03-22-2013, 09:31 PM
I liked Centurion better than The Eagle. Tatum acted like a wooden Indian, and the Seal People looked like Eskimos landing from northern Greenland. Jamie Bell did a decent job. Centurion was marred by Fassbender, one of those rising non-actors in the Tatum mode. Then we had a goofy pugnacious general who hires a mute-female-Russian scout who turns out to be smarter than the entire Ninth. :whistle:
Both films were tainted (or tinted) by darkness, so dark you wanted to turn a light on!
Ancient Period movies created by Britain-Hollywood have become so dark that you might as well go back to a B & W screen. Check out a Chinese or Korean period flick and you have REAL COLOR and better overall cinematography.
Both films were tainted (or tinted) by darkness, so dark you wanted to turn a light on!
Ancient Period movies created by Britain-Hollywood have become so dark that you might as well go back to a B & W screen. Check out a Chinese or Korean period flick and you have REAL COLOR and better overall cinematography.
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb