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    I saw Troy last night, and gosh darnit that Brad Pitt looked HOT!

    It was an o.k. movie, could have been better. But Brad Pitt as Achilles, just takes all your attention off the quality of the movie, and on to the hotness of Achilles.

    I give it two thumbs up!

    Now, girls who are not single, I would not advise you to watch the movie, because you will suddenly think your ugly boyfriend is even uglier than before.



    What I didn't like about the movie:
    -That nini Orlando Bloom is so damn Gay!
    -The character of Odysseus was not played up to the caliber of that which is portrayed in the Odyssey.
    -The fighting scene between Hector and Achilles was not all that great.
    -Rose Byrne's character was getting annoying with her praying.


    Did you guys see it? What did you think?

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    • #3
      I am definitely watching that movie.
      I think Orlando Bloom is pretty cute. He's just not as buff as Brad Pitt.
      Originally posted by spiral
      I give it two thumbs up!
      That just made me look at your avatar and see how it gives it a different finger. hehehe.
      I see...

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      • #4
        Achilles is not suppose to be a loverboy, for one thing. I hate that Hollywood has to insert love interests in places where they don't belong in a lame attempt to get women to see a war film. The love between Paris and Helen is way overplayed, too. Their running away with each other is meant to be divine retribution toward Priam, nothing more than an excuse for Menelaus and Agamemnon to attack Troy. It is hardly even a genuine affair, whereas the film made it look like love for the ages. I don't have much problem with Odysseus, as he really isn't that major of a character in the Iliad anyway. I guess the major flaw is that Achilles ended up dying in an attempt to save his lover. He isn't even supposed to have a lover. Achilles is supposed to be done in by his own arrogance. He is meant to be a cautionary tale, not an ideal of loving behavior.

        Then again, dramatic liberty is what adapting a story is all about. But even on the merits of the filmmaking alone, Troy falls short. The emotion is never all that convincing. The acting, for the most part, is above par, but the story just isn't put together all that well. There never seems to be a good reason for any of what is happening, and this is where the one major departure from the Iliad does this film in. The gods were supposed to be the cause of everything. Without the divine influence, the story just doesn't make any sense. You have epic actions with no epic motivations. Troy wants us to believe that this was really about Helen and Menelaus' wounded pride, but that just takes away from the more sinister and realistic causes of the war: the mindless glory-seeking and excuse-making of men in power and outside manipulation. Had the story been done as it was by Homer, it might have hit home to quite some extent.

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        • #5
          It was his friend that was killed, not his cousin. In any event, I saw it last night. An "okay" movie. Too long. The only thing going for it were the hot chicks in it and the computer graphics.
          Achkerov kute.

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          • #6
            I agree with a lot of what you said, however, I don't think that the filmmakers intended to portray the stories as they were told in the Greek legends. They took the characters, and the main story, and put their own story line on it.

            As far as Achilles being a 'loverboy'. I don't think he was made out to be a loverboy in this film, however, I had read that he had a lover before going to troy, and she had his child...

            But overall, I agree, it wasn't a great movie. Gladiator was done much better.

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            • #7
              Thank you spiral for confirming the the E! channel still has got excellent mind control methods. Nobody thought Pitt was hot when he was just an extra on thelma and luise.

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              • #8
                I still don't think Pitt is hot. I never thought Pitt was hot. I think Achilles the character was hot.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by spiral
                  I still don't think Pitt is hot. I never thought Pitt was hot. I think Achilles the character was hot.
                  See I don't make such distinctions. You put a cheap plastic helmet from the props department on a person I don't think of them as a different person.

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                  • #10
                    Just to fill the void left by Dan, I'll say that I thought Brad Pitt was pretty hot in Thelma and Louise.

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