To answer your question: why did I see Troy? A training session I was in ended far earlier than expected and I had a few hours to kill before I went to work. And it was hot. It was between this and the new Jaime Foxx movie; the new Jim Jarmusch film wasn’t playing in the area and “Super Size Me” wouldn’t let out in time. And I wanted to see Brad Pitt’s greased-down ass. “Troy” both could have been a lot better and it could have been a lot worse. There are elements of intelligence peeking through — mostly the sly way one could equate Hellenic imperialism to the current situation in Iraq. That and Eric Bana is fantastic. He was fantastic in “Black Hawk Down” and I’m starting to think I should see “The Hulk” again, that maybe I was just too sleepy to get it. Eric Bana may be the most exciting big time Hollywood sex symbol star to come along since Russell Crowe. The dialogue is wretched, though, and the film’s perspective shifts focus an awful lot. At first I thought this was a subtle way of tweaking our expectations (maybe Achilles is just a douche?) but then I realized it was just confusion. The one-on-one fight scenes are great and some of the battle scenes are cool; some of the battle scenes are CGI-d to death and boring.