Troy - Brad Pitt

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All you haters need to chill. Brad Pitt is a good looking dude who uses his God given gifts to his advantage. I imagine the majority of the people knocking his physique/looks, etc. look 10 times worse. Most of you are just jealous cause your girlfriend wants to fuck him more than she wants to fuck you.

He was lean and muscular. Bottom line. He wasn’t bodybuilder shredded but he looks better than 90% of the people who put there photos on the photo forum. I doubt his goals were to be bodybuilder ripped. His physique is what the majority of people aspire to have lean, muscular, decent size. I wonder how many of you knockers will look that good at 40.

This was a hollywood movie meant to entertain. Not a documentary. The acting wasn’t horrible and Pitt, always a good actor played the role well. It was good entertainment with as good if not better fight scenes as Gladiator.

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A little thing about Thermopylae.

I don’t know where you’d get the idea that Greeks, Romans, or any of the ancient Mediterranean people were overly huge or muscular. They were most likely wiry and strong but not all that huge. Soldiering has always been about covering distances with moderate to heavy weight (relative to body weight) and the majority of people that do so have never really been big beefy people.

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Maybe the greek warriors weren’t underwear models, but a lot of their artwork of human forms and gods presented aesthetically perfect pictures. I’ll throw a vote in for Troy being an entertaining movie, I certainly don’t go to the movies to learn shit, that’s what books and the Discovery Channel are for.

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Pitt sure beefed up since Fight Club.

Anyway, why the hell did they put him up there other than to get babes go see the movie?

Just the classic formula: throw in good looking people. The more the better. Stud + babe = Better demographic appeal.

Hollywood finally got it right: If the plot is boring, you can always fantasize until the next scene.

(For example, Kate Beckinsale sure kept me awake during Underworld, specially in the not-so-charismatic dialogues.)

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how can anyone diss point break? that movie was great

a couple of the best movies i have ever seen: fight club & snatch

if brad pitt were playing super mariuz pudzy in a strongman movie, i would not care one bit. the guy has done some really cool movies and he is very believable

BRAD PITT HAS SKILLS SONNNNNNNNN

:slight_smile:

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Another guy who, if he could act, would’ve made agood Achilles would be Dolph Lundgren. Remember him? ha ha

I just saw Troy last night and I though it was pretty awesome.

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I think you said the guys in the film were small and never saw a power rack? Maybe you want to pick up last weeks Time magazine, and you’ll read about how most of the guys used were weighlifters, powerlifters and strong men from Germany I believe. Most of the battle scenes were CGI to give the effect of thousands, although they had about 500 extras. The cast of soldiers actually striked and many went home because they were not satisfied with the quality and quanity of meals during filming.

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The huge guy was my good friend Nathan Jones a former WWE wrestler and worlds strongest man competitor. Nathan had his arm broken arm wrestling a Magnus in one of the Worlds strongest man comps.

Big Nate is 6’10 about 295 probably about 5% BF when he gets real lean and otherwise he’s like 8%.

I saw Nathan clean 315 like it was an empty bar. Oh yeah and he didn’t warm up. The dude is a freak he has a crazy vertical and he is fast, flexible and quick as hell.

Look him up on the net I’m sure you’ll find more info if you are interested.

JA

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In 480 BC at Thermopylae, a narrow mountain pass in northeastern Greece, the Greek commander Leonidas and 300 Spartans defended all of mainland Greece against 310,000 Persians and their allies. A traitor, Ephialtes, informed Xerxes, the prince son of the Persian King Darius, of a path that would enable Xerxes to encircle the Spartans, and kill them all.

Here is a condensed historical account of the T-Men Spartans last stand:

At sunrise, Xerxes made his libations and…made his attack… The Greeks, knowing that their own death was coming to them from the men who had circled the mountain, put forth their utmost strength against the barbarians; they fought in a frenzy, with no regard to their lives…Most of them had already lost their spears by now, and they were butchering Persians with their swords… The Greeks retreated into the narrow part of the road, and…defended themselves with daggers–those who had any of them left–yes, and with their hands and teeth, and the barbarians buried them in missles, some attacking them in front…while those who had come round the mountain completed the circle of their attackers. (Herodotus)

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you guys that ‘bitch’ about pitt being a shitty hollywood, frat-boy actor just made him fifteen bucks richer. and a million people will make him 15 million bucks richer.

heres an idea… if he sucks so much, then why encourage him to make more movies by going to see them.

jaystyles

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i saw it last weeknd i thought brad pitt did a great job…the movie i thought was ok…i think brad pitt did the best job of any one else in the movie…it is veyr hard ot make a movie like that now since the succsses of gladiator wich to me is the best of all time…i definately think brad pitt was no russell crowe…but he did a preety good job…i give the movie a overall grade of a c+…has any one here seen “man on fire” i think it was the best movie i have seen ina longt time it was awesome…go see it…bm

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jaystyles -

I actually haven’t seen the movie yet i just like making fun of Brad Pitt. He told me he doesn’t mind.

