Jason and the Argonauts (2000)
Dec. 14th, 2009 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreI just watched the 2000 miniseries Jason and the Argonauts. It was rather cheesily awful, with random moments of awesome. Granted, those moments were mostly Hera and Atalanta, and Medea when the writers remembered that she was supposed to actually do things. Also the Lemnos women. Though, the casting director seemed to be trying to collect as many unattractive men as possible to counteract the pretty women. I’m not sure how the few attractive men there were slipped in. Admittedly, some might look OK without the awful awful awful wigs*.
As I clearly remembered a number of scenes in the first half and none from the second, I suspect I watched part one when it first aired and hated Jason too much to watch the rest. They do do one interesting thing, though, which is to play Zeus as jealous of any attention Hera paid to other men. (I’ve always rather wondered if, at some point, Zeus’s philandering was spurred at least partly because it was the only way he could get her attention anymore, so…) There were also random bits of good research that you don’t usually get with Hollywood and mythology, like Herakles’s name meaning that he was meant to glorify Hera. Also, the guy they had playing Herakles was kinda…a way less attractive Kevin Sorbo-ish looking guy. I kinda wish they'd just cast Sorbo. And Jason had an almost embarrassing crush on him.
But still rather awful. My Winry and Sakura plushies acted out a bunch of scenes to help make the awfulness more bearable.
And I’m watching the Babylon 5 movies, which are rather like fanfic. Though the one I’m watching now has glowy-eyed Lyta, and I always like glowy-eyed Lyta.
And tomorrow (technically today) is my birthday and I have to work** and I’m going to have cramps.
*Given that Ciaran Hinds had a small role and he's normally pretty decent looking but looked rather horrid here, I think there's a very high probability of a decent percentage of the unattractiveness exclusively being the fault of Very Bad Wigs. And beards.
**I was thinking about calling in, until I got praised on Friday for being reliable and never calling in. Cursed moral fibers!
As I clearly remembered a number of scenes in the first half and none from the second, I suspect I watched part one when it first aired and hated Jason too much to watch the rest. They do do one interesting thing, though, which is to play Zeus as jealous of any attention Hera paid to other men. (I’ve always rather wondered if, at some point, Zeus’s philandering was spurred at least partly because it was the only way he could get her attention anymore, so…) There were also random bits of good research that you don’t usually get with Hollywood and mythology, like Herakles’s name meaning that he was meant to glorify Hera. Also, the guy they had playing Herakles was kinda…a way less attractive Kevin Sorbo-ish looking guy. I kinda wish they'd just cast Sorbo. And Jason had an almost embarrassing crush on him.
But still rather awful. My Winry and Sakura plushies acted out a bunch of scenes to help make the awfulness more bearable.
And I’m watching the Babylon 5 movies, which are rather like fanfic. Though the one I’m watching now has glowy-eyed Lyta, and I always like glowy-eyed Lyta.
And tomorrow (technically today) is my birthday and I have to work** and I’m going to have cramps.
*Given that Ciaran Hinds had a small role and he's normally pretty decent looking but looked rather horrid here, I think there's a very high probability of a decent percentage of the unattractiveness exclusively being the fault of Very Bad Wigs. And beards.
**I was thinking about calling in, until I got praised on Friday for being reliable and never calling in. Cursed moral fibers!