Tuesday 17 August 2010

Centurion: Blood Guts, and Romano-Pictish relationships

You know, I think the movie night gang’s managed to benefit …

A bit …

From a bit of a feck-up by Brentwood Library.

We managed to get hold of a copy of the Neil Marshall directed historical drama, Centurion a few days before its official release … !

Not that I think any of us were complaining.

Because I believe we’ve caught a good film, however it slipped through the net …

Really, Essex Council’s library service really should keep an eye on these things: that’s how copyright violators and video pirates get hold of these things, honestly.

But at any rate, I know that Movie Night Adrian, Kevin D and I — along with Squeaky and Big Josh — managed to catch it, tonight.

Seems Big Josh caught it early, too …

Cie La Vie …

Centurion is set in the Britain of of 117AD: loosely based on stories of the disappearance of Rome’s 9th Legion, it sees Quintus Dias — played by Michæl Fassbender — leading the last legionaries out of Caledonia after an disastrous attempted on Pictish tribes, north of what was to become Hadrian’s Wall.

And I’ve got to admit, Centurion is really worth watching: at least, it got me happily raving about it and Adrian rating it as “Hmmm … Entertaining!”

About the only hold-out was Kevin D, bless him, who’s still a touch undecided about it.

Over-all, though … ?

Two out of three isn’t bad …

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