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All parent reviews for Troy

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12
Adult
February 2, 2010
 
Poor role models, of course some nudity including the threesome, nude butts here and there, cheating wives/husbands, useless violence, overall a movie with not much to offer...goes to show there are egotistical idiots even way back then.

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Adult
April 9, 2009
 
question
i have a question im going 2 bring it in (im 12) for a greek day and i need to no if theres any real hard core sex or nudity (btw im probably going 2 only play a couple scenes) some1 please answer thank you.

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Adult
May 10, 2009
 
Quite violent, but not bad for younger teens.

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Adult
February 16, 2009
 
Troy Review For Mr. Stoltman's class :)
There is a movie called Troy. In the movie, it tells about a famous mythological hero. Achilles was helping Greece conquer Troy. The movie took place in Greece, but a very long time ago. It was the time when people still fought with swords and there were world leaders always trying to conquer more land. The Genre of this film is action with a bit of adventure. There was once a hero name Achilles. His father was a god from Olympus while his mom was a human oracle. One day, Greece asked Achilles to help them in the war with Troy. He went to his mother for advice. Talking to him, she said, if Achilles stays where he is now, he will live a happy life and kids. But, if he goes to war, he will take down Troy, but he will go down with it. Then next morning he left of to Troy. Achilles and his army arrive and see a Trojan temple to the Trojan god, Poseidon. They start to attack the worshipers of it and kill most of them. After a while, the king’s son comes to defend it and sees that Achilles took over it. Once Achilles sees the son come, he chops the head of the statue of Poseidon. Next morning they take their army, and decide to attack Troy. Troy’s walls are very big so it was hard for Greece to penetrate them. After a long day of fighting the Grecians come up with a very good plan. At night they craft a big wooden horse that is a sign of peace for Troy. A lot of soldiers get in it and other roll them to the Trojan gate. The Trojans accept it as a sign of peace and take it into their city. At night Achilles and his army get out and open the gates for the big army to get in. They burn the city down and run everyone out of it. Achilles goes to the highest point of the city and sees that his beloved was going to be persecuted. He runs to save her but doesn’t see a man with a bow and arrow behind him. Once Achilles gets to her, the archer shoots him in his heel and then he shoots him many times. After a while, the great hero Achilles died. After the win, all the people remember the name Achilles, for he was a great hero of Greece. The costume design was very creative and they used a lot of detail on it. It looked slim so it was like older armor with a modernistic touch. Their weapons looked like real ones and so did their shields. They could swing them so quickly and easy because they were light.

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Parent
May 14, 2010
 
Troy
This was a truely impressive movie. Far from a masterpiece, but very fun to watch.

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Parent of 11 year old
May 4, 2010
 
Inaccurate, yes. But for a child just learning about Mythology or Ancient Greece, this puts faces to names and the names are difficult enough for a kid to remember. Discuss the inaccuracies and that gets them talking we get the ykids books and, at this age, it introduces him to names, places, events. He will identify with these later, when it comes time to study. Fast forward through the dead hector part or choose then to pause for popcorn and fast forward. It's not one experience, it is all that will give him the introduction to Greek Mythology. (BTW>>>YKids..amazon..actually got him to read Treasure Island..the real book). I was on the fence about this movie. My son and I are studying Homer, and at the same time, Ancient Greece and it's mythology and warfare, etc. The whole gammit across the home school board. He loved the myths, loved Homer's works. So I have to weigh the educational benefits vs. the violence etc.I have decided to go ahead with this..I've allowed Age of Mythology and he's become familiar with many characters, places, etc. He's 9, and is pretty good about closing his eyes during romance stuff...I think he will either fall asleep from boredom (at 9 yrs. old, this is boring) or he'll learn from it. If he falls asleep, we'll wait another year. He recently watched Empire of the Sun and enjoyed it..but was somewhat bored during parts..but relayed the story well to me. You know your own child...how will they react..remember to watch it first, then watch it with them...you may have to use the pause button. We will discuss how it compares with the Greek myths. The positive role models I found were in Priam and Hector. I will be discussing their pros and cons with him.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
It's Great, Good and GREEK!
Hey I believe this is one of the best movies of the year. I don't know what the other reviewers were thinking but as a kid, I know that people kiss and love each other. As for the violence... PG 13 matierial for sure, I mean the worst part was the gore, which really wasn't that bad. Overall I give this movie a 11 out of 10 on quality and that anyone above 11 should be able to handle it (unless you don't like Ancient Greece or LOTR!)

