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The Producer Of 10,000 BC + The Writer Of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN = OLYMPIA!!

Cool But.... by The Ender Smites Foes	May 19th, 2008 01:22:55 PM
Will there be someone screaming "This is Sparta" in the previews..
As Long As It Doesn't Suck Like 300 And Has Ass Kicking by The Ender Smites Foes	May 19th, 2008 01:24:51 PM
I'll see it
I thought it was about the beer. by tonagan	May 19th, 2008 01:25:01 PM
"It's the water."
2nd Fuckers!! by unionJACKass.webs.com	May 19th, 2008 01:25:28 PM

another swords and sandals movie? by Gatsbys West Egg Omlet	May 19th, 2008 01:26:25 PM
wasn't troy disappointing enough?
Olympia Dukakis bio? by Sir Loin	May 19th, 2008 01:35:04 PM
The very definition of an action flick, yessirree.
Blame Canada, Merrick... Or the CGI cats by SpencerTrilby	May 19th, 2008 01:35:24 PM
Cirque du Soleil is Canadian, not French. FYI.
Only a "tad unnerving?" by TooWhippy	May 19th, 2008 01:39:01 PM

Damn! by Nice Marmot	May 19th, 2008 01:47:24 PM
When I saw 10,000B.C. mentioned, I started hoping for a new Clash of the Titans-like mashup of Greek mythology. Maybe a Kid Icarus flick. Now that sounds like retarded fun. Eggplant wizard. TeeHeeHee . . .
Historically accurate? by MCVamp	May 19th, 2008 01:48:19 PM
As in the competitors all completely nude?
will the character talk with Brooklyn accents? by Orionsangels	May 19th, 2008 01:51:06 PM

This is madness! by ev1ldead	May 19th, 2008 01:55:44 PM
Madness? This is Olympia!
TOO SOON! by ricarleite	May 19th, 2008 02:00:31 PM
Will there be an earthquake killing students and people trying to steal a torch so unknown monks can go back to their mountain? If so, TOO SOON!
"The competitors all completely nude?" by TroutMaskReplicant	May 19th, 2008 02:03:29 PM
We can only hope so...
Noooooo, they are raping my childhood! by DerLanghaarige	May 19th, 2008 02:03:45 PM
Hey, you got no idea how old I am!
When I first saw the title referencing by Diagnostic	May 19th, 2008 02:21:12 PM
this movie, I remembered the cheap beer from the 70's and 80's. Olymia. It is still made. They like to call it Oly now.
Is it just me... by BiggusDickus	May 19th, 2008 02:23:35 PM
or would anyone else really get a buzz from seeing a PROPER full-on Greek Mythology movie. You know, like Jason and the Argonauts, but ramped up for the twenty-first century. Anyone played 'God Of War'? Something like that would be the tits!
by BiggusDickus	May 19th, 2008 02:27:32 PM

