men in skirts

Today I bought 2 pairs of shoes and saw Troy!

Usually I like seeing movie trailers. However before Troy they showed trailers for The Notebook, Day After Tomorrow, Constantine (isn’t Hellblazer a better name? Why not Hellblazer?!), and Catwoman. I also saw a teaser for Ocean’s Twelve, which was basically text on the screen, no footage of the movie at all. The Ocean’s Twelve teaser was the only one I enjoyed. You can do a lot with good title design.

My sister, who actually remembers the Illiad and some of her Greek history classes posted her impressions of the movie which are much more informed than mine. I am suddenly feeling inspired to reread the classics again. Maybe I will drag out my old copy of the Iliad. Or perhaps taking my current powers of concentration into account, I will read the Illiad along with Eric Shanower’s Age of Bronze.

Peter O’Toole is so good as Priam. I got all weepy during one of his scenes. Brad Pitt’s Achilles seems rather vacant and obsessed with his self image, which I guess is appropriate for Achilles? I don’t remember.

I think Eric Bana’s musculature makes up for his ears, and he made me feel great sympathy for Hector. Sean Bean is a fab Odysseus with a wry sense of humor. I wish I could have seen more of Odysseus, but the Trojan War isn’t really his story 🙂

I never realized that back in ancient times women warbled wordlessly a whole lot. Wouldn’t men warble too? The soundtrack got annoying at times.

OK, this is pretty hilarious, via Boing Boing: Troy in 15 Minutes