If it presses on it will have to compete with I-Claudius, good luck with that. But I would love to see it anyway.
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If it presses on it will have to compete with I-Claudius, good luck with that. But I would love to see it anyway.
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Exceptional show. After HBO cancelled this and Deadwood I cancelled HBO. I was disappointed by the end of season two because of how rushed it felt, and how few decent action scenes we got, but after word got out about the cancellation I forgave it. Season one has numerous moments that will forever live in my memory as some of the most entertaining TV I've ever seen.
I'm not 100% convinced that it will work as well in a movie format because it relied so strongly on episode breaks to pass the time between events, but I'd definitely go and see it if they made it.
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Ditto. I only got to watch Rome sporadically, but I really enjoyed the episodes I did see. If they make a movie out it, I'll be in line for tickets.
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I liked the first season a lot better than the second... though admittedly I didn't finish the second season-- gave up after Phillippi, where it was painfully obvious that the battle of legions had less than a hundred participants. It wasn't that that put me off the series, though that was the last straw. It was the excessive, meandering melodrama. Maybe the first season had that too, but at least it followed a thread all the way to the Ides of March. After the assassination the show seemed to have lost its focus.
Though the Season One finale still remains one of the best single episode in a television series I've ever seen-- the assassination of Caesar was properly visceral and tragic, while there's a sort of irony in the catharses of Vorenus and Pullo.
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You might want to try Waterloo and the Soviet production of War and Peace, which incidentally shared the same director. Sergei Bondarchuk had 15,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry with which to film Waterloo, while War and Peace was even more lavish, with upward of 100,000 extras.Originally Posted by Quirinus
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If the rumor that they ran out of cost is true...
I would've volunteered to participate in the battle shoot or something for free if I looked Roman
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What's I-Claudius?
Yeah, same with me. HBO didn't have anything that was really worth watching in terms of television series after that. But if you liked Rome and Deadwood, you might also give the upcoming third season of The Tudors (Showtime) a try. Despite having no real interest in the period before that, I enjoyed the show and took quite a bit more interest in M2TW (which I previously played only sporadically) and its time period.
I agree, season 1 was definitely better. Season 2 bypassed way too much time, which I hated. Especially when they skipped over the battle of Actium, which I had been looking forward to ever since the end of the first season.
But upon reading the article above and finding out three seasons were condensed into one, I can kind of forgive it.
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Yeah, the Tudors is good. As for Rome, I have both seasons on dvd and constantly re-live my old joys.
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I'm envious.As for Rome, I have both seasons on dvd and constantly re-live my old joys.
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What's I-Claudius?
Possibly the best historical drama of all time. Replete with a veritable cornucopia of stars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Claudius_(TV_series)
Well worth a punt.
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Yeah, and you might even want to read the novelization.
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Shame that Rome had to end so fast. There was so much stories to yet to be told
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^--- what he said. It really really really is fantastic, you will never forget John Hurt as Caligula, and when you throw in a ' poison is queen' reference everybody who has taste will get it. And don't forget to read the EXCELLENT book. For the sobbing Rome addict, it takes of exactly where the second season of Rome ended
Possibly the best historical drama of all time. Replete with a veritable cornucopia of stars.
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