5 Responses to “Spartacus”

• By Brian on Mar 13, 2010

  This movie is overrated. The special effects look horrible when compared to todays movies and the excessive filler makes you want to cry “attack of the filler”.
  
  Not reccomended, although it isn’t horrible.
  Rating: 2 / 5
• By Checkmate on Mar 13, 2010

  Historically inaccurate in many places. Kirk Douglass wears a ducktail. Tony Curtis’s casting and performance are ridiculous. I’d watch “Gladiator” 10 times before I’d sit through another showing of this movie.
  Rating: 1 / 5
• By Anonymous on Mar 13, 2010

  I agree with the reviewer immediately below, but I should point out that after arguing that race and gender were not significant issues in ancient Rome, the reviewer says that the Romans found issues of race and gender “squelchable.” How could these issues be squelchable if they did not exist? Perhaps the reviewer is referring to the Romans as depicted in this film, in which case the reviewer makes an interesting point: Trumbo and Kubrik write a script that trumpets liberal virtues only to have the trumpeters of those virtues squelched by a power (Crassus) who does not appear at all evil. What IS the message here Hollywood? If Kubrik and Trumbo made Crassus a villain, Spartacus and friends would be martyrs (murdering martyrs, but what the help [sic]). Instead, Crassus is a well-intentioned, if egotistical, and loyal Roman citizen. A true patrician. Is this just another example of boisterous but empty scripting or what?

  By the way, I apologize to true Liberals (i.e., in the tradition of Burke) for the title of this review. The liberalism found in SPARTACUS is the liberalism of Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty, THE NATION, Oliver Stone, etc.
  Rating: 1 / 5
• By Dhaval Vyas on Mar 13, 2010

  I couldn’t finish watching ‘Spartacus’. It was long, long, long, and boring, boring boring. Don’t listen to those Kubrick fans who pretend to like it and say it is great.
  Rating: 2 / 5
• By nicki on Mar 13, 2010

  Maybe its just me, or the fact that i’m only 14, but Spartacus didnt tickle my fancy. Coming in to watch this movie I was saying things like “People say its a good movie, so i’ve got to like it” But sitting through 3 hours of movie when my average teenage attention span is only 40 mins, i found it to be boring and pointless. Like i said, maybe it’s just me. Dont get me wrong, i absolutely adore Stanley Kubrick and 2001: A Space Odessey has to be the best movie ever, but Spartacus just didn’t do it for me. I would’ve liked it if there was more conflict between the gladiators during battle and if they displayed the different types of gladiators like the hoplomachus, the provocator, the secutor etc etc. I give Spartacus 1 star for the ” I Am Spartacus” scene where i laughed so much, i almost fell of my seat.
  Rating: 1 / 5

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