oh my goodness I can't BELIEVE I forgot to blog about Troy!
Troy was MAGNIFICENT.

Best movie I've watched in a very long time. In a grand, theatrical, fantastic way.

DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED ABOUT THE MOVIE. ALTHOUGH ANYBODY WILL A LITTLE BIT OF KNOWLEDGE OF MYTHOLOGY WOULDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO BE SPOILED ABOUT. ANYWAY I DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE WORDS INVISIBLE, SO JUST DON'T READ.


I guess they screwed up the mythology a little, or rather, left out some stuff.
But it was really well directed, and well shot, and well produced. Costumes and sets and stuff magnificent! And the fight scenes were great. Especially the Hector-Achilles fight. That was simply brilliant, and the drumbeat in the background was perfect.
Oh I have nothing but gushing to do about the movie.
I guess it helps that it was totally hormonally appealing.
Brad Pitt is a GOD. Really great acting as well.
But Hector! He's very good-looking too, and such a wonderful character, and also fantastic acting.
Orlando as usual looking yummy but ending up a little bit pathetic because of the comparatively sad role. However, he did look cool during the archery bits - LOTR gave him lots of practice and lots of style doing that, of course.
I for some reason felt that Hector's wife was more beautiful than Helen. She wasn't blondely beautiful, but she had this beautiful sort of strength about her, and she's really tall and has a beauutiful jawline, and an incredibly long neck.

Have I mentioned how much I loved costumes?! G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S.
The women's dresses were absolutely lovely, especially Helen and wife-of-Hector, in those beautiful silk white/blue flowy dresses. And the blue and white tye-died cloth that's generally used for the casualwear of the Trojans was really cool. The men look supremely weird in sarong-like skirts, but I LOVE it when they're wearing robes with their chests uncovered. It's terribly sexy, and both Orlando and Hector have very nice chests, and they wear really nice robes.

And BRAD PITT. BRAD PITT. BRAD PITT. The scene with whatshername, where she came to kill him, and he just flipped her over and slid her dress up and started kissing her? SO HOT. Choon and I were just dying there in our seats. Shite. A&C - dying will never be the same. Anyway I meant dying like death, dying. Just normal ol' dying. Although of the hormonal variety, but still. Ok nevermind. I'm going to choke on my foot if I shove it any further into my mouth.

I almost cried when Hector died, and the way they shot Achilles' death was marvellous. It was so sudden, and yet expected, and it was so so sad.

The most wonderful thing is that the movie, despite being 2h 40min, seemed too short. OK fine not too short, but it didn't feel long. The only time I was looking at my watch was to figure out if Achilles' death was nearing.

I know that quite a few people disagree, but for me Troy ranks with LOTR and Gladiator and stuff. I love epic movies. They're so magnificent.

Anyway, my love for that movie is carrying me too far away. I need to watch it again. Especially since I missed the beginning. Which is very annoying. I hate missing the beginnings of movies.

And now I really go to sleep.
Goodnight.