(October 3, 2011 at 2:29 am)padraic Wrote: MORE sado-masochisitic drivel? HOT DOG!!!!
Tangent . The other night, I rewatched "The Mummy" in which John Hannah plays the n'er do well-but-lovable-idiot brother. Then thought of his his Lentus Batiatus,and compared it with the relatively harmless Peter Ustinov version and the petty viciousness of Ian Macniece in the remake.
In my opinion,Hannah's Batiatus is one of the great screen villians : He does the most appalling things, yet I never stopped liking and admiring him,as a man of his time and place,behaving according to his lights.
John Hannah is not going to be in the upcoming series of Spartacus, since it is confirmed his character was killed at the end of Blood and Sand.
My opinion of the Spartacus so far, it is trashy and not to mention soft-core pornography. However it is good entertainment (although I am partial for "sword and sandal" stuff). HBO's series Rome (which I enjoyed) was much more historically informed than the Spartacus series is.
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