Troy/Tron

Troy

by David Benioff

That's a picture of Brad Pitt as Achilles having sex with Garrett Hedlund as Patroclus.

Not really. That's just the greatest male ass having pretend sex with a nameless tart. That's why Troy is one of the worst movies to ever glorify homosexuality without ever having a homosexual moment.

<---- This picture over here is about the closest they come to being in love and/or fucking. Does that look like the face of someone who is in love? Honestly. The original Troy from 2800 years ago or so was called The Iliad and its first line is something like "Come o muse and tell the tale of the wrath of Achilles." The story is about his wrath and rage and the reason for it. And the reason for it is that his lover is killed. Shakespeare had the decency to allow Achilles and Patroclus some bedroom time (albeit off stage), but this movie turned Patroclus into his "cousin" and the reason for his wrath is never explained, since Patroclus (in the movie) steals Achilles armor to pretend he's Achilles and is killed by Hector and his own foolishness.

In the original poem, Patroclus is Achille's companion. He lends Patroclus his armor and Patroclus, disobeying his instructions, leads the Myrmidons to Troy and is killed by Hector. Achilles only joins the fight when his companion is killed, and kills Hector in revenge. He desecrates Hector's body. The ghost of Patroclus returns and asks Achilles to bury Hector, but he refuses. Finally Zeus himself intervenes by sending Priam into the Greek's camp where Priam finally is able to retrieve his son's body by commiserating with Achilles on their respective losses, one a son and the other a "companion."

But the movie itself seems to revel in the male body without going into the greater theme of love. The war itself is caused by possession (of the world's most beautiful woman Helen, who Shakespeare depicted as a silly little girl who ogled the soldiers as they went to kill each other, having no idea that this war was all over her. (Sarah Palin anyone?)). But Achilles, who is the greatest but most reluctant soldier and is fated to die if he kills Hector, does not enter the game until love (the loss of love) propels him to meet his fate.

Tron

The only reason I am comparing these two movies is simply coincidence of titles, that Garrett Helund was in a movie called Troy and then one called Tron.

"Tron 2" was a piece of Disneyland garbage. And it's no small wonder with all these people given writing credits.

Edward Kitsis		(screenplay) &
Adam Horowitz		(screenplay)
Edward Kitsis		(story) &
Adam Horowitz		(story) and
Brian Klugman		(story) &
Lee Sternthal		(story)
Steven Lisberger		(characters) and
Bonnie MacBird		(characters)

Enough is enough. Sooner or later Hollywood is going to be giving credits to writers for coming up with words like "and" or "with." Characters? If only there was one. But I guess you can't expect much human relationship or characterization in a movie where everyone is trapped inside the circuitry of a motherboard of a computer.

Still when those people were miniaturized and went inside the body of the that man in "Fantastic Voyage" they were able to make it a compelling human story.

But Disney is such a scourge and a terrible influence in Hollywood. As the Weakest Link lady once said, "We are neither amused nor surprised by your idiocy." 3D doesn't save any movie.