Spartacus: Blood and Sand?

[Money99]

Anyone catch the premier this past Friday?
Was it any good?

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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Caught part of it and looked pretty cheezy. They had the whole 300 thing going with the slow motion fighting effects where it looked like a Mortal Kombat game during fight sequences. So it's lacking originality there. On the whole there was way too much CGI, and not very convincing CGI, which made it hard to take it seriously because it just looked too cartooney.

[Money99]

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Caught part of it and looked pretty cheezy. They had the whole 300 thing going with the slow motion fighting effects where it looked like a Mortal Kombat game during fight sequences. So it's lacking originality there. On the whole there was way too much CGI, and not very convincing CGI, which made it hard to take it seriously because it just looked too cartooney.

I had read this too.
I believe IGN even said that the effects get tired after a while.

I'm still going to try and find a copy of the first episode. I loved Gladiator so I was hoping this would be good.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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I had read this too.
I believe IGN even said that the effects get tired after a while.

I'm still going to try and find a copy of the first episode. I loved Gladiator so I was hoping this would be good.

I think it's safe to say if you liked Gladiator or Rome and was hoping it would be in that vein (like I had hoped) you're gonna be sorely disappointed.

[rockchisler]

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I think it's safe to say if you liked Gladiator or Rome and was hoping it would be in that vein (like I had hoped) you're gonna be sorely disappointed.

I saw it when they showed it on encore along with the stars network, Its not bad but not worth me buying stars to watch it.

[bubbachuck]

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I think it's safe to say if you liked Gladiator or Rome and was hoping it would be in that vein (like I had hoped) you're gonna be sorely disappointed.

YUP!!!

I don't know if anybody used to watch that kids show Wishbone back in the day but it reminded me of one of those reenactments hahaha (basically like a history channel reenactment). I was really disappointed. The slow motion effect gets old faster than Benjamin Button. The green screen backgrounds look terrible and the blood is like someone is squirting ketchup everywhere. I just didn't like it at all basically.

[Coug00]

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YUP!!!

I don't know if anybody used to watch that kids show Wishbone back in the day but it reminded me of one of those reenactments hahaha (basically like a history channel reenactment). I was really disappointed. The slow motion effect gets old faster than Benjamin Button. The green screen backgrounds look terrible and the blood is like someone is squirting ketchup everywhere. I just didn't like it at all basically.

And during one scene in the premier they actually used all that blood to cover the screen and transition to a new scene.

The only thing I'm looking forward to now is to be sorely disappointed at Lucy Lawless's nude scene.

[Flyermania]

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I wasn't too crazy about the first episode, but the second one (altready out there on the net) was better and gave me enough hope to keep watching. The series definitely tries really hard to emulate "300".

Oh, and Lucy Lawless' scene in the second episode wasn't too shabby!

[RoyalBoyle78]

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Anyone catch the premier this past Friday?
Was it any good?

I loved it, me and my fiance loved it. It's our new show to watch now.

[luv_mist]

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First episode is available on iTunes for free now. Just search. I might download it to my iphone to check it out later on or something....or just wait until it hits dvd and scoop that up.

[Money99]

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I wasn't too crazy about the first episode, but the second one (altready out there on the net) was better and gave me enough hope to keep watching. The series definitely tries really hard to emulate "300".

Oh, and Lucy Lawless' scene in the second episode wasn't too shabby!

I saw that the 2nd episode was available on torrent sites and thought it must be a bad file.
I'll download it tonight and watch both back-to-back to see if it's going to get better.

[bubbachuck]

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I saw that the 2nd episode was available on torrent sites and thought it must be a bad file.
I'll download it tonight and watch both back-to-back to see if it's going to get better.

watched the 2nd on demand and thought that it was better than the premier. still not sold on it yet though.

[MissStFan87]

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Anybody still watching? Each episode seems to be better than the last. I was also very disappointed in the first episode but figured I'd stick with it, and I'm glad I did. Once they got away from having blood fly all over the screen every 5 minutes, things picked up. It's still no Rome, and I didn't expect it to be. But it's worth watching once a week.

[Flyermania]

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I'm still watching it...I agree that it has gotten a lot better since the premier episode.

[KG]

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I'm still watching it...I agree that it has gotten a lot better since the premier episode.

I agree. The 1st episode was too much like 300. It's actually starting to develop an interesting plot.