Has anybody watched this film called Spatacus?

ok if u ve wat do u think abt this film

Lets discuss this film wat do u think abt this film, wat aspect of it do u like and so on,

The room is opened


As for me i think i like everything about the film expect,

I cant wait to see the season 2 thats if there is going to be any season 2

Cant wait to hear from you guys, let it roll!!!

It's gory, raw, bloody and everything about it was made as natural as possible,
I love the language in general.

"Jupiter's cock"

I hope dere's a season 2 cuz i cant wait.

Great series and John Hannah as Batiatus was brilliant.

The last two episodes are some of the best TV I have ever watched.

A thread on this topic already exists: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-403471.0.html

Nice piece.i luv it

obinna5000:

A thread on this topic already exists: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-403471.0.html

We dont need u to tell us that bsides that thread has been long and most people might have nt watched it by then,


To the film, i love the aspect where Spartacus fougth with Crixus towards the end bfore Crixus accepted spartacus plead to fight Batiatus, i guess crixus would have actually beaten spartacus if not because of his wine that was piosioned,

the film is intresting feel like watching it all over again

But i hate the way they killed Ashur,

What do u guys think,

The film further lends credence to the fact that the problems of man (sex, religion, politics, etc) have been here for a long time and will be for ever?

Ashur is not dead.

I am also not sure that Crixius could have beaten Spartacus.

Ashur is not dead and spartacus would have kicked his ass again even if his wine was not poisoned . Crixus was consumed by rage to redeem his status of the champion of capua . Wonder why the season 2 is not yet out . Heard that the spartacus guy is in hospital down with some shyt

He had Cancer but it is now in remission and seems to be okay.

They decided to do a prequel on how Batiatus got to the place he was in life but now that the Spartacus actor is okay they are also shooting now the follow up to season one.

sweetguy10:

Ashur is not dead and spartacus would have kicked his backside again even if his wine was not poisoned . Crixus was consumed by rage to redeem his status of the champion of capua . Wonder why the season 2 is not yet out . Heard that the spartacus guy is in hospital down with some shyt

Hey sorry mayb i missed the name Ashur

But was Ashur not the gay guy that was killed for the offence he did not commit?

The reason why i said Crixus would have beaten Spartacus was because Crixus was dam too prepared to fight with Spartacus again since Spartacus had taken his glory, he was desperate to defeat spartacus again so that he can regain his lost glory. But thnk God he listened to Spartacus.

I dont know who fights more Crixus or Spartacus but i think Crixus fights more than Spartacus.

Vieira:

He had Cancer but it is now in remission and seems to be okay.

They decided to do a prequel on how Batiatus got to the place he was in life but now that the Spartacus actor is okay they are also shooting now the follow up to season one.

Cant believe Spartacus had cancer oh but wetin dey do all these film actors if they finish one season something go do them the same thing happened too with Prison break. Oga oh.

I beg make they no let this one end like that oh!

Ashur is the guy with a bad leg that does all the dirty leg work for Batiatus.

Are you talking about Bakar?

spartacus is ok, but i think it should be called blood and sex

personally i think is the latest form of "acceptable and classy porn"

in my opinion,too much sex involved,watched it with my mum,was blushing all the way,had no prior warning as to the contents

^^
Guess u must hav been blushing alot then~

Vieira:

Ashur is the guy with a bad leg that does all the dirty leg work for Batiatus.

Are you talking about Bakar?

Ohok! that's rite! Bakar! he just died like dat

Yea now i rmber Ashur is not dead he heed under one of the dead soldiers cloth yea those are the part i think will lead the film to a season 2

Thanks Vieira

cescky:

spartacus is ok, but i think it should be called blood and sex

personally i think is the latest form of "acceptable and classy indecency"

Yea the sex aspect of it actually makes the film very real thats to me unlike other films that they will just show half and carry it away but this was real,

hhhhhmmmmm i luv dat film, the characters, effect, sooo onnn.

still waiting 4 season ii

Of it class, Spartacus is the most standard episodic movie i have watched since 'Rome'. With a bit of fiction blended with historical facts. Evenit fighting styles is similar to the combats in Frank Miller's 300, even more augmented.