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Parent of 16 year old
January 14, 2010
 

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Parent of 10 year old
December 28, 2010
 
Perfect for tweens and
I think this is a perfectly appropriate movie for children 10 and up. I think at that age they know what is appropriate for them to see. It is only rated R because of all of the violence. There is barely any use of bad language and I think it is perfectly fine.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Great!
I would recommend this movie to anyone who can handle movies with blood and gore. I closed my eyes at some parts. There was some sex and nudity also. This movie is not OK for kids, but think adults and mature teens will appreciate it.

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Parent of 18 and 19 year old
April 9, 2008
 
at least my kid learned about homer
this movie was basically a repeat of lord of the rings. battle after battle which pleased my 10 year old son. a guy gets his throat cut and there's tons of blood and brad pitt's naked tush. Otherwise it's no more or less than any of the lord of the rings movies. My husband's favorite line was Will this never end? But the boys loved it. I appreciated it because we came home, brought out the oddysey and the iliad and talked about who homer was and the real trojan war. The next day my son showed one of his friends a copy of the iliad and said,"did you know that this is all one poem?" So not a total loss.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Great Movie
Don't look at all those other reviews! This movie should not be rated R. Unless you can't take a little bit of violence and gore you should definatly see Troy. As for sexuality and nudity, all you see is half of Brad Pitts butt! This is definatly a must see for any action/battle movie fan. Everyone I know likes it!

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Not Really Bad.
So the movie was insanely historically inaccurate. How else are you going to get a record-breaking number of people out of their homes to see an adaptation of one of the oldest published poems ever written? The battle scenes were stunning, the art direction- phenomenal. The acting- not too bad. This movie's violence honestly didn't shake me at all, probably because I've seen most of the horror movies available at Blockbuster, and I'm a survivor of "Testosterone Movie Night" with my dad- every Friday! The sexual content was a little harsher for me to deal with, the near-brutal treatment of Briseis was tough. In general, nothing that you haven't seen before in the sexuality category. This movie can be my new guilty pleasure, a Hollywood-style epic that captured my attention for three hours-imagine that!- and turned a whole new generation on to the charms of the Ancient Greek empire.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
it was good
The movie on a whole was pretty good. There were some parts that were what some may call cheesy. Brad Pitt did an amazing job in this movie. p.s. awesome abs

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Epic love story
This movie greatly impressed me with it's awesome and sweeping battle sequences and the character development that left you feeling sorry for almost everyone. It was an incredible masterpiece and one you can watch over and over again.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
dont watch it...
This is NOT a good movie. I am an action movie person...particularly the historical action. (Not all those stupid pointless action movies set in modern-day...BLEH) So I was pretty excited about this when I hear about it. BUT...they had to do it. I mean really! WE JUST CANNOT HAVE A GOOD MOVIE WITHOUT THOSE SEX SCENES! Good grief. I am glad I didn't buy it. And I know, so many people say "Its life, sex happens BLAH BLAH BLAH..." That does NOT mean we show it on SCREEN! Sex is a private thing, and we should not fill up our minds with such garbage as everyone sleeping around with everybody (like in this movie) I could preach but I wont as this is a review...but really its desensitizing. Also there was quite a bit of violence...and BRAD PITT??? Dont make me laugh. I had to turn off the movie anyways because nudity was slap in your the face- like, the first scene! I read the synopsis on wikipedia, but don't waste your money. Get something good for your kids, and yourself! People don't walk around naked in real life, and kids should NOT be getting used to seeing it. This probably would have been a great movie otherwise. My rule for movies is "if it has sex scenes, too much gore and swearing, out it goes." Its too bad cuz this could have been so good...its a great story, I have the book and its a cool movie idea...Gladiator is a good sword movie if you want one though personally, there is a bit too much blood...but watch that instead of this.

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Adult
April 4, 2012
 
have positive message
historical movies always good to watch

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