I want to preface this by saying this is just my opinion, and you are under no obligation to agree with me (I presume most of you won't)

1 - the film came out in 2004, which is my favourite year 2 - I really, really like the asthetic - even tho it's from the 2000s, it feels like an epic film from the 60s, with slightly grainy footage, wide sweeping helicopter shots etc. 3 - I approve of David benioff's decision to cover the whole of the Trojan war, rather than just the material of Homer's "illiad", it gives it a more epic scope with a truly epic (in the directors cut) sack of Troy sequence. 4 - the acting is great (ik some actors eg Pitt and O'Toole have come out and said they didn't like it) I still think they did a magnificent job. (It also happens to have some of my fav actors eg Sean Bean, Julian Glover, commander mormont, brian fox) 5 - Orlando Bloom does a great job of being a punchable simp 6 - the soundtrack by James Horner is epic 7 - the writing is genuinely decent, and at times great (a rare thing to say about mr Benioff) with some lines "men are haunted by the vastness of eternity" stuck in my head.