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Hornblower - The Complete Collection

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starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann

October 16, 2006
You might wish to correct typo in first line of your Synopsis - 1794 not 1974...

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The Last Legion [2007]

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starring: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Peter Mullan, Kevin McKidd, John Hannah
directed by: Doug Lefler

February 18, 2008
I've never been so disappointed by a COlin Firth movie! I read the book and I expected a lot more from this movie. The script has little to do with the book and the plot is weak and predictable.

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300 [HD DVD] [2007]

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starring: Gerard Butler, Rodrigo Santoro, David Wenham, Michael Fassbender
directed by: Zack Snyder

October 01, 2007
Version: U.S.A / Region Free
VC-1 BD-50
Running time: 1:56:32
Movie size: 24,961,910,784 bytes
Disc size: 34,803,466,472 byytes
Average video bit rate: 16.80 Mbps
LPCM 5.1 4608Kbps 16-bit
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 16-bit
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps

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300 (2 Disc Special Edition) [2007]

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starring: Gerard Butler, Rodrigo Santoro, David Wenham, Michael Fassbender, Andrew Pleavin
directed by: Zack Snyder

October 01, 2007
I did not want to say much about the film or the DVD, because both are without a doubt great and dearly recommended, but the description contains one flaw, cause it claims the DVD would have the DTS-Soundtrack on it, which it doesn't. I ask for an update on the Features, but untill that comes through, this has to do.
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300 [2007]

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starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan
directed by: Zack Snyder

November 26, 2007
I did not want to say much about the film or the DVD, because both are without a doubt great and dearly recommended, but the description contains one flaw, cause it claims the DVD would have the DTS-Soundtrack on it, which it doesn't. I ask for an update on the Features, but untill that comes through, this has to do.
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Braveheart [1995]

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starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack
directed by: Mel Gibson

May 17, 2004
Gibson surrounds himself with brilliant actors who snatch the scenes off him, while he snatches the entire movie straight back from all of them. Randall Wallace's script is a stand-out as is Angus MacFadyen as the haunted 17th Earl of Bruce and the unforgettable Patrick MacGoohan as Edward, Hammer of the Scots, while the final charge at Bannockburn always sends chills down my spine.

Any time some English person wants to sound off about how unrealistic Braveheart is, I always tell them:

'It is unrealistic - the reality was much worse.'

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Kingdom Of Heaven - Definitive Edition [2005]

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by: Orlando Bloom
starring: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Edward Norton, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis
directed by: Ridley Scott

March 05, 2007
The 194-minute director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven gives the film more room to breathe, but it won't make converts of the unbelievers. Instead, it's a more leisurely paced version of the film for the faithful who liked the theatrical cut and want to revisit its world and characters in a little more detail. Closer in style and tone to sixties roadshows than Scott's Gladiator, and all the better for it, in many ways it's the richest and most ambitious of the recent batch of epics. It's more of a journey in the extended version, and a bloodier one (the added violence will please the gore hounds), although there are a few moments that tip over into self-indulgence and could have been tightened or omitted entirely.

The extended opening allows more character detail, ... Read More:

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Troy (Director's Cut) [2004]

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starring: Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson
directed by: Wolfgang Petersen

October 01, 2007
I never really got the nack of 3 hour films, 'Lord of the rings' etc. but Troy is a powerful action packed film with plenty of hard fighting.
Troy is an 'Epic' you may find the term when you look at Kingdom of heaven, Gladiator or Master and Commander. I can clearly see Troy up with films like that. As for the film iself, it has an amazing cast and i was surprised to see Sean Bean as well since i didnt read the small print lol bu yeah and it featured Peter O'toole who ive seen in many other films. As for the special effects, what can i say it looked real from the start,the fighting was was gorey from what you might of seen in Gladiator like Stab, Chopped heads of etc.
A long time ago i saw the orignal cut of Troy and i was not impressed but with the directors cut it is ... Read More:

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The Last Samurai [HD DVD] [2003]

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starring: Tom Cruise
directed by: Edward Zwick

November 20, 2006
It was a risky storyline but i do believe they pulled it off. Tom Cruise plays a borderline alcoholic/burn out U.S cavalry soldier who travels to Japan to train the Emperors army in the art of modern warfare. He finds a country on the brink of civil war as the ancient Samurai clash with the modernist elements of the 'new' Japanese government.

Cruise is captured during the very first battle and is incarcerated in a mountain village of the Samurai. He quickly learns their language (yeah right) and begins to empathise with their ways and traditions. His loyalty turns and he finds himself standing shoulder to shoulder against the new Japanese army, sent to remove the Samurai.

Good action scenes abound.

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300 [Blu-ray] [2007]

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starring: Gerard Butler, Rodrigo Santoro, David Wenham, Michael Fassbender, Andrew Pleavin
directed by: Zack Snyder

October 01, 2007
Version: U.S.A / Region Free
VC-1 BD-50
Running time: 1:56:32
Movie size: 24,961,910,784 bytes
Disc size: 34,803,466,472 byytes
Average video bit rate: 16.80 Mbps
LPCM 5.1 4608Kbps 16-bit
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 16-bit
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps