They give one, don't they, for the best creator of the original material a film was based on? If so, should be a close contest between Saint Matthew for "The Passion" and old Homer for "Troy".
Helen and I contributed to the impressive opening-weekend audience for "Troy" by seeing it on Sunday afternoon at Ward16.
I don't have to recommend it to any Brad Pitt fan because they've no doubt also already seen it. (And we do see a lot more of him in this film than we've seen before.) Inspired casting, because if he hadn't been in it I wouldn't have been at all interested. And watching him also made the almost three-hour-long film much more engrossing.
He does have a handicap because he is such an interesting personality that it's difficult to accept him as the character he is playing instead of just continually thinking, "I'm watching Brad Pitt."
Peter O'Toole constantly skirted being a ham, but did it adroitly enough that I suspect he will at least get a nomination for Best Supporting Actor (thus far my own choice would be the Pontius Pilate in "Passion").
The young Trojan princes were less interesting, Paris especially, and although the Helen was an attractive woman, I couldn't really see her as the "face that launched a thousand ships."
A splendid epic, in the true Hollywood tradition. By far the best they've yet done for Homer.
And I loved those "great balls of fire" ...
Helen and I contributed to the impressive opening-weekend audience for "Troy" by seeing it on Sunday afternoon at Ward16.
I don't have to recommend it to any Brad Pitt fan because they've no doubt also already seen it. (And we do see a lot more of him in this film than we've seen before.) Inspired casting, because if he hadn't been in it I wouldn't have been at all interested. And watching him also made the almost three-hour-long film much more engrossing.
He does have a handicap because he is such an interesting personality that it's difficult to accept him as the character he is playing instead of just continually thinking, "I'm watching Brad Pitt."
Peter O'Toole constantly skirted being a ham, but did it adroitly enough that I suspect he will at least get a nomination for Best Supporting Actor (thus far my own choice would be the Pontius Pilate in "Passion").
The young Trojan princes were less interesting, Paris especially, and although the Helen was an attractive woman, I couldn't really see her as the "face that launched a thousand ships."
A splendid epic, in the true Hollywood tradition. By far the best they've yet done for Homer.
And I loved those "great balls of fire" ...
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