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Vampire
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 Posted: 23-May-2002 17:19 Post subject: Ruger's Movie Review: Star Wars Episode II...spoilers ahead |
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So what movies do they make for the uneducated European rabble?
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Oh boy! You don't want to know! =:O
Point taken, though the problem with European moviemakers is more about political propaganda and manipulation of the past than American ignorance.
The British are particularly guilty on this, two examples of note, "Cromwell" was a great movie, but makes a bloodthristy, religious fanatic tyrant look like a paladin of democracy!!  A more recent example is "Elizabeth" starring Cate Blanchett (Galadrield) wich is awful in all aspects and doesn't even have the saving grace of being a good movie.
So Hollywood is not that bad, after all.
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I was speaking more along the lines of the physics of the movie, and not the storyline. I know that Gladiator is, at best, loosely based on a kinda true event.
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That's not the problem, not even that the fight scenes, the weapons, the armor, the coliseum all are the worst kind of video game like BS. The digital recreation of Rome buildings is a sorry waste of money in SFX... but the worst of it it's the opening battle. People that know about the period go nuts about that one. To being with, cavalry with stirrups...something that could be excused in a B-rated movie, but no Roman movie ever before made that anachronism.
Stick with "Spartacus" and "The Fall of the Roman Empire", they were wonderful movies without all that waste of computer SFX.
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| Posted: 24-May-2002 07:46 Post subject: Ruger's Movie Review: Star Wars Episode II...spoilers ahead |
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Or the Steel plated armor...Please Romans had Bronze and Only Bronze.....
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| Posted: 24-May-2002 11:42 Post subject: Ruger's Movie Review: Star Wars Episode II...spoilers ahead |
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That's incorrect. The Romans were late in the iron age, and long after the bronze age. They would have had iron smelting and shaping.
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 24-May-2002 13:18 Post subject: Ruger's Movie Review: Star Wars Episode II...spoilers ahead |
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For Gladiators???? I think not. Unless they were top 5, aand the guards...Never.
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| Posted: 24-May-2002 14:53 Post subject: Ruger's Movie Review: Star Wars Episode II...spoilers ahead |
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On 2002-05-24 07:46, Sir Henry wrote:
Or the Steel plated armor...Please Romans had Bronze and Only Bronze.....
Sir HEnry
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Errr.... Sir henry I'm afraid you are confusing Romans with the Greeks.
Romans had iron chainmails, and coats of plates, "lorica segmentata", though maybe you are saying they hadn't cast iron cuirasses, in that you are right.
One thing that is true is that the Romans never got the hang of steel making with the Germanic invaders did, giving them an edge (sorry for the pun  over the Romans.
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