the shittiest script they could find, raised $70 million for it but only spent $5 million on filming it, and then when the film bombed, they pocketed the rest.
2. Renny Harlin is mentally retarded. Considering the fact that there's a scene in this movie where a person is heard talking but their mouth isn't moving, I think this option is the more likely.
Awesome as always,and good to hear that ending catchphrase again :)
and btw, while I really cant defend his performance in this movie,Scott Adkins is a really good actor in my opinion,he just gets shitty movies every now and then. and he does have a small fanbase from his role in the movies "Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing" and "Undisputed 3: Redemption",2 great fighting movies in my opinion and can recommend them if your looking for an ok movie with some kickass fighting.
cant wait for next month.
YES ANOTHER AMAZING CINEMATIC EXCREMENT!
21:25 Did Hercules just become Kratos?
I thought the same thing for that scene as well as the one when he uses a lightning whip sword against the army.
21:33 all I see there is Kratos, only without the coolness.
Or the badass or rage or character or any reason to care about him. What else am I missing
The intro to the movie looks like a cheap 300 rip-off
This whole movie is a cheap 300 rip-off.
The PSP 300 tie-in game looks more real than this.
so... Meet the Spartans only serious?
@Tony Koslowski A cheap rip-off of Gladiator in terms of story clothed with a cheap rip-off of 300’s aesthetics.
Funny that the budget for this movie was $70 million, and the budget for 300 $65 million!
I'm think of 3 horror movies that could be a candidate for the next Cinematic Excrement episode that is trying to be scary but failing. Could it be The 2010 Nightmare on Elm Street remake, one of the Piranha movies or The Purge since he did mention his short thoughts on that movie in his Purge: Anarchy vlog review?
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Maybe Renny Harlan is a God of War fan...?
Excelente como siempre Sean! :D
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You pronounced it as Syfy and not sifi.
Something that tries to be spooky? I'm gonna guess "The Happening."
The little voice talking from the right side offscreen reminds me of Jack Sparrow talking to the Pelegostos.
Really? I thought he hired one of Charlie Brown's teachers.
It was the dagger his mom was killed with. Comon dude....
Ever what hercules 1983? One minute were watching gods in outer space, the cave men, then giant fucking robotic flies. THE FUCK MOVIE!!
I want to like this movie because goddamnit I want Scott Atkins to have more roles in bigger movies.
The only two big movies I can think that he has been in recently have been this, and a brief fight scene in the brothers Grimsby.
Looks worse than Immortals. Will Renny Harlin ever work again?
According to IMDB he's currently filming a Jackie Chan movie. So he's got at least one more in him.
It's not an Enter the Dragon reboot I hope?
+Cinematic Excrement the Disney version is better then this
+Cinematic Excrement was wondering if u'd do a review of the amazing spiderman films
+StevenMetalSlayer 117 The Disney version is a really good version, even if it's very whitewashed from the source material. But really, could Disney really do the story as is? And it still mostly holds up, except for elements of Herc and Meg's relationship feeling forced, the uneven climax, and Herc's decision to remain on Earth as a mortal raising the question that if Zeus could make him that again, why couldn't he do the same to make him a god again in the first place, or Meg immortal as well. But still, very solid entry.
"White Coolio" the best joke in the video!!!!
Thus dude made a long kiss goodnight, cliffhanger, and die hard 2, how the mitty have fallen.
To be fair Hebe did end up married to Hercules in the legend....it still doesn't change the quality of this film however...
Love the monkey island theme during the pirate skit :D
This makes the one staring The Rock look like a godsend.
I still think this movie was 100 times more entertaining than the Rock's Hercules movie👍
Well who doesnt know the myth of the....lightning whip????
Aww, I thought this was the Hercules movie with The Rock.
Am I the only one who thinks Cutthroat Island is Smeghead's "Let's Play Bart's Nightmare" or "Melvin Brother of the Joker"?
Please Review Atlas Shrugged 1 and 2 (And Upcoming 3) I kid you not when I say it makes Twilight look like The Nolan Batman Trilogy. They recast the movies TWICE!
Were they get the money to do the Part 3? Seeing how horrible the part 1 and 2 were.
TheKeyser94 Sadly yes, Through Kickstarter. It's actually out in theaters now. www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=atlasshrugged3.htm
Justin An Wow, for every movie that come out, less they gain. It seems that they didn't learn nothing. I think that Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite (in a lesser degree) show much better Ayn Rand philosophy and the consequences of it.
Props for the Dream Theater T-shirt, dude.
Personally them taking liberties on the source material would annoy me less if we ever *had* a faithful adaptation. To my knowledge, every movie adaptation of Hercules ever deviated completely from the original story to the point of being unrecognizable - and given how awesome the original legend is, I resent that.
FUCK YEAH A NEW ONE IM SOO HAPPY
Have you seen the 2002 remake of Rollerball, Mr. Smeghead? It's the perfect everything-in-the-movie-FAILS movie for you to review just like Legend of Hercules and Nu Image/Millennium Film's archive footage shark attack movies. Keep up the gr8 work with your awesome reviews!
You need to review that Robin Hood movie starring Taron Egerton some time. It reminded me way too much of this movie far too often. Lol
You rock!!
Are you planning on reviewing Kull the Conqueror at some point?
The one thing I love the most and nobody ever spend a thought on it, is some idiotic company naming a Rum after one of the most ruthless madmen who ever sailed seas.
It's like having some cookies called Stalin or some Milk named Hitler, maybe have some sweets called Wayne Gacy. :D
...Okay, I’m not gonna lie: Hercules going Hyrule Warriors on the soldiers with two stone blocks on chains is _freaking awesome._ Same with the lightning whip. Shame the rest of the movie sucks.
If you get a chance you should review Manos the Hands of Fate. It was directed by a fertiliser salesman (who never directed anything else before or since), had a camera that couldn't film more than about 40 seconds at a time and couldn't record sound, and none of the actors had ever starred in a film before.
4:31 Rope (1948) and Birdman (2014) made it work.
Resident Evil?
Leprechaun?
The 1999 remake of The Haunting?
Those are all the non-scary horror movies I can think of off the top of my head.
I'm guessing the Happening.
Resident Evil stopped trying to be spooky when the second movie came around and the Leprechaun series is a horror 'comedy'.
So... no mention on how Humbaba, a character from Mesopotamian myths, mostly the Epic of Gilgamesh, was in this movie?
Just visiting..i fought gilgamesh in a video game in a mermaid cave
Love the dream theater shirt