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Haven't seen it yet, though I plan to.
Love sword&sandal pictures, which is what this seems to be, though on a more bloated scale.
I assume it pays no attention the the famous Bulwer-Lytton source?
Special effects in the previews look like fun.
(Although, there were certainly no tidal waves, nor buildings falling into the sea, at the time...)
But, hey, who cares! It's a movie!
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I sort of gave up on historical accuracy years ago.
Found that if I want that, I need to go to the History Channel.
I have to remember: movies are made by producers who want to make money from them; consequently, they rearrange history for a tighter story, with often bigger effects.
Even the Romans kept changing the games they put on, in order to entertain the crowd.
We are really no different. If anything, we're even bloodier. Have you seen the gore they filled that cable series SPARTACUS with? And that had NOTHING to do with history...
Even the best ancient-set films rarely present anything like the reality of what happened.
This new POMPEII sounds like it just wants to entertain.
Though, if you want greater accuracy, as well as drama, read the Robert Harris novel POMPEII, which is really quite good, and which was planned as a movie around 2007, to be directed by Roman Polanski, but which seems to have gone nowhere. I'd love to see a film of it.
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I wold strongly suspect it's a case of TEMP TRACK LOVE.
They liked it and licensed it.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Haven't seen it yet, though I plan to.
Love sword&sandal pictures, which is what this seems to be, though on a more bloated scale.
I assume it pays no attention the the famous Bulwer-Lytton source?
Special effects in the previews look like fun.
(Although, there were certainly no tidal waves, nor buildings falling into the sea, at the time...)
But, hey, who cares! It's a movie!
John,
I saw it Friday in 3-D - see it in 3-D - the special effects are really , really amazing.
So there were no tidal waves at Pompeii? It sure made for some exciting moments in this.
The leads are blah, the story is blah, Keifer has fun but what's with his mod haircut?
It is the last 30 minutes or so that make it worth a trip to the movies.
Spoiler alert : I liked the ending - havent seen a disaster film do that since EARTHQUAKE!
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I sort of gave up on historical accuracy years ago.
Found that if I want that, I need to go to the History Channel.
Historical accuracy on the History Channel?
God help you then.
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This score really impresses in the really shitty-ass film.
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