Troy
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- nLHb
going to see it tonight. anyone heard anything good/bad?
looks to be some good eye candy, and if they do the story right then that is a bonus. i wonder if they will show the trojan horse?
(plus orlando bloom and brad pitt? yum!)
- JazX0
yeah you like those boyz!
- nLHb0
yah! i do like boys!
- JazX0
I knew it!
- blueless0
I was down in cabo san lucas while they were filming that.
I got to see some of the sets and huge green screens they set up. the sets were amazing.
- nLHb0
??? what made you think differently?
- grayhood0
haha you like boys!
oh, wait...
- Xentic0
some reviews: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/…
- BonSeff0
homogay-
if i may quote from the pilot on Airplane!
http://www.chorizoapproved.com/n…
- vwsung18t0
i heard they took out the gods from the story to make it more serious. i think Greek gods are the most interesting part of Greek mythology
- ramon_c0
Captain Oveur? Over.
- ganon0
no joke, this is a real email i just got from a friend who went to a midnight showing of troy...:
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subject: TROY RULED...
==============...AT SUCKING.
We sat in disgust for 175 minutes, there were moments so embarassing for the movie that I felt awkward. The people in the movie erupted in laughter several times at really dumb, and stupid scenes.
Although if Van Helsing was a 0.5 out of 10, Troy was a 2. Brad Pitt was miserable as Achilles, and it was like watching "Meet Joe Black" meet Homer.
Nothing in the movie felt Greek, or gave you the sense the "history had a past". I feel bad for Peter O'Toole to be involved in such a swamp of
grossness.========
hope you enjoy it...!
- nLHb0
they took out the gods? they could do some incredable things if the gods were in it. or maybe it would turn into xena, warrior princess...?
- JazX0
haa haaa
- nLHb0
oh no! what a bad review!!! i am still going to go see it though. like i said, it looks like good eye candy
- rasko40
my bro in law worked on the CG in troy.. he's doing charlie and the choc factory at the moment.. the bastard
- GreedoLives0
Review from the Boston Phoenix
by Peter Keough
(this guy usually hates big budget blockbusters)
--------------------------------...A film that may evoke more Troy Donahue and the golden era of Hollywood than the doomed city and the ancient age of Homer’s epic, Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy replaces the gods (not a bad idea, given 1983’s camp classic Clash of the Titans) with the 21st century’s new deities of computer-generated special effects and celebrity icons. As a Cliffs Notes version of the Iliad, this gets right to the medias of the res: Paris (Orlando Bloom as a callow youth rather than the immortal one in Lord of the Rings) meets Helen (Diane Kruger, a pretty face), wife of old Spartan fart Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson). Paris and Helen flee to Troy despite the objections of Paris’s older brother Hector (Eric Bana, best in the cast). Power-hungry Agamemnon (Brian Cox in curly wig and skirt and enjoying every hammy minute) uses this as an excuse to attack the evildoers and take over the region.
Stop me before I bring up another gratuitous Iraq War analogy. But this is where the real stars of the show come in. The CGI-ed thousand ships en route to Ilium evoke a chill, but for my money (considerably less than Troy’s budget of a quarter of a billion), I’ll take the first glimpse of the Allied armada in The Longest Day. Playing Achilles, Brad Pitt impresses with his swordplay and his pin-up pecs, and he brings an edge of melancholy to the demi-god when he’s not shouting army-recruitment slogans to the Myrmidons ("Immortality is yours! Take it!"). But the Achilles’ heel of such epic making is that Hollywood no longer has the talent or the innocence to pull it off. (165 minutes)
- idsgn0
i dont think i can deal with the fact that everyone on the preview seemed to have british accents
- unfittoprint0
I don't think this book it's an hommage to great work of Homero.
It will be more like WWF with skirts.
- GreedoLives0
You ever read the Iliad? It's pretty confusing. Hard to keep track of who's pissed at whom and for what reason, and which god is on which side.
I'm sure they had to pare the story down for a simplistic blockbuster. It's all about the star power and CGI spectacle anyways.
- JazX0
unfit, haahaa