Brace yourselves... LAST LEGION (late Roman film)

[Narukami]

Wonder why no one has or is making a historically accurate movie. I mean when they made Saving Private Ryan they at least tried to pick accurate uniforms and guns, wonder why no one can do that for Roman period movies......

And even then, try as they might, Spielberg et.al. still made historical errors. Not in the uniforms perhaps but in other areas.

World War Two is still within living memory, unlike the Roman Empire.

Our view of ancient Rome is so heavily colored by Hollywood that it is sometimes difficult to separate the two. As we discussed in the HBO Rome thread, several of their costume decisions seemed based not on history but upon our perception of what a Roman soldier "should" look like. (I'm thinking in particular of the helmets used.)

And now this film, with weapons piercing armor and maidens distributing swords from ponds (or other bodies of water).

Once again we are left with that old saw: Even a bad film about Rome is better than no film about Rome.

Well...perhaps this film will push that past the limit. Based upon the trailer I think that a certainty.

Some day Hollywood will get it right -- ah hope springs eternal.

:wink:

Narukami