The Last Movie You Watched

[Silver]

Can't remember the last one I saw or if I've seen them all, but Jeepers Creepers: Reborn

Forced to travel with her boyfriend, Laine begins to experience premonitions associated with the urban myth of The Creeper. She believes that something supernatural has been summoned - and that she is at the center of it all.

Horrible acting, but I'm watching out of boredom.

[Silver]

The Strays

A Black woman's meticulously crafted life of privilege starts to unravel when two strangers show up in her quaint suburban town.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Tried watching the second (in chronological order) Star Wars movie. Fast forwarded to the big fight at the end. Kept looking for John Carter.

[Gwaithmir]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hard ass colonel was unconvincing. Once we got past that it was a good flix.

[Gwaithmir]

Hard ass colonel was unconvincing. Once we got past that it was a good flix.

His previous tour of duty had been in the 101st Airborne Division, the same division I had been assigned to in my first three tours in Vietnam.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yeah, that's why he was crazy. Is that your excuse? ;-)

[Anomalocaris]

Could be a comparison thing. "He's a shit ton better than Marcus Black Boardus."

BTW, the Roman navy didn't use slaves on their triremes. Too many extra mouths to feed, mouths that didn't fight. Rowing, on the infrequent times it was needed, was done by the combat troops, kept them fit.

Ben Hur’s depiction of convict and slave rowers chained to their benches reflect the much more recent practices aboard the war galleys of the christian and Islamic powers from the late Middle Ages to as late as early 19th century.      It was much more a thing during the battle of Lepanto in 1571 AD than the battle of Actium in 31BC.    The Roman navy relied largely on hired and paid professional rowers drawn from free men, ie non-citizen but non slaves, usually from the provinces outside Italy.   They were certainly not chained to their benches.

Romans Soldiers usually didn’t row, if they were on ships they functioned either as cargo or occasionally as marines.   

Slaves did row for the Roman navy on occasions to fill shortages of free rowers during emergency, such as during the Punic wars, and the war between Marc Antony and Octavian.   But slave rowers were pressed for specific occassions and given their formal manumission afterwards, so they were unlikely to have to be chained to the benches like long serving Christian and Islamic slave rowers of late Middle Ages to 19th century Mediterranean.     

It is ironic that a novel meant to be a panegyric for Christianity had to impune the Romans with brutalities commonly, recently, and enthusiastically practiced by the Christians, and to be fair Muslims, but seldomly ever by the Romans, in order to show how brutal the Roman world into which Christianity was born had been.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've been to Gen. Lew Wallace's home in Indiana, not far from Indianapolis, which is fuck all far from anything.

[Gwaithmir]