However, i’d rather see him in the role than a lot of other people in Hollywood. And i personally think its cool that he got buffed up for the role.

Lets face it, people like Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp are considered sex symbols? They are way more effeminite than Pitt. If Pitt is metro then what are these guys?

Having said that, they should have put Brad Cardozo in the role.

-Dutch

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it was an alright movie… ending kinda sucked… and it tried to be like gladiator at times… but most of the time the film kept me interested

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There were some big people 3000 years ago.

For example Cherchen Man (a mummy preserved by the desert) was 6’7’ and he lived 3000 years ago.

But often size mattered little in war. The Romans on average were almost a foot shorter than the northern barbarians (e.g. Celts, Germans, Thracians, Dacian etc) they faced. But because of better organisation and better tactics they won and enslaved their physically stronger but socially weaker opponents.

If you don’t like the movie you could always read the book (i.e. The Iliad) and get the story direct. The original Greek myths blow anything that Hollywood has ever done away. Have a read about the conception of the Minotaur for a real eye opener.

Just for the sake of a timeline the Trojan wars took place during the Greek dark age about 1200 - 500 BC while the classical Greece of Sparta and Athens came much later about 500 ? 300 BC. The story was passed down by word of mouth for hundreds of years until Homer wrote it down. So the story is going to be little embellished (e.g. people bigger tougher than they really were). The Trojan wars took place about 1200 BC and Homer rote them down about 800 BC.

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How’d they preserve that dupe’s hair?

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salt and no water

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Well, chiming in a little late, but I just saw it this weekend.

Where is Ridley Scott when you need him. The problem is that the movie is so overrun with lousy performances, you just don’t give a shit if they all die. In fact, after having to sit through it for three hours I wanted to take out a couple of them myself.

Wasn’t Helen supposed to be the face that launched a thousand ships? More like the face that launched a couple of dingys. She was supposed to have been beautiful, not moderately attractive. If you are going to cast someone completely void of acting ability, cast someone who looks like Adrianna Lima, who is so beautiful you are too mesmerized to notice she can’t act.

Paris. Orlando Bloom stank up Lord of the Rings but at least he wasn’t as pivital of a role as he was in Troy. Hello Orlando, it’s called a facial expression, maybe you could do us all a favor and get more than one. That guy is the definition of wooden.

The scene when Achilles goes to fight Hector reminded me of Monty Python’s Holy Grail. I kept waiting for someone to yell, “I fart in your general direction!” from the wall. Meanwhile, Achilles is screaming for Hector for what feels like an age, while Hector gets dressed, finishes breakfast, gets a haircut and a facial, reads the paper, then has to run all over Troy saying long winded goodbyes to everyone he has ever come into contact with, including his stupid wife, she of the perpetually quivering chin. I hope someone at least had the courtesy to take a glass of water and a soothing lozenge out to Achilles while he was waiting and screaming.

I also enjoyed Sean Bean’s Huey Lewis ca. 1984 haircut. As well as the fact that the movie contained actors of every nationality under the sun EXCEPT Greek.

After hearing all the hype about Brad Pitt’s new god-like physique, I was disappointed. Judging by the photos forum I think half the t-men on this site have far more impressive physiques. He wasn’t that big and he wasn’t that cut, I don’t know what all the fuss was about. He only weighs 175 and I heard he used a leg double.

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Sabrina:

That was a funny post. Okay, so maybe you convinced me that the movie wasn’t as good as I though it was. Prince Hector did seem to take his sweet time about going out to meet Pitt… er Achilles for the big showdown.

Many men would be happy with the physique Pitt showed in the movie.

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Sabrina: Wow!!

I don’t recall any facials for Hector. Are you sure you weren’t watching the uncut version of Caligula?

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Saw it this weekend. Some of the comments between my date and I:

  • Looks like Achilles was quicker with his blade than Perseus was with hers.

  • Paris quickly became poodle boy to us.

  • When Paris was training with the bow we wondered if there would be straw men on the battlefield the next day.

  • The King’s audience was filled with Tie Dyed hippies.

  • Hector always had this constipated look on his face. Maybe his wife was driving him nuts.

  • The King of Troy was a strange sort. He always just let everyone do whatever they wanted to do. Yes yes, go off and get killed if that is what you want to do.

  • The commercial phrase “Trojan Man” was referred to a few times. Helen ran off with a pack of Trojans. Yes, she’ll be safe.

I really did notice the comment above about “don’t do”, “I must go”, “but I don’t want you to go”, “but I must go”, “but I wish you wouldn’t go”, “but I’m going”, “then go”, “I am gone”, “oh”.

All in all, my date and I enjoyed it simply because we had fun even if it wasn’t a great movie. However, I’m a sucker for movies, they are a great way to escape reality and pass some time.

Oh, and was it just me or was Pitt a bit unbalanced with oversized traps?