Good.. but not Great! Missed potential is the worst!

Rating: Null/10 (30 May 2004)

I just finished seeing Troy and I was a little disappointed. The acting was good, top to bottom. The action was great!! The potential for epic was all there! Then Hollywood steps in and ruins it as usual. Perhaps one of the greatest love stories ever told, and yet the romance between Paris and Helen just wasn't enough? In the usual attempt to separate Brad Pitt from his shirt, a love story is created for Achilles as well. A completely unrealistic and impossible love story. It makes no sense at all, but gives women a reason to want to see this movie, I guess. Why not just cast Pitt as Paris, or Hector? You get Brad's clothes off with a woman, then get on with the story. That could have made sense. Then Eric Bana could have played the commonly regarded homosexual Achilles. Bloom was a perfect weakling as Paris, the lover not the fighter. Bana was great as Hector and could have been just as great as Achilles. Pitt was the real loser here. He was great, but just in the wrong role. Or what Hollywood turned into the wrong role by making it more "woman friendly".
Hollywood, why do you always have to ruin a good story? Why do you always have to spoil a great plot? Why do you have to leave great performances too soon forgotten? Women are smart enough to like a movie because it is a good movie. You give them too little credit and make us all suffer.