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Post by Squeemonster on Feb 23, 2010 13:05:08 GMT -5
Mark Sheppard is fraktastically awesome. Just had to get that out there.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 23, 2010 13:16:13 GMT -5
I am not very good with thank yous, getting little practice with getting things I haven't had to get for myself, or nag the heck out of people for. Julia, v. cranky, sorry, but the bad knee is not unconnected with the funny story. You know, you are giving the 'funny story' huge buildup. I keep expecting it to amuse me sufficiently to tell it with the appropriate humor and not so much bitching about my husband, is all. Julia, argh
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Post by Michelle on Feb 23, 2010 13:17:52 GMT -5
Mark Sheppard is fraktastically awesome. Just had to get that out there. Any special reason?
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Post by Karen on Feb 23, 2010 13:25:15 GMT -5
Mark Sheppard is fraktastically awesome. Just had to get that out there.
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Post by Squeemonster on Feb 23, 2010 13:31:22 GMT -5
Mark Sheppard is fraktastically awesome. Just had to get that out there. Any special reason? I just read an interview he did. It's got spoilers for a certain show that I love, so spoiler-phobes need to beware.
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Post by Pixi on Feb 23, 2010 13:39:28 GMT -5
Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well Onjel. Hope you feel better soon.
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Post by Michelle on Feb 23, 2010 13:58:39 GMT -5
I just read an interview he did. It's got spoilers for a certain show that I love, so spoiler-phobes need to beware. Ah!! Thanks for the linkage.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 23, 2010 14:02:27 GMT -5
Funny you should ask. . .. I think I posted this very same question a couple of weeks ago. I've watched a couple of eps. What do you think of it? I finally got caught up last night. It started out slow (as far as me liking it), but I loved the latest episode. Boy, they take graphic to a whole 'nother level, don't they? ;D I got more queasy over that ep "The Thing in the Pit" (I think that's what it was called) than I have over pretty much anything I've seen over the past several years. Also? They are taking slashy subtext and doing they're damnedest to make it text. ;D Except for where it is text--the relationship between that one macho guy (is he a gladiator or a bodyguard or trainer?) and the slave surprised and pleased me. Or actually, what really pleased me was how everyone else reacted to it, in that they didn't really even bat an eye. Also also?? Lucy Lawless is a freakin' goddess, and she rocks my world. What do you think of it? I know you didn't ask me, but seeing how I asked the same question weeks ago, going to answer anyway. Haven't quite adjusted to that much full Monty, but rather like the 300-esque stylization. The characters are fascinating if not likeable. Brutal reminder of just how cheap life was and how brutal people were. Overall, SERIOUSLY hooked. Lawless is fine, as is nearly everyone else, but John Hannah's Batatius jars the hell out of me with that unrelenting Scots' burr. It's so out of place with the character he's playing. The other actors are seamlessly lost in their characters. Wonder when they'll get around to the rebellion.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 23, 2010 14:05:54 GMT -5
The original movie was from 1960 and it stars Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, Lawrence Olivier as Crassus and Charles Laughton as Gracchus. There's this whole bathhouse scene with Olivier, IIRC, asking Spartacus whether he preferred fish or oysters, I think while being attended to by young men. It's pretty blatant "subtext". Uh, actually, I think it was Tony Curtis that he asked. I don't remember Kirk Douglas being in that scene.
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Post by Queen E on Feb 23, 2010 14:17:48 GMT -5
Meant to say this last night, but thank you everyone, for your kind words for my whininess.
You are a lovely group of people.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 23, 2010 15:05:29 GMT -5
Meant to say this last night, but thank you everyone, for your kind words for my whininess. You are a lovely group of people. Oh yeah. Like you're the only one here who whines.
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Post by Onjel on Feb 23, 2010 15:16:57 GMT -5
The original movie was from 1960 and it stars Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, Lawrence Olivier as Crassus and Charles Laughton as Gracchus. There's this whole bathhouse scene with Olivier, IIRC, asking Spartacus whether he preferred fish or oysters, I think while being attended to by young men. It's pretty blatant "subtext". Uh, actually, I think it was Tony Curtis that he asked. I don't remember Kirk Douglas being in that scene. You're right! Tony was Antoninus. Ooops. My bad. Still doesn't detract from the-for that time-blatant subtext though.
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Post by Onjel on Feb 23, 2010 15:17:40 GMT -5
Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well Onjel. Hope you feel better soon. Thanks, Pixi. Me too.
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Post by Onjel on Feb 23, 2010 15:18:12 GMT -5
I've stayed here as long as I can. I've got to leave. Later folks!
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 23, 2010 16:40:51 GMT -5
Uh, actually, I think it was Tony Curtis that he asked. I don't remember Kirk Douglas being in that scene. You're right! Tony was Antoninus. Ooops. My bad. Still doesn't detract from the-for that time-blatant subtext though. I *blush* remember when Spartacus was first released. That scene was VERY frank for the time. The only other one I can recall that was as blunt (again, for the time) was the scene with Peter O'Toole captured by the Turks in Laurence of Arabia. I was 12 when Spartacus came out (did I REALLY say that?) and it went right over my head.
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