[Dominic Harr]

The chances that Brad Pitt--or any of these clowns, for that matter--have actually read The Iliad are between zilch and none.

My wife said she saw Brad on Oprah, and Brad said they didn't change anything except leaving out the Gods.

*Sigh*.

Like a fool, I, too, decided to give it a chance.

They leave out Agamemnon's killing his own daughter. Menalaus and Agamemnon both die? Helen and Briseis get away!? Achilles actually makes it to the final scene? Achilles is a philosophical type who hates fighting?

And -- a 10 year war is collapsed into 2 weeks???

I am so completely, totally shocked. This is the worst hack-job on a story since Kevin Costner's Robin Hood. And this was such typical Hollywood PC stupidity:

• The sacrifice of the child and the rapes were cut out.
• The blood-thirsty, vain Achilles becomes an anti-war victim of a bloody society.
• The bad guys *have* to die in a Hollywood movie.
• "Pitt's character can't die till the final scene!"
• "10 year war!? Too long. Cut it. Say, 2 weeks, tops."

Some day, one of these idiots is going to make a movie about WWII in which Hitler and Churchill meet and decide the entire war in a mano-a-mano fistfight.

And Hitler will win.

[Savage Beast]

Well said.

Iphegenia and Cassandra are obviously beyond those Neanderthals in Hollywood.

Please don't give them any ideas though. They're likely to make a sequal.