Other then that the movie is pretty good with action packed gladiator battles. A dramatized recreation of the destruction of pompeii and herculaneum when mount vesuvius erupted in 79 ad. But how accurate was the movie to the actual historic event?
Pompeii (dir. Paul W.S. Anderson, 2014)
The film opens with a quote from pliny the younger commenting on the cries of devastation heard from the citizens of pompeii, intercut with images of the victims encased in solid magma.
Very bad film for kids of any age as the aim of the director is only to produce horror.
By the end of the movie one senses that anderson and company were going for a little bit more, particularly in the, you know, profundity department. About press copyright contact us creators advertise developers terms privacy policy & safety how youtube works test new features press copyright contact us creators. Her story is set against everyday life in pompeii, just before the eruption of the famous volcano. However, the action scenes are choice, and once the clouds of ash and shooting fire and churning seas start up, pompeii achieves a momentum that most sensationalist studio fare can’t touch.
As mount vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as pompeii crumbles around him.
It is a mind dulling simplistic movie that is running on effects more than on storyline and characters. Pompeii in the movies paul w.s. About press copyright contact us creators advertise developers terms privacy policy & safety how youtube works test new features press copyright contact us creators. The film opens showing a celtic village of horsemen.
Scene from the 2014 film pompeii by sony
The real phusical events of pompeii destruction are distorted. The final half an hour of this movie is filled with apocalyptic scenes, with flaming rocks raining from the volcano and destoying buildings, tidal waves from the sea mowing down everything in their path and widespread death and destruction. The ending to the movie, was at least better than if they had actually managed to outride the pyroclastic cloud. There is no camera movement.
Whole city blocks slide into the sea and a.
Killing scenes are so much overused that in the end the whole movie becomes boring and predictable for adults. The movie pompeii i thought was really good. Visually, the film consists of staged sets, rather like modern stage plays. 2014's pompeii is a bad movie, which is awesome because it's so bad that i can already tell that someday we'll be making fun of it as much as we make fun of 90s disaster movies like volcano and dante's peak today.
Anderson's 2014 movie pompeii (poster above) is the first 3d version of several that have portrayed the town's destruction almost two millenia ago.but it's just the latest in a subject that's been popular since the late eighteenth century.
Pompeii doesn't move any boundaries for the movie industry, nor does it bring about anything revolutionary or impressive. The eruption of vesuvius interrupts the film's best scene, in which corvus forces atticus and milo to reenact the massacre that wiped out the celt's people; In 2014 hollywood released a movie based on the 79 ad eruption that buried that city of pompeii. A young blind woman and her general misery provide the focus for this 1913 silent film.
A massacre that senator corvus committed.
Billowing clouds of ash swallow the ancient roman town and fireballs rain down from above; Pompeii is a 2014 romantic historical disaster film produced and directed by paul w. The only thing i don't like about it is the ending (won't spoil it) which is about the romance between the two main characters finally being able to kiss. “pompeii” has a killer ending.
One of the worst catastrophes in history, the destruction of pompeii has become legend.
All the drama of the film comes to a head here, and we get to watch five doofuses in giant golden helmets recount the death of milo's family. Pompeii (2014) parents guide and certifications from around the world.
