"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From: jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:03:34 +0000
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" - Any good?
And you would probably be correct sir!
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From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:02:17 -0500To:
SciFiNoir2<scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com>Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: "Spartacus:
Blood and Sand" - Any good?
According to Wikipedia, there is evidence that the word derives, at least in
part, from the Latin facere. There's even an attempt to tie in ancient Greek.
I'd post the link, but I'm afraid that Tracey might send someone after me...
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:26:08 +0000
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" - Any good?
Was the f-word even being used by the Britons during the time of Spartacus?
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From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com>
To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:17:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" - Any good?
Again with you all the way, Keith. THe curse words they're using are mostly
Anglo-Saxon, something that folks who live in Greece (If I've got the geography
right) aren't likely to speak.
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:37:09 +0000
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" - Any good?
Looking at part of it again, the fight scenes really do border on kinda
funny, the "300"-style imitation is so over the top it reminds me more
of the hilariously bloody fight scene with the Black Knight in "Monty
Python and The Holy Grail". I mean, seriously, the blood is spattering
and splatering like red water from a burst balloon. One dude got
knocked in the back of the head, and blood sprayed all over it was
funny. The showrunners seem to have an almost perverse interest in
showing closeups of flesh cut and spread, bodies impaled. Silly,
gratuitous, unmoving.
Quite a bit of nudity too, including of Lucy Lawless I believe. Bit of
a shock that, seeing Xena topless, but much better than seeing the
dudes' naked bottoms. :(
Also there seems to be quite a bit of anachronistic language. At least,
I'm not sure the term "Where the fu** are the Romans?" is accurate for
the times.
Two showings, and I haven't been able to sit through the whole thing yet
without laughing or shaking my head at the whole thing.
Anyone else?
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From: "Keith Johnson" <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:28:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" - Any good?
Anyone watch the debut of this series? It's showing on both one of the Encore
and Starz channels. I tried to watch the show, out of curiosity, and because
Lucy Lawless is one of the stars. But I came in in the middle of a battle scene
that frankly made me laugh and grown. Lawless in an interview I'd seen
mentioned the show was modeled in part on "300". But what I saw was a bad
imitation of "300": the same not-quite-real backgrounds, the now recognizable
fast-slow-fast movements of the soldiers in battle, blue-grey backgrounds whose
colors are splashed liberally with the blood flowing like wine in battle. Lots
of close ups of decapitations, swords cleaving flesh to expose nasty cuts. it
was all a bit too frenetic and artificial looking for me. And I gotta admit
that title--"...Blood and Sand" already had me a bit leery.
Granted, i didn't see anything but the battle. Maybe the actual acting is good
and it's worth a look? Can anyone give a recommendation?
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http://www.starz.com/originals/spartacus
Betrayed
by the Romans. Forced into slavery. Reborn as a Gladiator. The classic
tale of the Republic’s most infamous rebel comes alive in the graphic
and visceral new series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Torn from
his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the
brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime
entertainment. But not all battles are fought upon the sands.
Treachery, corruption, and the allure of sensual pleasures will
constantly test Spartacus. To survive, he must become more than a man.
More than a gladiator. He must become a legend.
Starring Australian actor, Andy Whitfield (McLeod's Daughters) as Spartacus,
Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) as Lucretia, John Hannah (The Mummy, Four
Weddings and A Funeral) as Batiatus and Peter Mensah (300, The Incredible Hulk)
as Doctore, this unique mix of live action, graphic novel effects and
brutal battle sequences is set to make "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" an
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