gwax's rumblings

I saw Troy last night and I was both amused and very dis­ap­pointed. I came into the thing expect­ing them to cut out a great deal of stuff, but I wasn’t expect­ing them to go about com­pletely rewrit­ing the major­ity of it and chang­ing the char­ac­ters them­selves. Worst of all, though, is that they decided to pretty much write out the vast major­ity of the hero con­tin­gent of the Trojan War. Basically, the movie was loosely based on the con­cept of the Trojan War and has rel­a­tively lit­tle to do with The Illiad. Besides my dis­gust, I thought that it was rather well done and if they had cho­sen to title the movie Achilles: The Movie, I would have been totally cool with the whole thing (the The Movie part is rather key).

	Story: 2/5
	Quality: 2/5
	Characters: 2/5
	Action: 5/5
	FX: 5/5
	Accuracy: 1/5
	Pacing: 2/5

	Overall: 3/5

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