First comments on Troy
Feb. 13th, 2004 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aleathielA review from here, I'll put the whole post under a cut just to be safe from spoilers.
Well, there is no way in hell this movie is PG-13, with all of the spurting blood, staffs through the head, stabbings, hangings, and all around bloody fighting, not to mention the pubic revelations of both Pitt and Orlando Bloom
Just no comment. Unfortunately the film has not gone through it's final edit.
Oh, and about Legolas...yeah, he is entirely pointless. Ignore the third billing. Aside from setting the story in motion in the beginning, Bloom is hardly in the movie.
Oh dear, but the reviewer really doesn't like him anyway.
On the positive side:
First, Eric Bana. Don't let the advertising fool you, this is his movie. His character of Hector is a great man, brave and scared, strong willed and determined but realistic, the most realized and well written character. He is known now, but this movie will make him a star.
And lots of praise of Brad Pitt's fighting skills.
Well, there is no way in hell this movie is PG-13, with all of the spurting blood, staffs through the head, stabbings, hangings, and all around bloody fighting, not to mention the pubic revelations of both Pitt and Orlando Bloom
Just no comment. Unfortunately the film has not gone through it's final edit.
Oh, and about Legolas...yeah, he is entirely pointless. Ignore the third billing. Aside from setting the story in motion in the beginning, Bloom is hardly in the movie.
Oh dear, but the reviewer really doesn't like him anyway.
On the positive side:
First, Eric Bana. Don't let the advertising fool you, this is his movie. His character of Hector is a great man, brave and scared, strong willed and determined but realistic, the most realized and well written character. He is known now, but this movie will make him a star.
And lots of praise of Brad Pitt's fighting skills.
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Date: 2004-02-13 06:21 am (UTC)Do you sense any jealousy of Mr. Bloom in this review?
*g*
Similar "men enraged because they aren't Orlando Bloom" comments were made about Orlando in Pirates of the Caribbean. I ignore all reviews by het men about Mr. Bloom now.
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Date: 2004-02-13 06:22 am (UTC)"...not to mention the pubic revelations of both Pitt and Orlando Bloom..."
*prays for it to be true, and for it not to be cut from the theatrical release*
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Date: 2004-02-13 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-13 08:04 am (UTC)Were Legolas in this movie, it would be entirely pointless, albiet amusing. :) I'm seeing man-envy.
And lots of praise of Brad Pitt's fighting skills
That did seem to border on obsession...
And lastly...the pubic revelations of both Pitt and Orlando Bloom
Who else is hoping these'll be in the same scene?
*crosses fingers*
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Date: 2004-02-13 08:37 am (UTC)maybe the poor guy got confused by the whole bow and arrow thing and didn't understand it was Paris not LegolasAnd lastly...the pubic revelations of both Pitt and Orlando Bloom
Who else is hoping these'll be in the same scene?
*crosses fingers*
Um... ME!!
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Date: 2004-02-13 09:57 am (UTC)Things go boom!
Naked girls!
Fucking Orlando Bloom reminds me I suck!
Reminds me, though, that this movie is a bit schizophrenic. Rarely has a movie with so much male eye candy like Bana, Pitt, and Bloom also been a violent war film. There was a freak in the imdb.com messageboards for Troy that whined, "All you girls stay away from our movie. Let us enjoy it for the simple bloodbath that it is." I'm paraphrasing, but that's what it boiled down to.
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Date: 2004-02-13 11:00 am (UTC)In face, I have to confess I was horrified when I first saw the castlist. I was scared they'd never pull it off and it would be too Hollywood and pretty. I'm somewhat reassured now, but there is still a reservation, a part of me that thinks it might have worked better with 'uglier' men.
Not that I'm going to keep that opinion after seeing it, I'm sureAlso - I know people who thought the same thing about LOTR: violence, lack of female characters, a cast of gorgeous men...
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Date: 2004-02-13 12:14 pm (UTC)So he did propose? Do we know anything more than that rumour he was going to propose at the Empires?
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Date: 2004-02-13 03:52 pm (UTC)I was so, so scared that they'd fuck this movie up, especially after they cast Brad as Achilles. I mean, come on. He didn't exactly scream Ancient Badass Warrior to me. But if his fight scenes are really all that cool... I'm still anticipating major Hollywoodization, but maybe it won't be that bad. *crosses fingers*
Also, the part about "Achilles' whiney cousin"? I wonder if the guy knows the real story behind that. ^_^
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Date: 2004-02-13 05:17 pm (UTC)and i really don't want too much Brad Pitt, but i'm willing to suffer through that for Eric Bana and Orli and Beanie *nods*
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Date: 2004-02-13 11:37 pm (UTC)*crosses fingers too*
The whole 'cousin' thing annoys me. Okay if it made them friends and left it like that, but there was no need for this. I hate that it was 'cleaned' up, especially since we're gonna get a sex scene with Briesies.
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Date: 2004-02-13 11:43 pm (UTC)he's by Hector's side all the time! PLUS he gets hot scenes with Helen!!
Want to swap those names?
yeah, aren't we superficial? How many of us want to see Orlando doing a sex scene (have you seen Midsomer Murders)? Hands upRe:
Date: 2004-02-14 05:18 am (UTC)me, i go for the eye-candy, stay for the violence ....
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Date: 2004-02-14 06:17 am (UTC)hell yeah! i went through so much trouble to see it too. i bought it on the sly when i went to London last summer, then i brought it back to America, and carried it to Turkey because i can't play PAL format here. When in Turkey (about a month after i actually bought it), i got up in the middle of the night to watch it...cause like, children can't watch that thing O.o oh the things i do for fandom!Re:
Date: 2004-02-14 09:05 am (UTC)I hope you weren't too disappointed - that's a lot to do considering the whole murdered-after-twenty-minutes thing. Did you notice the LOTR references? It must just be coincidence though, because of the date. But hey, Orli-arse! And that was the first time I saw the tatoo.
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Date: 2004-02-14 02:09 pm (UTC)and yeah, the LOTR references made me smile! Lothlorien *giggles* oh no, it wasn't a coincidence. Orli got the role as Legolas before he did Midsomer Murders. To quote him "I walked in and said "I've got Lord of the Rings!" and they said "Do you wanna do Midsomer Murders?" " yeah, so they put those in intentionally *dork*
And that was the first time I saw the tatoo
same here :D
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