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Aw, Mickey! I miss you, mate!

And what, may I ask, is wrong with not bathing for three months? Clearly Maine is much warmer than we have been led to believe because in Chicago, we just hunker down layered in all our clothing from about December 15 until Cub's Opening Day.

Nice to see Mickey getting some love.

Michael Fassbender, McNulty (Dominic West), and “Doctor Who’s” Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) all star in it.

These three, dirty and at least somewhat naked? Pretty pictures? Blood flying everywhere? Yes. Yes, yes, one thousand times yes.

If I wanted historical accuracy, I'd read a textbook.

Wait...the Celts are the bad guys? Fuck that noise.

Well, we've had Gladiator and now we're getting Centurion. I hope we skip the more obviously dramatic Roman roles like Emperor Legionnaire and start seeing a string of movies with titles like Senator, Tetrarch, Prefect, Tax Collector, or Slave Boy. Hell, run 'em long enough and before long we'll be seeing the comsummate Roman period piece: Citizen.

I'm with you Coryo, porno has done Slave Boy has been done to death. I'm actually hoping for Chariot. The thrilling tale of a chariot.

Ah! I'm tired, so everyone disregard my tag up there and just pretend it says "coryo."

That didn't appeal to me at all and I don't think I'm a particularly harsh critic. I'm going to make the prediction that Olga Kurylenko is number one on a list made by 'Popular Website Men Look At To Ogle Scantily Clad Hotties' next year.

I feel like McNulty will continue to make 300 with different costumes until he fades into obscurity.

Yeah, this looks neat. And such.

But is Marshall really taking the same road that directors like Raimi and Jackson took, abandoning horror when they acquire some critical acclaim?

I hope not. This movie is too generic for someone who made "Dog Soldiers" and "The Descent".

So many great horror directors abandon it. I hope this doesn't happen here.

I'm not sure about this movie. I'm suspicious whenever there appear to be strong female characters. Especially villainous ones. They usually end up writing them into the "petulant bitch" or "crazy bitch" stereotype because apparently the only way Hollywood's capable of writing genuinely strong women is if they write the role male and do a penis swap later.

Posted by: Nat Kittyface at February 12, 2010 12:40 PM

Well, the female "villain" is apparently a mute and is supposed to be "vengeance incarnate" or something like that. Given that description, she's apt to fall into the "crazy bitch" role, but, perhaps, justifiably so.

D-Day: "What is this, the reborquel to King Arthur?"

Well, since I never saw the pre-reborquel (i.e. original, if you can call it that), then this is a new movie to me.

Oh. That kind of Centurion. I thought this was going to be about robots. I'm out.

Okay, call me anal but didn't the Roman legions contain 5-6 thousand men, not counting support and auxiliaries? If the central plot involves the destruction of an entire legion, toss a little CGI at the screen and show us a real massacree, not a bunch of pisspots lost in the woods.

meh. I'll watch it. But I wish they had given Neil Marshall Eagle of the Ninth and chucked the script for this one in the bin. As it is, Eo9th looks like it's going to reek, with the possible exception of Donald Sutherland, and they're likely going to massacre one of my favourite books from my childhood. *sigh* But I'll watch it.

Not cool. You know I'll click on anything that says "The Wire."

This was not worth it.