Is HBO's Rome Veeky Forums approved?

Is HBO's Rome Veeky Forums approved?

ATIA OF THE JULLII I CALL FOR JUSTICE

All HBO period pieces are, really. Not to say they're 100% historically authentic, but there's definitely heart and effort put into it.

first season is basically a sex fest. second season alot better with actual political goings on.

Most annoying part of the show Imo, and to be quite honest I really liked the show

Pornographic filth.

This. Don't treat it like a textbook, but it's clear it is made by fans of history.

this.

THIRTEEN
THIRTEEN

yes

>100% historically authentic

you cant be fucking serious

Fucking idiots truly post before reading.

>Caesar is black

WE

Everything on HBO is shit.

Everything that isn't shit they didn't create, but it slowly converts into shit the longer HBO has it (like GoT).

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Btfo

I'm sorry but couldn't you have just accomplished the same thing but saying "100% historically accurate" like all the sane people say?

>everything HBO makes is shit or turns into shit

>The Sopranos
>Twins Peaks
>The Wire
>Rome
>Deadwood
>Six Feet Under
>Band of Brothers
>The Pacific
>Generation Kill
>Tales of the Crypt
>Curb Your Enthusiasm


>all shit

Ok friendo ;). Didn't even bother posting Game of Thrones or Sillicon Valley which are still on air. But God damn you couldn't be more of a troll/cynical asshole/plain idiot.

So can anyone reflect the accuracy and significance of portrayed history?
Is it believable and well made?

I am curious if it would be worth watching

>its popular and people like it therefore its shit

oh fuck off

yes

Fucking read the post, retard.

First your complexly ass blasted comment then trying to act like a nice guy.

Who the fuck from the three was trying to be nice (I'm the first reply) and I think, and said that you are dumb fucking idiot.
Still think so. Idiot.

it's cool to be contrarian, man.

normies don't like you, so naturally you don't like them and anything they like. that's how it works.

I like you (please kill yourself).

>this projection

beautiful

The happy twist ending about the illegitimate son is the biggest ass pull in the history of television desu. Otherwise a good series.

Totally worth watching. Not totally accurate. One moment that really stuck with me is when Ceasar says he's a soldier and not one for religion while historically he was the Pontifex Maximus.

i hate all popular stuff and i love rome.so fun at least season 1 and caesar marc antony and pompey +senate cato and cicero are great.a drop of real history here and there and u got the perfect historical fiction with sex and atia who confusesme all the time.
but decent outcome nevertheless

Lots of inaccuracies but quite entertaining and pretty decent at portraying the general thrust of events.

I loved their version of Mark Anthony.

That's condescension, you utter retard.

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HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME

>Is HBO's Rome Veeky Forums approved?

The perfect mix of historical authenticity and movie fun for me.

Any shows like Rome but for ancient Greece?

Any gay porn

Boku no Pico

>WUZ

>Any shows like Rome but for ancient Greece?

Not really, Rome was an unsuccessful experiment for HBO.
Too expensive to film, couldn't possibly make its money back.
They switched to a more cheapo, violence and boobs heavy Spartacus model and its working out better for them. CGI is just faster, and cheaper, than having a small city constructed in Tunisia to film in.

>whhaaaaa they showed her boobies
>filth
Stick to PBS. Unless your fanatical ass found a reason for it to be Heresy.

More like rampant nudity that often serves zero purpose but to get guys horny.

Rome was a rather sexual city. Matter of fact, everyone at any time was fucking like rabbits before le degenerate/decadent meme came about.

Anyway, your favorite filthy pagans the Romans loved to get their dick wet, and if that means one can enjoy an unbeckoned pair of ripe titties in the process, so be it.

The idea of "degeneracy" originates with the Romans
>from Latin degeneratus, past participle of degenerare "to be inferior to one's ancestors, to become unlike one's race or kind, fall from ancestral quality,"
Concern about it is what drove Augustine to crack down even on his own daughter, and to get Virgil to write poetry with an ancestral role model for morality.

Romans also probably loved to masturbate, you don't see that being portrayed all the time.

>Augustine
I meant Augustus

Is the Bible Veeky Forums approved?

i mean in a cultural/religious kind of way. not in a historically accurate way

>Black Samson
Fuck off with that noise.

samson wasn't a real person anyway what matter is his race?

