Ancient Greece seems to have a rather troubled relationship with film. Maybe the problem is with Greek mythology, and the colorful, exciting characters found therein. Moviemakers seem to find these larger-than-life figures so appealing that they tend to overlook anything else that would make a good movie: realistic ancient Greek history (there were no flipper handed giants among the Persian soldiers at Thermopylae, sorry, 300) or even actual plots from Greek myth.
And so I come to the point of my post: the plot of Immortals is, as far as I can tell after two semesters teaching mythology and a PhD in Classics, totally made up. And why? There are many legitimate mythological tales about Theseus that would make a good movie. Why does it always have to come down to some half-baked good vs. evil nonsense? Why is it that there can be movies (and TV series) based on ancient Rome that are not totally unbearable, but no halfway decent recent movies based on ancient Greece?
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