Just Got Back From Watching Troy. :)

[thenerdguy]

Well I liked it exept for the seeing of brad pitts butt area.

The fighting as very well done and Bloom got to be Legolas again.

All through my history is a bit rusty I do think it as an ok movie..

8/10 stars.

Anyone elce see it yet?

 

[Sui]

i really want to but IM NOT IN AMERICA so i have to wait for ages

sounds fun, ive read loads about it in empire

 

[The Mullinator]

From what I heard it is far from historically accurate, however it is hollywood, and if I go to see it I won't be expecting a documentary so I guess I could shrug it off.

Thanks for the rating nerd!

 

[thenerdguy]

Well Yeah its not correct. But you have to ask are the books correct to?

Anyway Its a good movie exept for the brad bitt's butts and you get a brief flash of boobs every now and again.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

The biggest problem was the complete absence of the divine level of the story--Paris and the apple of Discord, the Heart of Troy, the interplay of the gods surrouding the two sides, among other things. The original story has three levels (and countless subplots)--human, divine, and the interaction between the two. Troy had, at best, one a half.

For a movie buff, 8.5/10. For a history buff, 4/10.

holy crap! they left the back-story out?? well, i haven't seen it yet, so i'll reserve judgement, but maybe they're trying to portray a more "realistic" story based on the historical fall of troy instead of homer's mythology.

anyway, i'm curious as to how they treat patroclus. is he just achilles' friend.. or is he a.. 'special friend'..

 

[The Mullinator]

Well Yeah its not correct. But you have to ask are the books correct to?

Anyway Its a good movie exept for the brad bitt's butts and you get a brief flash of boobs every now and again.

Actually now that I think about it its probably kind of good they kept alot of it historically inacurate, I remember hearing in history class one time that Greek soldiers often fought in the nude. So seeing Brad Pitt's ass may have been quite alright compared to what else you may have seen. :O

 

[thenerdguy]

Yeah Im pretty sure that the fall of troy didnt happen like the way Homer Told it.

I still dont like seeing butts when I go watch a movie!

 

[Letters]

I thought it was great! Granted, that was a quick ten-year war... but it hit much (more than I thought it would) of the high points of the war. Plus, there were the little extra bits thrown in that you might just brush off if you're not really into mythology or anything that I liked finding (such as Paris's brief encounter with Aeneas and giving him the sword and telling him to create a future for their people... which he does... in the form of the Roman Empire!) Also... did anyone ever actually say Odysseus's name?! Anyway, it was MUCH more accurate than I thought it would be going into it, and it managed to do so and be an entertaining movie as well.

All the characters were done prettty much right on the mark as well... Hector was probably my favorite.

 

[spookymooky]

Im currently translating the Aneid in Latin class, and I was wondering, did they include the part with Laocoon and the serpents?

 

[Letters]

Im currently translating the Aneid in Latin class, and I was wondering, did they include the part with Laocoon and the serpents?

Nope, there weren't any actual super-natural events in the movie. Laocoon isn't even in it, though.

 

[not28]

It was okay. I kept thinking of it as a poor man's ROTK. The fight scenes were nice and definitely the movie's strongest points (especially the last scene with the Trojan Horse), although not orchestrated nearly as well as ROTK's. The dialogue somewhat lacked passion, too. I don't really know much about the story line, but this film made me want to go buy a copy of the Iliad.
I give it 7/10.

 

[Sparta]

3.5 stars. Eric Bana was the best thing about it. Everything else was..meh

 

[Sulkdodds]

Hmm. Seems to have divided opinions...I must see it once it gets over tot his side of the Atlantic.

 

[SpuD]

I just got back myself, i saw the 10:40 showing, didnt get over until 1:30!

It was good though, orlando bloom needed to die, and i could do without seeing brad pitts arse.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Movie guy on telly said it was shite, apparently the characters were 'cardboard cutouts', but I just got back from Van Helsing so it can't be that bad =/

 

[Kadayi]

The Critics have all bitched about it being a 'hollywood' version of the story. Personally I'm surprised they took the gods out of it, they are a key factor of the book. The ancient greeks believed that their actions were wholly orchestrated by the will of the gods, as were their destinies. If a man became a great warrior it was because the gods wished it, etc.

The fate of troy isn't decided upon the battlefield in the illad, but by the grudging agreement of the gods under Zeus. The greek heroes merely reenact the fates decided for them.

 

[Gunner]

Going to see it tonite, all I want to see are the epic cg battles hehe.

 

[DarkStar]

From what I heard it is far from historically accurate, however it is hollywood, and if I go to see it I won't be expecting a documentary so I guess I could shrug it off.

Thanks for the rating nerd!

The story of the trojan war itself isn't historically accurate, its mythology.

 

[Maxi]

I saw it too, yesterday evening, 8:30 pm showing. I think the movie was great.

 

[The Mullinator]

The story of the trojan war itself isn't historically accurate, its mythology.

I realize that but I couldn't think of a what it could be called accurate too. The mythology itself is a part of history which is why I said "historically accurate".

 

[Maxi]

According to history, the war raged for about 10 years, in the movie it's only a few weeks long.

 

[DarkStar]

^^ I realize the Trojan war happened, all I'm saying is that Homer's version isn't historically accurate. They fool them with a f*cking horse? Yeah right. I'd say it was fictionalized more than it was accurate considering the Gods decide the ultimate victors in the story. Yes, I would have loved if they had stuck to the Homeric version, Gods and all.

 

[spookymooky]

Actually, the Trojan war happened about ten times throughout history. Troy was situated at such an ideal location to control trade that the Greeks destroyed it many times over hundreds or thousands of years. The Troy in the Iliad is, I think, the 7th or so one.