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was Nero the one that found some nobleman's kid looked like his dead wife and forced him to cut his dick off and live as his wife?
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TheBeagle
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Tholan
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That sounds pretty sane in today's standard, except we trick young boys into doing this to themselves.
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Rabbit_Games
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I think that's most of us. It's like when The Bible goes into all the "This is the son of..." shit. Just give me the important people and what they accomplished. heh
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Revenge films are satisfying. Crowe and Hounsou had good chemistry, Reed stole every scene he was in, Phoenix played a wonderful villain, the action was fun, Maximus getting his vengeance at the end is very satisfying, plus you know, the speech when he removes his helmet. Not sure how many years it's been since I watched it, but if my wife was ever like "hey let's watch Gladiator" I'd be down.
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I don't really consider it historical fiction, it's just fiction set in the past, or alt history. To me, historical fiction is a story that coexists with history, or a dramatization of an historical event.
For example, Inglorious Bastards isn't historical fiction.
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I would considered alt history a sub category of historical fiction. They are all a fictitious story using historical settings. Alt history movies just go further and change major events as well, when inventing the fictitious story they wish to tell.
If anything I would lump movies like Gladiator and Braveheart in with Inglorious Bastards as alternative history, because all those movies really care nothing about historical accuracy outside of loosely using it as a setting to make their own characters that have little to do with real life characters or events.
Even my favorite "historical" TV shows like Rome and Wolf Hall are still historical fiction because they are changing the events that happened, even though they are much closer to what happened historically and as such, it's important to label them as fiction.
There are few movies I would label as just straight historical movies, without any sub labels, where they try to stick to historical events and characters, as they happened. Asshole Hollywood types have corrupted the moniker of "based on real events" type movies, but it's what I think of when the most fictitious part of the movie is the dialog and minor changes to character interactions. Gettysburg is by far my favorite of these types of movies (and movies in general), but it would also include movies like Midway (1976) and Dunkirk, not to mention TV shows like Band of Brothers.
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Rome is like Forest Gump. It's a historical highlight reel that tries to present a bunch of important historical events in a convenient time frame using a fictional character as a reference. Kind of a historical travelogue. I do appreciate how they teach and entertain.
Scott's stuff is pure fantasy and outside of Gladiator 1, not very good fantasy.
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I also though the extreme amounts of CGI in the gladiator scenes reduced the impact of them. The baboons, rhino, sharks were cool on their own, but the practical effects of gladiator 1 made it much more impactful in my mind. They also had less to work with since Lucius wasn't a general turned gladiator, or at least they didn't try to make him be.
I kept thing during the movie, "Was that chariot scene from the first one that much better, or am I being nostaglic?". After watching it, it's better than I remember.
This scene stands so far above all the gladiator scenes in Gladiator II.
I kept thing during the movie, "Was that chariot scene from the first one that much better, or am I being nostaglic?". After watching it, it's better than I remember.
This scene stands so far above all the gladiator scenes in Gladiator II.
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Are the baboons zombies or undead of some sort? They look weird. Also looks like a pretty shitty movie, but it's not like Ridley Scott is batting a thousand at this point. Hopefully he got the jab and we'll have a stroke soon, and that might free up the Alien universe.
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Chukzombi
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Trap is terrible, but it could have been better if he had somebody there to rein in his self indulgent bullshit. there was a decent premise there.
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Burns
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Signs was fucking terrible too, all because the ending "twist" is some of the most retarded writing ever put in a theater (not counting the last 10 years). A civilization that is advanced enough to travel interstellar distances didn't notice the water, which is the thing that kills them, is ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLANET? Get the fuck outa here.
I was ok with a (pantry) door worshiping race, that honors all closed doors as the most divine, but the water was a bridge too far.
...or maybe it was the wood, where breaking wood products was seen as rude in crop circle society.
I was ok with a (pantry) door worshiping race, that honors all closed doors as the most divine, but the water was a bridge too far.
...or maybe it was the wood, where breaking wood products was seen as rude in crop circle society.
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