Troy v Gladiator & Braveheart

[Bill Murphy]

Hell, if G & BH(& Unforgiven, FTM) got all the Oscars they did, what are they going to do for Troy, give it a super-Oscar?

I was surprised how much I liked T. I thought it came close to LOTR; excellent cast & source material. Miles better than G or BH. The special effects/CGI battles were much better in LOTR, of course, but Pitt & Bana did very good jobs in the action sequences.

One of the main things I liked about it was that there were no "wink-winks" to modern audiences; e.g. "Make my day" type lines. Even LOTR fell down a bit in this regard.

Anyway, check it out. If the rest of the year's movies suck as bad as most have so far(save for Eternal Sunshine), T should get some Oscars, esp. Brian Cox(the original, & best, Hannibal Lecter) for Supp Actor as Agememnon.

[IrishHand]

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Miles better than G or BH.

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This had better be the greatest movie of all-time then, since I've got Braveheart in my all-time top 10 and Gladiator in my top 20 (in part due to its similarities to Braveheart). I look forward to seeing it in the next couple of weeks.

[Homer]

This had better be the greatest movie of all-time then, since I've got Braveheart in my all-time top 10 and Gladiator in my top 20 (in part due to its similarities to Braveheart). I look forward to seeing it in the next couple of weeks.

Get ready to be disappointed.

[Ragnar]

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Get ready to be disappointed.

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You are just unhappy because you don't like what they did with your book. Oh wait--you are a different Homer. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Ragnar

[Inthacup]

I think it's better than what the critics are saying about it, but it's certainly not the best epic movie I've seen.



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[TimTimSalabim]

Haven't seen it yet, but I hear that Brad Pitt plays Achilles, which seems like a total miscast. Achilles is supposed to be a big, superstrong guy.