Pompeii

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

I've seen this on TV had to get blu no commercials the effects are great worth watching at least one time or many more.

I thought this was a decent movie and the 3D effects made it much more immersive. It wasn't one of my favorite films but I'm beginning to really appreciate 3D movies and I give an extra star just because they're in 3d.

This is not a bad film, I watched it with my son and we both enjoyed it. This is the film you watch on a lazy afternoon. Not as good as Gladiator, but good enough. I'm glad the blu ray came with a ton of special features.

A new version of an older movie, still a good one to see. Plenty of action

POMPEIICertain stories love being told. And each time we tell them we sit raptured staring at the screen as the latest technology allows the story to be told in even new and more fabulous ways. Still, we know how “Titanic” ends but we’ll all line up to see the next iteration of the doomed ship. We also know how “Pompeii” ends and each iteration is born when new technology takes hold. Pompeii was first told using the silent moving pictures technology of 1913 and not retold until the talkie sound version of 1935. Then in 1959 it was told in the technology of the day, Eastmancolor. Jump 40 years into the future and we have CGI and digital special effects. Woo hoo.Ah the good ole days. When London is still just an outer province of Rome and a sound sleep after a three day hunt is interrupted by invasion from Roman soldiers under the leadership of soon to be Senator Kiefer Sutherland who kills your family and takes you to Rome to be raised as a finely sculpted slave gladiator. And through the magic of screenwriting the finally crafted gladiator meets a “Lady” on their march to Pompeii. It’s been a long walk from Rome but now they’re home at the base of Mt. Vesuvius which wants to be the Roman version of the Hamptons and where Latin has a distinct British accent. Fill the set with items from a Toscano catalogue and let the fun begin.I do not appreciate gratuitous violence or sex. But when your cast must include gladiators it must include both and it is not gratuitous. The violence moves the story forward instead of filling time and it teaches us about the mercy of the different players.Ah Pompeii – we see her not in her final days as we expect but in her birth pangs as the soon to be vaction spot of Romans of a certain class. And who wouldn’t love to see Keifer Sutherland in a role that requires him to actually speak instead of whisper act. In fact his performance as Senator is pure joy as the cynical Roman investor who has come to Pompeii on a sort of time share weekend in the Poconos where his hosts are trying to impress him that the Emperor would, indeed, be very smart to invest in the soon to be mecca of Earthly delights. The rumbling mountain that fills the sky is simply the God Vulcan who apparently is pleased the evil Senator has come to spend the weekend. Stay for dinner and you’ll be writing a check by bed time, especially if that bedtime involves you whisper acting your amorous intentions towards your host’s young daughter, the “Lady.” Hospitality is a Roman virtue after all. And you just have to know the Aristocrat’s lovely “Lady” daughter and the slave gladiator are bound to “color outside the lines.” Yeah that’s what it’s called. And all the while the mountain rumbles. The smartest creatures in the film seem to be the horses and gosh darn it wouldn’t you know it; our hot, sweaty, chiseled gladiator slave is also a horse whisperer. Many dead Romans later Vesuvius enters stage center and it’s a grand scene as the decadence is washed away by fire and we understand how we’ve been shown the backstory to the statues of the lovers discovered at the actual site. Very satisfying piece of work. Not groundbreaking, not original, per se and certainly not a contender for any award come award season but you know what? Not every film has to be an award winner to be entertaining.

La compré en formato físico por la calidad de audio DTS, y se escucha de maravilla. Cosa que no tienen las plataformas de streaming.

Collection personnel. Rien à redire tout à été fait selon les directives.Très satisfait de la commande et de la promptitude à faire parvenir selon les délais requis

Great movie one for the history buffs.

Costruita su un fatto storico.. ma è interessante da vedere..

Ce film documente parfaitement cette éruption mondialement célèbre, et modernise les versions antérieures, ce qui séduira certainement les plus jeunes. Mais rien de bien neuf sur l'histoire de cet évènement, dont certaines découvertes récentes auraient pu être intégrées au film.