07-16-2011, 01:28 AM
Suetonius -
I picked the DVD up a couple of weeks ago on sale.
The Seal People are totally made up according to the director. He needed a tribe at the end of the island and went with what he thought they'd be like.
Accurate, probably not as has been pointed out, but it does a good job of invocking the time period; life in a camp in hostile terroritory, being charged by chariots, the type of guards on Hardian's Wall (couldn't have been the most enjoyable of postings).
We've only watched the Directors cut so I don't know how different it is from what was shown in theaters (which is on the disk too).
If nothing else seeing the alternate ending was worth the whole DVD cost! 'As they walk off into the sunset'..... :roll:
I picked the DVD up a couple of weeks ago on sale.
The Seal People are totally made up according to the director. He needed a tribe at the end of the island and went with what he thought they'd be like.
Accurate, probably not as has been pointed out, but it does a good job of invocking the time period; life in a camp in hostile terroritory, being charged by chariots, the type of guards on Hardian's Wall (couldn't have been the most enjoyable of postings).
We've only watched the Directors cut so I don't know how different it is from what was shown in theaters (which is on the disk too).
If nothing else seeing the alternate ending was worth the whole DVD cost! 'As they walk off into the sunset'..... :roll:
Ira Gossett
