Troy

[yakalskovich]

All the spoilers have been spoiled, and all the nits have been picked, and I'm not one to gnaw bare bones over. Only two things:

• The girl who was Briseis was interesting and knew how to act; one should keep an eye open for her.


• Terrible lack of chariots!! These people who made the movie so had no idea about the role of chariots in archaic warfare. Underworld, they weren't just things to go places in! They were terrible weapons. These three or five measly things they had - arghh! Everything so gigantic, and then they skimp on the chariots. As the one whose brain is partly inhabited by pteppicymon, I am really offended.

In other news, I have noticed today that I have quite an extensive collection of very, very odd MP3s that have at one stage or another accreted on my hard disk without me really inviting them. So, all of today that I wasn't watching "Troy" with the Nazgul, I listened to this extremely eclectic playlist of monks chanting, Leslie Fish filks, the "Chocolat" sound track, extra-hard classic cross-overs, one Carla Bruni chanson, folk singers from Okinawa singing "No Woman No Cry" (downloaded from canis_m ages ago), and a totally unknown Indie band from LA named Sukhotin...