Pukkah:

The film further lends credence to the fact that the problems of man (sex, religion, politics, etc) have been here for a long time and will be for ever?

I don't see how religion was reflected as a problem in Spartacus: Blood and Sand. If you did a bit of history, you will understand that back then in Rome, there was only one faith and that was their traditional beliefs in Gods/Animism which comprises of specific rites attributed to each one of their deities, all these and other beliefs where borrowed from the Greeks, and the Greeks in turn borrowed extensively from the Egyptians (Ancient Egypt and not Ptolemic or other periods) via the Assyrians, Syrians, et al. I also think religion ought to have come first in your list before politics, then sex should be the last, and to me, sex is just part of man's instinctive nature to perpetuate which is also a necessity.

Believe me Religion is the root of all the problems in this world most especially in Africa. Why? Because, before Euro-america (i.e. The Western World) turned to capitalism, they were in the conquering business for so long until they realized it's not as lucrative as it used to be, They began phase 2, as if all has already been planned out, they (The Romans under Constantinople) syncretized and nurtured an immature religion in the middle east, Christianity, a still-growing faith they never really paid attention to in the first place when they were still up-high and mighty. They appended all the once genuine histories, events and stories of all the nations they had conquered and colonized in the past, with a normal dose of distortion fused it with Jewish Judaism, various semitic beliefs and a bit of Greek myths and viola - The Holy Bible. Another instrument to conquer heathens and infidels throughout the world and appropriating their undeserved land in the name of an Holy Crusade. 'Pope' a title proclaimed to represent God's second-in-command on earth bestowed with divine authority would sanction such heinous deed as the one that ended Galileo, Then, the Pope was the final authority on Earth. Back then, so many great minds (Scientist, Renaissance man, etc) all couldn't voice out because of persecution so they formed various sodalities where there could secretly share and discuss scientific inventions and discoveries among themselves, few of these society (e.g. Priory of Scion) survived for some time on the condition that they represent a Roman Catholic sect and support Papacy,
Enough of my digression, back to how all this affected Africa, Yes, In Phase 3; In the guise of spreading the gospel they r4ped Africa off it resources (Slaves,Minerals and Materials) to develop their war-ravaged lands in Europe and America, I wouldn't be justifying their actions if I'd say all what they did to us would have been fair only if they hadn't forcefully sold us a concept of a proselytizing religion of Christianity and the Arabs - Islam, because Africa - An almost utopian society whose inhabitants never complained to anyone about their indigenous faiths, never tried to conquer others in the name of my God is better than yours, never wrote any letter of 'Requesting Civilization Here' to the whites, never wage massive large-scale war like the war-mongering Mongols did; a distant cousins of the Europeans.

Imagine two black Africans arguing fervently about Christianity and Islam and I am always like these guys shouldn't be involved in these two semitic religions in the first place just like one would find it weird and rare to see two Japanese or any oriental arguing about Christianity and Islam in schools.

Now that since the 19th century, Euro-America have realized that Phase 3 would soon expire, they created an economist and capitalist society, a model any nation should emulate, Industrialization is the status-quo today and he who controls the world economy rules the modern world, but they left their religion problems here in Africa which is still our bane.

I know I shouldn't have brought all this history to this "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" thread but hey, that episodic movie is all about history too, it was the third servile war in Rome brought about buy a man-turned-rebel who was enslaved and whose homeland (Thrace) was brutalized all because of a mere disagreement and ego. And besides, I watched a documentary on Sierra Leone titled Cry-Freetown, It was about how its people were being slaughtered like pigs all because of diamonds 'a symbol of love' in the western world and when I tried to ponder real deep about the main cause of all these Africa problems, one would realize they all boil down to religion and not only in Freetown alone, but all the strife, despair and wars in Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, etc are deep rooted in Religion except for apartheid South Africa.


