11-03-2010, 05:44 PM
My apologies if this has been discussed before but I've been away with medical issues for the better part of this year and have not been following the threads. I didn't think to check the archives,sorry.
From what I've read elsewhere the plot is silly but, that aside , my interest is more about the costuming, weaponry, tactics and the sets. From the still pictures and trailers I've seen most things look more accurate (to my limited knowledge) and I wondered what the 'experts" thought.
Like most of you here, a period movie or documentary is spoiled for me if the players don't appear fairly correctly attired or carry the wrong weapons or are in circumstances that don't make sense ( i.e. like Maximus, a general, becoming a slave then gladiator
hock: ). I can forgive the plot or lack of it if the rest of it looks more correct but the little things still grate on me (Roman cavalry with stirrups for instance).
I know there is no way we can expect total accuracy in theses movies nor should we be able since no one really knows how it was. I just wondered if this would be any better than the others we've seen todate.
As always, I appreciate all comments.
Pict
From what I've read elsewhere the plot is silly but, that aside , my interest is more about the costuming, weaponry, tactics and the sets. From the still pictures and trailers I've seen most things look more accurate (to my limited knowledge) and I wondered what the 'experts" thought.
Like most of you here, a period movie or documentary is spoiled for me if the players don't appear fairly correctly attired or carry the wrong weapons or are in circumstances that don't make sense ( i.e. like Maximus, a general, becoming a slave then gladiator
hock: ). I can forgive the plot or lack of it if the rest of it looks more correct but the little things still grate on me (Roman cavalry with stirrups for instance).I know there is no way we can expect total accuracy in theses movies nor should we be able since no one really knows how it was. I just wondered if this would be any better than the others we've seen todate.
As always, I appreciate all comments.
Pict
Andrew son of Andrew of the family Michie, of the clan Forbes highlanders to a man from our noble forebears the blue painted Pict, scourge of the legions.
