Rewatching Troy....this dummy Paris burned his city to the ground over a girl he spent one week with

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Fine. This thread has decided that I’m about to be way overdue. I’ve been hesitant because I’d heard it was so good from so many people that I’m afraid I’ll be disappointed.

Someone suggested I rewatch the first Spider-Man movie with Tobey Macguire and being grown completely ruined a movie that I thought was dope when I was younger.

Loving Greek mythology, sports, and this movie’s reputation played a part in thinking of names for my first child. There’s a lot on the line. If you’re saying Brad Pitt was flowing in it, it should be alright.

I’ll check back.

Brad Pitt was masterful in it. They couldn’t have picked a better person to play Achilles. It’s not a perfect movie but it’s not a bad movie to watch, especially on a Saturday.
 

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No love for Hector in here :dwillhuh:. He was the perfect straight man to all the fukkery going on.

Lowkey the Trojan senate acting like the modern day GOP are just as guilty as Paris in getting him killed.

This would have been a much different and better movie if that had just accepted that nobody was gonna cheer for Paris and Helen and just made them heel. Paris feeling himself all day and acting like Commodus would have made things make more sense.
 

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Wonder if the average citizen in troy knew of the cause like damn they gon rape and pillage us for this bytch?
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Nah Achilles was toying with him the entire time. He wanted the “illusion” of an epic fight so that he could have his “Glory”

I disagree respectfully. Achilles was enraged that Hector killed his cousin. He went out to the city by himself, in front of all of Troy, and demanded for the crown prince to come down to die like the archers couldn’t have shot a thousand arrows at him. He was hot and was trying to kill Hector immediately. And if you watch the fight, Achilles tried that jumping sword move he used on a few people in the movie but Hector swatted it off. So yea, he trying to end it early but he couldn’t. Plus Achilles was not the type to lie. He was raining Ether down on every character he spoke to in the movie. He wouldn’t have said Hector was the best person he ever fought if he didn’t mean it. Also keep in mind, even though it was incorrect based on what happened in the Iliad, Hector fought and defeated Ajax, a 7 ft tall giant a few days before. So they were trying to show Hector was the best of all the Trojans.



I empathize with Hector more because he was a noble man trying to protect his city and his family. He would’ve been a good king. And he was strong enough to go rounds with Achilles who had to break out a lot more moves in the fight compared to others Achilles had fought which suggests Hector really was the best he’d ever met. But that was what separated the two. Hector could keep up with Achilles when it came to conventional sword fighting but once Achilles started breaking out the various athletic moves he had, he couldnt keep up anymore and he didn’t even see Achilles setting him up for that last blow :mjcry:

The movie is kinda trash but Brad and his sword / fight scenes made up for it. This is one of the most epic sword scene ive ever seen. swagger was thru the roof. :whew:


Swagger on a hundred thousand. Priam knew he was sending his son to die :picard:
 

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