Troy

I just watched Troy on wide screen DVD. Roger Ebert hated the movie so much that he placed it as number #1 on his worst movies list. I thought the movie, although flawed, was good. Brad Pitt did a good job as Achilles. Peter O'Toole was magnificent. The fight scenes were excellent. My biggest problem was the CGI of the massive armies. Okay, 1000 ships with 30-40 people. It would have been 30-40 thousand people. The movie showed an army of at least 1/2 million attacking Troy. I was not sure why the director felt the need to show that massive of an army. The movie had the characters discuss leadership and loyalty; kingship and obedience; and reasons for war. The movie replaced the irony of the gods interfering with the affairs of men in the Illiad with a discussion of kings interfering in the lives of their subjects through war. It was not profound, but it was interesting.