Troy (Director's Cut Ultimate Collector's Edition)
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Actor: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando BloomBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 201 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 115451
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- With soaring photography that circles from above then swoops in for the action, TROY is Wolfgang Petersen's majestic presentation of theic Greek legend. It tells the story of an epic battle over Helen (Diane Kruger), the queen of Sparta, who is kidnapped by her lover Paris (Orlando Bloom), the prince of Troy. This infuriates Helen's husband Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson), whose brother Agamemn
DVD Reviews of Troy (Director's Cut Ultimate Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Just watched the extended version
Summary: 5 Stars
A lot of well thought out and written reviews here, going into specifics on the deviations between the "Iliad" and "Troy", and if one is at all familiar with Homer, one does have to take this "sans-gods" version very much with a grain of salt. When I watched it the first time, as Menelaus bites it fairly early on, I could only wonder what the heck was going on. I just watched the extended version, my fourth viewing overall, and despite the major changes, this is a huge larger than life epic, and I still very much recommend it. The additional footage was wonderful, especially the anticipation sequence as the Trojans, knowing the Greeks were coming, getting ready for siege. Excellent. And heck, we get to see Odysseus' dog, the most famous canine in human literature.
Others also speak of the acting, and here I must disagree with most, I thought Brad Pitt pulled off Achilles very well. Both in the physical sense and in the actual performance. I have never seen the character as a bulked out brute. Good call I thought.
Peter O'Toole does steal the show as Priam and his scene seeking his son's body is as expected, the most powerful one in the film.
Action too is a sight to behold. The great fight between Achilles and Hector really stands out. It is the close up work here that is so outstanding. Yes, some of the AI crowd scenes are over done, but that is the epic aspect, and even those were pretty seamless, we have come a long way with computer crowds. As long as they don't distract from the more personal interactions, and in this movie, they don't; I had no problem maintaining my suspension of disbelief.
Sean Bean was a great Odysseus and I was grateful for his additional scenes. One really does want to see the sequel, to follow up on The Odyssey, but I am not sure that could be pulled off in a no-gods scenario, you would have to have the mythological monsters at least, or why bother? Still, it does make one wish for the other half of the bookends, for Odysseus' journey home is equally a timeless classic.
And a note to other more professional reviewers, especially those it seems, that work for Entertainment Weekly. This movie was it hit. It made a half million dollars world wide, and I am tired of seeing it linked more to "Alexander" than its proper historical and economically successful kin "Gladiator". Come on, give it a break. This is an excellent film and I hope more historical epics like this find the green light in the future.
Description of Troy (Director's Cut Ultimate Collector's Edition)
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/18/2007 Rating: NrThere are many reasons to recommend Troy as a good ol' fashioned Hollywood epic, especially if you've never read Homer's The Iliad. Dispensing with Greek gods altogether, this earnestly massive production (budgeted at upwards of $200 million) will surely offend historians and devoted students of the classics (for them, there's the History Channel's Troy). But there's politics aplenty in the grand-scale war that erupts when Trojan prince Paris (Orlando Bloom) makes off with Helen (blandly beautiful German model Diane Kruger), wife of Spartan ruler Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson), whose brother, the Greek king Agamemnon (Brian Cox) prods him into enraged retaliation. Greek warrior Achilles (Brad Pitt) brings lethal force to his battles (and there are many of them, mostly impressive), and his Trojan counterpart, Paris's brother Hector (Eric Bana), adds even more buffed-up beefcake to a film so chock-full o' hunks that there's barely room for Peter O'Toole (doing fine work as Trojan king Priam) and even less for Julie Christie, appearing ever-so-briefly as Achilles's melancholy mother. The drama is nearly as arid as the sun-baked locations (Mexico and Malta) that stand in for the Aegean coast, and many critics suggested that Pitt (who valiantly tries to give Achilles some tormented dimension) was simply miscast. But when you consider that Wolfgang Petersen also made The Perfect Storm, there's nothing wrong with enjoying Troy as a semi-guilty pleasure with a touch of ancient class. --Jeff Shannon
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