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Originally Posted by KCWolfman
Just the opposite for me.
It was over the top, it had to be.
How can you convey to 90% of your audience that soldiers who KNEW they were going to die would hold on as long as they did and as well as they did? You make it larger than life. You avoid the fact that most of the Persian soldiers were untrained farmers, you make your soldiers larger than life, killing giant wolves as kids. You make the Persian King a freak, a tremendous exceptionally strong, intelligent, charasmatic freak. You splash blood like watered down paint and you slow motion the better attacks that go against every rule of physics.
Now Troy - That truly sucked. How can you take a war that lasted ten years, a war of treachery, intelligence, love, and utter servitude and trade it in for a two week jaunt with sneak stab by Brad Pitt instead of the intense powerful titanic invulnerable warrior that Ajax was supposed to be.
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Jesus Christ Troy was bad. Horrendous. Brad Pitt was horrible. Worse than horrible. The problem for Troy was that Alexander came out at the same time. Troy had all the makings of one of the worst movies ever, but all the negatives went to Alexander instead.