Movie review? Why not?
May. 20th, 2004 06:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_clareThe evil cat woke me up at 3:15 this morning. Now she's conked out on the floor next to my bed...and I'm still awake. Yay. Ultimately, I just gave up and caught up on fanfic e-mail.
Troy wasn't as bad as I'd led myself to expect. I was pleasantly entertained most of the time, and the bad dialogue merely made me roll my eyes and laugh. It took me a long time to really get into it--maybe 45 minutes, before I could actually make myself see Paris, Hector, Odysseus, Achilles--instead of thinking "Orlando. Eric Bana. Bean. Brad Pitt."--and noticing the behind-the-scenes stuff, like the way people's native accents (Bana's Australian, Pitt's American, Diane Kruger's German) kept slipping through the All-Purpose British just enough to be distracting.
I'm sure it's a good thing that I can't recall most of the details of The Iliad; the ten years' war boiled down to two weeks and the tacked-on Briseis/Achilles Twu Wuv story offended me on principle, but everything else worked. Character development was lacking, though it's silly to expect it from a summer action flick. Helen has so much potential, as a character, but it never gets played up (not just in this movie, but in anything I've seen/read). The principle love story as a whole was underplayed, which isn't really that surprising, again--just disappointing...and I'm blathering aimlessly now.
Off in search of breakfast.
Troy wasn't as bad as I'd led myself to expect. I was pleasantly entertained most of the time, and the bad dialogue merely made me roll my eyes and laugh. It took me a long time to really get into it--maybe 45 minutes, before I could actually make myself see Paris, Hector, Odysseus, Achilles--instead of thinking "Orlando. Eric Bana. Bean. Brad Pitt."--and noticing the behind-the-scenes stuff, like the way people's native accents (Bana's Australian, Pitt's American, Diane Kruger's German) kept slipping through the All-Purpose British just enough to be distracting.
I'm sure it's a good thing that I can't recall most of the details of The Iliad; the ten years' war boiled down to two weeks and the tacked-on Briseis/Achilles Twu Wuv story offended me on principle, but everything else worked. Character development was lacking, though it's silly to expect it from a summer action flick. Helen has so much potential, as a character, but it never gets played up (not just in this movie, but in anything I've seen/read). The principle love story as a whole was underplayed, which isn't really that surprising, again--just disappointing...and I'm blathering aimlessly now.
Off in search of breakfast.
