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
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 619 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO Home Video
DVD Reviews of Rome - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Too Much Like A Soap Opera
Summary: 3 Stars
After reading all the positive reviews, Rome didn't measure up to my expectations.
Excessive planning, scheming, and dialogue with a lack of action,
makes Rome feel more like a big budget soap opera.
Not bad for a mini-series, but not up to par with movies like
Gladiator, Braveheart, Ben Hur, Kingdom of Heaven, etc.
On a positive note...the casting is much better than most
Hollywood movies of the same genre. Cleopatra is not only cute,
but actually appears to be egyptian.(Unlike Elizabeth Taylor)
Overall not bad, but I don't plan on purchasing Season 2 unless
I find it for a bargain price at a garage sale.
DVD Review: Love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not one to watch most things more than once, this HBO series is an exception. DVD Review: I enjoyed it.
Summary: 3 Stars
3.5 stars. Unlike a lot of reviews here, I didn't have a problem with the sex in this series. I thought it was realistic for the time. I did think the soap opera-ish stuff bordered on overkill-though the history books can and does support such a notion. I found the timeline whacky. Julius Ceasar's motivation elusive. Vorenus and Pollo's mancrush disturbing and the Cleopatra detour confusing. Still, I was reasonable entertained. Go figure.DVD Review: ROME ON DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
GREAT SERIES, LOVED THE SERIES AND RECOMMEND IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT, ADDED TO MY COLLECTION!!!!!!!!!1DVD Review: Let me get right to it......
Summary: 5 Stars
This was the best mini-series every created. Period. The Casting Director is worth her weight in diamonds and gold. Every charater was 100% spot on. An amazing series. Pity the BBC and HBO only made two seasons.
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.Running Time: 720 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?026359284823 Manufacturer No:?92848Family 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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