re: I rewatched Troy and noticed Brad Pitt is terrible in this movie

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Troy is a good movie but the dialogue is just ok

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And the battle scenes are just okay...although nobody really cares since it's entertainment but apparently they got everything wrong with a war that happened in the 13th Century B.C.

I watched one of those videos on YouTube of an Ancient Warfare expert breaking down battle scenes in movies...and he rated Troy as a 2/10.

When the Greeks land at Troy and our met with instant resistance he said the moviemakers were basically just trying to recreate Saving Private Ryan in ancient times which didn't happen. Resisted landings are a modern warfare thing.

The movie even shows wooden stakes on the beach like the iron stakes in SVP...and he says those are just for show...who are they gonna stop, the Greeks aren't trying to land tanks our anything...people can just walk through them.

If anything the Trojans would've dug ditches from the beaches to the walls of Troy but the Greeks would've just landed a safe distance away from anything.

And of course once the Greeks land, there's no more resistance and they just set up camp and hang out by the beachhead for years with no problem...setting up their tents and mini-seige town with no resistance.

And they show mounted calvary storming up the beach with horses and there was no cavalry during this period, horses were too valuable to waste in just throwing them into battle for no reason.

And the scenes of the armies just running at each other wouldn't have happened, you wanted order...as even the movie shows the folly of this with extras falling down as everyone is running over each other trying to get to the enemy.

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During his big opening speech in Inglorious Basterds he turns and reads the cue cards (and Tarantino left it in). It's really ridiculous and hard to un-see


At what spot? I just watched the scene and don't see it.

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Bump for this

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Meet Joe Black

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God he sucks in this. It was obvious in a lot of his early stuff that he’s limited as an actor. It’s surprising he became such a big star.

Fight Club

I enjoyed him as Achilles but he was pretty much overshadowed by every other actor in that movie other than Orlando Bloom.


Bana, Kruger, Peter O’Toole and Brian Cox killed that movie. I’m still surprised it’s a 54% on RT. I enjoy the hell out of it every time I watch it. Most of the fights are meh but Hector vs Achilles is incredible both in how it’s shot, the fight choreography, stakes and music.

I liked Brad Pitt in Sleepers, Fight Club, and Legends of the Fall.

I never really got in to the Oceans movies so I have no idea if he was good in those or not.

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Still a great movie though

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Isn't he terrible in most all movies he's in?

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Hector was too honorable for his own good. When Achilles came calling at the gate if he’d yelled back “No thanks… I’m good” and let the archers run him off Troy probably wins the war.

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I'm not sure if this will be hijacking the thread but consider the mythology.

The heroes are metaphors or avatars for the sides of a conflict. The name Hector means protector (of city but also family and women and countrymen). Hector nobly accepts his fate to serve in the face of certain death.

Achilles is the paired opposite. His name translates as "pain". He was made nearly invulnerable through no great character of his own. He is bodily perfection but his petulant character is baser than most. But he is the agent of destruction aimed by gods and men at Troy. When Achilles defeated Hector he then drug his nude corpse around Troy many times until the remnants were unrecognizable.

Achilles is the Greeks destroying Troy and sowing their fields with salt. Hector is noble Troy destroyed.

If you are man enough to wear Achilles armour than you are man enough to suffer his wrath.