Comments on: (Possibly) Coming To A Theater Soon – Code Name: Zeus

By: Aardvark

Aardvark — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:53:59 +0000

It could be promising if the premise is dark and kick-ass enough, but the ten year-old super-smart kid (not to mention that he’s super-strong too!) has me seriously wondering. Far from the lame god at the forge, this Hephaestus seems to be a character deliberately designed to bring little kids to the theater. Also, the other characters seem to be a little too neat, clean, PC and, with the evil corporations thrown in, it all seems more like Captain Planet than the X-Men.

Don’t get me wrong — if you can make the ancient gods return in a plausible way and mix it up, it could be very cool, but Zeus sorta liking the secretary, Medusa being quiet and setting up Hermes as the brooding type — as highlights, yet — isn’t the sort of thing I’d go see. With gods, you can’t have mundane inanities, you need world-ending scenarios, death, horror and blood in the streets, apocalyptic visions, and towering inhuman perspectives. Anything less is a waste of the genre.

By: yvrsiren

yvrsiren — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:23:28 +0000

Like the idea of introducing mythological “gods” from other cultures (Hindu, Egyptian, North American and Aztec) – great opportunity to learn about others’ beliefs, cultures, ancient myths.

By: Seansshack

Seansshack — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:41:33 +0000

When you look how well ben-10 and clone wars are executed as animated series(s) – this has a lot of potential.

By: channel0

channel0 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:17:56 +0000

i think it is going to be a really great story. everything now base characters on vampires or other DC comics, where this one brings out the multi-cultural gods. This makes it more interesting because of the uniqueness of the characters.

i like the time span of the story as well – post apocolypse, corporations ruling, with a bunch of mythical god characters who save the Earth!

another thing is I like the generated medium. mixing art with computer rendering is pretty cool. Give it that life like appearance. Another example would be bungie with their Halo characters.

I think it is going to be a great thing. Can’t wait until it comes out.

By: Heath

Heath — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:00:51 +0000

I think it’s mostly an ad for the comic book. I’ll check it out before I pass judgment on the comic.

heath

By: Ann Luongo

Ann Luongo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:37:09 +0000

This looks awesome. I don’t believe I’ve seen anything like it before. Looking forward to it!

By: Kathryn Leason

Kathryn Leason — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:50:48 +0000

Certainly looks interesting..
I would guess it’s targeted for the “tween” market.
Nice updated reference to mythology figures..
Awesome that Poseidon has green dreads and scales..
Sorry, [Jackson] but I don’t see a problem with that..
I grew up watching TMNT .. this is way cooler!

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:11:42 +0000

I’ll admit it does look pretty over the top for a convincing, non-cheesy action flick.

Vic

By: Seansshack

Seansshack — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:34:41 +0000

Jackson: Bit harsh old boy. I think it looks cool.

Looks very creative to me.

Allow it to find it’s legs before bashing it.

Gets my vote.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:00:19 +0000

CRAP, im supposed to believe this horrible trailer is supposed to inspire an awesome, kick ass movie. Green dreads? Once again, eye candy, no substance. Theres plenty of greek mythology based movies comic books and games. They just are creative enough to come up with different character names. Lame

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:07:51 +0000

I think this would make for a good cartoon TV show for kids.

By: AverageJoe

AverageJoe — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:16:15 +0000

That’s certainly a mixed group of kids. I would’ve thought they’d use Greek kids or something but I guess since this is the future and whtnot it doesn’t matter. Also would cut out the whole martial arts thing but once again this has no historical base other than the fact that they’re using old Greek God names. *sigh* No thanks I’ll pass.

By: Sneakypete

Sneakypete — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:50:45 +0000

ghey!!!!!

By: Frank Bruno

Frank Bruno — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:11:36 +0000

Very cool, I hope this gets made into a movie, would love to see these characters on the big screen, not enough is done with Greek mythology. FB