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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Eddie Teach

The Game of Death. This movie was pretty bad all-around, though the last half hour was semi-amusing in its campiness. Kareem should stick to flying planes. D+
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Syt

First episode of Spartacus - Pixelblood and Sand Tits

Dear lord was that silly; and I doubt it had an original thought anywhere in its script. :lol: (Though Netflix seems to have the uncensored version, it isn't the extended blu ray version.)
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celedhring

Aye, I liked Spartacus quite a bit. Once you get past the tits and blood (which are nice pluses) there's an actual compelling story in there.

CountDeMoney

Barf, it sucked.  It was violence porn.

Liep

Was any of those Borgia shows good?
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Admiral Yi

Watched a bit of Stalingrad, the newish one.  A lot of slo mo bullet fu.  Meh.

Syt

Quote from: celedhring on March 09, 2015, 02:50:45 PM
Aye, I liked Spartacus quite a bit. Once you get past the tits and blood (which are nice pluses) there's an actual compelling story in there.

Good enough for me. Though this could easily have been a Conan the Barbarian origin story with minor changes, and it has a strong video game look to it.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

crazy canuck

Quote from: Liep on March 09, 2015, 02:54:05 PM
Was any of those Borgia shows good?

The one with Jeremy Irons was quite good.

crazy canuck

Quote from: celedhring on March 09, 2015, 02:50:45 PM
Aye, I liked Spartacus quite a bit. Once you get past the tits and blood (which are nice pluses) there's an actual compelling story in there.

Agreed.  It had a good story arc throughout.

celedhring

Quote from: Syt on March 09, 2015, 03:02:43 PM
Quote from: celedhring on March 09, 2015, 02:50:45 PM
Aye, I liked Spartacus quite a bit. Once you get past the tits and blood (which are nice pluses) there's an actual compelling story in there.

Good enough for me. Though this could easily have been a Conan the Barbarian origin story with minor changes, and it has a strong video game look to it.

Yeah, the whole "300" violence porn gets a bit silly and exploitative, but the whole Roman intrigue angle and the relationship between master and slaves is quite engaging, imho.

Sophie Scholl

Quote from: Syt on March 09, 2015, 03:02:43 PM
Quote from: celedhring on March 09, 2015, 02:50:45 PM
Aye, I liked Spartacus quite a bit. Once you get past the tits and blood (which are nice pluses) there's an actual compelling story in there.

Good enough for me. Though this could easily have been a Conan the Barbarian origin story with minor changes, and it has a strong video game look to it.
They change that up a lot as the story goes along.  The first few episodes are a terrible 300 ripoff, but then the show comes into it's own and really thrives.
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Syt

Quote from: celedhring on March 09, 2015, 03:06:58 PM
Quote from: Syt on March 09, 2015, 03:02:43 PM
Quote from: celedhring on March 09, 2015, 02:50:45 PM
Aye, I liked Spartacus quite a bit. Once you get past the tits and blood (which are nice pluses) there's an actual compelling story in there.

Good enough for me. Though this could easily have been a Conan the Barbarian origin story with minor changes, and it has a strong video game look to it.

Yeah, the whole "300" violence porn gets a bit silly and exploitative, but the whole Roman intrigue angle and the relationship between master and slaves is quite engaging, imho.

I indeed would like to see more John Hannah. :wub:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

celedhring

Quote from: Syt on March 09, 2015, 03:10:50 PM
Quote from: celedhring on March 09, 2015, 03:06:58 PM
Quote from: Syt on March 09, 2015, 03:02:43 PM
Quote from: celedhring on March 09, 2015, 02:50:45 PM
Aye, I liked Spartacus quite a bit. Once you get past the tits and blood (which are nice pluses) there's an actual compelling story in there.

Good enough for me. Though this could easily have been a Conan the Barbarian origin story with minor changes, and it has a strong video game look to it.

Yeah, the whole "300" violence porn gets a bit silly and exploitative, but the whole Roman intrigue angle and the relationship between master and slaves is quite engaging, imho.

I indeed would like to see more John Hannah. :wub:

Don't worry about that; he's central to the plot and one of the best characters in the show.