But Isn't Brad Pitt a god

I was really looking forward to the movie "Troy" although I realized there was a very good chance it could be a bomb. After all, there was Brad Pitt dressed in his best Rambo. But Orlando Bloom was running a lucky streak with Lord of the Rings so I allowed myself to think optimistic thoughts. But reviews are beginning to appear (the movie gets released May14) and things just don't sound too good. Now I understand that reviews are merely personal opinions but the Iliad without the gods! From Reuters:

"Troy" is "inspired" by "The Iliad," Homer's epic poem about the Greek siege of Troy. The filmmakers chose that word carefully. Not only does much of their story derive from ancient literary sources other than Homer and the script often take extreme liberties with Greek mythology, but Petersen and writer David Benioff jettison Zeus and the whole Olympian cosmos. Yes, this version of "The Iliad" is godless.

Admittedly, it's virtually impossible to simulate onscreen the wildly dysfunctional family of self-centered immortals that compose Greek polytheism. But to remove the gods from what is, after all, a Greek myth is to gut your story. By playing down the divine, you lose the story's sense of fate, destiny and tragedy.

These people believe in their gods. When a hero fights "like a god," many genuinely wonder if he might not be born of a god and therefore undefeatable. And a leader who heeds seers and omens looks foolish rather than wise, as he does in Homer. This is a key element of the ancients' psychology, and it turns up missing here.

I guess I'll have to wait for the sequel: Odysseus' Most Excellent Adventure.