Tolkien and Titans

Today I saw Middle Earth on the big screen for the FIRST TIME!  Local theaters are already playing the Hobbit trailer.  <3  It was truly epic hearing the music and dialogue and "Precioussss...." with a theater sound system.  Plus, you're assured it's going to be a big deal when they're playing a trailer for a December movie as early as APRIL.  <3

And that was the last trailer they played.  One does not simply play more trailers after the Hobbit trailer.

So our movie was Wrath of the Titans (Clash of the Titans 2).  RECOMMENDED.  I can't write a proper review right now...all I can do is rave about how epic it is.  Indeed, it IS better than Clash of the Titans.  It DOES include the LABYRINTH--one of my favoritest of favorite Greek mythological stories.  AND there's a Chimaera.  And Cyclopes.  The characters are really good and more developed than before.  This is a more serious movie than Clash of the Titans.  The mythology feels more like the Greek mythology I read about as a kid.  The human and fantasy aspects are both stronger. 

I'm not sure why Wrath is getting such poor reviews.  Possibly because it is a decent action-adventure film, where heroines aren't femmes fatales, and mythological gods are just--mythological?   More on that when I write a real review.  ;)