Reviews

I saw this film as I have studied Classics at school and wanted to see how the film portrayed the war in itself and the various events. I was annoyed by the inaccuracy of much of the film. As a past student of Classics much of my A-Level course was focused on the Trojan War, the Aeneid and plays that told of the characters in this story.

The film itself was directed very well and there were some good actors. It seemed to me that this was just a piece of normal storytelling not a great epic. It most certainly was not a great epic film. As I knew the story beforehand of several of the characters I expected to see what i knew but I didn't.

There were several things wrong. Men die in the story when in fact they left the war unscathed. At the beginning of the film Menelaus is killed. This is untrue as Menelaus left after the 10 years with Helen again after Paris had been killed and Agamemnon did not die in the heat of battle as his wife kills him later on as seen in the play "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus after he had returned with the sister of Paris and Hector, Cassandra. She was killed too. Achilles is killed outside the walls of Troy in "the shade of the Scaean Gate" by Paris with a poisoned arrow which struck him in the heel (at birth Thetis, mother on Achilles, had dipped him in the river Styx to make him immortal but had held him by his heel so his heel wasn't protected by power) but in the film he was killed inside the city, which was wrong. I did like the appearance of Aeneas at the end with his elderly father Anchises. I thought it was very good as in the Aeneid Aeneas leads his followers (survivors of Troy) to found the new city of Rome.

I did like the dramatic effects but on a scale of one to ten I would rate it as 3.

I love this film especially Rowan Atkinson's holy spigot and holy goat mistakes. The crowd of friends consisting of Charles and Scarlett make me laugh. They are always together at each wedding and seem to know everything and everyone. Gareth is the funniest with Charles coming a close second. I only wish though that Charles had married Hen and we could have seen how it ended up. I love Charles mistakes when he tells John the rumour of another man and John's wife. Matthew's eulogy of WH Auden's famous poem, which I may add I love, makes the funeral all the more poignant and also all the sadness of the death of the most popular guy in the film. It's full of sadness but mostly keeps me in fits of laughter. It's excellent with superb acting BUT Andi McDowell's performance could have been better. She seemed unsure of her role.

I love this show as it action packed with adventure, love and intrigue. Well some times love! It's so good see a show where all the characters work well together and they treat each other with respect. It's also very good to se Dick Van Dyke in a television role as I have only seen him in Mary Poppins. the mixture of the main characters, Mark, Amanda, Jesse and Steve is very capturing to the audience. This is a show you have to watch!

A League of Their Own is heartwarming and extremely funny. I have only watched twice but the tears come rolling down my cheeks of laughter and sadness. It is a truly passinate film for a sport enjoyed by people from all over the world.