The bastardization of the original story doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the clumsy camera work and choppy editing.

I learned to immediately burn any gift you don’t like, and call it an offering to the gods. Sorry grandma it’s an artifact of western culture.

Not a bad film but, DANGER do no use this movie instead of reading your greek history books, or learn to file a course repeat form and pay the four credit fee again. Even Wikipedia will get you a better grade and quicker. Only in this movie did a hobbit kill Archiles.

As an avid mythology fan, I found it really difficult to put aside all the changes that Hollywood made to this classic, ancient epic. It especially bothers me because now millions of people probably think that the Hollywood version is the original version. You don’t know how many people have said to me “Really? I didn’t know that” when I explained that the ending of the movie is a complete deviation from the original story. Just because the original epic it’s not entirely a historical account does not mean they should change it however they like. It is still historical because the myth is such an ancient classic. It’s still an insult to history.

Drek. Read The Iliad, or Firebrand by Bradley or even Ilium by Simmons. But don’t see this film.

Ok, so right before I started dating the cutie, this guy whom I had met through an acquaintance called and asked to hang out like a week after we met… on Thanksgiving night. Stuffed after my meal, I reluctantly agreed to watch a movie, but we had missed all of them by the time we finished playing text-tag, so once we finally starting talking on the phone he told me all the movies he had on DVD. Already I was suspicous of anybody coming over to watch a DVD as a “first date-ish” activity (see footnote), but I was not feeling so hot after whatever I ate, so I thought, “why not stay in?” Troy was the only movie in his long list of DVD possessions that was even remotely tolerable to me, and I hadn’t seen it yet, so over he came with it. Little did I know it was a three hour movie...

Of course, he made the move to get close to me once it started, and, in the funky mood I was in, I was like, did you come over here to watch the movie or not watch the movie?!? A little humorous banter ensued, but then he seemed to be all offended and wanted to turn my joking accusation around on me, ending with, “let’s just watch the movie.” And we did, in silence, for an hour and a half. One of those early communication fkups that you just can’t fix, el disconnecto.

So, after disc one, he announced that this movie was 3 hours long and he had to get up early the next day, so we’ll have to finish watching it another time. He then asked me if I could get disc 1 back out of the DVD player for him and went on his merry way. Needless to say, not an impressive whatever-it-was, though I felt a little bad for sarcastifying him right off the bat. He probably did have evil intentions though… later, when I told the friend what happened, I found out he was a total pot-head game player! And I don’t mean Xbox.

A near escape if you ask me, as I wasn’t looking for anything of the sort. Meanwhile, the movie was your typical overly dramatic blockbuster epic extravaganza… I don’t know how else to really do that story I guess, and neither does Hollywood, but it had some redeeming qualities that I can’t remember aside from really good color and scenic shots. I would like to see disc 2, if just for closure, but I don’t know whether I could sit through disc 1 again in order to do so. ;-)

Footnote: It’s interesting to note that my first datish activity with the cutie involved, you guessed it, me going over to his place to watch a movie he rented. That came about in an entirely different way, as we were randomly talking online and he mentioned he’d just walked in with this movie… and of course, he’s an entirely different guy – as he’ll tell you, nice guys run an entirely different race. Anyway, I trusted him, and rightfully so.

Not all gentlemen prefer blondes, but this redhead definitely prefers gentlemen. You’ll be happy to know (or possibly indifferent to the fact that) we have been having a great time together ever since. =)

I think this movie was worth watching as long as you tried not to tie it back to the actual original story. There were a good amount of changes to the original story so I didn’t like it at first, but then realized it was being too hard on it. I laughed when I saw that orlando bloom was again shooting arrows.