{"id":18621,"date":"2026-06-01T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18621"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:47:50","slug":"pompeii-2014-paul-w-s-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18621","title":{"rendered":"Pompeii (2014, Paul W.S. Anderson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the vulgar auteurists are wrong.  This brit-accented antiquity drama mixed with fast-cut bloodless gladiator action (edited to hell, the same way I recall <em>RE6<\/em>) from the writers of <em>Batman Forever<\/em> was a nice-enough waste of time between <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12168\">Resident Evil<\/a><\/em> episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty girl Emily Browning (<em>The Uninvited<\/em>) likes slave-gladiator Kit Harington (best known as the star of Xavier Dolan&#8217;s eighth-best feature).  Her dad Jared Harris (Benmont in <em>Dead Man<\/em>) and Emperor(?) Kiefer Sutherland are playing some kind of political-financial game nobody cares about while Kiefer arranges slave-battles, until the world explodes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Girlies:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/pompeii1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Gladiators:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/pompeii2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Emily&#8217;s mum is Carrie-Anne Moss, and her friend is Jessica Lucas of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12297\">Evil Dead Remake<\/a><\/em>.  The curly-wigged Charles Laughton-type in charge of the slaves is Graecus of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9529\">Antiviral<\/a><\/em>, his jailer Bellator is from a <em>Cabin Fever<\/em> prequel, and the tough Black slave (on his last day on the gladiator force before retirement) pitted against Kit until they team up to fight their oppressors is Heavy Duty from <em>GI Joe<\/em> 2 or 3.<\/p>\n<p><em>Birdie:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/pompeii3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Apocalypse:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/pompeii4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the vulgar auteurists are wrong. This brit-accented antiquity drama mixed with fast-cut bloodless gladiator action (edited to hell, the same way I recall RE6) from the writers of Batman Forever was a nice-enough waste of time between Resident Evil episodes. Pretty girl Emily Browning (The Uninvited) likes slave-gladiator Kit Harington (best known as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[225,1611,1673,1382],"class_list":["post-18621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-italy","tag-paul-ws-anderson","tag-slavery","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18670,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions\/18670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}