Augustus was one guy and Rome went right back to being "degenerate" within a generation of his death.

I wish we had prostitutes everywhere and easily accessible for the average person like the romans did.

>The idea of "degeneracy" originates with the Romans
And?

>Romans also probably loved to masturbate, you don't see that being portrayed all the time
Annnnnd?

No shit he wasn't a real person, a lot of the Jewish figures in the OT have little historical evidence for their existence, that doesn't mean a levantine semite should look like sambo.

>wish we had prostitutes everywhere and easily accessible
Hell, buy your own sex slave girl.

That would be preferable to having to spend somewhere between 200 to 250 dollars at one of the "massage parlors" around here.

And it's pornographic filth, like so many HBO productions.

How do you know you wouldn't be some sex slave yourself? You know if you were an exposed infant who was rescued, that's most likely what would happen to you, regardless of gender?

You are silly. Me and him are probably members of the privileged or semi-privileged classes in our countries. Assuming that the US had sex slaves for a moment we would most likely be importing them from latin america and south east asia.

>>And it's pornographic filth, like so many HBO productions.
And like so many HBO productions it is all the more awesome for that.


Now please show feet my prudish byzantine princess, I'll pretend that Byzantium was a proper successor to Rome if you do.

>And it's pornographic filth, like so many HBO productions
So you have no pertinent points. Also, I'm sure years of sucking jesus's dick made you quite the authority on the finer points of cinema.

>How do you know you wouldn't be some sex slave yourself?
It was a mild little fantasy user and I were entertaining. Fantasies tend to involve favor towards the protagonist. Are you able to have fun with anything?

>the finer points of cinema
You must be joking. Next you'll be calling the nudity in Game of Thrones "finer points of cinema"

10/10

>Assuming that the US had sex slaves for a moment we would most likely be importing them from latin america and south east asia

It absolutely exists in the US. But you have to be either rich and/or connected to a forlorn, dark, flithy part of society to find it.

I wouldn't personally buy and own a a slave, though,. Plenty of willing "role players" in the BDSM community :^)

>>Are you able to have fun with anything?
She's a conservative christian, granted a smarter one then most but at the end of the day they are very boring people. Especially when it comes to sexual activities that are outside the boring confines their religion allows for.

>>I wouldn't personally buy and own a a slave, though,. Plenty of willing "role players" in the BDSM community :^)
Meh I was mostly joking about that anyway. Besides, most of the people in that community are rather unappealing physically.

That said, I'm curious what sorts of sex slaves are actually available in this country. The human trafficking stuff is kinda overblown and I doubt there's all that many really.

Is it bad that I had a man crush on Titus Pullo?

And you must be joking if you think anyone takes your strawman seriously. You have a serious problem of doing this.

You be willing to dismiss HBO series as "pornographic filth" is as shallow and obtuse as if I were to dismiss The Last Temptation of Christ as "cultist filth".

He was a ballsy sonofabitch user, nothing wrong with respecting that.

>tfw plenty of normies you know think you're exciting and interesting, some after just knowing you for a few minutes, but Veeky Forums says you're boring
Don't know how to feel now, maybe people irl just flatter me to make me feel better

The Last Temptation of Christ is a companion piece to Apocalypto and should be viewed as such. As a stand-alone piece and viewed strictly as a religious homage, it doesn't work.

maybe you don't put on your "sperglords for christ" persona in real life

>Pornographic filth
Go to bed gramps

>most of the people in that community are rather unappealing physically
Eh, depends on the event and location. But man, when they get hot, they get unspeakably hot.

>I'm curious what sorts of sex slaves are actually available in this country
Hit the nail on the head ealier mentioning Latins and Asians.Every last one of them an illegal immigrant or kidnapped.

Whoops, I mean the Passion of Christ.

The Last Temptation isn't even a Christian movie, so I don't know where you're going there.

>The Last Temptation of Christ is a companion piece to Apocalypto

What in satan's burning asshole are you babbling about?

I do sometimes. One guy who was talking with me, who was an atheist, found it very interesting and he barely knew me.

