Beautiful to watch, but not much of a story

Rating: 6/10 (30 January 2005)

Hollywood should NOT make films based on ancient stories. Because according to them, the story itself is not good enough as it is, and must be changed. Drastically.
So while the plot is the same (Prince Paris of Troy takes the Queen of Sparta to be his wife, making the Kings of Greece attack them), Hollywood simply MUST change everything else in order to fit the American audience. Because really. If Achilles and Patroclus had been lovers instead of...cousins...*snorts* the film would have flopped as badly as Alexander did.
But all things aside, the film is beautiful to watch. the soundtrack is beautiful, especially the song "Remember Me" by Josh Groban, that plays at the end credits. Eric Bana does an amazing job as Hector, Orlando Bloom looks very pretty as Paris, and although Brad Pitt could have done a much better job, he's pretty decent as the mighty Achilles.
But loads of eye candy and great actors isn't enough to make a film; Hollywood needs to stay true to a story as famous as this one if they want to make a movie out of it! ...And I didn't know they had South American Llamas in Ancient Turkiye.... how embarrassing.