Spartacus: Vengeance

[Justtristo]

If anybody is a fan of Spartacus: Blood and Sand & Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. A new season of Spartacus entitled Vengeance is currently in production.

I will find it interesting how Liam McIntyre who will play Spartacus instead of the late Andy Whitfield will be like in the role. Although Liam was chosen with Andy's permission. Also Lucy Lawless is confirmed to resume her role as Lucretia, which should be good because Lawless makes Lucretia quite an interesting character.

[Minimalist]

I liked the Kirk Douglas version.....even if it was lousy history.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

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.

[Anomalocaris]

The little history in the Kirk Douglas version went out the window with blood and sand, along with any awareness of the existence of such a thing as physics. It's the movie 300 made so long as to be interminable but for the liberal sprinkling of gratuitous female nudity

If the traditional take on Spartacus is a rebellion of those who would die for others' sport against the oppression of those who make a sport of their deaths, blood and sand used the fame of the name Spartacus to extoll the virtue of gratuitous bloodshed for entertainment, even if modern laws limits it only to the make belief.

[Justtristo]

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.

[leo-rcc]

Ah more HBO porn excitement.

[Justtristo]

Ah more HBO porn excitement.

The Spartacus television series weren't produced by HBO, rather a network called Starz. Also the producers were the same guys who produced Hercules and Xena.

[leo-rcc]

Ah more HBO porn excitement.

The Spartacus television series weren't produced by HBO, rather a network called Starz. Also the producers were the same guys who produced Hercules and Xena.

But with way less porn excitement. I did see the HBO logo in front of the episodes though, are they the distributers?

[Justtristo]

Ah more HBO porn excitement.

The Spartacus television series weren't produced by HBO, rather a network called Starz. Also the producers were the same guys who produced Hercules and Xena.

But with way less porn excitement. I did see the HBO logo in front of the episodes though, are they the distributers?

Could very be one of the stations airing it. Although we have no HBO on Australian pay television. However we get HBO shows, but they air on both free to air and pay television channels.

[fr0d0]

Love this and 300. Does it really need the nudity? Probably :S