12 Movies You Can Stop Watching After The Opening Scene

The Perfect Storm director Wolfgang Petersen isn’t a man to do things by halves. When the Poseiden helmer put together a once in a lifetime cast to film an epic set during the legendary Trojan war and adapted from Homer’s Iliad, he spent over 180 million on the flick, ensuring the result would be bigger in scale than even Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.

And the film was massive—unfortunately not unlike Oliver Stone’s Alexander the same year, the director neglected to make it any good. Whilst not terrible, there’s nothing much memorable about the huge epic, and few if any of its megawatt stars succeed in making much of an impression.

What does make an impression is the film’s first scene, the only one most viewers will recall, wherein Brad Pitt’s cool as a cucumber Achilles dispatches a cameo-ing Nathan Jones of WWE fame via an unbelievably slick spear manoeuvre which, unlike the surrounding film, needs to be seen to be believed.