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Troy (Director's Cut) [2004]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 7321902545035
Label : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Release date : 2007-10-01
Title : Troy (Director's Cut) [2004]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
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Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 2004-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 188
Studio : Warner Home Video

Customer reviews

review by: Mike .V. date: 2008-08-17 rating:

One of the 'Epics'
I never really got the nack of 3 hour films, 'Lord of the rings' etc. but Troy is a powerful action packed film with plenty of hard fighting.
Troy is an 'Epic' you may find the term when you look at Kingdom of heaven, Gladiator or Master and Commander. I can clearly see Troy up with films like that. As for the film iself, it has an amazing cast and i was surprised to see Sean Bean as well since i didnt read the small print lol bu yeah and it featured Peter O'toole who ive seen in many other films. As for the special effects, what can i say it looked real from the start,the fighting was was gorey from what you might of seen in Gladiator like Stab, Chopped heads of etc.
A long time ago i saw the orignal cut of Troy and i was not impressed but with the directors cut it is a lot more powerful and bloodthirsty or what ever you want to call it.
It isnt a rental you should buy for a couple of quid and watch it with surround sound, it will be worth it.

review by: date: 2008-07-16 rating:

better and more powerful...
this cut is better than the first cut because this has many things that the first cut does not have.in fact this cut is the ideal cut for a historical epic which is my favourite type of movie.so i like the movie troy but i like this cut more.without this cut i would certainly give this movie 3 stars for its history's sake but i think this cut deserves 4 stars.brad pitt shows himself as achilleus in the first scenes and he is good at his role.as a whole this film is certainly not bad and to me this cut is good to watch.

review by: date: 2008-04-29 rating:

Disappointed
I enjoyed the original cut, despite it's unnecessary inaccuracies, and I was swayed to buy the director's cut by a review that referred to character development. What nonsense! What the director's cut gives us is almost 30 minutes of extra gore, babies being tossed into fires, decapitations, etc etc. One nod to Odysseus that doesn't really expand hugely on his character. And just for added annoyance, the music has been butchered and the movie is split onto two discs. Grrr!

My advice? Stick to the original and save your pennies for another movie!

review by: date: 2008-03-25 rating:

Much better then before
Troy (Director's Cut) is so much better than the theatrical version that it is almost hard to believe that they are in essence the same movie. That is not to say that this new version is perfect, it isn't. As with the Theatrical version, the acting is in some instances passable at best and it takes quite a few liberties with the accepted version of events according to Homer. However, what it does do is make the film run far more smoothly than it did before. Considering over 30 minutes of footage has been restored it actually seems to make the film a lot tighter than it was before. The rather disjointed, lacking in focus theatrical version is now replaced with a movie that always keeps you engrossed. Not just in the battle scenes which are really quite brilliant but also in the political intrigues and infighting amongst both the Greeks and the Trojans. Brad Pitt always seems to divide people as to his worth as an actor. I happen to think he is actually quite good. In Troy he is the leading man and he does a good job of holding the film together. According to Homer, Achilles was the most beautiful and the deadliest warrior of his age. Pitt is undoubtedly in excellent physical condition but he also manages to convey Achilles coldness and mastery of arms. His Achilles is a killing machine who cares for almost nothing but his own personal glory. He knows what his alternative futures are before he sails to Troy, but he would rather die young covered in glory than live to be old surrounded by love. There is a vacant look in Achilles eyes almost as though he is aware of everything that is happening around him but doesn't really care as long as it does not seem to personally affect him. However, in war, every action has a knock on effect and Achilles discovers this to his own personal loss. Achilles is not an easy role to take on, but Pitt does it well and he makes Troy a better film because of it.
On a side note, why do film companies continue to keep on ripping off the average punter who buys DVD's. If you are a film fan you are always going to want to see exactly what the director wanted to show in the first place. I can accept that for the theatre sometimes you have to trim the film down a little to make it a more palatable running time for people to be prepared to go and see or in some cases to cut down on some of the director's wilder excesses. But surely when they release the DVD they could make both the theatrical and the director's version available at the same time or on the same package. After all it's not like the footage isn't already available. Too many times I have come across extended additions and director's cuts, mere months after they have released the theatrical version. I know it's too much to hope for that they will stop ripping us off, but I would just like them to know that it's pretty poor show from them.

review by: date: 2008-02-18 rating:

What the Hades!?
I'm going to go against the general trend of reviews here and say that, in my humble opinion, this Director's Cut is a huge dissapointment - in addition to that, and perhaps worse, it has massacred my memories of the original film.

I'm a sucker for extended editions of anything, and I've been lucky so far (Lord of the Rings, Kingdom of Heaven), but now that I think about it, I never had a problem with the original version of "Troy" in the first place, so why did I go and purchase this one?

I was swayed by the reviews, I'll admit, but I was also interested in hearing what the new music edit sounded like. To be fair, the visuals and dialogue of the extended scenes in this version are not the problem: it's the music, which carries the tone and emotion of the story.

I've become a lover of film music, and James Horner's "Troy" score was the 2nd one I ever bought (following Howard Shore's "The Two Towers"). Over time, I've found that it is not the strongest score out there, but it has an operatic structure to it, which I always love, and it is able to support the film excellently.

As I said, the new scenes in this version are good: they reveal more character and plot development, but the music edit is atrocious and, for me, spoils the entire picture. The score is the heart, soul and wings of the film, and something strange has been done here that doesn't gel.

All of Tanja Tzarovska's keening that so well encapsulated the spirit of Greek tragedy and that actually convinced James Horner to score the film, has been removed (although the singer does have a cameo in this version). Nearly all of Horner's score from after the Death of Patroclus has been removed and replaced with music from earlier scenes. Josh Groban's strong rendition of "Remember" is also gone!

This may not sound like it makes much difference, but the whole mood of the scenes is altered. They've even had the audacity to edit Edward Shearmur's incidental music from "The Count of Monte Cristo" into the scene where Achilles and Patroclus are training in sword-play.

The Death of Hector is now more brutal and brash than tragic, the arrival of the Trojan Horse is seen as a good thing (celebratory music is played) and the sacking of Troy is just a mass of remixes of the music from the first battle with the Greeks. That is the true tragedy of it!

The Special Features are no different to that on the original 2-disc edition, and I would rather recommend that version to anyone who loved Horner's score and does not want to see it destroyed by some over-zealous music editor: I just feel that sacrificing a perfectly good film score for 30-minutes of extended footage is not worth it. If, however, you don't mind second-rate film music, then get this version and see it for what it's worth.

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