Troy

[hard2chui]

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How far are they into the season? I might try to watch it if I'm not too late.

[Jibgolly]

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Troy is a movie, not a TV series.

[remoh]

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he is thinking of rome on HBO

[influx]

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i thought troy was great. i've seen it prolly a handfull of times and still love it. i thought pitt did a great job. i thought it was a little overdone, but when i thought about it, that's how the book was.. everything dramtic, timeless hereos etc.

[Kobe]

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God this movie sucked. I don't know how they managed to make a movie that both butchers the original story through omission, yet at the same time is painfully long, but by god they pulled it off.

I will give credit in that it is visually grand and has several decent fight scenes, but it is all without any substance. Peter O'Toole does his best to give it some credibility and Eric Bana deserves better. For me it was an empty and tedious experience.

The least they could do would be to show Helen's titties, I mean let me see what all the fuss is about

2/5

[Digger]

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i really liked the movie specially the fight between brad and eric pretty cool you have to agree, but i think the hole movie is around brad pitt, doesnt it?.....

[Balearic Boy Greg]

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Obviously it is unfortunate that they did not stick to the Iliad strictly, but I still thought the movie was very good. Pitt was excellent as the penultimate yet tortured hero Achilles. Still, I must agree with the others. why not show the gods? They were the backbone of the Iliad and while it is an interesting spin to show the story through mortal eyes, this is not the way our Ancient Greek ancestors would have thought of the story. This is the story that Alexander memorized (as did countless other Greek youths as per the schooling standards of the day) and took with him as he tried to equal Achilles tasks in the eyes of the gods as he crossed Asia and India.

For that reason alone I believe the story deserves the 'proper treatment' in oprigianl form for the movie. Just look at how Clash of The Titans made use of Olivier as Zeus!

Greg

[Kobe]

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Clash of the Titans!! Now THAT was a movie!

[picklemonkey]

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I watched this last night and all I can say is wow. I can't believe how retarded this movie is. I had no clue who to root for while the story repeatedly bounced back and forth between the sides. plus, shit was going on that made no sense. stuff like immediately after all the fights, the characters were suddenly clean. or when people died they suddenly had a huge pedestal standing on top of a 15-foot-tall sand foundatation. or that 50,000 men march into war, one man who has nothing to do with the war dies, and everybody suddenly decides to stop fighting?! across the entire coast? bullshit. the effects were great, but the story royally sucked. 2 pickles imo... one for acting and one for graphics.