graduation grind.
if you lick enough envelope seals, you'll get a headache. nothing like assembling and mailing graduation announcements to prove it to you.
the following are reasons not to spend money to see the movie Troy:
1)they mess the entire story right up. you'd think, it being one of the major cornerstones of western literature and all, that they could have at least stuck to the basic plotline.
2)it's not as gory and violent as the original epic. why they watered it down i just don't know--unless it was in order to include not one, not two, but at least three different cheesy romantic subplots. which leads me to...
3)they claim Patroclus is Achilles' "cousin", thus removing one of literature's few known bad ass fags. a closeted Achilles? hell no. as for Brad Pitt's acting: i think he does alright with what he's given to work with, considering, but the entire production is so unintentionally cheesy it's hard to tell who's fault the whole mess is.
4)the score is ridiculous. and intrusive.
5)their "Helen". i find it hard to believe her face launched a thousand ships. a canoe of sixteen-year-old boys, perhaps, but let's not push our luck. she's plenty cute...i'll give her that, but i can't help but find it a bit hard to believe she would ever be considered the "most beautiful woman in the world". i feel like they could have chosen a more striking (not to mention more talented) actress for the role--they've got to be out there somewhere.
the following are reasons not to spend money to see the movie Troy:
1)they mess the entire story right up. you'd think, it being one of the major cornerstones of western literature and all, that they could have at least stuck to the basic plotline.
2)it's not as gory and violent as the original epic. why they watered it down i just don't know--unless it was in order to include not one, not two, but at least three different cheesy romantic subplots. which leads me to...
3)they claim Patroclus is Achilles' "cousin", thus removing one of literature's few known bad ass fags. a closeted Achilles? hell no. as for Brad Pitt's acting: i think he does alright with what he's given to work with, considering, but the entire production is so unintentionally cheesy it's hard to tell who's fault the whole mess is.
4)the score is ridiculous. and intrusive.
5)their "Helen". i find it hard to believe her face launched a thousand ships. a canoe of sixteen-year-old boys, perhaps, but let's not push our luck. she's plenty cute...i'll give her that, but i can't help but find it a bit hard to believe she would ever be considered the "most beautiful woman in the world". i feel like they could have chosen a more striking (not to mention more talented) actress for the role--they've got to be out there somewhere.