While this did have decent moments of action & “reveals” (where you learn some secret about the main character and are all like “ooh…”), in the end, the whole concept just wasn’t believable. I’m not sure how that could be fixed without it becoming a whole other movie though. If you like this kind of movie, it’s worth a watch, but don’t have massive expectations.
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Troy
All the younger actors in this movie were great – I really liked Brad Pitt in it (and Eric Bana, etc… even that wimply guy who woo’d Helen was OK). But the older Kings? They were too “unkingly”, and “unwise”. Maybe that was part of the point, but it really made the movie frustrating to watch. As for its adherence to the “true story”? Get over it! It’s not a truly told story anyway, so who cares? People who get all worked up about “the classics” miss the point I think. The classics were never classics when they were written – they were just the pop fiction of their day.
Hulk
I heard this thing on NPR where a couple snobby movie reviewers were discussing how movie reviews didn’t matter if enough marketing money was thrown at a piece of junk. They were using “Hulk” as an example. While I agreed with the premise, Hulk mostly received good reviews – it was a ridiculous example, and made the whole piece seem pretentious and stupid. I liked how the movie stepped slightly outside the predictable summer blockbuster good guy vs. bad guy formula. The bad guy dies halfway through, and the good guy isn’t really “good”, he’s just a guy. Throw in some crazy battle sequences and special effects to please the kids, and you have a good piece of entertainment.