Sistermadly... I am jumping on your bandwagon. Only I had a gift certificate so I saw the movie for FREE!
Anyway... I dunno. Maybe I just don't get into period pieces that much. But I was ready to fall asleep. And Orlando was kind of a pansy in the movie. But after reading everyone's responses, I can understand why.
I hadn't read up on reviews or anything about the history of the movie but studied Greek Mythology in school. I kept wondering throughout all the battles scenes... so where's the trojan horse? Luckily the movie wasn't too "Hollywood" and it was included.
I dunno... I wasn't a huge fan of Gladiator when it came out and this movie reminded me of it.
The only thing I was paying attention to was the fact that the cameraman liked to tease all the ladies with all those "close but no cigar" shots of Brad and Orlando. (no pun intended...
) And it was nice to see Orli use some of his LOTR skills. If he didn't I would have really started to wonder. Now I am going to go research the Illiad to see the real story.