Pompeii [2014]

Karen Cook7 said:The main issue is the whole premise—Pompeii (turns out people aren't big fans of tragic romances). It’s kind of ridiculous to try and pull off a love story set in that tiny window between a guy becoming a gladiator and everything blowing up—love at first sight followed by sudden death within a day or two, maybe a week tops. The opening sequence showing how the lead ends up a gladiator is pretty pointless. And that whole subplot where the general is obsessed with the lead actress? Totally forced. The entire plot is just one cliché after another without any actual logic...

Titanic? 🤷

It’s basically a love story with a pretty grim ending... talk about instant attraction—love at first sight happens in just four days between the high society types and the commoners. It’s that exact same dynamic you see between Cal and Rosa. Honestly, Pompeii is just a total carbon copy of the Titanic concept, only you add an actual, literal catastrophe to the mix...

Sean Johnson40 urbanjackal13 said:Please, don't tell me you actually like this garbage... You're starting to sound like the director's lawyer.
Sometimes I catch myself wondering... when I'm reading through your comments—and those from other self-proclaimed "experts" around here—if everyone is just losing their sense of taste and standards altogether...

Anderson is one of those "good enough" directors who can actually pull off a decent flick when he wants to—I mean, look at *Soldier-Event Horizon*... that was solid. So why wouldn't I dig this? It’s pure, mindless popcorn entertainment, and honestly, it kept me entertained. This whole wave of snobbery is really starting to grate on my nerves—are people here just losing their sense of taste and basic criteria altogether? And yet, everyone's already rushing out to see it...

Predictable acting, a totally cliché script where you pretty much know the ending before the opening credits even finish rolling—just the same dumb plot we've seen a hundred times before. Honestly, everything was just so predictable and incredibly boring... It’s one of those loud, overproduced movies that seems to think the audience is brain-dead, assuming we'll all just fall into a trance because of some flashy costumes and mediocre CGI disasters. In reality, it was so tedious I couldn't even make it past the first 15 minutes. I ended up fast-forwarding through the rest just to preserve my own mental health... Thank God I didn't go to the theater for this one; I definitely wouldn't be regretting wasting money on a ticket.

The movie is called Pompeii. I mean, what exactly did you think was going to happen? That Kirk and Spock were gonna roll up in the Enterprise and just stop the eruption... right? 🤷 Yeah, yeah, yeah... fifteen minutes tops... I don't really buy it though, because obviously, you know the details of the movie way better than I do...

Come on, briskhound2, stop embarrassing yourself. You quote me like you're somehow clearing your name, but then you just end up stumbling around in the dark.

You and this movie are basically the same thing to me as a NASCAR race. If I actually sat down to analyze all your nonsense, I'd be typing for half an hour.

Sean Johnson40 said:Come on, briskhound2, stop embarrassing yourself. You quote me like you're somehow clearing your name, but then you just end up stumbling around in the dark.

You and this movie are basically the same thing to me as a NASCAR race. If I actually sat down to analyze all your nonsense, I'd be typing for half an hour.

What exactly are we even blasting here...? 🤷 You’re always the first one to jump into these threads about some big popcorn blockbuster, and it’s always the same line—"I only watched like 15 minutes of it." C'mon...

You and movies... honestly, it's just like me and car racing. If I actually sat down to analyze all your nonsense, it’d probably take me half an hour of typing just to get through it...

Just leave it to me. I’ve got a mountain of arguments—like, seriously, close to 700 comments worth—that are gonna prove once and for all that the movie and I are totally on the same page... 🍿

Good grief... I mean, seriously, watching snakes fall from an airplane is basically the spiritual successor to those terrible sequels we all suffered through... I can't even remember the last time I sat through something this underwhelming. It’s just one giant collection of incredibly silly clichés and a plot so predictable you could see it coming from a mile away. Honestly, the whole thing is just overflowing with forced sentimentality—it's practically a horror movie in the most literal, painful sense of the word. The logic is just completely nonsensical... especially during those arena fights where everything seems to be collapsing around them, and then there was that sequence with the ship flying at full speed down the main street 🤣🤣🤣 being carried by the wave. My goodness... I think after sitting through this, your IQ might actually take a hit. You really shouldn't bother watching it..

Just a cheap rip-off of a few other movies.

To be honest, I was expecting something a bit better. There's definitely a sense of disappointment here, though I guess the movie is watchable enough... personally, I wouldn't give it more than a 6/10.

Spoiler Alert!!

