Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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I was skeeved out by him in Troy.
Who was not skeevy in Troy? Be honest, now. The Starlight Express outfits were not doing anybody much good, and don't get me started on the hair.
I think Brad Pitt makes a much better ironic character than he does a heartfelt character. Playing a role straight seems to lead to expressions of constipation.
yeah, you know, now that you mention it...
I think Sean Bean overcame a great deal stacked against him. And I think that at least Orlando was supposed to look spineless and a touch puling.
Which was kinda hot.
I'll volunteer to be skeeved by this anytime.
Who was not skeevy in Troy? Be honest, now.
Wasn't skeeved by Sean Bean. Granted, the Greco!Mullet wasn't doing him any favors, but I've been dying for a remake of Odysseus ever since.
(eta: any x-post with ita is good...)
Ooh. A non-sucky Odyssey staring Sean Bean would be awesome. He was about the only character I really liked in Troy. Well, Eric Bana's Hector was cool too.
I thought Pitt was supposed to be skeevy in Troy-- he was perfectly cast as an analogue of the vapid but but mysteriously compelling celebrity.
Well, sleeping with his cousin certainly pushes things that way.
No, I found him physically skeevy. I liked Bana and Bean a lot in that (horrendous) film, AND found them both Hottly McTogapants, but Pitt's musclebound physique just made me want to run screaming.
Eric Bana's Hector was cool too.
I will say, in the hair competition, he and Orlando got off well -- long curly hair just looks more glam than long straight hair (as Robert Plant or Luke from General Hospital will surely attest). However, Bana incurred skeevy points for a scene in which he sits down, shirtless, with the infant Astyanax in his arms, and looks for all the world like he is breast-feeding the child with his enormous man-breasts. My brain was scarred.
(It was particularly notable because the woman playing Andromache looked like she was starving to death, and had no breasts at all.)
looks for all the world like he is breast-feeding the child with his enormous man-breasts
I bet they'd make good teething toys, though.
God, those were some pecs. As I learn more and more about what it takes to maintain that sort of male physique, I'm flabbermegasted as I look at the pretty.
