The Last Legion

[Watchman]

Conan gets off the hook by not even pretending any historical references.

[mAIOR]

I tought the movie was boring and predictable. I was actually hopefull something good would come out of it... I was sadly mistaken. Not even Kevin McKidd brought anything good to the movie.
Well, there's a reason O rated it 2 out of 10 at IMDB...


Cheers...

[blitzkrieg80]

poor Vorenus

btw, cool link, thanks!

was that movie even released in the US?

[Xtiaan72]

I don't think it's out yet. Whoever posted it is an evil doer

[Tempesta]

im a bit late i know but with the Manfredi discussion I really enjoyed reading these books, just recommending em Alexander Collection Child Of Dreams- prince Alexander being educated and being under King phillip, learning with Aristole etc, Sands Of Ammon king Alexander beginning invasion of persia and ending in egypt. Then India, rest of Persia Ends Of the Earth and Tyrant based loosely on Dionysus, a guys rise up to ruler Syracuse and beyond. mainly focuses on battles in Siciliy with Carthage

[Palasta]

I ve seen the movie last week. It was acceptable in the first minutes, but as the eastern bodyguard was bathing and the other guy found "his" clothes, i was convinced that this movie will not furfill even my lowest expactations. Before i watched the movie i ve read the description on the germanwikipediapage. There is written:

"The Last Legion ist der Titel eines Historienfilms, der im August 2007 in die Kinos kommen wird."

Translation:
"The last Legion is the titel of a historymovie, coming August 2007 at a theatre near you."

A historymovie? This crappy movie at a cinema? I dont think so. "Attila The Hun" was way better and it was only shown on TV.

[aecp]

This movie is awful beyond words. I couldn't even finish it the first time and found myself skipping back and fourth to avoid the terrible dialog. I don't think I've ever seen a worse choice for a hero than Colin Firth in any movie of this kind. And what the hell was with the Gandalf-ripoff throwing fireballs through the tips of his fingers? In my opinion the only one involved with this movie who got away with even a shred of dignity intact was Kevin McKidd. But if you're wondering if it's possible to make a loosely history based fantasy-movie ten times worse than anything 300 has to offer, then by all means, go see this steaming pile of shit.

[Xtiaan72]

Aecp- I agree it's a pile of crap but if you were skipping through it to avoid the crappy dialog then how in the world did you sit through the cringe worthy dialog of 300?

[aecp]

300 had dialog!? Holy crap!

But seriously, having read the comic and seen the trailers lessened the impact of 300's abysmal dialog somewhat. It's still a horrible movie though, just more of a "pumped-up music video drawn out for two hours" while The Last Legion is a glorified TV-movie that's low on quality even at that.

[Xtiaan72]

You hit the nail on the head, it plays like a made for cable movie. The Sci-fi channel has actually doen tv movies that are better ( If not entirely good).

Funny but if you compare any of this stuff to something like HBO's Rome it's hard to believe they pulled the cash together to get such crappyness made.

It is crazy though that "The Last Legion" is all over the net before it's even out.

[aecp]

Yeah, it's a damned shame. A great show like Rome canceled in it's prime. They didn't even let them do the last two episodes so instead we got a rushed ending (still very good imo). And in the meantime 300 is an unequaled success and everyone is watching shit like CSI and reality TV. It really pisses me off since the same thing happened to both Carnivale and Deadwood, both infinitely superior to anything that's on TV nowadays except for Sopranos and The Wire (whenever that returns).

Philistines

[Xtiaan72]

I didn't realize they cut two episodes. What a shame. They definitely owed it to the fans to at least end it properly. I thought the end seemed a bit strange and now I know why.

[blitzkrieg80]

Ditto about Carnivale, Deadwood and Rome it sucks! any criticism those shows could have had was a result of having to sell out for the ignorant masses and they still got canceled!

the Wire and Sopranos might be good, but they are lazy- urban contemporary and the props/setting are thus cheap, how is that a rationale for cost-effectiveness? if HBO wants to keep that @!&* up then they can lose my subscription... reality tv is exactly the same: their rationale for existence is "why pay for writers/actors when you can have amateur/ "real people" sitting around making up dumb stuff and talking about their ignorant opinions"? well, don't we have daytime tv for that? do we really have to have trash 24/7... we might as well stop teaching history in school and begin classes about memorization of sports statistics.

[The Celt]

Yeah, it's a damned shame. A great show like Rome canceled in it's prime. They didn't even let them do the last two episodes so instead we got a rushed ending (still very good imo). And in the meantime 300 is an unequaled success and everyone is watching shit like CSI and reality TV. It really pisses me off since the same thing happened to both Carnivale and Deadwood, both infinitely superior to anything that's on TV nowadays except for Sopranos and The Wire (whenever that returns).

Philistines

Carnivale was good but being from the South/Central US I can say that pretty much everything in Deadwood is complete BS. Next time. Get actual Shoutherners/Flyover folks to write a story about themselves you stupid Coasters!(I put my drinks on your puny little faces! Ha! )

[russia almighty]

How could people not like Rome ? It had non stop sex , violence and more sex and violence .

Hell it could break into the fetish crowd with the incest thing.

[blitzkrieg80]

Seriously, who doesn't enjoy seeing the Attia character naked? I saw Lucius Vorenus' wife in a Skinamax-esque movie called Kama Sutra... that's one actress they should have shown nude more. Yes, I am a man-pig and proud of it seriously, though- Rome's initial sex scenes ruled! I'll never forget that first episode.

the Celt, you do realize that South Dakota is North and mid-West if anything?

[The Celt]

Seriously, who doesn't enjoy seeing the Attia character naked? I saw Lucius Vorenus' wife in a Skinamax-esque movie called Kama Sutra... that's one actress they should have shown nude more. Yes, I am a man-pig and proud of it seriously, though- Rome's initial sex scenes ruled! I'll never forget that first episode.

the Celt, you do realize that South Dakota is North and mid-West if anything?

Yes but still they paraded the show as a "wild western" drama!