Carl Goff wrote: |
The 13th Warrior and Centurion are probably my favorite inaccurate movies.
The 13th Warrior botched the costuming horribly and the plot was silly, but they did a good job on the Norsemen's cultural attitudes, and it's still a lot of fun. Centurion did a better job on the costuming, but the plot was only okay, and the 9th Legion's fate isn't positively confirmed -- although the idea of them getting slaughtered by the Picts does appeal to me. Also, the gore is exaggerated, sometimes to ludicrous levels. |
the scene of the initial attack on the men by the picts has a curious quality that i think almost NONE of the romans die to chest or centre mass wounds, all are cut to the head neck arms and legs i believe... which sees to perhaps have been intentional, suggesting the director maybe thought it looked silly to be stabbed through the armour and went for other shots, by contrast the picts are killed every which way.
could be wrong, its just a thought that occured to me