bearclaw
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Re: Troy
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Alpha Centauri wrote:
Glad to meet someone who is able to make comparisons with respect to the original Iliad.
**applauds**
thanks... not many know of the iliad sadly but I've always been a little sucker for Greek myth. 
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5/22/2004, 7:34 pm
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woooohooo bearsie has arrived here and from what I see has already made a little home for himself. You don't hang about do you my friend
Alpha, already giving out applauds to this fellow huh?
As for the film there has been aweful reviews I will copy one that I read somewhere last week.
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5/22/2004, 8:23 pm
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Re: Troy
I saw this film today.
I thought it was quite good. A bit slow in parts. There was about an hour in the middle that could of been cut out. And your thinking where is that Trojan Horse?
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5/25/2004, 3:58 pm
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MrsDominicMonaghan
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Re: Troy
it was OK. not my favourite film, but i won't complain about it.
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6/15/2004, 3:48 pm
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CyberChic
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movie sucked.. they didn't keep with the personalities of the original characters.. and at one point in the movie it's like they new they lost the story line..so they tried to drown out the film with too much fighting..yeah there's a such thing...but i'm not an idiot and it'll take more than alot of fighting to make me forget your movie is crap.
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6/16/2004, 6:18 am
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Well, I saw "Troy" last night. Yes, I know it's been around for a while but this is Australia, remember. "Gone With The Wind" premiered here last week... 
"Troy" isn't the right name for this film. "Helen Who?", "The Boy from Troy" or just "Brad" would have suited it better. Fair enough, no one said Helen had to be the star like in every other movie made about Troy. She was there, but only just.
The real star of this epic is Achilles (Brad Pitt). And that's fair enough, too. A forty year old hunk in a skirt is bound to draw Greek-epic-loving audiences.
Eric Bana plays a great Hector but he's Australian so we expect that.
Orlando Bloom disappoints as Paris (the prince, not the city). I liked him in "The Lord of The Ring" movies. He was particularly good in "The Return of The King" where, as an elf with attitude, he brought down huge elephant-like war machines, armed only with bow, arrows and pony tail (him, not the elephant thingies). He looked great; but most people look good standing next to an Ork. Anyway, I was disappointed in him this time. Frankly, he seemed a bit wimpy, especially when he's lying in the dust hanging onto his big brother's ankle.
But, back to Brad. Obviously the screenwriter thought Homer and his "Iliad" was just too, er, Greek. So, the storyline needed a bit of change to incorporate Brad, the boy from Shawnee Oklahoma.
It's all about Brad; he works the role, from show pony with a sword, to redneck with a sword, to unwilling warrior with a sword, to priestess ravisher with, er, you know, to finish as a sorta nice guy but no sword, just an arrow in the wrong place.
Overall, if you're looking for a bit of history, forget this movie. But.... I stayed awake all the way through, even after a large Thai food meal and a bottle of Aussie chardonnay. There's action aplenty, even though Achilles fights more like a ballet dancer than a battle demon.
Not a bad movie if you can't handle the truth.
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7/13/2004, 11:29 pm
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Brad Pitt is from Oklahoma?
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7/13/2004, 11:34 pm
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Rimmer
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Yes, but he was raised in Springfield, Missouri. So, that guy who told you he was Brad Pitt, might have been telling the truth.
I just hope you didn't meet him in a limo or when he was wearing a chicken suit...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/bio
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7/13/2004, 11:56 pm
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Umm, Rimmer, the original story by Homer is about Achilles and his wrath. At least it says so in the first two lines of the Iliad. 
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As long as I get to see Brad Pitt in his skirt I'm up for just about anything.
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