Darryk Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Watched Babylon and thought it was mostly boring except for the Tobey Maguire segment. This movie did NOT need to be 3 hours. Also the ending just went on forever and I was like "I get the point, end already". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryk Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 On 2/5/2023 at 8:24 PM, DMC said: Yeah, that one I certainly remember. A few others too, particularly in Two Towers. But I know just based on memory I can't identify a whole hell of a lot more that was added. Gandalf vs the Witch King was also added to the Extended Edition. On 2/5/2023 at 10:53 PM, Ran said: The role really made Ray Stevenson's career, in particular. Which promptly crashed afterwards? Fantastic series though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 34 minutes ago, Darryk said: Which promptly crashed afterwards? Punisher, a cushy sidekick role in the Thor Marvel franchise, lead villain of a season of Dexter... he's done all right for himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 5 minutes ago, Ran said: Punisher, a cushy sidekick role in the Thor Marvel franchise, lead villain of a season of Dexter... he's done all right for himself. He was also in RRR which gave me a sense that the movie is not 'high brow' straight away if you cast him as an English gent. He has done ok, his level is really straight to dvd type action movies, so anything above that is a bonus. He was always fun in Rome but that will always be the high point of his career, I think he got quite lucky with that role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nictarion Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I thought he was pretty good in Kill the Irishman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annara Snow Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 20 minutes ago, Ran said: Punisher, a cushy sidekick role in the Thor Marvel franchise, lead villain of a season of Dexter... he's done all right for himself. Blackbeard in Black Sails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 7 minutes ago, Heartofice said: , I think he got quite lucky with that role. Yes, it's definitely the role he'll be remembered for, but he was perfect for it, and it set up a lot of the roles he's gotten since. That said, I recall thinking his villain in Dexter was a highlight of the otherwise-poor season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 54 minutes ago, Ran said: Yes, it's definitely the role he'll be remembered for, but he was perfect for it, and it set up a lot of the roles he's gotten since. That said, I recall thinking his villain in Dexter was a highlight of the otherwise-poor season. He definitely put his stamp on that role and fitted what the character was. One of my main issues with Rome, which took a lot of getting used to, was how un-Roman everyone seemed. Stevenson feels like hes been pulled straight out of back street cockney gangland crime thriller, I always struggled to picture him as being in ancient rome. That was kind of a problem with a lot of the actors actually. Kevin McKidd never felt very roman to me, even Ciaran Hinds seemed very much not how I pictured Julius Caesar. But then I loved all of them and I can't fault any of their performances, it just took a lot of getting used to, but they do fit the kind of show that Rome is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I just watched the episode where Vorenus runs for magistrate and someone tells him to go back to Gaul, so they do kind of make light of his not "looking" particularly Roman, heh. But his character's stoicism and stiff attention to honor and duty and proper procedure was a lovely way to give an insight into Roman cultural attitudes. Purefoy was also excellent as Antony, and I liked Max Pirkis as Octavian. I wondered what had become of him (he was also good in Master & Commander) and discovered he moved laterally in the film business -- he's now an executive involved in sales and acquisition of films at a UK distributor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I think everyone was excellent in the show in fact. Purefoy is now how I imagine Anthony, David Bamber is Cicero in my head. I did always find it odd watching Vorenus as I knew him as the guy who dies of AIDs in Trainspotting. But I agree, they all embody the characters and time period well in some way, even if visually and aesthetically they might not always conform to my pre-imagined ideas of the characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Finished the rewatch of the first season of Rome. Wonderful stuff. Very bad history, as far as actual characters and events, but it did a decent job of getting across how ancient Roman society was in some ways very, very different from our own, and in some ways not that different at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 On 2/5/2023 at 8:39 PM, Tywin et al. said: I thought that was from the original version. Seems like it happens every time I catch the movie on TV. Was cut from the theatrical version, because Christopher Lee was pissed about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaston de Foix Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Started watching Fleischman in Trouble. Don't know what the critics are thinking, I thought it was wicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Derfel Cadarn said: Was cut from the theatrical version, because Christopher Lee was pissed about it Why? It's a great death scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cas Stark Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Cocaine Bear. What a sick, vile idea for a movie. Just what we need, look how funny it is that a bear is high on cocaine, hahaha, and then people will attempt to do it in real life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 30 minutes ago, Cas Stark said: Cocaine Bear. What a sick, vile idea for a movie. Just what we need, look how funny it is that a bear is high on cocaine, hahaha, and then people will attempt to do it in real life. Are you really concerned that people are going to try to give bears cocaine because they saw it in a movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cas Stark Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 3 minutes ago, RumHam said: Are you really concerned that people are going to try to give bears cocaine because they saw it in a movie? Sure, why wouldn't they? And if not a bear then other smaller animals, because it's so, so funny and it's in a movie. Look how funny it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN BEARS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Fuck bears I said it Gonna find some cocaine and hunt for bears in London right now cause I saw it in a movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaston de Foix Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 The Angevins hunted English bears to extinction, didn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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