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So many continuity errors are probably caused by that reason... Like the reversed insignia's on the SD commanders in Empire Strikes Back.

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But you pay attention to which direction the sun is rising?
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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I was talking about the continuity error in Troy.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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The sun rises east and sets in the west by the way.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Yes, I know that. I hope most others do too.
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My biggest problem with Troy was its attempt to demythologise a myth. HELLO? Verisimilitude is all good and fine, but a movie like this needs a little mythology to keep the viewers engaged. It's like Joel Schumacher's inability to acknowledge the inherent campiness in Phantom of the Opera; it needs that campiness to keep the audience involved in the movie. All the successful musicals of the last few years (Chicago, Moulin Rouge) have done this; why should mythology be any different?

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I totally agree about the demythologising of Troy. Most of the movie was pretty good, not great. The thing that really bugged me was that the gods were not talked about. I don't need the gods to be played by actors, but this was a society where everything was correlated to their gods. It would be like making a movie about Jedis and never talking about the force. One guy in Troy talked about the gods being angry at the Greeks for destroying Apollo's Temple and he seems to be treated like he's a religious nut. If I were one of the Greeks, I would be pissed at Achilles for angering Apollo. Apollo is not a god that you would want against you.
My other main problem was that the Trojan War took ten years while the span of the movie was about two weeks. Also, the love story didn't work. Other than than that, it wasn't a bad movie.
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I have, but the Trojan war was during the Iliad(which I've read about half of)..
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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I'm surprised they haven't made a video game of the Oddessy.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I'm surprised they haven't made a video game of the Oddessy.




You were saying??
I work at a flippin' library. I've seen it, and I'm sad to say I've played it.
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LOL that's great.

Wishbone's oddessy. Yay. I guess the closest we'll get to a serious odessy game is God of War for the PS2.

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Originally posted by: GlopOfGrease
I totally agree about the demythologising of Troy. Most of the movie was pretty good, not great. The thing that really bugged me was that the gods were not talked about. I don't need the gods to be played by actors, but this was a society where everything was correlated to their gods. It would be like making a movie about Jedis and never talking about the force. One guy in Troy talked about the gods being angry at the Greeks for destroying Apollo's Temple and he seems to be treated like he's a religious nut. If I were one of the Greeks, I would be pissed at Achilles for angering Apollo. Apollo is not a god that you would want against you.
My other main problem was that the Trojan War took ten years while the span of the movie was about two weeks. Also, the love story didn't work. Other than than that, it wasn't a bad movie.


I agree with Gundark Hunter.

I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I'm surprised they haven't made a video game of the Oddessy.




You were saying??
I work at a flippin' library. I've seen it, and I'm sad to say I've played it.


i seen that episode on tv
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BTW, I saw Troy the other night. My dad rented it.

... It was better than I thought it would be, but it was way too long/drawn out.

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Troy was one of those movies I thought would SUCK and I would hate it, and it was... kinda ok. Not bad.
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