I LOVED THREE HUNDRED SO... by nastee_flembot	May 19th, 2008 02:52:33 PM
Thats a man's man film so to fuck with you haters.
Is this it? by Teddy Artery	May 19th, 2008 03:02:40 PM
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm14 20664064/tt0387226
Damn you, George Lucas! by Motoko Kusanagi	May 19th, 2008 03:04:16 PM
Damn you to hell!
Could be interesting by Gozu	May 19th, 2008 03:05:12 PM
Probably won't be. Also, as cool as a Greek Mythology based movie would be, Norse Mythology would be SO much cooler.
Floppin' Cocks by Hawaiian Organ Donor	May 19th, 2008 03:44:43 PM
Their last album was epic. Great driving music.
CLASH OF THE TITANS 2 by Mullah Omar	May 19th, 2008 03:45:53 PM
That's what I thought this was at first.
300 sucked by kwisatzhaderach	May 19th, 2008 03:56:31 PM
Filmmaking in a box.
Merrick, did I mention that you are a moron? by Proman1984	May 19th, 2008 04:08:05 PM
Well, you are!
The olypics are retarded by g-ride9000	May 19th, 2008 04:08:11 PM
except for luge and that shit with the brooms
300 sucked but Troy was good by Proman1984	May 19th, 2008 04:09:37 PM
And Merrick is still a moron.
300 casting error... by MCVamp	May 19th, 2008 04:17:25 PM
They should have put in a CGI Sean Connery as Leonidas (like anyone would have noticed with all the cartoony shit going on.) "THISH...ISH...SHPARTAAAAA! I KNOW YOUR GAME TREBEK!"
"300 sucked" by Blue_Demon	May 19th, 2008 05:15:01 PM
"Oh thank Christ there are some honest folks on these boards." Yeah, 'cause everybody who said they enjoyed "300" was lying. Lying, I tell you!
"Must...resist...six-packs!" by Blue_Demon	May 19th, 2008 05:50:47 PM
Not to mention leather speedos. Tight, leather speedos...hugging their packages...accenting the long, well-toned thighs.. Where was I? Oh. Right. No, some people just enjoyed it, methinks.
Those six-packs were as fake as Lohans boobs by Yeti	May 19th, 2008 06:11:13 PM
Makeup, lighting and quite possibly CGI.
I liked 300, by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 06:14:15 PM
and I bought my ticket solely looking forward to highly stylized, ancient, hard-core violence. But, low/specific expectations aside, I thought making the audience wait for the Hot Gates (have no idea how to spell it in Greek) worked out well. That aside, when I first glanced at this article's title I thought it was referencing Simmons' Iluem and Olympus, and got worried... cause, if done right, those books would make some of the coolest movies ever (but there's no way to do the books right).
correction by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 06:14:56 PM
"Ileum"
This is more exciting than 300 by Fleet	May 19th, 2008 06:20:09 PM
....Because hopefully there will be a scene in the baths or something...
THIS IS SPARTA (AND ATHENS)!!!! by Flim Springfield	May 19th, 2008 06:38:34 PM