I have once thought to myself that in 10,000 years to come, blacks can never be capable of masterminding the kind of wars Gaelic,Welsh,Breton,Saxons,Celts,Germans,Gauls,Goths,Gauls,Aryan,Arabs,Mongols,Balkans,Cossacks,Scandinavians,Slavs,etc etc (So many of them) have waged among themselves externally and internally. So many War books written about all their histories, they've all fought countless number of wars from Battle of Naseby to Battles in Iraq - No one can keep count of them. Inclduing the Arabs and the Asians too.

O.M.3.G.4.:

Of it class, Spartacus is the most standard episodic movie i have watched since 'Rome'. With a bit of fiction blended with historical facts. Evenit fighting styles is similar to the combats in Frank Miller's 300, even more augmented.

I don't see how religion was reflected as a problem in Spartacus: Blood and Sand. If you did a bit of history, you will understand that back then in Rome, there was only one faith and that was their traditional beliefs in Gods/Animism which comprises of specific rites attributed to each one of their deities, all these and other beliefs where borrowed from the Greeks, and the Greeks in turn borrowed extensively from the Egyptians (Ancient Egypt and not Ptolemic or other periods) via the Assyrians, Syrians, et al. I also think religion ought to have come first in your list before politics, then sex should be the last, and to me, sex is just part of man's instinctive nature to perpetuate which is also a necessity.

Believe me Religion is the root of all the problems in this world most especially in Africa. Why? Because, before Euro-america (i.e. The Western World) turned to capitalism, they were in the conquering business for so long until they realized it's not as lucrative as it used to be, They began phase 2, as if all has already been planned out, they (The Romans under Constantinople) syncretised and nurtured an immature religion in the middle east, Christianity, a still-growing faith they never really paid attention to in the first place when they were still up-high and mighty. They appended all the once genuine histories, events and stories of all the nations they had conquered and colonized in the past, with a normal dose of distortion fused it with Jewish Judaism, various semitic beliefs and a bit of Greek myths and viola - The Holy Bible. Another instrument to conquer heathens and infidels throughout the world and take their undeserved land in the name of an Holy Crusade. 'Pope' a title that was proclaimed to represent God's second, bestowed with divine authority  would sanction such heinous deed as the one that ended Galileo, all this because the Pope was the final authority on Earth. Back then, so many great minds (Scientist, Renaissance, etc) all couldn't voice out because of prosecution so they formed various sodalities where there could secretly share and discuss scientific inventions and discoveries among themselves, few of these society (e.g. Priory of Scion) survived for some time on the condition that they represent a Roman Catholic sect and support Papacy,, Enough of my digression, back to how all this affected Africa, Yes, In Phase 3; In the guise of spreading the gospel they despoiled Africa off it resources (Slaves,Minerals and Materials) to develop their war-ravaged lands in Europe and America, I wouldn't be justifying their actions if I'd say all what they did to us would have been fair only if they hadn't forcefully sold us a concept of a proselytizing religion of Christianity and the Arabs - Islam, because Africa - An almost utopian society whose inhabitants never complained to anyone about their indigenous faiths, never tried to conquer others in the name of my God is better than yours, never wrote any letter of 'Requesting Civilization Here' to the whites, never wage massive large-scale war like the war-mongering Mongols did; a distant cousins of the Europeans.

Imagine two black Africans arguing fervently about Christianity and Islam and I am always like these guys shouldn't be involved in these two semitic religions in the first place just like one would find it weird and rare to see two Japanese or any oriental arguing about Christianity and Islam in schools.

Now that since the 19th century, Euro-America have realised that Phase 3 would soon expire, they created an economist and capitalist society, a model any nation should emulate, Industrialization is the status-quo today and he who controls the world economy rules the modern world, but they left their religion problems here in Africa which is still the bane till tomorrow. 

