I'm afraid to see Troy. The fangirls might eat me.
Besides, I don't want Homer without the gods. It's just wrong. - Only, I haven't seen it, so how was that? Did it work?
I don't think it did... that may have been the missing element that kept the movie from being really engaging. But you know, it's interesting, for a movie in which the gods and goddesses themselves didn't appear, they sure did get talked about a lot. It seemed every other sentence had the word "gods" in it, or the name of a particular god or goddess.
Another annoying aspect of having the gods removed from the story was that some elements no longer made sense. Achilles, for instance, didn't have any special abilities beyond his fighting prowess... which made it seem very odd when Paris shoots him in the heel, near the end of the movie. If one wasn't familiar with the story, it would leave one wondering "Why shoot him there? And why did he react to it so strongly?"