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Hey, that's like, your opinion
I'm not so keen on the softcore pornography either but I can tolerate it because I like the rest of the series so much, it's about setting priorities and putting things into perspective, some people are better at this than others
Also sex sells and one could say the scenes help in creating a certain atmosphere, so it helps the narrative

> isn't even a Christian movie
>mfw

Last Temptation is boring when it's not being torture porn. I could name 50 HBO episodes that run circles around it in writing and directing.

It's not a Christian movie. And yes, it is a bad movie.

I liked the first season, but the second one repulsed me with Lucius' personal crusade which seemed to take the entirety of the show

>>Asians
You mean southeast asians right? If not I am going to be righteously pissed off I get charged so much at some of the korean joints. You'd think sex slaves would be cheaper.

No

How is a movie written entirely about the life of Christ and directed by a christian not Christian?

How is Scorsese a Christian? Does he even go to church?

It's a movie about the life of Christ, but it's a non-Christian take on it, influenced by Gnosticism. Just because a movie has Jesus as a supernatural figure means it is Christian any more than Pirates of the Caribbean is a pagan movie.

>You mean southeast asians right?
Probably. From the usual places you'd expect, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc, but there's certainly "imports" from Japan, Korea, and China.

True, he identifies as Catholic, but c'mon

>Scorsese has commented, "I'm a lapsed Catholic. But I am Roman Catholic; there's no way out of it."[107]

>Scorsese has been married five times.

I think the things you're talking about aren't the typical escorts and such you can find on the internet, it seems like this is the sort of stuff where like you said, you need either stupid amounts of money, connections, or both to get access.

From my own experience with assorted "massage parlors" they don't seem to qualify. Too easy to find and while the prices are higher then I would like they are affordable enough for someone without stupid amounts of money to be able to stop by once every week or two.

>How is Scorsese a Christian?
Many of his films subtly explore Catholic themes. You'd know this if you knew fuck all about movies. He became a lapsed Catholic later on, but was practicing at the time.

>but it's a non-Christian take on it, influenced by Gnosticism
You mean an original take on it after the 5000 previous films featuring Jesus being luminous and charismatic. And Gnosticism is a branch of Christianity whether you like it or not.

So what if they subtly explore Catholic themes? So does the TV series Daredevil, doesn't mean I'd define it as a "Christian series"

If Gnosticism is a branch of Christianity, then so is Islam

>So does the TV series Daredevil
Daredevil isn't about Jesus Christ.

>If Gnosticism is a branch of Christianity, then so is Islam
Yes, actually, considering the amount of texts the Qu'ran "borrowed" from the Bible. It even acknowledges Jesus as a prophet.

And of course the Bible stems from the Torah, thus why they're under the umbrella of "Abrahamic".

>Daredevil isn't about Jesus Christ.
So? It's more Christian than the Last Temptation.

>It even acknowledges Jesus as a prophet.

Buddhism acknowledges Hercules as a mighty god, that doesn't make it Greek paganism.

Yeah, Life of a Collosus was pretty great on that point.

Having said that, Ceasar was certainly different things to different people. It sound pretty consistent for him to justify himself to the optimates as PF and the legions as Imperator.

You forgot Oz

>Buddhism acknowledges Hercules as a mighty god, that doesn't make it Greek paganism.
but Hercules isn't important to Buddhism

Even if he were a crucial figure in Buddhism, Buddhism would still be a distinct religion from Hellenic paganism.

>It's more Christian than the Last Temptation
I'm really struggling to understand what would make Last Temptation christian for you, beyond some petty theological narrative.

Christianity is a theology.

Not him but you're missing my original point. Islam couldn't exist without Christianity before it. Gnosticism is faaaar more related to the movement, and perhaps your only argument against it is muh heresy. Considering the amount of bitching here regarding Protestants as "heretics", it pretty irrelevant imo.

If it's a philosophy/religion involving Jesus as a central narrative , it's Christian, simple as that.

Of many different stripes and interpretations.

>Is HBO's Rome Veeky Forums approved?
It takes a few (usually not impossible) liberties but tells the story in a way that's actually far more historically accurate than most period pieces. Don't take it as gospel but the outline is right on.

HE WAS A CONSOLE OF ROME!

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