I know I shouldn't have brought all this history to this "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" thread but hey, that episodic movie is all about history too, it was the third servile war in Rome brought about buy a man-turned-rebel who was enslaved and whose homeland (Thrace) was brutalized all because of a mere disagreement and ego. And besides, that I watched a documentary on Sierra Leone titled Cry-Freetown, It was about how their people are being slaughtered like pigs all because of diamonds 'a symbol of love' in the western world and when I tried to think about the main cause of all this problems in Africa real deep, one would realize they all boil down to religion and not only in Freetown alone, but all the strife, despair and wars in Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Rwanda, etc are deep rooted in Religion.


I have once thought to myself that in 1000 years to come, blacks can never be capable of masterminding the kind of wars Gaelic,Welsh,Breton,Saxons,Celts,Germans,Gauls,Goths,Gauls,Aryan,Arabs,Mongols,Balkans,Cossacks,Scandinavians,Slavs,etc etc (So many of them) have waged among themselves externally and internally. So many War books written about all their histories, they've all fought countless number of wars from Battle of Naseby to Battles in Iraq - No one can keep count of them. Infact all race of the whites and Arabs

I must admit that your submission is excellent and is not far from my own viewpoint about the effect of the religions on Africa.   However, I listed those items in parenthesis not in any particular order and in fact as an afterthought just to give some examples of what I meant.

Again, kudos for your post. May be we (you) should another thread on this subject. I am sure so many feathers would be ruffled.

No buddy haven't seen this movie moreover hearing it for the first time.

Pukkah:

I must admit that your submission is excellent and is not far from my own viewpoint about the effect of the religions on Africa.   However, I listed those items in parenthesis not in any particular order and in fact as an afterthought just to give some examples of what I meant.

Again, kudos for your post. May be we (you) should another thread on this subject. I am sure so many feathers would be ruffled.

Yeah, okay, I'm in. what would you prefer the subject titled?

Andy Whitfield Bows Out of Spartacus: Blood and Sand season 2

drexon104:

[b]Andy Whitfield Bow Out  [/b]Spartacus: Blood and Sand star Andy Whitfield will not be returning to the second season of the Starz series, the network announced today via press release. The actor, who was in remission after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in March, has been advised to resume "aggressive treatment" for the disease. "It's with a deep sense of disappointment that I must step aside from such an exceptional project as Spartacus and all the wonderful people involved," Whitfield said in the release. "It seems that it is time for myself and my family to embark on another extraordinary journey. Thank you for the support so far."

The series had delayed production in the spring while Whitfield underwent treatment; the actor had been training for the second season after he was declared cancer-free in June. At this point, the network has not made any decisions regarding the series' future. "Right now, we just want to extend our concern and support to Andy and his family," Starz Media's Managing Director Carmi Zlotnik said in the statement. "We will address our programming plans at some later date." Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, a prequel to the series, will still air as scheduled in January 2011.                                                                                     No more Spartacus 

why post the sad news?

Its still uncertain if there's going to be a season 2 with the re-occurrence of Andy Whitfield's cancer.

But the 6-part prequel which will be called "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena" is still slated to air on January 2011.

O.M.3.G.4.:

why post the sad news?

lemme remove it then.

O.M.3.G.4.:

Of it class, Spartacus is the most standard episodic movie i have watched since 'Rome'. With a bit of fiction blended with historical facts. Evenit fighting styles is similar to the combats in Frank Miller's 300, even more augmented.
I don't see how religion was reflected as a problem in Spartacus: Blood and Sand. If you did a bit of history, you will understand that back then in Rome, there was only one faith and that was their traditional beliefs in Gods/Animism which comprises of specific rites attributed to each one of their deities, all these and other beliefs where borrowed from the Greeks, and the Greeks in turn borrowed extensively from the Egyptians (Ancient Egypt and not Ptolemic or other periods) via the Assyrians, Syrians, et al. I also think religion ought to have come first in your list before politics, then sex should be the last, and to me, sex is just part of man's instinctive nature to perpetuate which is also a necessity.

