re: Let's talk about Troy (2004)

My only issue with the movie is that the war allegedly happened over the course of years, but it only felt like weeks.

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Truly one of the most cringe scenes I've ever seen

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Truly one of the most cringe scenes I've ever seen

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What, did you fall asleep for the part with Bloom crawling to Hector’s feet to hide behind him?

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My only issue with the movie is that the war allegedly happened over the course of years, but it only felt like weeks.

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And most of that would have been idle time after Hector's death when the Greeks built the Trojan Horse.

1. Greeks take the beach of Troy.

2. The next day is the big battle where the Greeks get their asses kicked.

3. The next morning the Trojans roll down the fireballs and Hector kills Patroclus.

4. The next day Achilles fights Hector.

5. That night Priam speaks with Achilles and they call a temporary truce.

6. Greeks build the Trojan Horse during the truce and sack Troy the night it's brought inside the walls.

Maybe there's some brief gaps in there somewhere outside the truce period but not much.

I think the Trojans would have successfully defended Troy if not for the death of Hector. They might have been outnumbered, but having those archers firing off from an elevated position, knowledge of the land, and fighting for their families instead of Menelaus and Agamemnon's egos would have given them the advantage, IMO.

I've watched the first 20 minutes or so of this documentary and so far very good.

Well they had the Sea Peoples back then. Maybe they had the Sky Peoples too.

Just watched this beginning to end. Such a good movie.

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This is such an underrated gem

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I don't know if it's underrated but remember critics shitting on it at the time. It's a good movie, really good movie, rational people recognize that.

What the frick did critics expect when the source material is basically the longest song poem in history and retold almost 3,000 years ago?

Movies before Christ ain't easy to do.

Yeah some critics bashed it because the story was told in like a 2 week timeframe vs the decade long war it actually was presented in the Iliad, but that just doesnt make for a good movie in the context Troy was presented.