Comments | dwing: Troy

dwing

Troy

Jan 06, 2005 00:25

Many of you have already seen this movie and have had your own opinions. I Netflixed this movie and was very pleased with it. I thought this was a great movie and am actually going to go out and buy a couple copies. This will be the first DVD I've ever bought. There hasn't been a lot of movies out there that I have actually wanted to buy but I ( Read more... )

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_famine_ January 6 2005, 16:59:16 UTC

I thought it was pretty good too. Mostly because I didn't really know what happened in the Iliad. I sorta feel like I don't have to read the Iliad now (somebody correct me if I'm mistaken please).

Also, it was a huge help in my understanding of Ilium (Dan Simmons' book).

Oh, and the movie itself was entertaining. Based of what I learned in Ilium and from hearing about the real Iliad, I think they perhaps should have done a few things differently, but I'm sure the same could be said of almost any movie.

_famine_ January 6 2005, 17:01:39 UTC

Shit. Now my imagination/memory is going haywire. I'm having a hard time distinguishing Troy from the events described in Ilium. I don't really know what happened in either one in certain cases.

As I was reading Ilium I just pictured the characters in Troy to take their places as actors in Ilium (like Paris looked like Orlando Bloom, and Agamemnon looked like Brian Cox).

dwing January 7 2005, 06:33:57 UTC

I'm told that the Iliad actually had Gods present in the scenes. It would have been a mistake if they put that into the movie which I aplaud them for. There some other things such as the guy being killed wasn't Achilles cousin and some other small differences. I don't really care if the move was the exact same as the writings, I just wanted to be entertained and I was.

badmojoe January 7 2005, 12:19:26 UTC

I have no problem with the exercise of creative license, I just thought the movie was sucky, mostly. Helen and Legolas both sucked, the sets were run-of-the-mill and the photography struck me as unimaginative and decidedly un-epic. I liked Eric Bana a lot, and the Trojan horse was pretty neato. Really, though, I just expect movies adapted from universally heralded works of literature should be better than mediocre.