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bedlamsbardPompeii was actually really good and as a trained classicist I have no idea how to deal with this. I'M SO CONFUSED. Also I think it might be more historically accurate than Gladiator? (I really hate Gladiator, though, so take that with a grain of salt.)
Lots of lingering on Kit Harington's glistening abs and some absolutely lovely brutal fighting. Also, more than one female character? Who interacted with each other? I think it might have actually passed Bechdel, but I could be wrong.
Obviously it starts in Britannia, because I'm pretty sure there's some unwritten rule that every sword-and-sandals book or movie must interact with Britannia at some point; there was a historical inaccuracy that pinged immediately because the Romans don't hang people in trees, that's a Germanic thing, and some other minor stuff (pretty sure that Milo wouldn't have been called the Celt. Or Milo, which I think is Greek), but it was a lot of fun and very flashy and surprisingly touching and I just have no idea how to deal with the fact that I liked it, because I was prepared to (a) hate it or (b) be bored stiff.
They did leave out what I always think of as the most horrific part of the eruption, which is funny, because it's actually the bit they quoted at the beginning -- the calm in the midst of the storm.
For a while I thought they'd gotten the emperor wrong, but I checked the dates, and it was Titus, not Domitian, who was emperor then.
HOLY CRAP THEY DID IT THEY KILLED EVERYONE. I was bracing myself for some sort of improbable survival for Milo and Cassia, especially after the POC characters died, but NOPE THEY DID IT THEY KILLED EVERYONE I'M SO HAPPY.
I'M JUST SO CONFUSED. Like, I'm not saying it's the most historically accurate movie about Rome ever put out, because HA HA NO, but...I was expecting it to be awful and horrendously inaccurate and it was neither. And I really enjoyed it. And I'm so confused about that.
Lots of lingering on Kit Harington's glistening abs and some absolutely lovely brutal fighting. Also, more than one female character? Who interacted with each other? I think it might have actually passed Bechdel, but I could be wrong.
Obviously it starts in Britannia, because I'm pretty sure there's some unwritten rule that every sword-and-sandals book or movie must interact with Britannia at some point; there was a historical inaccuracy that pinged immediately because the Romans don't hang people in trees, that's a Germanic thing, and some other minor stuff (pretty sure that Milo wouldn't have been called the Celt. Or Milo, which I think is Greek), but it was a lot of fun and very flashy and surprisingly touching and I just have no idea how to deal with the fact that I liked it, because I was prepared to (a) hate it or (b) be bored stiff.
They did leave out what I always think of as the most horrific part of the eruption, which is funny, because it's actually the bit they quoted at the beginning -- the calm in the midst of the storm.
For a while I thought they'd gotten the emperor wrong, but I checked the dates, and it was Titus, not Domitian, who was emperor then.
HOLY CRAP THEY DID IT THEY KILLED EVERYONE. I was bracing myself for some sort of improbable survival for Milo and Cassia, especially after the POC characters died, but NOPE THEY DID IT THEY KILLED EVERYONE I'M SO HAPPY.
I'M JUST SO CONFUSED. Like, I'm not saying it's the most historically accurate movie about Rome ever put out, because HA HA NO, but...I was expecting it to be awful and horrendously inaccurate and it was neither. And I really enjoyed it. And I'm so confused about that.