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Spartacus: Blood and Sand


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[insert lucy lawless voice]

ayayayayayayayay yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

XENA warrior princess. Maybe Gabriel will make special guest appearance?

/wait she's not going to play xena? ;)

Xena beat up Caesar and Pompey in Greece, remember?

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This is not like Gladiator.

This show has to be the most homoerotic I have ever seen (and I'm not reffering to the gay couple).  The latest episode has Spartacus and Crixus fighting naked in the bath.  It's like they're trying to lure in gay men and straight women but I can't imagine anyone actually watching for that, what with all the ridiculous violence and gore added in.

The episode before was disgusting.  Torture porn in parts, including cutting off and wearing mens faces.  

There keeps being flashes of potential, and then they're followed by the above bullshit.

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I really don't see them cutting Dune into two parts.  That's a huge risk to take, and tends to only be done with proven franchises (Matrix, Pirates) the original Lord of the Rings films being an exception.  Nor do I see a natural break point to turn it into two films, unless you film two books into one movie and the third part into another or vice versa.

Although, to be honest, I still don't see this movie getting made at all.

I can see why the gladiator scene was completely cut from Lynch and shrunk in the mini.  The main points of it seem to be to emphasize how delicate the political situation is, how dangerous Fenring is, and to reiterate that Hawat is working for the Harkonnens.  Without 5 hours to tell the story, it strikes me as a scene of lesser importance when compared to the others.  Especially since it introduces Margot and the pursuit of Feyd's children only to have them never mentioned again.

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Well, never mentioned until Paul of Dune, you mean. ;)

Like I said above, NEVER mentioned.

Give the movie the "Dune 7"/Olympics treatment, huh? Split it into two parts to maximize profits? Kewl.

Quick, someone get KJA on a conference call! :P

Why charge people once for what they could pay for twice?  5 times if you include the DVD's, add another 3 times for the blue rays....

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That might be cool.

Rome's just airing over here now. (In bilingual mode, that is. One station aired it dubbed about two years ago, but I refused to watch it that way.) Just had Caesar's funeral in this past week's episode. Halfway through, it looks like.

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I could barely get through how terribly the first episode of the show is. It was just....bad

Saying that...Slowly ever so slowly the show has caught my interest and drug me a long like a screaming slave to the pits.

That and hearing a reference to Jupiter's Cock every episode is a laugh.  It's drawing up slowly from the shit and into the tolerable guilty pleasure sort of mud... Here's hoping it can one day maybe break into something else.

I'll keep watching it...since it's not like there's shit on anymore and I cant watch farscape anymore.

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