Movie-Troy

Rule #1-Brad Pitt is NEVER allowed to do an English accent again.

Rule #2- See rule #1

Rule #3- See rule #2

So we finally saw Troy, the wannabe epic film made in 2004 for upteen gazillion dollars. I am not going to say this was bad, but it was painful.

Brad Pitt was terrible. Why did they even try to make him do a British accent? I mean they were Greek! Did ancient Greeks speak with a upper crust London accent? I mean, I understand why the British actors in the movie spoke that way, but Brad needs to stick to his own vernacular.

Besides that, his acting was terrible. OK, maybe it was the stinky script. Seriously, even Peter O'Toole was bad in this, so I will give Brad a break. Speaking of the script--the Greeks are invading Troy, and the leading prince of Troy, Hector tells his archers not to kill Achilles (Pitt) when they can shoot him down. I guess it does not matter that with Achilles the Greeks will destroy Troy, kill his father the king, probably kill his brother the prince, his wife, child, cousin and thousands of residents. Nooooooooo! He does the honorable thing and fights one on one in a battle he knows he will probably lose...Oh c'mon...what BS. If you are fighting for survival, you just fight whatever way you can. Like Stalingrad in WWII.

OK...deep breath! The score of this movie was even bad. The soaring strings telling us we need to feel awe or sadness. The stupid chanting. This was not a movie about Muslims, yet it sounded like chanting from a Mosque.

It was all too much...too much OVER acting... too much trying to be epic...too much trying to be awesome...too much of everything, including too much time. It really did not need to be over two and half hours long.

OK...Sharlynn did see one redeeming quality. She said the eye candy of Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom was quite nice. She just wish Pitt had shut up! Couldn't Achilles be mute?

This movie was a mess, from the get go. And it did not get better as it went along.