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My favorite part of the review:
A war film needs battles, and Troy has nearly a dozen of them, employing arrows, spears, great balls of fire rolling down a slope to crush the enemy. The beach blitz has Achilles and his Myrmidons capturing the territory for Agamemnon in an Omaha Beach ? like assault (Saving Priam's Rival). But thousands fighting thousands is war; man fighting man is drama. Troy boasts plenty of good old Hellenic fist power. Paris vs. Menelaus, Hector vs. Ajax the Great, Achilles vs. Hector ? it's a dream card at Madison Square Garden, and the movie choreographs each set-to with burly ingenuity. This is The Iliad as a WWE SmackDown: violent fights, snappy insults and a connoisseur's idolatry of beautiful brawn. (Who knew Greece had so many blonds?) When Paris cringes from Menelaus and hugs Hector's sturdy leg, it's as if he thinks he can turn a one-on-one brawl into a tag-team match
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Bloom is so winsome as Paris that he almost makes the cowardly girly-man a teen idol.
Yes! Paris is a pussy coward!

(unfortunately, the cast list from IMDB does not include Philoctetes- so who's going to kill him?)
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Vympel wrote:
My favorite part of the review:
A war film needs battles, and Troy has nearly a dozen of them, employing arrows, spears, great balls of fire rolling down a slope to crush the enemy. The beach blitz has Achilles and his Myrmidons capturing the territory for Agamemnon in an Omaha Beach ? like assault (Saving Priam's Rival). But thousands fighting thousands is war; man fighting man is drama. Troy boasts plenty of good old Hellenic fist power. Paris vs. Menelaus, Hector vs. Ajax the Great, Achilles vs. Hector ? it's a dream card at Madison Square Garden, and the movie choreographs each set-to with burly ingenuity. This is The Iliad as a WWE SmackDown: violent fights, snappy insults and a connoisseur's idolatry of beautiful brawn. (Who knew Greece had so many blonds?) When Paris cringes from Menelaus and hugs Hector's sturdy leg, it's as if he thinks he can turn a one-on-one brawl into a tag-team match
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Bloom is so winsome as Paris that he almost makes the cowardly girly-man a teen idol.
Yes! Paris is a pussy coward!
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I just saw a clip of one of the Achilles/Hector fights from the film on Conan. Very cool.
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I'm planning to go see it opening night.
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I shall see this once I get around to seeing Van Helsing, The Punisher and Eternal Happiness Of The Spotless Mind.

Damn, why do so many good films come out all at fucking once nearly?
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All it needs now is a soundtrack by Manowar.
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Gandalf wrote:I'm planning to go see it opening night.
If you do that, you will end up seeing it a full 40 hours (at least) than the yanks on this board! :D
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Crown wrote:
Gandalf wrote:I'm planning to go see it opening night.
If you do that, you will end up seeing it a full 40 hours (at least) than the yanks on this board! :D
We need to do something about that international date line. :x :wink:
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Tsyroc wrote:
Crown wrote:
Gandalf wrote:I'm planning to go see it opening night.
If you do that, you will end up seeing it a full 40 hours (at least) than the yanks on this board! :D
We need to do something about that international date line. :x :wink:
Oh don't start bitchin' now, it's not as if we don't usually get things weeks/months after you (Kill Bill Vol 1 for example we got like 2 months after you!). :P
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Peregrin Toker wrote:All it needs now is a soundtrack by Manowar.
because heavy metal was so popular at the time of the Trojan War.
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They ruined Resident Evil with shit music. I'm not letting them ruin Troy also.

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, BITCHES!

Hans Zimmer was born to do these types of film.
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:They ruined Resident Evil with shit music. I'm not letting them ruin Troy also.

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, BITCHES!

Hans Zimmer was born to do these types of film.
they didn't have that then either. they should have harps or lyres or whatever the fuck Helen listened to.
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Col. Crackpot wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:They ruined Resident Evil with shit music. I'm not letting them ruin Troy also.

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, BITCHES!

Hans Zimmer was born to do these types of film.
they didn't have that then either. they should have harps or lyres or whatever the fuck Helen listened to.
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Col. Crackpot wrote:they didn't have that then either. they should have harps or lyres or whatever the fuck Helen listened to.
You want harps for battle scenes?
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Crown wrote: Oh don't start bitchin' now, it's not as if we don't usually get things weeks/months after you (Kill Bill Vol 1 for example we got like 2 months after you!). :P
Yes, but we're America. We want it all and we want it all first. :D
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Col. Crackpot wrote:
Peregrin Toker wrote:All it needs now is a soundtrack by Manowar.
because heavy metal was so popular at the time of the Trojan War.
It was an in-joke.

In any case, since you didn't get it, the point is that Manowar's longest song, Achilles, is almost half an hour long and is about the Trojan War.

To be honest I don't think it would make a good soundtrack for anything.
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:I shall see this once I get around to seeing Van Helsing, The Punisher and Eternal Happiness Of The Spotless Mind.

Damn, why do so many good films come out all at fucking once nearly?
But it's a good kinda problem to have. 8)

I was cautious about Troy, but Brad Pitt's track record is pretty near 100%, and that review has me feeling increasingly optimistic. I'll prolly see it as soon as I'm able, which might be opening night. Can't recall.

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That review made me indescribably happy. I have faith that Troy will be awesome, but sometimes its a bit hard to retain confidence. :D

When I saw the teaser with the ridiculous number of triremes, I was sure it would be cool.

Then my friend's mythology professor passed on a truly distressing rumor about the director taking license with the plot, and I was sad.

he claimed that they were going to have Briseis kill Agamemnon for closure so that they could just cut Clytemnestra entirely

But this review is reassuring.
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