Watched 😬 yesterday. Look, it’s not "catastrophically bad" (that title currently belongs to the last Hercules movie, in my opinion)—it’s more like "laughably bad" 😁. When Kiefer is racing down the road in a four-horse chariot, the road is impossibly pristine while everything else is in total ruins—give me a break 😁.
Fifteen minutes into the movie, I told my partner that Attisus would probably die before he even finished saying he was dying a free man. And what happens? We were laughing. Hard 🤣

Bottom line: we had a good time. Isn't that what movies are actually for? Entertainment 😁.

Oh, and one 🙏 at the end. I honestly thought he’d make a run for it until the very last second. Also, a quick LOL at the final scene when they turn to ash. His hair strangely vanished, yet hers stayed perfectly intact 😍.

The movie was just awful, and the acting felt incredibly uneven. Honestly, I don't think Kiefer fits this role at all, and little Emily looks more like a doll with an oversized head—it's pretty unpleasant! The whole thing feels like some Syfy Channel TV pilot or something similar. It’s just not worth anyone's time.

Looks great... and here I was thinking about watching it tonight 😂
maybe better to just find something else and save myself two hours of my life 😁

I thought the movie was great. They did a really good job portraying that historical tragedy, so I'd definitely recommend giving it a watch... honestly, I think it's 50 times better than Hercules, 300, or anything like that.

What a total disaster of a movie. First off, from a technical standpoint, the filmmaking is just amateurish across the board—it reminds me of those cheap British period pieces you see trying to recreate ancient Rome. Second, this isn't even close to what actual Rome looked like. Honestly, one single episode of Spartak would be ten times more valuable than this wreck. It’s such a waste of time, and frankly, seeing movies still being made with this level of quality feels like a crime against film itself.

Personally, I don't think the movie was quite as terrible as most of you seem to think, though I have to admit I was definitely expecting more from it.

I slept through most of this one.
That’s about all I can say, especially since I don't usually nap during movies.
I woke up here and there just in time to see some running and fire, but that was it. 🤣

feralnomad99 said:Good grief... I mean, seriously, watching snakes fall from an airplane is basically the spiritual successor to those terrible sequels we all suffered through... I can't even remember the last time I sat through something this underwhelming. It’s just one giant collection of incredibly silly clichés and a plot so predictable you could see it coming from a mile away. Honestly, the whole thing is just overflowing with forced sentimentality—it's practically a horror movie in the most literal, painful sense of the word. The logic is just completely nonsensical... especially during those arena fights where everything seems to be collapsing around them, and then there was that sequence with the ship flying at full speed down the main street 🤣🤣🤣 being carried by the wave. My goodness... I think after sitting through this, your IQ might actually take a hit. You really shouldn't bother watching it..

I'm totally with you. This is hands down one of the biggest piles of garbage I've seen. Such a waste, too, because with that title and setting, they could've actually made something legendary. But whatever, the masses just want some crappy love story wrapped in destruction effects.

Didn't like the movie. And Kit Harington? His mouth is just... ugh. That girl he supposedly "falls for" is a disaster—huge head, weird ears, and I didn't see any chemistry between them at all. Honestly, feels like they were tossed in at the last minute because the studio panicked when they realized the volcano eruption wasn't enough. He had more chemistry with the horse than with her.
Same here. I don't know about you guys, but I was cracking up when Kiefer started speaking with that English accent.😂Terrible. Not the role for him. Just a bunch of famous actors thrown together with zero connection to anything.🤷Then I saw who directed it and everything clicked.☕At least they didn't have some woman flying around the place.☕

It looks like this total hack PWSA is banking on kids who haven't even seen the real Conan, because the first five minutes are just straight-up copy-paste garbage.

I just finished watching it myself—well, I lasted barely five minutes before I had enough.

movie bio on NBC today

Just something to kill time while you let your brain rot for a bit

The guy is sprinting through the entire city and doesn't even break a sweat

And obviously, don't expect any historical accuracy here

But hey, it might be worth a watch

Larry Walker24 said:movie bio on NBC today

Just something to kill time while you let your brain rot for a bit

The guy is sprinting through the entire city and doesn't even break a sweat

And obviously, don't expect any historical accuracy here

But hey, it might be worth a watch

What do you think about the lead actress's maid? That Latina girl from Gotham—her cleavage is a huge plus for this cheesy flick😁

Richard Wilson4 said:What do you think about the lead actress's maid? That Latina girl from Gotham—her cleavage is a huge plus for this cheesy flick😁

Yeah, I totally blanked on that.

Kiefer Sutherland playing Cal? Honestly, I wasn't feeling it. He really needed to be someone with way more charisma to pull that role off.