Immortals/YMMV


 * Broken Aesop: Let's run through a short list, shall we?
 * Theseus is told repeatedly to have faith in the gods. However, they are forbidden to help him and when they do break the rules they get fire-whipped to death.
 * Athena tells Zeus not to lose faith in humans. However, Theseus could have just twirled in place making airplane noises the whole movie and things would have played out exactly the same. He doesn't do jack to help with the Titans so why should Zeus have any faith in him?
 * Hyperion is obsessed with creating a legacy for himself through procreation. Theseus berates him saying that it's deeds, not flesh, that is immortal. HOWEVER, the movie ends with Hyperion getting a nice big place on a monument and Theseus' own fleshy legacy looking to become the next big hero.
 * Cliche Storm:
 * Complete Monster: Hyperion.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: It's a movie about Greek gods and Badass Normal mortals battling against various things. Of course there'll be awesome moments.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: A subtle, hard to spot one. In the battle scene between the Greeks and Hyperion's Cretian army, the two forces are charging at each other. When they make contact, one of Hyperion's mooks drop kicks one of the Greek soldiers in the face. What makes it hilarious is that he just does it out of nowhere, and it hardly has any effect on the soldier he kicked, who just gets annoyed and starts wildly stabbing at the mook while he is on the ground. About three other Greeks join in.
 * The Archon of the Greeks trying to negotiate with Hyperion;
 * In a bit of black comedy, Hyperion
 * Moral Event Horizon: Even if he doesn't lose time showing he's a Complete Monster, you may hold a little sympathy for Hyperion for a while, knowing his past - a man of humble origins who became a powerful leader, yet lost his entire family to illness... You think life has driven him over the edge. Then you see and understand he's beyond any redemption.
 * He Crossed it back when he killed Theseus' mother and unlike Sebastian Shaw with Erik's mother, didn't even give Theseus a chance to save her.
 * Narm: The various articles of headgear; Poseidon's and Ares's being top of the list.
 * Nightmare Fuel: The Bronze Bull. It appears to be a normal statue of a bull making odd noises when heated up. It's not until later that we find out that . The worst part? This thing really existed, and was really used.
 * The nightmare fuel comes early when you realize exactly what it is from the start.
 * Special Effects Failure: In one scene late in the film, Theseus takes off the armor he was wearing. It bounces and wobbles as it hits the ground, as if made of rubber, yet should be stiff.
 * Spiritual Successor: Trailers for Immortals state "From the Producers of 300."
 * Squick: The torture scenes. Especially the bronze bull and the castration scene.
 * They Just Didn't Care: Mixing up Heracles with Hephaistos, among so many other things.
 * According to the myths, Heracles DID get to ascend to a higher plane of existence.
 * The movie tries to make Zeus out to be NICE GUY. No research books were consulted in the scripting of this movie.
 * The minotaur being a guy with a wire-mesh bull mask instead of a half-human/half-bull, Theseus being a mortal instead the son of Zeus, Hyperion being a evil king instead of the Titan of Light... the list just goes on.