you can see Riefenstahl's doc on google vid for free by bacci40	May 19th, 2008 06:45:13 PM
and as much as it disgusts me to say this...it is one beautiful flick
hopefully it will feature by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 06:57:56 PM
Alcibiades. That guy was a ballsy yet fucking (albeit, hilarious so) idiot. He spear-headed the disastrous Sicilian invasion. And don't trust the wiki article... most Greco-historians assume that it was him and his buddies that got wasted, then broke off all the erect phalli off the Athenian hermai. Then, facing trial, he defected to Sparta... then, he knocked up the Spartan queen and defected to the Persians... then the story continues the ass-hattery. Truly, Alcibiades was one of histories greatest, and most enjoyable, fuck-ups.
BiggusDickus by deaddovedontoeat	May 19th, 2008 06:59:23 PM
I actually do wanna see 'a PROPER full-on Greek Mythology movie', or even something about shit that actually happened during the Peloponnesian War and such. History is cool...
Stevie, I think it's "ILLIUM" by CountryBoy	May 19th, 2008 07:01:50 PM
Not that I've read it, but I've seen it at Borders.
Oh the DRAMA! by Mace Tofu	May 19th, 2008 07:05:44 PM
We need our best men for the WAR but the OLYMPICS are on so what to do, what to do? FIGHT or RUN for the Gold.
bacci40 by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 07:10:55 PM
As far as cinematic historians go, Leni is one of the most gifted cinematic artists known to man. I have no problem with that, I've seen everything from (director) Olympia to (actress) The Blue Light. My major problem with her... is... all of her FUCKING BLATANT NAZI PROPAGANDA starting getting referred to only in it's artistic merits around the late 70's, and definitely settling in, in the 80's. Everyone from Hillary Clinton to Mick Jagger have glad-handed that cunt while posing for press pictures. Apparently, after pretending that while socializing with the top tier NAZI officials (such as Geobbels, which, by all credible evidence she distained him, yet she was consistently at NAZI OFFICIAL parties). But most of her, "Oh, I didn't know what the Nazi's were going to do," argument is blown to hell by the constant blitzkrieg of radio broadcasts and by the fact that Mein Kampf way outsold the Bible during the Nazi period of Germany's history. But, I guess, we shouldn't have expected her to pay any attention at all, for over decade, about the dominant political party, while making multiple films for them...
CountryBoy, good point by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 07:20:25 PM
"Ileum" is part of the intestines... and "Ilium" is part of the pelvis, but also the same title of Dan Simmons novel, "Ilium," and it was a name for Troy.
Ah -- hence "The Iliad", I presume by CountryBoy	May 19th, 2008 07:26:28 PM
It all comes together...
yeah, by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 07:33:27 PM
the Latin name if I remember correctly. Remember, according to Virgil's nearly burnt epic, Romans are descended from Aeneas, a Trojan character from the Iliad (if I remember correctly, either the first Trojan injured or stabbed in the leg by Diomedes), and later lead the surviving Trojans away to Italy.
probably by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 07:35:21 PM
should have wikipedia'd Aeneas... but I'm pretty sure he got stabbed by Diomedes, and almost 100% sure about the Virgil bit.
10,000 + Saving Private Ryan by bswise	May 19th, 2008 07:42:18 PM
I'm thinking Woolly Mammoths storming the beaches of Normandy.
You're a better scholar than I am, Stevie by CountryBoy	May 19th, 2008 07:57:28 PM
I thought Rome was founded by two brothers who were raised by wolves or something...
It Was by Archangel7883	May 19th, 2008 08:13:06 PM
According to myth, Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus. And then not built in a day. I don't even have to go to Wikipedia for that. The wolves thing is right, too. I think the other thing is right, too, though. They're supposed to be descendents of Aeneas (or whichever character it was, I dont remember)
Special Edd Olympics Yayy im goin to the Olympics yayyy! Yayy!! by Groothewarrior	May 19th, 2008 08:18:42 PM
Yayyy!!! Yayy!!!!!
CountryBoy by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 08:20:32 PM
You're right, Romulus and Remus are official mythology. But, Virgil's Aeneas was (literally) saved by Augustus. His "Aenied" put forth Aeneas' place in Western art, poetry, and culture since Augustus ordered the prevention of Virgil burning his not-finished/perfected epic poem.
AICN IS getting kickbacks for mentioning AMAZON & NETFLIX by mistergreen	May 19th, 2008 08:32:21 PM
let's not kid ourself... If you're going to talk about a movie just reference IMDB.com, even though they're owned by Amazon.
by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 08:36:24 PM
