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Old 03-23-2007, 11:35 PM   #51
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As far as pansies go... Leo DiCrapio I get. Mark Wahlberg?




May we all be so pansiettic. He's got that wrestler's/athlete's body that says "If I decided to kick your ass, believe me you wouldn't enjoy it. Lock thread."
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TROY is among my top 10 films (mostly because of Brad Pitt's outstanding performance) and is likely to stay there into the foreseeable future. Sure, some parts of it could have been done better, I'm not claiming it's perfect. But it's a damn watchable film.
Haven't we already gone through the differences in out "tastes"?

Seriously, from what I've seen, we seem to actually like some of the same things, but I can't get past this. It's liable to be on my tombstone:

STILL MYSTIFIED, EVEN IN DEATH, THAT SOMEONE ACTUALLY LIKED TROY.

I couldn't watch it. I tried. I wanted to like it. I was hoping to like it. But I just couldn't.

*sigh*
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Is it true, by the bye, that Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple?

I, for one, hope it's true.
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Yeah but that's OK, this doesn't necessarily make you a bad person, don't lose sleep over it.

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Old 03-24-2007, 01:44 PM   #57
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He's good in contemporary role.. okay, maybe even semi-contemporary roles (such as River Runs Through it) but he is totally out of place in period piece. Pitt is a contemporary actor -- he's impressive in Babel, for example. Put him in a period costume and he just doesn't fit. I don't disagree that he's a good actor, but there's just something he can't do.
Gotta say, that's a couple of degrees better and a whole lot more articulate than, "I hate it, I hate it!"

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It's like putting Halle Berry in a wig and costume and cast her in Marie Antoinette -- it just doesn't work.

But anyway. Yes, Wahlberg does have a third nipple, but I can't see that in his picture. I wonder where it is, or did they airbrush it out?
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Two someones.

And if we're going to complain about anyone in Troy who can't act/doesn't belong in a period film, it's going to be Saffron Burrows (Hector's wife). Chick has one facial expression, and it's constipated worry.
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Oh gawd, YES! Someone please give that woman some prune juice.

And don't get me started on that sexless German chick they had playing Helen of Troy.

But all in all I liked Troy. And I think Brad Pitt is really a pretty darn good actor. He could have easily picked the pretty-boy career track, but instead he's made some good choices.
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One other thing that bugged me about Troy -- Diane Kruger simply was not stunning enough (both in beauty and acting ability) to play Helen, the woman who launched a thousand ships. I just didn't buy it.

Charlize Theron would have been great. Or if someone had the sense of switching Angelina Jolie from Alexander to Troy. She would have been a killer Helen of Troy.
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I can't believe "Mark Wahlberg" and "pansy" came up in the same paragraph. LOL. He stole every scene he was in in The Departed [though his hair was amazingly horrible]. Made me homesick for f*****n' Beantown. OK, only for a second, but he was awesome. Oh, make that f****n' awesome.

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One other thing that bugged me about Troy -- Diane Kruger simply was not stunning enough (both in beauty and acting ability) to play Helen, the woman who launched a thousand ships. I just didn't buy it.

Charlize Theron would have been great. Or if someone had the sense of switching Angelina Jolie from Alexander to Troy. She would have been a killer Helen of Troy.
I didn't mind Diane Kruger. A thousand ships didn't sail to Troy to get her back, they sailed because Aggamemnon was a greedy bastard who wanted to sack Troy and own the world. Menalouas (sp?) wanted her back to kill her. The myth of her beauty has been overplayed, methinks.

I'm glad that Peterson picked a relatively unknown actress to play the part of Helen. Between Pitt, Bana, Bloom, O'Toole, Cox, and Sean Bean, the movie was already teetering on too much star power. Like her or not, Kruger became Helen. Jolie or Theron would have been Jolie or Theron, not Helen.
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One other thing that bugged me about Troy -- Diane Kruger simply was not stunning enough (both in beauty and acting ability) to play Helen, the woman who launched a thousand ships. I just didn't buy it.

Charlize Theron would have been great. Or if someone had the sense of switching Angelina Jolie from Alexander to Troy. She would have been a killer Helen of Troy.
I know I'm gonna regret this, I really am, but I'm going to agree with Ray (runs to window to see if the world is still there). Diane Kruger is so-so when it comes to looks, and I would have expected someone who played Helen of Troy to be, Oh-my-good-god-I-cant-take-my-eyes-off-the-tv-screen-and-can-someone-clean-up-this-druel-I-cant-move.
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