Troy

I went to go see Troy yesterday with my friend Sean Keener. he kept snickering. i'm no longer seeing movies like that with people who've lost touch with their inner 12 year old.

it's a fucking romp with spears and swords and men in dresses. (goddamn, i miss burning man.) what, you were expecting Shakespeare? or Homer?

the main problem with the movie, as i see it, is that you essentially had the hero of the movie played by Val Kilmer. hubris doesn't exactly win your heart, especially with someone you're inclined to hate, like Brad Pitt. (see previous post: hot guy all the girls like that you want to hate but end realizing is pretty cool despite.)

imagine Top Gun redone with Iceman as the main hero, and Tom Cruise's character replaced with some Greek looking mother fucker, and Goose played by Corey Haim. And Goose is the one that survives and gets Kelly McGillis.

and 'Highway to the Danger Zone' redone by John Williams and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Come to think of it, Tom Skerrit would've made a better King Priam.

this essentially, is why Troy was so awkward.

Loved it anyway.