Spartacus

Personally I did not like the movie Spartacus at all.  I tried to watch the whole thing in one sitting and by the time that I got to the intermission I was falling asleep.  The movie was too long for my liking and a lot of the scenes could have been made a lot shorter.  I also felt like there were a lot of unclosed ends all throughout the movie.  Based on what professor Shelton said during lecture there was a lot of disagreements during the filming of the movie and I could kind of see that because I felt like my mind was shifting to different things but in general there was a flow to the movie, I could see what the director, writers, and producers were trying to create.  I think that if there would have been more direction and maybe fewer disagreements and they would of all had the same idea then I think that the movie could have been a lot better.  I really cannot think of something that I liked about the movie Spartacus, yes there are things that could have been done better but there wasn’t anything bad about it either so I think that I have neutral feelings about the movie I don’t think it was bad but I also don’t think it was that good either.  I think that if the director would have gone back and redone the whole religion part of the movie and taken out the crucifixion of Spartacus and made him be distracted during battle because Varinia had gone to labor and got to meet his son and then died then I think that would have been a better death then the one that he had in the movie. Then Varinia leaving with Batiatus and riding past where Spartacus was killed and telling his tombstone that his son was a freeman and then leave, I think that would have been a better ending because it would be bittersweet that Spartacus never got to see his son be a freeman but Varinia and her son were able to leave slavery behind and be free and Spartacus was finally free because he was dead.  With these changes and more editing of the movie I think that it could have been a lot better.