A Heterosexualized, Trivialized Adaptation of a great Epic, Very Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2005)

Many scenes are dripping with heterosexist imagery (dost we protest too much!); I take it the film-maker was very afraid of the homophobia that ultimately would do-in Stone's "Alexander". It is so sad that American film-makers are so afraid of dealing with historical homosexual characters that they are completely obliterated from Homer's story.
The first scene in the film of the great civilization of Sparta is filled with women doing sexy dances and men making toasts to women in their beds!! This is completely laughable considering Sparta was an almost exclusively homosocial society!
Much of the beauty of Homer's poem comes from not only the beauty of Helen and her lover, but also the beauty of male love and comradeship amongst the warriors, which was a very large component of Greek society.
Achilles was, in fact bisexual, and his so-called "cousin" Patroclus, was really his male lover! Their relationship is not even hinted in this movie! I only have to add that Brad Pitt is very talented and deserves better material, and of course, he is beautiful to watch! The costumes were sexy too!