| Electronics Retailer: Consumer Electronics: Home Theater
Our Electronics Retailer Store offers Online Shopping for a huge selection of Electronics including Home Theater, Audio, Video, Receivers, Amplifiers Speakers, Subwoofers, Plasma, LCD, DLP, LCoS, HDTV, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, DVD Players, DVDs, Movies, CDs, Music, Gadgets, Video Games, Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo and much more. One of the largest Electronics Retailers on the Internet. We hope you enjoy shopping at the Shack! |
|
|
Troy (Director's Cut) [HD DVD] | ![Troy (Director's Cut) [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KryOB2U2L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.99
Buy Used: $7.95
You Save: $27.04 (77%)
New (20) Used (12) from $7.95
Rating:  815 reviews
Sales Rank: 10807
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 196 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 117376
UPC: 085391173762
EAN: 0085391173762
ASIN: B000TGGJKK
Theatrical Release Date: May 14, 2004
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: complete.
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
No doubt about it, the 196-minute unrated director's cut of Troy represents a significant improvement over the film's original 162-minute theatrical release--and not just because it has more sex and violence. As director Wolfgang Petersen notes in his new "Troy Revisited" video introduction to this 2-disc special edition, he didn't have the time or directorial discretion (prior to Troy's release in 2004) to present a cut that more closely matched his vision for the film. Three years later, Petersen approached the film with a more relaxed perspective, and the result is a well-crafted expansion on a film that was previously underrated, with 30 minutes of previously unseen material. Character dynamics have been improved and intensified; the epic-scale narrative is now easier to follow, with greater emphasis on the inner turmoil of Achilles (well played by Brad Pitt) and his rivalry with Hector (Eric Bana); and viewers will feel a more satisfying escalation of tension and suspense from battle to battle. The film's enormous battle scenes (impressively enhanced with CGI) are bloodier and gorier, but they're also more effectively integrated into the political story, which goes beyond Homer's The Iliad and the death of Hector to incorporate elements of Virgil and a more revealing study of the differences between Trojan king Priam (Peter O'Toole) and his megalomanical Greek rival, king Agamemnon (Brian Cox), whose lust for revenge is now one of the film's most powerful ingredients. Some of Troy's original weaknesses remain (such as Orlando Bloom's wimpy performance as Paris), but overall, this director's cut easily justifies its existence, regardless of the film's overblown and historically inaccurate depiction of Troy as a gigantic city of massive columns and statuary. The good parts are better, and the not-so-good parts are more easily forgiven. And no matter how you cut it, Troy is a lavish feast for the eyes. --Jeff Shannon
Description
Brad Pitt picks up a sword and brings a muscular, brooding presence to the role of Greek warrior Achilles in this spectacular retelling of The Iliad. Orlando Bloom and Diane Kruger play the legendary lovers who plunge the world into war, Eric Bana portrays the prince who dares to confront Achilles, and Peter O'Toole rules Troy as King Priam. Director Wolfgang Petersen recreates a long-ago world of bireme warships, clashing armies, the massive fortress city and the towering Trojan Horse.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 810 more reviews...
 Can someone show me where this is titled The Iliad and not Troy? September 30, 2008
Christoph Marino
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is mainly a reply to all the 1 star reviews which don't take anything into account other than the inaccuracy in how this relates to The Iliad. I'm sorry that they might have raped your image from The Iliad, but this isn't a movie called The Iliad, it's called Troy. In the Iliad the siege took 9 years, does anyone actually expect something like that ever to be put to film? There is so much that would not translate well to film, I don't have a problem with other character changes they made.
Get real, this is a 'fun' movie. It wasn't made to piss you off, giving something a 1 star review based soley on how it was not completely accurate to something is ridiculous. Pull up $300 million of your own money and make it how it how it was in The Iliad and see you recoup 1% of your production cost.
 Epic and Awesome September 16, 2008
Music Is The Best (Pretendland)
A bunch of glorious battle scenes and a good story. The diector's cut is amazing.
 Homer disappears for this spectacle August 20, 2008
Steven A. Peterson (Hershey, PA (Born in Kewanee, IL))
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
"Troy" is an example of not taking your subject seriously. Homer's twin epics, "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are sprawling, have lots of scenes, meander, and are not necessarily great movies in the making. But Homer's epics could be mined for the right material to make a good movie. But this isn't it.
First, the acting is not always so hot. Paris comes across as such a wimp that it is rather hard to take. Eric Bana creates a character who seems to recognize the tragedy that is occurring, but--compared with a wonderfully sculpted Brad Pitt--he doesn't look like he could hold his own with him in combat, which diminishes the impact of their inevitable one on one battle. Brad Pitt, as Achilles, seems pretty shallow, although he looks great. Peter O'Toole, playing Trojan King Priam, is not a terribly compelling figure.
Second, Homer (not Homer Simpson! Homer, the poet who created "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey") disappears as the script goes bizarre. Menelaus and Ajax die as portrayed in this version? The same with Agamemnon? There's enough pizzazz in Homer's work not to have to resort to the butchery of his works for alterations that are unnecessary.
Third, for some pluses. This is gorgeously shot; the battles scenes are well played; the computer graphics work well and are not over obtrusive. The depiction is near spectacular. Even though it bears only a modest resemblance to Homer (for which, ultimately, I'm old-fashioned enough that I cannot forgive the perpetrators), it is all to the good that people ignorant of his work will at least have some faint knowledge of it by watching this. Maybe a few more people might actually read his work after having viewed this flick. If so, this movie has made its own contribution.
I tend to rate products pretty positively, since I normally review things that I like. This movie I don't like so much. But, on the other hand, if you want to see a buff Brad Pitt, lots of spectacle, fine special effects, even if the movie greatly ignores Homer, then you'll probably enjoy this. So, on a split vote, I'll go with a 3.
|
|
|
|
| |
