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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Rome - The Complete Second Season
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List Price: $59.99
Our Price: $59.99
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Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Starring: James Purefoy, Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Lindsay Duncan
Directed By: Various
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359395628
Format: AC-3
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-08-07
Running Time: 600
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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The year is 44 B.C. Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power aligning himself with Atia but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son and heir. Meanwhile Titus Pullo attempts to pull his friend Lucius Vorenus out of the darkness that has engulfed his soul in the wake of personal tragedy. For once again the fates of these two mismatched soldiers seem inexorably tied to the fate of Rome itself.Running Time: 600 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC:Â 026359395628 Manufacturer No:Â 93956
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Another amazing series by HBO
Comment: Offers a great view into what ancient Rome was probably like. An overall great show that won't leave you hanging!
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Summary: HBO OF THE JULI, I CALL FOR JUSTICE!
Comment: GREAT SHOW. LOVED EVERY EPISODE. CAN'T BELIEVE THERE IS NO SEASON 3.
MAYBE IF A BUNCH OF FANS STOOD OUTSIDE THE HBO OFFICE CHANTING THEY WOULD GET THE IDEA.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Movie Buff
Comment: Excellent movie. I would like to see another series come out but I think it is over. We passed it around to all the family.
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Summary: One of the Greatest TV Shows Ever Made!
Comment: This is the best season of a great TV show. The acting is amazing and the production is like a movie. The story of Rome takes place after the immediate death of Caesar right up to the taking of Egypt by Rome. It is of course the most dramatic Roman story and is well told. I wish the show could have gone on for a lot longer but HBO chose to cancel due to costs. One of the great tragedies of television history.
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Summary: Of Course Five Stars!
Comment: Ignore the pedants who complain about historical "inaccuracies". Nonsense! You can count the primary historical sources for the period on one hand, and all the commentators of the era, from Caesar to Cicero to Suetonius to Tacitus, to Sallust to Livy, had axes to grind. Jonathan Stamp, the historical consultant and co-producer, is a first-rate scholar and not window dressing. He's forgotten more about Roman history than those who complain here will ever know. There are huge and deep gaps in Roman history. The series fills in the gaps. This is the functon of historical fiction.
The claimed "inaccuracies" are no more than disagreement with other speculations. For example, the nonsense about Atia: Tacitus says some nice things about her and Suetonius makes up some silly legend about omens. Silly people call this "history". Maybe she was virtuous, but there's no hard evidence one way or another, and the producers can portray her to suit. As it happens, Rome's Atia, like I Claudius' similarly "enhanced" Livia, is a delicious and, given her culture, thoroughly believable character.
You can take the characters and events of Rome at face value, and you will be far ahead of the pack in knowledge of the period.
I was sorry to see Max Pirkis's wonderful boy Octavian replaced by Simon Woods' Octavian Caesar, but time goes on, and, like Pirkis, Woods makes a chilling future Augustus.
As in the first season, the second season illuminates the the way the different strata of Roman society meet common life situations, from career to marital to moral issues. Sometimes the strata converge by circumstance, as the characters of Rome encounter each other, usually briefly. But upward mobility is a deadly game in Rome, and those who play the game, on whatever level, inevitably pay the price.
I wish HBO had decided to make Rome an ongoing series, for what comes after Augustus is, as we know, just as exciting, sordid, and suspensful as the story of Caesar and Augustus. Maybe out of respect we could hop over I Claudius and continue with the so-called Good Emperors or the Barracks Emperors. Trajan or Hadrian -- now, these are stories. Or Marcus Aurelius, the philisopher emperor who persecuted the Christians. Now, why did he do that? I'd love Stamp's speculations. Or later on, how about Constantine? Nothing ever produced about him, and yet his story is perhaps most exciting of them all -- his outmaneuvering his co-emperors, his weird personal life -- his murder of his wife and son -- his thing with Christianity, his building up of Byzantium, later Constantinople... Think of what Messrs. Heller, Milius, Apted, these great movie-makers, together with the resources of HBO and BBC, could do with that!
I know there's lots of partisanship about the different HBO series. Many have run far longer than Rome has. This isn't because of quality but because Rome is probably the most expensive series HBO ever mounted. Sorry, Sopranos fanboys and girls, ditto Deadwood and, um, Carnivale... Soap operas about sleazy gangsters have their allure, as do "real westerns" and supernatural circuses. But none has the moral weight, the profoundly interesting history, the intrinsic quality of Rome. It is HBO's greatest series.
I've been seeing this second season on Netflix. Not enough. This one's a keeper, I've ordered it to buy here. Hope the box is as nice as first season's.
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