1. How did Ares gain control of lightning and metal? I thought the God of War was just super-strong and good with weapons and such. Did it have something to do with killing the other gods?
2. Why not just fly the plane of poison gas into the sea and eject before it explodes? Also, it seemed like there were multiple instances were the gas would have killed the main characters...
1. dont know, bad writing? The gods gained their power from objects and he took objects from the gods he killed?
2. Maybe no water close enough? And no parachute? Apparently if you are lead character you can breathe in some of the gas and just cough a bit, others will of course take a shit and die on contact. Perhaps the writer was just getting board and wanted to wrap it up, so fudged the ending.
1. I know nothing of the gods.
2. Same mistake Steve Rogers made at the end of Captain America. Stupid Stevies.
1. I thought it was just the ability to control atoms with which he formed his armour from scrap metal in the vicinity. Ares shows his typical attributes which you've outlined but he also has the ability to manipulate matter and energy as weapons.
2. Ejection seats were not known to have been deployed during World War 1 - the technology was in its infancy. Pilots were generally expected to stay with their aircraft (not even parachutes were supplied to biplane crews). I only recall the village gas attack and was thinking that Steve should have been affected more by the gas than he was. It's possible that initial deployment of the gas from the shells maintains effectiveness up to 30 seconds after the explosion.
Also, Steve showed up just outside the town and fell over coughing just from that. He didn't go in the village.
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1. I wasn't aware that Ares could manipulate matter, but if that's a typical power of his, I suppose it could work.
2. Thanks for that info about the ejection seats. I'm not very good with historical technology, lol. About the gas, maybe after it spreads, it loses some of its effectiveness, but it still seemed pretty thick. At least in that scene, he did have a coughing fit and back away, but I still feel like he got off easy. Another thing that bugged me about the plane exploding mid-air: Wouldn't that just spread the huge amounts of gas over a larger area?
In Greek mythology Ares didn't manipulate matter. That was something the writers made up so it would work in the story.
In fact, the writers pretty much threw mythological canon out the window and did whatever they wanted.
Ares was the god of War; that was it. He didn't 'kill' the rest of the gods, and he certainly didn't kill Zeus. I've studied Greek and Roman mythology and I was pretty perturbed that the writers did this when they could simply have said that Zeus and Ares went to war and Ares was cast out of Olympus. The rest is just ridiculous.
Another thing that really bugged me was, I thought David Thewlis was 100% wrong for Ares. As a god of war Ares should have been a big strapping fella, but Thewlis is so wimpy and frail-looking that he looked silly.
I especially hated the mustache. On modern-day Ares, OK, but only as a disguise. The ancient Greeks and Romans did NOT wear mustaches, and I had to choke back my laughter when they showed the cast-out Ares all dirty and angry, glaring up at Olympus wearing that silly mustache. They should have had Thewlis at least shave it off for that scene and the scenes where he's wearing the armor. I found it anachronistic and off-putting.
Yeah, it annoyed me how much they didn't follow traditional Greek mythology, although granted I am far from an expert in the subject.
The actor for Ares was definitely the wrong choice. The twist itself seemed odd and out of place. I almost expected Dr Poison to be Ares (even though she's female) if the General wasn't.
Here's the thing - in Greek mythology Ares had an assistant named Eris, who was the goddess of discord and strife. I spent a lot of the movie hoping Dr. Maru was going to end up being Eris, but they didn't go there. That would have been pretty clever.
shareThat goddamn mustache. It almost felt like it had a life of its own :D
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