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    Imperium: Classics

    Imperium: Classics

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    Formidable adversaries are arrayed against you. Your people stand ready. History beckons. In your...

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David McK (3816 KP) rated Gladiator (2000) in Movies

Nov 20, 2024  
Gladiator (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
2000 | Action, Classics, Drama
9
8.3 (74 Ratings)
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Are you not entertained?
"The General who became a slave.
The slave who became an Gladiator.
The Gladiator who defied an Emperor.
A gripping tale, is it not ..."

So says Joaquin Phoenix's Emperor Commodus towards the end of this movie, talking to his erstwhile friend Maximus (Russel Crowe), after seizing power in the early parts of the film and believing the General to be dead in Germania (as per his command) and after also killing Maximus's wife and son.

The plot, then, basically, is a straight A to B revenge.

This, I believe, is also the film that launched Russel Crowe and Phoenix both to stardom - I struggle, personally, to think of any other since where either have been as electric as they are in this movie.

It may also help that they have a stacked supporting cast, including the likes of Oliver Reed (in his last onscreen role), Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi and Djimon Hounsou and some spectacular action scenes of the Roman games ...
  
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David McK (3816 KP) rated Sword in The Storm (Rigante #1) in Books

Sep 7, 2025  
Sword in The Storm (Rigante #1)
Sword in The Storm (Rigante #1)
David Gemmell | 1998 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
8
8.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is the first in David Gemmell's Rigante quartet of books, which is really largely a duolougy of two: the first two novels (this and Midnight Falcon in a quasi historical Scottish highlands setting, and the latter two (Ravenheart and Stormrider) set centuries on from the events of the previous novels, still in a quasi-historical Scottish highlands setting (more akin to the times of the English Civil Wars, with the first two more akin to the times of the Roman Empire)

All four novels are also largely 'coming of age' tales, with this entry following the childhood and early adulthood of Connavar, who is given the soul name "The Sword in the Storm" at this birth and who -initially, at least - grows up believing his father - who died shortly after he was born - to be a coward, despite his stepfather Ruathain (his fathers best friend) trying to convince him otherwise.

As with all of Gemmell's work, well worth a read!