More dumbing-down of history...
Saw it last night on it's UK premiere on ITV.
Appalling. A total work of fiction, no semblance of historical accuracy at all.
There hasn't been a decent historical drama/film since the 'Sharpe' series.
I'm about 3/4 of the way through this now, having taped it last night from PBS.
This movie is just laughingly bad. Everyone running around screaming and not much else. Too bad, as I was so looking forward to it when I heard it was being broadcast.
And, as someone mentioned in another post, the truth is far more dramatic than the fiction. Nero didn't poison his mother. First, he tried to have her drowned. When it turned out she could swim, he had a soldier slice off her head. (Okay, so maybe she wasn't beheaded exactly, but soldier did do the deed with his sword.) Adn't Claudius didn't drink his poison in the middle of the afternoon. He ate in a plate of mushrooms during dinner, and I believe died in bed.
Oh, yeah. Boudicca lost so she ran off and poisoned herself and daughters to keep from being paraded through the streets of Rome. (Hmmm...maybe it was old Cleopatra who was worried about parades.)
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and in a thread about dumbing down of history as well. Nice one.
To be more accurate the Romans abandoned England before the Saxons moved in, and the Saxons weren't alone there was also Angles and Jutes involved. Those tribes were invited in by the native britons (whatever rubbish is in that dreadful King Arthur film) to protect them (from the more savage Caledonian Celts) after the Romans gave up that task. It was only later they decided they needed living space and took over England. They didn't have to fight the romans at all (well not in britain anyway, the probably fought them a few times while they were still in Germania).