[ SECRET POST #4183 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4183 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you on the time period, but that film... It's not that it's bad, it's that it's SO BAD.

Watch the BBC documentary "Pompeii: The Last Day". That was heartbreaking, and made me cry.

The film made me cry for very different reasons.

[philstar22]

Aw. I thought Pompeii was fun. Bad, yes, but fun. I enjoyed it a lot. I even bought the dvd.

But Pompeii: The Last Day was amazingly well done.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe my problem was that I saw the documentary first. And I was looking forward to Pompeii, but it was historically inaccurate, and it was wrong, and I love Keifer Sutherland, but no, there is no version of a Roman Keifer Sutherland, and it all just went to hell for me really fast.

But I'm glad that you liked it! I have my own films that I love, in spite of their faults, and no matter what other people say about them. :)

[sparklywalls]

I'm always here for more ancient period settings but as long as the quality is way above Pompeii. I'm not above watching terrible films for fun but couldn't even enjoy it in a "so bad it's good" way.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you, OP (... but maybe good ones, yes?)! I also want more books set in that time period.

[(Anonymous)]

It was only until I read the Goddess of Yesterday in middle school that I felt like I truly "got" Ancient Greek society and what daily life was like for everyone from the slaves to the royals to even the often overlooked middle class of freemen. That book is very vivid and frank but lays out the world setting simple enough a child can understand it.

It's very similar to medieval European feudal society so popular with the adventure fantasy crowd, just replace the serfs with slaves and Christianity with Hellenic mythos and any claymore with a gladius and the setting hits all the same notes. There are key differences obviously but all the things people seem to like about one are in the other.

[(Anonymous)]

Without knowing the film, I am trying to figure out what time period/setting that would be based on the costumes and my best guess is "fantasy land".

I also enjoy pre-medieval ("ancient") settings, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Same, OP. I like period films in general and you rarely see ancient times in the media.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you just want movies set in ancient times in general, or specifically modern movies set in ancient times? Because if it's the former, back in the 50's they made a LOT of movies (admittedly mostly Biblical epics) set in Egypt or Rome. They're a bit overlong nowadays, but the sets are generally pretty awesome.

If the latter, the best I can suggest is HBO's "Rome". Though that one's pretty excellent as far as period trappings go.

[(Anonymous)]

Troy with Eric Bana and Brad Pitt is one of my go-tos. It's a little on the cheese side but I still love it. I always want to kick Achilles teeth in by the end of it (as anyone that's read the Iliad should so spot on for accuracy in feelings at least). Plus Sean Bean plays Odysseus and Astyanax doesn't get thrown from the walls at the end so really I count the whole thing a win (Saffron Burrows during the fight scene between Hector and Achilles kills me every single time though - dang, my heart!)

[(Anonymous)]

Was going to mention Troy!

I think it's an underappreciated overlooked classic as far as epic war popcorn spectacle movies go...