Review of Troy

From a technical standpoint it was very nicely done. From an acting standpoint I found nothing wrong with it. From an historical standpoint who the hell knows since it is mythology.

The Iliad is by far the most gore-encrusted poem I have ever read. It is to poetry what the Texas Chainsaw Masacare is to film. The movie Troy is pretty limp compared to the gizzly ancient poem. Homer goes into quite a bit of anatomical detail as to what happens when a spear or sword is plunged into somebody's head, or chest. And a hero's agony is colorfully illustrated by Homer in all his "intestine spilling, brain spattering, bone shattering, chest bursting" prose, with lots of animal sacrificing, and corpse burning too.

I missed the gods playing with the Acheans and the Trojans (uh I am not sure that came out right) Apollo, at one point takes the form of Hector. Then Athena gets her dad Zeus to help the greeks. The movie also has Aeneas as just a little kid helping Anchisese to escape. In the Illiad, Aeneas is a warrior and one of the most feared in Troy. Also the Trojan war lasted 9 long bloodsoaked years before the last battle at Troy. The movie sort of makes it look like Helen is taken to Troy and off they go to war then end.

On the whole I liked Troy better than the Iliad because it finished the story. The Illiad ends with Priam taking the body of Hector back to be burned in Troy. Thge poem begs the asking, "What about the fucking horse!?"

These stories are so amazing to me, because they are the Star Wars of the ancient world. Homer was writing The Iliad and The Odyssey around 800 BC. Vigil wrote the sequel, The Aeneid, 700 years later. Can you imagine how pissed you be to wait 700 years for the Return Of The Jedi?

I think that Brad Pitt played Achilles pretty much like how he is portrayed in the Iliad. The only draw back was that the film could not contain all the characters of the old story. The poem spans only the battle before the gates of Troy. The movie has bit before the battle.

I give it a 7 since I like Greek stuff. Go JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS!