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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2439922" data-attributes="member: 31094">Over the weekend I watched Troy on DVD.  I hadn't rented it before because a.) I don't watch movies just because beautiful people are in it (although HELLO Eric Bana!!), b.)  I'm not that into historical battle movies, and c.) I managed to avoid reading any Homer in high school or college, and figured I'd be better off reading that before watching the movie.  But then I decided what the hey, it's just a movie for entertainment purposes.  So I watched it. Now, I had remembered people saying it was horrible, and nasty bad, and all sorts of things, but I didn't hate it (the only movie I specifically thought was mule puke in recent memory was "Dungeons and Dragons").  It was entertaining, as Hollywood films are meant to be.  Granted, I didn't have the basis of the literature to be going by, so I just watched it and enjoyed it and mailed it back to Netflix when it was done. Then because I was bored at work (shh!) I went to Netflix to read the reviews written by other viewers of this movie, because I was wondering why people thought it was so bad.  It just seemed odd to me that people posted such reviews, as though the movie personally affronted them individually as human beings.  One person posted that they didn't like it because it didn't fit the literature, which I can understand; if you enjoy a piece of literature, you want the film version to at least follow along. However, some reviewers seemed so, well, angry at the movie.  They said it was horrible and the acting was bad (I'm paraphrasing; they were much more effluent than this).  I didn't think it was that bad for what it was:  a Hollywood film designed to make money for the stars and the studio. So now I wonder:  why do we need to be "wow"ed by a movie to consider it a good movie?  Why can't a movie just entertain?  Why do folks get so bent out of shape about a movie?  I mean, if I went to the theater (which I rarely do), I might perhaps get angrier if I went to see a movie that failed to entertain.  But I rent through Netflix most of the time, and if I don't feel entertained by a flick, I turn it off.  I guess I just see it as a symptom of modern American society that we feel that if a movie didn't "wow" us with its actors/actresses, its special effects, and its plot, that we get angry about it.  I've seen reviews on this board as well where people seemed personally affronted by films, and it always made me wonder.</blockquote>

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