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The Losers (2010)
Not too shabby...
Was far mo bettah than I expected. The action was good. The story was good. Nothing spectacular. The only thing that caused some maybe unexpected laughter was the casting of Zoe Saldana. Really?
Troy: The Odyssey (2017)
Odyssey?
This is supposed to be a rendition of Homer's Odyssey?
Discounting the actors, the costumes, the special effects, one would think that the story would at least resemble the work upon which it is based. Helen was not Agamemnon's husband: his brother Menelaus was. Agamemnon did not kill Helen or Paris. Circe was never in Troy and certainly did not kill Achilles. The Kraaken was never mentioned in the Odyssey.
I was not expecting much from the title. I bailed after about 9 or 10 minutes. If all of these discrepancies occurred even before the start of Odysseus's homeward journey, I can't imagine how much worse the movie became. Perhaps my "appreciation" of the film would have been better has "Odyssey" not appeared in the title...... Nah.
Too bad. The Odyssey is one heckuva story.