The face that EMPTIED a thousand cinemas ...
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Unrelated to whore face there, but I never understood the hate for Brad Pitt's Troy.
I enjoyed it. So did nearly every man I know. I mean yeah, the last 20 minutes suck, and the part with the Heel is ridiculous.
What exactly constitutes a good movie, you know? I've seen many of the classics, and they're good movies in their own right for sure.
Maybe I'm just stupid, which is definitely on the table, but I've seen movies like Citizen Kane and other touted movies. I've rewatched Troy numerous times, for the fight scenes alone. I enjoyed Kane, but would never watch it again. I don't get it what makes a good movie. There are so many awful classics, and "terrible" movies people love.
Citizen Kane was a masterpiece ... up until that point.
Every decade and every generation does something better than the last, and it makes an impression on audiences in that era. Those people carry that experience with them and, one decade after the next, that "masterpiece" gets carried over into the "cultural canon" of great films.
"The Birth of a Nation" is widely considered the first Hollywood "blockbuster" film, but you'd be hard pressed to find almost anyone today to sit through a 3-hour silent film. It's the same with athletes. The guys from the 40's and 50's are legends, but there's no way they'd keep up with the microdosing, hyper-metabolized athletes of today. And yet, we still think of guys like Babe Ruth and Aaron Judge as somehow being on the same level. It's really not a fair comparison; they're each legends in their own time, in their own way.