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I saw it last night... pretty good movie. Didn't leave me in awe as I left the theatre but the plot twists you around like a wet cloth - you can't choose who to cheer for because both protagonists (Hector and Achilles) are characters you want to see win.
As for casting, Brad Pitt at Achilles was pretty decent, same with Hector. However... Orlando Bloom is a whiny little boy in this movie. I hated him from the first scene I saw of him. His character is an idiot, he doesn't have great lines and I don't feel he had a decent performance. The only good choice about it is the fact that Bloom is a tiny guy that can portray weak characters... and Paris is one of the weakest and dumbest I've seen.
I can't recall totally the story behind Agamemnon, but I don't ever recall him being such a total jerk... maybe I'm forgetting something but in the movie you loath him. The choice of actors (same bad guy who was in X2) was fairly good, he is able to pull of a "casual evil" type display, making you think of him as something vile all the time.
There was also a bit of liberal movie-making adjustments to the story - the duel between Menelaus and Paris for example, never happened. Check out http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull28.html here to read more about what happened to the heroes according to Homer and other tales from that day that the movie is (mostly) based upon.
As for casting, Brad Pitt at Achilles was pretty decent, same with Hector. However... Orlando Bloom is a whiny little boy in this movie. I hated him from the first scene I saw of him. His character is an idiot, he doesn't have great lines and I don't feel he had a decent performance. The only good choice about it is the fact that Bloom is a tiny guy that can portray weak characters... and Paris is one of the weakest and dumbest I've seen.
I can't recall totally the story behind Agamemnon, but I don't ever recall him being such a total jerk... maybe I'm forgetting something but in the movie you loath him. The choice of actors (same bad guy who was in X2) was fairly good, he is able to pull of a "casual evil" type display, making you think of him as something vile all the time.
There was also a bit of liberal movie-making adjustments to the story - the duel between Menelaus and Paris for example, never happened. Check out http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull28.html here to read more about what happened to the heroes according to Homer and other tales from that day that the movie is (mostly) based upon.
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