Troy: The Movie .. ( W o w )

i was talking to church friend about it and he said it was very good. He also said when he watched Van Helsing in like 11 scenes of person-on-person and non-animated characters you could see the microphione in the scene hanging from above.
LOLROTFLMAO :rotfl:
 
It's the worst movie I have seen this year. The actors sucked, especially Orlando Bloom. They should've fired one actor and used the money on the music. The 1000 ship scene sucks in the movie, the trailer looked better.
I've discouraged everyone I know to go see it, not worth 6€.
 
Actors sucked ?
Are you insane ?
 
At the end of the movie I just wanted to see Paris die!!! die!!! :mad:
Battles, pfff, lord of the rings' battles were way better.
Like I said, music killed the movie.
Vin Diesel will suck in such movies, he already sucked in all other movies. (except maybe XXX or fastfurious)
 
Souron said:
Good movie in general.

Accent were poorly done and inconsistent.
Brad Pitt made a bad Achilles.

Good battles.
Good acting.
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I thought Brad Pitt made very convincing Achilles. He had the arrogance of Achilles, the cruelty, the warrior mentality and philosophy as well as possessing the superb physique and incredible combat skills of the ultimate warrior. What I loved about the character of Achilles in the film was that it was not -like in so many films- where the result of the combat was placed in doubt. Achilles was always in control and simply toyed with his prey until he dispatched them, there was nothing desperate about Archilles when he fought, he was in total control and his opponent was doomed. Poor Hector :(

No, as far as I'm concerned the character of Archilles was brought to life by Brad Pitt, I don't know where you are coming from as you give no reasons.

The film needed one last big battle, where the Greeks try to storm Troy and fail and fail really badly. Then they should leave and try the wooden horse ploy.

I enjoyed the film, however it failed on many levels. The story was not epic enough, the character history was not explored and neither did the war feel like it was 10 years long. 5 weeks maybe, not 10 years. The film needed to take a gamble and spread itself over 3 films and at least 9-12 hours and truely bring the epic to life. Personnally I'd have loved that, having gone and watched a 10 hour play on this period of history called "The House of Tantalus" which was so humourous, believeable, epic and had nudity of young Americans (Trojans) as a special effect :D


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I thought it was funny looking at the previews showing HUGE scenes and tons of ships crossing ocean. I was like, yeah right like they could've had THAT many. My whole family knew it was a cheap way of doubling up some ship and then massing it to the hundreds or a 1000 like someone said earlier I think.
 
I saw it today, and here's my review(and I've read both the Iliad and the Odissey).

The movie overall was very good. The acting was good, and the battle scenes were truly impressive. And I liked the fact that there were no gods walking amog humans.

However here are some flaws, that I see no reason why they happened:
-Why was Achillis in the Horse? He died much earlier. No sense in this decision.
-Why did that gir kill Agamemnon, when in the Odissey Ulisses says that Agamemnon only got killed, by his wife, when he returned home? I think the director want to include some sort of "bad guys get punished" thing, and the movie would get too long if he showed the destiny of the king of kings. Still an odd decision. I also dislike it when he was screaming "burn Troy burn" like a demented psychopat.
-I read the Iliad many years ago, so I might be mistaken here, but I believe Paris should have died. And while watching the movie, I sure wished to see that coward and effeminate Paris dead.
 
luiz said:
-Why was Achillis in the Horse? He died much earlier. No sense in this decision.
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If they had killed Brad Pitt off before the denuemont, it would have dissapointed many mainstream moviegoers.

luiz said:
-Why did that gir kill Agamemnon, when in the Odissey Ulisses says that Agamemnon only got killed, by his wife, when he returned home? I think the director want to include some sort of "bad guys get punished" thing, and the movie would get too long if he showed the destiny of the king of kings. Still an odd decision. I also dislike it when he was screaming "burn Troy burn" like a demented psychopat.
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You've got it. Again, mainstream moviegoers do not like the absence of a sense closure in reference to morally detestable characters. People in general also have a problem when characters are morally ambiguous, so they make them easy to dislike, in essence relegating them to 2-dimensionality.

luiz said:
-I read the Iliad many years ago, so I might be mistaken here, but I believe Paris should have died. And while watching the movie, I sure wished to see that coward and effeminate Paris dead.
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Paris sucked. Kind of gives a new meaning to "gay Paris". :lol:
 
Dabomb18359 said:
I thought it was funny looking at the previews showing HUGE scenes and tons of ships crossing ocean. I was like, yeah right like they could've had THAT many. My whole family knew it was a cheap way of doubling up some ship and then massing it to the hundreds or a 1000 like someone said earlier I think.
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They would have needed that many ships. The army was 40000 strong and how many people did each boat carry? Only about 40. So then you'd need 1000 boats wouldn't you.

Mescalhead said:
Paris sucked. Kind of gives a new meaning to "gay Paris". :lol:
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:rotfl:
 
Smart Troyans:

Hey look we have these immense walls, and they have no sort of siege equipment whatsoever, or even ladders..... Let's go stand in front of it.
 
The greeks would still have to attack, wouldn't they? They wanted the city after all.
 
Yeah but the Greeks lay siege to Troy, so then the Trojans couldn't get any food/resources in. The Trojans needed to break the siege.

BTW - I don't even know why I'm trying to defend this point since I know you're right that it doesn't make much sense. Strange. :crazyeye:
 
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