not kidding, Emperor/Caesar Augustus had to actually give orders to prevent Virgil burning the Aeneid, and against Virgil's deathbed wishes. I can't believe there haven't been more soap-opera/action/adventure/dr ama (and even porno's) about ancient Rome, the writers would only have to read the history and write the dialog to fill in the spaces.
sorry CountryBoy, by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 08:53:34 PM
I didn't actually address you're post. Your absolutely right about the twins suckled by the wolf, but the Romans also believed they were descended from Troy's survivors, on top of all other crazy shit (Romans were the descendants of Greek immigrants to Italy and the native Etruscans, to keep it broad and simple). It's actually kind of funny how they viewed their conquered Greece (in a small part because of that mythology), because Roman views of Greece have so many similarities to American's views of France today.
and, by Stevie Grant	May 19th, 2008 08:55:40 PM
I apologize for stalking this TB. I'll stop annoying everyone now with my constant posting.
The original script to Saving Private Ryan by dogstardude	May 19th, 2008 09:03:44 PM
Has to be read to be believed. It's truly terrible, with Captain Miller acting like John Wayne/Lee Marvin, ignoring bullet wounds, chomping a cigar and talking endlessly about Sarge. I think barring some student film scripts I've read it would be the worst screenplay ever.
Bathing Cocks by MasterBateman	May 19th, 2008 09:14:02 PM
Scene in the baths? Floppin cocks? I am so there. YESSSSS!!!!!
Caligula by #1 Zero	May 19th, 2008 10:35:58 PM
For anybody wondering why there weren't more films about ancient rome that could be pornos or obscene, there was...it was called Caligula with young Malcolm McDowell and Helen mirren. Produced by hustler's bob guccione. Anyway, it was a critical and financial disaster much like the sword and sandal pics of today. So maybe that's part of the reason there isn't more of this. And I hated ghosts of cite soleil. I'm pretty sure half of that was staged. And if anyone saw it, am I alone in hating the french aid worker who falls in love with the homicidal gang leader. I don't know what her deal was but she really pissed me off. Talk about losing your professionalism. Aw, who cares anyway.
Goddamn pussy anti-gay Greek wrestling by Fred	May 19th, 2008 11:19:26 PM
Biting was not allowed, and genital holds were also illegal.
cirque du soleil by ianrewel	May 20th, 2008 02:23:26 AM
is Canadian not French
300 Is A Man's Man Film? by The Ender Smites Foes	May 20th, 2008 02:56:45 AM
That's exactly right...its gay. Very gay. If they want to make a good movie about the 300 based on a novel, they need to go with Gates of Fire. 300 sucked. Visually, I was bored, green screen does not do anything for me. And the fights, too much slow motion, and frankly....too little fights to begin with. Boring
As Long As It Doesn't Suck Like 300? by Breotan	May 20th, 2008 06:39:17 AM
Is that why it made so much money? Usually when a film sucks, like SPEED RACER, it gets punished at the box office. Didn't 300 make over 200Mil? Pretty decent cash for an "R" rated film.
Bob Guccione was Penthouse btw by JackRabbitSlim	May 20th, 2008 06:43:22 AM
No longer is - went bankrupt a few years ago - sold it. Larry Flynt owns Hustler.
Oh - and Leni Riefenstahl was an evil bitch by JackRabbitSlim	May 20th, 2008 06:49:48 AM
Filmed Tiefland using concentration camp victims as extras - denied it all her life despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Fuck whatever talent she had; it was negated by her being a malicious cunt.
Meh, give us Gates of Fire!!! by Cat_Corporation	May 20th, 2008 11:14:57 AM
Years ago Michael Mann was looking at making a film of Steven Pressfield's brilliant Gates of Fire novel of Thermopylai, but I suppose 300 pretty much killed that. Some of the greatest stories in the western world come from Greek history and mythology, but there's never been a decent movie. I'm hoping this will be a contender, as there's some great athletes immortalised by Pindar's Odes, but something tells me, sadly......this will be massive crud. And I'm still hurting from the colossal fuck-up that was Troy. Achilles in the Wooden Horse?!! ARGHHHHHH!!!!
Jack by Stevie Grant	May 20th, 2008 10:58:27 PM
Thank you for bringing that up. I honestly got ashamed when I read your post and realized I had forgotten all about that. Leni's revived celebrity status is proof that "the line" only lasts a finite amount of time for the entertainment industry folks. Cause there's no forgiving all the shit she did as an adult, all throughout the Nazi's reign.
Stevie Grant & Archangel by CountryBoy	May 21st, 2008 07:18:37 PM
Thanks for clearing that up. Romulus and Remus! I was wracking my brain for their names. Sorry I was gone for 2 days; now neither you nor anyone else will probably ever read this. But thanks anyway.
Hey CountryBoy... by Cat_Corporation	May 22nd, 2008 04:35:35 PM
I read it! Damn geeky interest in Ancient Greek history...Maybe we should start a 'Last!' post?
Cool, Cat! by CountryBoy	May 22nd, 2008 07:20:20 PM
LAST!

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