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Quote:Blearg!
First, why pick a legion like the 9th....
Because Rosemary Sutcliff didn't write a book called 'Eagle of the Sixth'.
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:roll: Jeeez... I wonder why it seems to be impossible to display Romans the way we currently think they looked like....
I just canĀ“t eat as much as I wanna puke.
Christian K.
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Quote:Why is he fighting a tattooed Gollum with an ancient (by 140AD) Celtic sword?
Well, if he
didn't fight him, from the looks of things, it would be a short movie? :roll: :lol:
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I see they have gone for the accurate 'gunslinger' style of gladius suspension..... :roll:
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There is another movie being filmed about the ninth, Centurion. With lot of stuff recicled from gladiator...
[url:3q45o54v]http://centurion-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/[/url]
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we already know this (<!-- l <a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26102&start=0">viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26102&start=0<!-- l ) and the only thing they recycled from Gladiator seems to be Maximus' armour.
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