In general i love historical movies, and i'm sad that we hardly get that anymore, but i guess it's because of the cost it is to make those movies and if they fail it would be a costly mistake, but i really like this movie!
shareI loved it! I didn't realise it was over three hours long though! I thought 300 was a bag of sh@t but I liked this. I liked the casting, the characters & the telling of the story!
shareHave always liked it
shareFor the most part I thought this was a fun movie.
It is not very accurate of faithful to the book, but the
book is very long and kind of boring. I'd say it was
as good as Gladiator any day.
I liked it too. Regardless of all the liberties it takes with Homer's original poem, the story is still quite engaging and well-written. The characters were well-rounded and complex, and the whole thing is gorgeously shot. I honestly think it's a much better film than Gladiator. Sue me.
share> I honestly think it's a much better film than Gladiator.
I could see that, but I think they were both good in different ways.
Troy was more juvenile fantasy, and Gladiator was more schlock.
For movies like this the setting and atmosphere is always good, but
the plots, writing and historical accuracy is rudimentary.
I thought it was great. It was total fantasy but it was the kind of stuff that I was imagining as a kid when I read the Illiad and the Odyssey.
I would not say I loved it though. Like almost all movies these days they set up and opening were really good, but the story and the ending were very bad. Peter O'Toole was badly cast. I did not like Paris either. It was a good movie, not historically accurate and not written very well, but well imagined in its own simplistic way.
Yeah, I didn't like Peter O'toole performance either
@OP : One of the few movies I Always like to rewatch, probably because it's epic. Weirdly, I think Gladiator is cinematically Superior but I just can't rewatch it.
I think the Reason why they don't make too much historical movies these days is because it's just not that popular anymore. Today, superhero is the new trend, sadly. I dare say historical movies are more for mature audience. The market moved on television. Vikings is pretty interesting. The English series of Troy is also really nice, much more complete though less epic than the movie.
You are right about Gladiator, it may have been "cinematically Superior", to me meaning it was crafted better, but the plot and writing was straight out of Hollywood. I am just so sick of movies that show some guy's wife and family for a few moments of domestic bliss before they are horribly killed - that's basically Gladiator.
Troy, the Illiad is one of the oldest epic stories ever so the story, at least as much as they stuck to it, was tried and tested.
It may be that there is nothing they think they can add to historical movies, but today historians and scientists are finding out that history is so different than we have been told or imagined it.
The whole story of humanity is totally different. There is a great PBS series called "First Civilizations" that talks about the big break in the lives of human beings being when we stopped being hunter-gatherers and became farmers. It meant that people were stable and could not move around. The population started to rise to greater than the land could normally support, and when there was a drought, or bad harvest, or the population got too high, conflict began.
Also, where hunter-gatherers got a well-balanced diverse diet and were evolved to this kind of diverse diet for tens of thousands of years, farmers filled up on a lot of carbohydrates and over time were not as healthy. The brain size of humans got smaller, they got more sickness and chronic disease, much like we have diabetes today and other diseses of lifestyle.
They had to band together in kingdoms for defense, and armies had to exist to defend their food supply. The people were bred to be defenders of the kingdom, or when there was no war, had to be redirected to huge projects like pyramids or big stone cities.
One could think of a million ways to work that into stories that would be far more interesting and engaging than the escapism of today.
The economics were such that
It wasn't bad.
shareI thought it was pretty enjoyable as well.
shareNo, you are not the only one..👍
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