Believe me Religion is the root of all the problems in this world most especially in Africa. Why? Because, before Euro-america (i.e. The Western World) turned to capitalism, they were in the conquering business for so long until they realized it's not as lucrative as it used to be, They began phase 2, as if all has already been planned out, they (The Romans under Constantinople) syncretized and nurtured an immature religion in the middle east, Christianity, a still-growing faith they never really paid attention to in the first place when they were still up-high and mighty. They appended all the once genuine histories, events and stories of all the nations they had conquered and colonized in the past, with a normal dose of distortion fused it with Jewish Judaism, various semitic beliefs and a bit of Greek myths and viola - The Holy Bible. Another instrument to conquer heathens and infidels throughout the world and appropriating their undeserved land in the name of an Holy Crusade. 'Pope' a title proclaimed to represent God's second-in-command on earth bestowed with divine authority would sanction such heinous deed as the one that ended Galileo, Then, the Pope was the final authority on Earth. Back then, so many great minds (Scientist, Renaissance man, etc) all couldn't voice out because of persecution so they formed various sodalities where there could secretly share and discuss scientific inventions and discoveries among themselves, few of these society (e.g. Priory of Scion) survived for some time on the condition that they represent a Roman Catholic sect and support Papacy,
Enough of my digression, back to how all this affected Africa, Yes, In Phase 3; In the guise of spreading the gospel they r4ped Africa off it resources (Slaves,Minerals and Materials) to develop their war-ravaged lands in Europe and America, I wouldn't be justifying their actions if I'd say all what they did to us would have been fair only if they hadn't forcefully sold us a concept of a proselytizing religion of Christianity and the Arabs - Islam, because Africa - An almost utopian society whose inhabitants never complained to anyone about their indigenous faiths, never tried to conquer others in the name of my God is better than yours, never wrote any letter of 'Requesting Civilization Here' to the whites, never wage massive large-scale war like the war-mongering Mongols did; a distant cousins of the Europeans.

Imagine two black Africans arguing fervently about Christianity and Islam and I am always like these guys shouldn't be involved in these two semitic religions in the first place just like one would find it weird and rare to see two Japanese or any oriental arguing about Christianity and Islam in schools.

Now that since the 19th century, Euro-America have realized that Phase 3 would soon expire, they created an economist and capitalist society, a model any nation should emulate, Industrialization is the status-quo today and he who controls the world economy rules the modern world, but they left their religion problems here in Africa which is still our bane.

I know I shouldn't have brought all this history to this "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" thread but hey, that episodic movie is all about history too, it was the third servile war in Rome brought about buy a man-turned-rebel who was enslaved and whose homeland (Thrace) was brutalized all because of a mere disagreement and ego. And besides, I watched a documentary on Sierra Leone titled Cry-Freetown, It was about how its people were being slaughtered like pigs all because of diamonds 'a symbol of love' in the western world and when I tried to ponder real deep about the main cause of all these Africa problems, one would realize they all boil down to religion and not only in Freetown alone, but all the strife, despair and wars in Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, etc are deep rooted in Religion except for apartheid South Africa.


I have once thought to myself that in 10,000 years to come, blacks can never be capable of masterminding the kind of wars Gaelic,Welsh,Breton,Saxons,Celts,Germans,Gauls,Goths,Gauls,Aryan,Arabs,Mongols,Balkans,Cossacks,Scandinavians,Slavs,etc etc (So many of them) have waged among themselves externally and internally. So many War books written about all their histories, they've all fought countless number of wars from Battle of Naseby to Battles in Iraq - No one can keep count of them. Inclduing the Arabs and the Asians too.

Good grief!!!!
What ARE you on about??

Great movie but sad story abt Andy Whitfield. Very unfortunate. God see him through.

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That is really bad news.

I hope he gets better.

maedan:


Good grief!!!!
What ARE you on about??

Nothing except that the word 'religion' is a theological term known as 'faith' is a foreign concept that was forcefully sold to native black Africans by the colonial masters and has as done more harm than good in Africa.