What's wrong with the original myth?

Rating: 6/10 (12 July 2005)

I really do not understand why Hollywood felt the need to change the story of the Trojan War, to make it more and at the same time, less tragic? What is wrong with making an EPIC war, last an EPIC time span? Why have Achilles live past where he did in the myth? Why did he need to survive the FATAL Achilles heel shot, long enough to die as all leading men die? For a movie, based on nothing, Troy is not too bad, but as a movie based on a centuries old myth, it pretty much stunk. And we wonder why our kids are failing in the schools? Because a lot of them base their studying on what they get from movies and TV shows, instead of books.