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Celery Face posted:Anytime Gerard Butler's character is onscreen in The Ugly Truth. Or The Ugly Truth in general. That movie is just terrible. Even more annoying about that scene in Troy is that there were no coins at the time when the Trojan War was alleged to take place -- Trojan War = c. 1250 BC; invention of coinage by the Lydians = c. 6th century BC. Also, being the older man in the pair, Achilles should have a beard.  Aside from Briseis, anyway  Don't get me started on Gladiator, although it never fails to crack me up that one of Russell Crowensius's choices of head-covering helmets just before his debut at the Coliseum is the Sutton Hoo helmet! (ie a dude from c.AD 180 Rome having a choice of wearing the ceremonial burial helmet of a 7th century AD Anglo-Saxon king).
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Roblo posted:I dunno, its a fair bit different, isnt it? Just seemed like a fairly generic spikey helmet to me (albeit a fairly non roman looking one) Oh! The one R C picks out is just a HollyRome helmet, but when he's making his initial selection from the rack, if you look quick, one of the ones on display is the Sutton Hoo one. I didn't notice it until I saw it on a big screen in a lecture hall (I'd only seen it on dvd before), and it's a blink and you'll miss it moment. Sorry about the confusion 
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John Big Booty posted:gently caress, what wasn't wrong in Gladiator? It was way more a metaphor for the whole Clinton-era 'family values' stuff popular at the time. Try watching it wearing 1990s American-coloured glasses and it makes a heck of a difference. Also: Derek Jacobi as the 313+ year old Tiberius Gracchus.
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