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I missed it, but I did watch the "Roman War Machine" special's on the history channel, it was like a 6 parter or something...
Hopefully their is a replay of that caesar one, gonna have to watch that.
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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:29
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I liked it. I think it was very well done. There were a few things I really liked, specially how characters that have gotten almost no on screen time ever got time here, like Marius (for a very short time), Sulla, Pompey and Cato. They did the battle scenes well, though too much use of horses: someone who did not know better would thnk the core of the Roman army of this time was cavalry.
I was also somewhat perplexed by no mneiton of the Tirumvarate being made, and Crassus is never even spoken off, even when they talk about the great slave revolt. The show also continues the notion that Octavian and Caesar had little to do with each other, I mean, he is not even mentioned until the pre-credit stills, and they even call him Augustus and not Octavian. I mean, there must have been a reason Caesar named him and not Marc Anthony as his successor.
All the actor did very well, though I think Wlaken did chew up the sceenry a bit too much as Cato. Sisto (??) did a very good Caesar, and Noth a very good Pompey.
Still, the best depecition of Roman times I have seen since I Claudius.
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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:29
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Vercingetorix was brought back to Rome and was part of Caesars triumphal parade into the city. So that at least is correct.
Last edited by GePap on 02-07-2003 at 05:53
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woohoo! finally someone agrees with me! They should have had someone with a more manly looking playing Caesar and Marc Antony. I couldnt bare to see such powerful people being so small, I couldnt help but shouting "Woman!!". Not to mention the guy playing Caesar put WAY too much effort into sounding important, he really overplayed the part.
another thing I hated about the movie was how the director tried to make Caesar look overly important by making him have more colour than everyone else in the battle scene. OOh! another horrible thing about it! The parades where Pompey, and then Caesar return to Rome were waaaaay too obviously computer generated. Also the finally battle scene at Alesia (sp?) when they zoomed out was absolute disgustingly revoltingly horrible. Notice how everyone was computer generated and wavy a sword in the air? it looked like a huge porcupine.
ooh, ooh! ANOTHER reason to hate it, it was WAAAAY historicaly inaccurate.
okay I'll stop babbling now, I need food.
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I channel surfed by, but after watching roman catapults throwing fireballs and then watching roman calvary (wtf?) using a gladius (even worse wtf?) I decided it was not for me and moved on. |
people like to watch fire, it was a show put on for tv.
the Roman cavalry in the movie/mini series were indeed using a gladius, in real life they used a sword just a bit longer than the gladius though it was very similar in appearance.
I have a question for those of you who know Roman history better than myself, whats up with the leather armour? I thought the Romans had metal armor.
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01-07-2003 09:28
it's the second part
really? then who led the celts in that famous battle (cant recall the name) were caesar seiged the hill top, but then he himself was seiged by celts from the surrounding area?
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