Pompeii

I bet Jon's happy to be someplace warm for a change.

this will probably bomb harder than hercules did.

The only thing that could possibly make this not a total train wreck is if 1.5 hours of the movie is the destruction of the city with amazing special effects. Unfortunately, it looks like 1.5 hours will be stupid love story with 20 minutes of volcano awesomeness.

In the movie Troy, there was a very cool (though ultimately manipulative) moment: A video shot of a beach with a voice over saying that a battle happened here more than 3 thousand years ago and that we are still talking about it (it's manipulative because the location of the city is unclear, in fact the war and the city itself may very well be legends). In the case of Pompeii though, the city is very real, the eruption documented and some corpses still in plain sight, so they could create a narration that is concluded by documentary footage of Pompeii today. That could be pretty good.

Sadly, the subject matter can also be used to make some abominable "divine punishment" drivel, so all bets are off. One thing is certain though, Emily Browning is always a plus.

damn i realized the black guy is mr eko from lost, dude has a badass voice

Maester Chuk_sl said:

this will probably bomb harder than hercules did.

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It's a Feb movie so prolly not.

It was entertaining but a little poinless if everyone dies?