08-24-2010, 08:38 PM
Quote:The Invention of Lying.
I thought it was dreadful! Jennifer Garner's character was obnoxious. But I guess that's how the world would be if we didn't hide our true thoughts in the name of manners, right?
Before Lying I watched Gladiator. I liked the sub-story of Commodus, which I really thought was the main story, but with Maximus being the main character and all, I guess Commodus took a back seat. I also thought Gladiator was very stylized and very Holly-Rome. A grittier take on Rome would have been better.
Netflix suggests that I watch Troy...worth it or not?
Hm, Troy is a difficult movie to recommend, I liked it and the duel between Achilles and Hector is a very nice piece of fight choreography, but it does not follow Homer and some simply hate the film for that and various other reasons. You will probably have to draw your own conclusions. I know that is not much help, but the opinions of this film are quite varied, as I said, I liked it, but I like anything with swords and spears (typical male :lol: ).
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
