Meh, plenty of good movies running around... Did anyone watch The last King of Scotland? Excellent. I also liked Troy, if you remember it. Enemy at the Gates... Iron cross. Good films.

Troy was pretty good. Especially the battles.

Hated Troy.

Pretty boys, BLECH!

Sooo inaccurate! Aneus was Paris' brother! There was no mention of the myth at all, Helen went back to her husband willingly once Paris was killed (That's right fangirls! The guy Bloom played was supposed to die get over it.) and she loved her husband, she went out of her way to make sure that they were married in the first place. There's no mention of Cassandra, or the Amazons, the dialogue is bad, and I've seen much better battles.

As hypocrytical as this might sound, I've never seen the movie as a whole, just snippits of it. But the snippits account for pretty much the whole thing, since I've seen so many of them.

I can't wait until the Simpsons movie comes out, but I'm sure they'll have wrecked it. Although I will reserve judgement until I see it...

You've read the Illiad? And ye olde sentence structure didn't make your head go BOOM?

Troy isn't supposed to be accurate. Except the battles (I'm not counting the duels. They were silly. The proper battles are good though).

I know it wasn't supposed to be, but did it need to be butchered so?

And yes, I've read the Illiad. And the Oddyssey. I'm obsessed with ancient Greece, remember?

Rome is better. It has naked Gladiators fighting to death with a pride of lions.

Neither of them are my cup of tea. Pedophilia and orgies all around. Either Ancient Egypt (sexy eye makeup) or China (dig the lit and philosophies) would get my vote for Favourite Ancient Civilization.

Which is why I love warhammer. Chinese kung fu artists in service of a Space pope? Rampaging mongols with lasers? Lance cavalary charging tank collums? All there! And believable too.

And Elite OMFPWN monks with... giant hammers...

Love.

We've had Warhammer tournaments at our store occasionally. We sell some.

Ancient Egypt: Sex, sex and more sex. Also, their entire royal family was inbred. It was so bad, I'm suprised they survived more than ten years on this earth.

Although I DO still think it's cool, especially the mythology.

Egyptians got conquered by the Romans, Rome got burnt down by the barbarians, the Byzantines got butchered by the Ottomans, the Ottomans got murdered by the British, and the British got beat by the Nazis.

What does this tell you? No one beat the Barbarians. Their the best civi'lie'kation.

meh...i have to go down to some roman place thing to do my latin coursework. i wont pass anyway. woe.

Post wrote: Egyptians got conquered by the Romans, Rome got burnt down by the barbarians, the Byzantines got butchered by the Ottomans, the Ottomans got murdered by the British, and the British got beat by the Nazis.

What does this tell you? No one beat the Barbarians. Their the best civi'lie'kation.

The Nazis didn't beat the British...

The barbarians got regularly beaten by pretty much every other civilisation. It's just that when the other civilisations fell apart under their own weight, the barbarians were the people in the right place to fill the gaps.

Tell that to the mongols. And Hitler and company pretty much destroyed the military base needed for empire running, so hey.

It took quite a lot of force to get rid of Hitler's armies.

I just saw a preview for 300.. looks pretty sweet.

Adele wrote: I just saw a preview for 300.. looks pretty sweet.

"Cinematic excellance" is pretty much justified for that movie. Too bad it's in october.

okay I know I'm butting in here but if YOU people hadn't killed me off I wouldn't have had to wait so long to go on here, by the way I hope you know who it is by now because it's pretty obvious ( I won't say anything as gladstone will kick me out but you better hurry up and figure it out)

Anyway I have seen all of Troy (unfortunatley) and actually I don't hate it for the way it doesn't stick to the myth. There's no fact behind the myth of Troy so different people put different spins on it. I don't blame them for not adding the gods (complicated) and thier take off isn't the worst I've ever heard of.

However the horrible acting, bad battle scenes and overall stupidity of the movie is something that's hard to overlook. I don't know about some girls but watching a few (ugly) sweaty guys run around in skirts really doesn't do it for me.

Oh and BTW I just saw the producers again, FUNNY!

The proper battle scenes (with lots and lots of people stabbing each other with spears) were pretty good actually. Pity about the duels. And the acting.

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