it's so rare anymore that i get caught up in a movie. most of the time i'm either finding faults, because there's always a lot of faults in hollywood, or making fun of terrible dialogue, or bored, bored, bored. i watch a lot of movies, yes, but that doesn't mean that i actually enjoy them for the cinematic reasons. mostly, i enjoy rolling my eyes at movies. except for interesting independent movies that have storylines and real people dialogues and such, sometimes those movies work for me. all this said, i really don't get into big hollywood movies that much, especially big blockbusters of the summer because they're always too over the top for me.

i say all of this because tonight i watched a big summer blockbuster movie, troy, and it was 2 1/2 hours long. and i was not once bored. i found myself letting silly dialogue slide away. i actually enjoyed this movie for its cinematic presence and for being a large-scale epic of a movie. i credit that to a lot of the acting, particularly eric bana, brad pitt, and peter o'toole, who all three kept me interested and invested in what was happening and going to happen. eric bana was really amazing and had a presence on screen that i long for in most actors. it's too bad 'the hulk' didn't work out for him, because he deserves a star vehicle. he's an amazing actor.

i almost wished that i didn't know the age-old story of the trojan horse, because i feel it would have been a splendid surprise since the movie never really gave the viewer a definite choice of good guy/bad guy roles. so, since i knew about the trojan horse, i felt a sense of sadness that i knew what was generally going to happen. and that sadness was there because i was genuinely interested in the plot and what was to happen with the characters.

it's not the greatest movie ever done, and it did have flaws, and i'm not even sure i'd want to watch it again as it's such an event. but, but, but the fact that i never got bored and i can't stop thinking positively about the movie and i actually enjoyed a movie for its cinematic experience is an amazing thing in and of itself. i really did like 'troy.'