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You never mind any bad reviews of this movie. This is a terrific entertaining movie! Watch it on the biggest screen you can get your hands on and turn up the Dolby Digital (mine is 150" and 3,000 watts w/tactile transducers bolted to every seat in a 550 sq ft room).
I'm sick of all the armchair movie directors and armchair historians that trash great entertainment! They obviously have no idea why people go to the movies. We don't go to the movies to get a history lesson. We don't go to get a lesson in acting, directing or editing. People go to the movies to BE ENTERTAINED! "Are you not entertained? Is that not why you are here?" (as I spit on my floor) Based on the never ending list of nonsense reasons for trashing this movie (it's not totally historically accurate, they hardly knew each other, there wasn't a tsunami, the story's generic and been done many times, the actors had British accents, Anderson took artistic license, the 2 characters kissing at the end would have been blown away with no trace, they were fighting while the volcano was erupting, etc., etc., etc.) then Cameron's Titanic and Scott's Gladiator should be the worst movie epics in history, based on their reasoning!
Btw, according to recent evidence unearthed in the last 10 years there WAS apparently a tsunami that hit Pompeii! Not huge but it happened. That's a fact! And casts of people embracing are there. Look it up. The end was beautifully done to stir feeling and emotion. Those that trashed it need to stick to enjoying their mindless sitcoms and reality shows.
Now, if you're not an overly critical armchair historian or armchair film professor you should enjoy this entertaining movie that has, in fact, elements of Gladiator and Titanic and does it very well. Action, history, romance, drama, suspense, it's all there. Great character development, interaction and developing relationships, such as two gladiators who go from ready to kill each other to becoming comrades - as "brothers", very nicely done! Anderson's directing is superb and even some critics who weren't really nice in their reviews of the movie acknowledged Anderson's fine job. There were many critics who enjoyed the movie just as well. The only thing I thought that was a little off, and not that big a deal, was casting Sutherland as the Roman Senator. Kiefer Sutherland is a terrific actor and can play both a good guy and a great villain but I didn't like him as a Roman Senator. Again, not a really big deal. The rest of the casting was spot on.
So get this flick, sit back and enjoy the made up action/drama/romance story with a historical backdrop. And BE ENTERTAINED!
And for those who puke on this film for lack of historical and archeological accuracy, maybe those reasonable persons reading this might believe two EXPERT OPINIONS on this film:
Rosaly Lopes, a volcanologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Sarah Yeomans, AN ARCHEALOGIST at USC, both of whom give mostly praise for the films depiction of the city, amphitheater, life and the eruption! Notice a archeologist says Pompeii WAS a RESORT TOWN FOR THE ROMAN ELITE. There apparently WAS a tsunami, just not as huge as shown in the movie and apparently no huge lava bombs, a couple 2 or 3 details that does not detract from the overall historical backdrop of the movie. This movie is not accurate to every detail (most movies aren't) but as a whole was very well done and these experts agree! The link to the website Live Science is below.
"The movie's depiction of the eruption, loosely based on Pliny's description and artifacts collected from the site, REALISTICALLY CAPTURED the earthquakes that preceded the eruption, the explosions and the pyroclastic flows of hot ash and gas that buried the city and its residents, according to Rosaly Lopes, a volcanologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (Lopes was not a consultant on the film.)"
'The filmmakers captured the sequence of events -- earthquakes, followed by explosions, and then ash flows -- QUITE WELL, Lopes told Live Science. "It wasn't like suddenly it went bang and then they died," she said.'"
'Although records suggest many people escaped before the city was destroyed, most of those who died were probably killed by heat shock from the pyroclastic flows, Lopes said."
'The film's depiction of the city of Pompeii was fairly impressive, according to Sarah Yeomans, AN ARCHEALOGIST at USC who has SPENT MUCH OF HER LIFE STUDYING THE CITY (but was not a consultant on the film). As the film showed, POMPEII WAS A RESORT TOWN FOR THE ROMAN ELITE, and gladiator games were a big part of life."
'The filmmakers used Lidar, a laser remote-sensing technique, to re-create the city's topography on the set. The aerial shots of Pompeii in the movie were real helicopter shots with computer graphics projected over them, Anderson told Live Science."
'The buildings, streets and items in the market were based on real ones preserved in the ash, while the characters' costumes were based on paintings and mosaics of real people."
'I thought Anderson DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB approximating what the city may have looked like," Yeomans told Live Science, PRAISING THE ATTENTION TO DETAILS such as the raised paving stones in the streets and the political graffiti on the buildings. THE AMPHITHEATER WHERE THE FILM'S GLADIATOR SCENES TAKE PLACE WAS ALSO WELL DONE, she said."
http://www.livescience.com/43529-how-accurate-is-pompeii-movie.html
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