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I finally saw Troy.
This movie sucked. The battle scenes were terrific and very well done, but the great big lulls in between where all the "acting" was supposed to go came up waaaaay short.
The writing was terrible, the acting was terrible (other than Peter O'Toole and Brian Cox) and for some reason everyone was sporting a horrible British inflected accent.
They took a wonderful story with all the makings of a great movie and made this garbage out of it. Not to mention the obvious bastardizing of the story to suit the purposes of the dumbed down audience. (Troy didn't fall in a few days, Agemmemnon (I just know I spelled that wrong) didn't die in Troy at the hands of some made up love interest of Achilles) It was littered with talk of Gods, but no Gods to be seen, which I feel might have made the movie a bit more interesting.
Not to mention the music. Oh my god, the music. It's either balls to the wall fanfare; trumpets blaring to evoke the majesty of the city. Or some Middle Eastern/Celtic (an odd combination to be sure) woman wailing.
But the fight scenes were terrific, but you definately have to suspend logic. I mean, the entire army stops fighting to watch two men go at it and when one falls, they part ways because "that's enough for today?" They watch Achilles kill Hector, but no one fires an arrow or charges out to slay Achilles. Instead they let him drag their hero off? Are you kidding?
2/10. Never watch this movie. Unless you're a Brad Pitt fan as he shows quite a bit of skin. No, I take that back. Never watch this movie. Ever.
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