Okay, so I tried to watch Troy on HBO last night, and I made it maybe 40 minutes in before I just gave up. Maybe it got better when people stopped talking and started killing each other more, and I still kind of want to see the big horse... but not that bad. It was pretty and all--and, ooh! look at the finely oiled muscles of the male cast, nothing homoerotic going on there--but the actual script written in that formal, serious Hollywood-pretentious-historical-speak, and delivered with such straight faces, I just got bored.