Troy first (Atlanta later)

[chanaleh]

msmidge is now MrsMidge! But more on that in a bit.

Before I left for Atlanta, I went out to see Troy with tenore Thursday night. I now have a deeper appreciation for Troy in Fifteen Minutes (which was pretty freaking funny to begin with), because the whole movie is just like that: self-MST3K'ing. Nevertheless, I actually didn't hate it. All I have to add are

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Goodness, Greatness...

[zenala]

Great Balls of Twine!

Hm... I'm almost hoping Troy is still playing the next time I'm in Ohio. The combination of special effects, acting, and historical/scientific plausibility sounds like a perfect father-daughter bonding experience...

(Basically, my mom doesn't like long movies with loud explosions.)

[goljerp]

OK, call me a geek (or a guy), but I read the Iliad when I was in high school. I don't remember if it was just because, or after I found out that it was required for freshman year in college. I'm pretty sure I read it again in college, and then in the last year or two I pulled it out again and read it again. I found that it was a good thing for me to read before going to sleep -- I could read a chunk of it, find it interesting, yet still be able to put it down and go to sleep when I needed to.

[hauntmeister]

I, somewhat to my own surprise, quite liked Troy! Amazing special effects, very good human performances, and you can't beat the author. :-) One thing I really did appreciate was that they didn't glorify the battles and the violence -- Each battle had two sides you could identify with, not cartoon good guys and bad guys, and there were consequences from the killing! Something too seldom seen in movies.

Unfortunately, instead of flashing back to my reading of The Iliad in English 129 at Yale, at various critical plot points I kept remembering Asimov's retelling of the story in limericks.

Agamemnon, the top-ranking Greek
To Achilles in anger did speak
The argued a lot
Till Achilles got hot
And went stamping away in a pique

[hauntmeister]

There are three or four in "Tales of the Black Widowers". I don't know if he ever completed the collection, though...

[silver1226]

:)

um. . . your icon, is that from gilbert and sullivan, bcus it looks like kates in ti and i was wondering if I was insane or it was her.

[chanaleh]

Sharp eyes! You are quite right, that's me and Kate (katfairy) playing Leila and Celia in Iolanthe in November 1999. That was my first mitgsp show.

(And now we're doing Iolanthe again this fall. Yowza!)

[76trombones]

Mine was Patience, so I don't have to feel old yet!