Bite the dust
Saw Troy with K., Aaron and his housemate Shokes. Not a great movie, but fun for long stretches (and Eric Bana plays a good Hector).
The script... let's just say that I would have loved a movie that had any grasp of the psychology of the ancient Greeks, and could gladly spend hours here listing everything that was wrong. It'd even be fun.
But I've got other stuff to do. So I'll focus on a good bit: While Hector fights Achilles, near the beginning, when it's not clear at all who will win, they cut briefly to Peter O'Toole's Priam. The look of utter, crushing sadness of his face was the one indelible image from that film that will probably stay with me for weeks.
The script... let's just say that I would have loved a movie that had any grasp of the psychology of the ancient Greeks, and could gladly spend hours here listing everything that was wrong. It'd even be fun.
But I've got other stuff to do. So I'll focus on a good bit: While Hector fights Achilles, near the beginning, when it's not clear at all who will win, they cut briefly to Peter O'Toole's Priam. The look of utter, crushing sadness of his face was the one indelible image from that film that will probably stay with me for weeks.
