Troy: Age of Achilles

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I just watched this edit with a couple of Belgian beers. Excellent. I really like how Troy (Brad Pitt) was made into the main protagonist, and how the focus was mostly on him. It now feels like a fast-paced action-packed blockbuster, with the typical Orlando Bloom Legolas looks (especially when he shoots his bow). It totally feels like the ultimate cliché early 2000s Hollywood movie, but in the best way possible. It's also nice to see Sean Bean live for once.

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July 2, 2010 @ 9:49 am

Been meaning to watch this for a long time. I was somewhat amused by troy when I first watched it, and I thought that there were some really great scenes in it, unfortunatly surrounded by a lot of boring conversations and only ok acting. I did enjoy most of the scenes with Hector in the original, as I think that his side of the story actually is interesting. Paris and Helen are very annoying at most times.

This edit then. Much much shorter, thank you. We get to the war in just 18 minutes, something I was very happy about. In general Gekko has made a lot of choices that I agree with. The beginning with Achilles flowed much better when he just shows up and kills the other guy, and then we cut to the title. Really good start of the edit, a little marred by the follwing exposition text. Was that really neccessay? Couldn’t we have done without knowing all of that? We get that Agamemnon is a power greedy king, we get that Achilles doesn’t really like him. We get that Sparta and Troy are making peace. We understand that Menelaos and Agamemnon are brothers. I would have just skipped the text part, most likely.

Removed Ajax in combat: very good, not missed at all. We get to see him swing at someone once in the movie, that’s quite enough. Silly character.

Trimmed Paris/Menelaus fight for less cutaways to spectator reactions: haha, I was like wtf, why are there so many spectator reactions in this fight? And that was in your edit! Well done I suppose if there were even more to begin with.

Trimmed Hector/Achilles fight for less cutaways to people’s reactions, removed close-up of rock that Hector trips over: excellent. Worked so well.

Removed Hector’s funeral pyre: ok, not so happy about this choice. He has been given room in the movie, so this scene should have stayed in some manner, especially after the agreement between the king and Achilles.

Those were some specific comments, in general I found this to be so well executed and a great improvement. So many right choices going on here! The movie hasn’t become good…but it’s damn well entertaining. Idea and execution: great. Editing skills: great. Overall effect on the movie: improvement. Have to rate this 9/10.

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