sharks in the colosseum...
isnt that too over the top?
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I watched The Last Sharknado: It's About Time earlier today. After that nothing shark-related is too over the top.
shareI heard Henry Winkler will be making a guest appearance to reprise his role as Arthur Fonzarelli.
shareDepends on your definition of over the top. Apparently, the Romans did manage to flood the Colosseum and stage a naval battle in it... This was done elsewhere fairly often but the Colosseum must have been a huge amount of work, what with all the belowground chambers and tunnels under the area that needed to be filled with water. Sharks, sound like they would be no additional trouble, particularly since the Romans wouldn't have cared if they survived beyond the day of the event.
shareRome is pretty far from the ocean, sharks need salt water, maybe bull sharks could survive the long haul but good luck catching one alive
shareI've got faith that people who build those incredible aqueducts could manage to ship sharks in big tanks of salt water up the Tiber 10 or 15 miles. I mean, it's crazy, but flooding the place and having naval battles in it is already crazy.
By the way, and this is something I would love to see on film (probably skipping this) there's a novel by David Drake called Killer about a humanoid monster from outer space captured where it crashed in Africa and shipped to Rome for the games in the Colosseum. Naturally the guys who capture it don't get that it is intelligent and it escapes into the city - about to reproduce. So, basically, Alien meets Gladiator.
oh, that would be a good movie. If only Hollywood would still be willing to create new interesting films instead of regurgitating the same crap for cheap easy profits.
sharehow about the guy casually riding a rhinoceros.....
it just feels like this movie is a parody of the original.
I guess Ridley is trying to put some new stuff in this movie.
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