Troy





Love this movie to death.

Right behind Gladiator for my favorite epic film. It's just awesome in every way possible. A+

I thought this movie was awesome! I have no idea why anyone didn't enjoy it. Brad Pitt rocked as did Eric Bana. and orlando.. duh! we were supposed to think he is a sissy.

but besides that, the fact that it had so many badasses was just amazing. come on! one of the main characters gets dragged behing a chariot!! that should be enough.

Absolutely brilliant!

A-

score was a little anticlimatic as was the ending, but these are minor things relatively speaking.

I know it's not a perfect movie with many flaws. But it's really good entertainment. High rewatchability for me (saw it about 5 or 6 times till now). A-

what an enjoyable movie, fantastic!
very very entertaining great battles

A-

B.

I have no comments.

Just. B-ish.

Good movie, even if it is occasionally unfaithful to its source. However, it's an awesome epic, and the fight scene between Hector and Achilles is fantastic!!! Truly the highlight of the film. Brad Pitt is completely believable as Achilles, and gives, in my opinion, one of the best performances of the year. I gotta go buy it this week, if only because I love Greek/Roman historical epics.

A-

this movie rocks! I wish I had seen it in the theater. A+ I had a blast watching the whole film and I'm gonna buy it soon.

Brilliant movie - B+

Let me down though, i was expecting too much.

I just finished this movie and I must say this was way better than Gladiator. It is the best epic ever since Ben-Hur imo. I really enjoy every minute even when Bloom was a wussy. Some of time i actually thought that it was real thats how good it was. Grade: A+

I must i agree, Gladiator, what with all the mistakes (more and worse than a normal film) isnt very good now, so Troy is far superior, also a better age that im more interested in.

I watched it last night, and while I didn't come off it shaking my head in amazement, it's still a damn good movie.

The Good: Good battles. Good acting all around. More than I expected form Bloom, though he still sucked. I liked how both sides were shown, so you must decide for yourself who is right, and who is wrong. I empathize fully for both sies, and I loathe fully for both sides, and it works brilliantly. It leaves a torn feeling with you, which leaves you thinking about it. What the movie had to say really got to me: death, love, war, and honor.

The Bad: Mostly minor things. The most important thing is the pacing, and the overload of characters made it hard to flesh out some of the characters that deserved it. And even the main characters, like Achilles and Hector, weren't fleshed out as much as I would have liked. In addition (minor quibble) the movie makes the war out to have last about two weeks, whereas it actually spanned more than a year. But that doesn't bother me much. Oh, and let's not forget Orlando Bloom's acting. Seriously, who casted him as freaking Paris?

I give it an A. Top ten this year.

Actually the war lasted for 10 years, hehe.

I thought the movie was pretty good. No way in hell it was better than Gladiator but I liked it. Brad Pitt and Eric Bana are both great, the Achilles/Hector fight was excellent. Orlando Bloom... I just don't like him period. I didn't really have any expectations but I did like it.

- B

hehe. i saw brad's ass. :wink:

and it was GREAT

Seeing it again on DVD it becomes clearer to me what the problem was. It appears that the story was centered around Hector as the hero, and Eric Bana did a great job, he was perfect in the part. But Pitt's production company Plan B has a before-the-title producer credit and I wager what happened is the script got altered to make Achilles the central character instead of the villain which he should have been. It messed up the story bad and made it incoherent.

Good movie but a lot of wasted potential.
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Nearer to the book, more epic, perhaps some mystical god stuff I guess it would have been better.
I give 6,5/10

That's still more than a year, isn't it?

I should see it again, I only saw it once in theaters. Looking back for now, I'd say it's very entertaining and well made but somewhat flawed.

While it was technically great, the story itself seemed to be lacking some emotion - compare it to LOTR, BenHur, Braveheart, Gladiator,etc. Pitt was decent but a little miscast. Bana, Cox, Gleeson, O'Toole, Bean, even Bloom were all good. A decent popcorn flick that I grade a B/B-.

Hmmm...

I actually agree with you guys about an action-oriented movie for once (kinda).

The acting was not bad, some ridiculous accents by Orlando Bloom and Brad Pitt, but accents are not the same thing as acting.

On the other hand, while I thought Eric bana was good...very good, I thought he was overrated. I mean, I actually heard talk about a best supporting actor nomination? Come on!!

It's nota particularly strong movie, but it works and its really entertaining. And it makes me wish there were more movie like it, like Ben Hur and such (but no Gladiator 2, please ).

It somehow just works.

B

I agree with pretty much everyone's sentiments, good and bad. It had its momments of brilliance, yes, but much of it remained disjointed and rather lame.

I would give it a B.

I think that the film was good, but I'm really not into History films, I think it was a C+ movie.

A-


I won't deny that Troy is a heavily flawed movie because it is. As the pure adaptation of Homer's Ilias with some of the Odyssey mixed into it, it is pretty bad with tons of inaccuraacies. The absence of the Gods aside, it bothered me that the filmmakers changed other important points of the storyline to make this flow better as a movie. The fact that Olrando Bloom's Paris surivives was probably the worst of it because I was despereately waiting for Paris to be killed. It didn't help that Orlando Bloom's acting was terrible as well. Moreover, the movie made it seem as if the whole Trojan War lasted for some weeks, whereas in fact it took 10 years.

But these complainst aside, the movie is perfect entertainment at its best with some glances of depth here and there. The overall cast, with the notable exceptions of Diane Kruger and Orlando Bloom, was perfect. I can't imagine anyone better for Achilles than Brad Pitt, but the true highlights of the movie are Peter O'Toole as Priam and Eric Bana as Hector. O'Toole deserved his 8th Oscar nomination for this movie. The scene between him and Pitt in the tent, after Hector's death, was one of the best in the movie.

The production values were great. Art direction, costumes, editing and cinematography were brilliant. The battle scenes were sadly a bit shorter than expected, but still very well-done. The highlight of the movie, the duel between Hector and Achilles was every bit as well-choreographed and exciting as I had expected. It is not a masterpiece, but it is still truly great Hollywood entertainment that is very much rewatchable. It is not on par with Gladiator, but it's good on its own.