I think that's the problem. The ending, especially, struck me as a terrible, silly parody of what happens in the first chapters of the Aeneid. It was exactly what a script is supposed to do: tie up loose ends. Which was exactly what the cycle about Troy didn't do. The motivations behind an epic cycle and a screenplay are so different that reconciling the two -- especially if the screenplay is meant to describe the entire multi-epic, multi-culture cycle -- is night unto impossible.
Which is probably why they left out huge chunks of information you get in the texts, but what else could they do? Just not make a movie about it at all? Is there any ending that you would have found satisfying? Or would they all have fallen flat because of the disparity in medium?
Dude, Where's My Car?,
Speed 2: Cruise Control
and
Cold Mountain.
A trinity of awfulness that I wish I had never sat through.
Jesse : Dude! You got a tattoo!
Chester : So do you, dude! Dude, what does my tattoo say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
[later]
Chester : [angry] "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : [screaming] "Sweet!"
Ah, comedy gold.
Chinese Fooooooooooooooood.
No and then! No and then! No and then!
And then and then and then and then and then and then and then?
Wasn't it a Buffista who noted that DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? and MEMENTO were basically the same movie?
