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The whole movie is in an ancient native language, subtitled in English, and it lends an air of excruciating authenticity to the happenings.
The ancient warriors were wholly unnecessary and take up literally about 8 minutes of the entire movie.
The giant of marathon is Phillipides (Steve Reeves) - an Olympic champion and warrior called upon to defend ancient Greece against an invasion by Persia from without and the treason of Theocrates from within.
But the promised pay-off of an ancient ruin rising out of the earth is reason enough to co-op some pseudo mythology for your cheap movie.
By the way, any ancient ruins?
Normally the Kraken only lives in the Northern regions, like the cold seas of Norway and Iceland, but according to the script of this low-keyed and forgettable made-for-TV creature feature, the monster can easily also dwell American ocean stretches and it suddenly even got promoted to being the guardian of ancient Greek artifacts!
In the courts of ancient Greece it was asked, "Who Stands To Gain?" or "Who Profits?" Study the facts and see who really stood to gain from 9/11! WWW.INFOWARS.COM WWW.PRISONPLANET.COM The Government needed a crisis to convince the people to willingly give up their liberty in exchange for safety.
If one rates a film on visuals alone, Fellini's SATYRICON would surely be completely off the scale: a phantasmagorical mixture of sensual beauty and the distasteful but evocative grotesque set in an ancient Rome that never was, never could have been, and yet which plays up to every extreme concept we secretly harbor about Roman decadence.
Later we find out that he is special, and soon after that that he is a member of an ancient race.
He asks the other guy "You know how to read this?" Later that night, he reads it fluently, enabling the ancient Egyptian curse which wakes the mummy.
Also, not that even a brain could help him here, if he is from ancient times, how does he know how to cause an electrical blackout?
Perhaps these three strangers in this story, whose lives have really nothing to do with each other, would never have met except for a very ancient idol: the Chinese goddess, Kwan Yin.
With a martial arts master (Roddy McDowell as an ancient Korean) as fighting and spiritual adviser, Remo Williams becomes an almost mystical, although reluctant,secret agent/warrior.
Like I say, I thought that the ancient beasts were OK.
There are ancient taboos on the use of “poison or plague” as weapons or for warfare, and doing so has long been stigmatized in many cultures and prohibited by customary international law and international treaties.
King Menem's FarewellLike ancient monarchs, Latin American caudillos believe they have been granted lifetime powers.
The “Thucydides Trap,” cited by Chinese President Xi Jinping, refers to the warning by the ancient Greek historian that cataclysmic war can erupt if an established power (like the United States) becomes too fearful of a rising power (like China).
In addition to the rise of Germany, WWI was caused by the fear in Germany of Russia’s growing power, the fear of rising Slavic nationalism in a declining Austria-Hungary, as well as myriad other factors that differed from ancient Greece.
But 1989 also awakened ancient antipathies and mythologies that had been repressed in the Communist era.
While China will not change its ancient and admirable civilization, it owes its re-emergence to its embrace of the contemporary Western model of modernization – the huge achievement of Deng Xiaoping, who put the country on its current path more than three decades ago.
Indeed, this is one rationale for China’s “one belt, one road” initiative, which aims to recreate the ancient overland and maritime Silk Roads connecting China to Europe.
Once upon a time, in ancient Mesopotamia, oil was known to exist and it was peddled by some quacks for its medicinal powers.
CO2 levels are already far higher than they have been in a million years, as ancient air bubbles trapped in the Antarctic ice show.
Scientists studying paleoclimate – the climates of the ancient past – have documented the massive impact of earlier climatic changes.
That ancient sense of the potent power of shame should be employed today, lest the democratic tide continue to run out.
They built a system of community justice, called Gacaca, which integrated their need for nationwide reconciliation with an ancient tradition of clemency.
A gradual decline, like that of ancient Rome or eighteenth-century Spain, is less disruptive than a rapid one, but ultimately the best scenario would feature a recovering and rebalanced Russia over the next decade.
But their adherence to Islam is illustrated by the example of a man I once saw at Muslim prayer in the ruins of the ancient Zeus temple in a small town on the Aegean coast.
The hopes that animated the intervention in Libya always seemed a bit out of place in a landscape steeped in ancient memories.
For the first time in our ancient history, we Ethiopians have voted our conscience.
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