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Very poor representation of ancient Roman Empire


Not sure what "direction" this movie was trying to take. The finished product is a complete mess. Terrible representation of history and worse as a work of "art". If the cinematography is well cone,that is all that is well done. The story goes nowhere. The acting is very bad,at best. Reminds me,to some extent,of "Caligula", another terrible movie,however,this one is even worse.

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What do you mean? I scoured the entire DVD case and I can't see the word "documentary" anywhere? What's the problem?

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You were THERE?

"They sucked his brains out!"

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Just a comedy.

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Rome was a piece of rotting flesh. The book by Petronius was at some places maybe hyperbolic but it was the surrealistic truth about the state of people's present minds. But if you think the Imperial Rome was a place of honest and straight persons only, you came to the wrong place.

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