Rome - The Complete First Season
by Michael Apted, Allen Coulter, Timothy Van Patten
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Actor: Ciaran Hinds, Indira Varma, James Purefoy, Lindsay Duncan, Polly WalkerDirector: Allen Coulter, Michael Apted, Timothy Van Patten
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 619 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Studio: HBO Home Video
DVD Reviews of Rome - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: lagging
Summary: 1 Stars
I CANT REVIEW IT BECAUSE I HAVE NOT RECIEVED IT!
I'm overseas in kosovo. Its been 1 month and nothing yet.
can someone please give me an answer!
DVD Review: Addicted over and over
Summary: 5 Stars
Love history, hate reading about it. Love sex, violence, learning about cultures not influenced by the Judeo-Christian ethic? Then love Rome Season 1. DVD Review: Compelling... addictive
Summary: 5 Stars
You'll find many reviews here discussing the impressive production values in "Rome", and some mentioning that HBO's involvement allowed for things to be depicted that wouldn't be allowed on network television. (And the show is inappropriate for youngsters or those offended by occasional course language and vivid depictions of sex.) Part of the reason for the lavish production was the sharing of costs between HBO, the BBC and RAI (the Italian Public Service Broadcaster).
"Rome" benefits from a dedication to hold nothing back. The sets look convincing enough to me to believe I'm looking at the ancient Senate, or Cleopatra's palace or a humble domestic abode or alleyway of 2,000 years ago. The costumes, etc. are equally impressive. The cast is first-rate as well, from the lowliest soldier to Caesar. I read a review complaining about the English and Scottish accents. Since I don't speak Latin the accents didn't bother me a bit.
The historical period depicted begins during the reign of Pompey Magnus, while Gaius Julius Caesar and Marc Antony are battling in Gaul. This first season ends with the end of the reign of Julius Caesar.
Several plot lines are woven together as expertly as the threads of a fine Persian rug. Ciar?n Hinds is featured as Caesar and he is believably regal. Caesar's legions include Kevin McKidd as officer Lucius Vorenus and Ray Stevenson as foot soldier Titus Pullo. Early in the series they are sent on a suicide mission, and both are rewarded after they survive. Noble Vorenus returns home to the family he hasn't seen in years to find a wife surprised to see him. Pullo returns to Rome eager to continue his rough-house ways, drinking and chasing women. Stevenson is particularly effective in this role, making Pullo a kind of barbarian-with-a-heart-of-gold.
Back in Rome the family of the Julii are guided by beautiful, scheming Atia, played with delicious claws and fangs and other body parts occasionally visible by Polly Walker.
Each episode is a miniature epic and you feel compelled to watch the next episode. Cancelled at the end of the second season because of the costs involved - I was ready for more of this excellent show, but also pleased at the writer's ability to wrap up major story lines.
DVD Review: A Masterpeice
Summary: 5 Stars
HBO outdid itself with Rome.
I could praise the acting (great); the sets (phenomenal); the costumes; (stellar); the writing (brilliant).
But what you have in this series is the recreation of a consistent and believable world-that of ancient Rome in the time of Caesars.
Sex, bad language, violence? Yes, lots.
But so engrossing and rich an experience for adults.
Truly, this is television for adults.
DVD Review: Viva Italia
Summary: 5 Stars
I am working my way thru season one of the HBO series ROME. I am bummed that they stopped after the second season. What a great series.
Description of Rome - The Complete First Season
(HBO Dramatic Series) Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people; epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, two soldiers, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo unwittingly become entwined in the historical events of ancient Rome. A serialized drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, husbands and wives, ROME chronicles a turbulent era that saw the death of the republic and the birth of an empire.DVD Features:
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Family dysfunction. Treachery. Betrayal. Coarse profanity. Brutal violence. Graphic (and sometimes brutal) sex. No, it's not The Sopranos, it's Rome, HBO's madly ambitious series that bloodily splatters the glory of Rome just as savagely as Monty Python and the Holy Grail soiled the good name of Camelot (but with far fewer laughs; very few funny things happen on the way to this forum). Set in 52 B.C. (Before Cable), Rome charts the dramatic shifts in the balance of power between former friends Pompey Magnus (Kenneth Cranham), leader of the Senate, and Julius Caesar (Ciaran Hinds), whose imminent return after eight years to Rome after conquering the Gauls, has the ruling class up in arms. At the heart of Rome is the odd couple friendship between two soldiers who fortuitously become heroes of the people. Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) is married, honorable, and steadfast. Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) is an amoral rogue whose philosophy is best summed up, "I kill my enemies, take their gold, and enjoy their women." Among Rome's most compelling subplots is Lucius's strained relationship with his wife, Niobe (Indira Varma), who is surprised to see her husband alive (but not as surprised as he is to find her upon his homecoming with a newborn baby in her arms!) Any viewer befuddlement over Rome's intrigues and machinations, and determining who is hero and who is foe, disappears the minute Golden Globe-nominee Polly Walker appears as Atia, Caesar's formidable niece and a villainess for the ages. In the first hour alone, she offers her already married daughter as a bride to the recently widowed Pompey. One eagerly awaits to see what (or who) she'll do next as much as we anticipate her comeuppance in the final episode.
Rome is a painstakingly mounted production that earned eight well-deserved Emmy nominations in such categories as costumes, set design, and art direction. Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter) was honored with a Director's Guild Award for the first episode, "The Stolen Eagle." But artistic considerations aside, instantly addicted viewers will agree with Atia, who notes at one point, "I adore the secrecy, the intrigue. It's most thrilling." --Donald Liebenson
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