Who wore it* better? *”It” being a loincloth.
The Legend of Hercules
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Hercules
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Why settle for just one Hercules movie in a single year when you can have two? 2014 has now served up a pair of epics about the lion-strangling Greek hero — January's The Legend of Hercules with Kellan Lutz, and Dwayne Johnson's new Hercules, which opens in theaters today. The accidental doubling up is another examples of Hollywood's serendipity/groupthink that gave us No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits in 2011, Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012, and Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down in 2013.
But why is 2014 so primed for brawny mythological types? Chalk it up to a fondness for old-school escapism and beefy men in skimpy clothing, or the fact that 2010's Clash of the Titans and 2012's Wrath of the Titans made money.
But if you're going to have two similar movies released so close together, you really ought to have a winner and a loser. So here's a point-by-point comparison of this year's Hercules movies, with the champion going on to live forever in Hollywood Elysium, and the loser doomed to Hades (where, The Rock's Hercules suggests, "the fun people are").
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