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| Rome - The Complete First Season | 
 enlarge | Directors: Michael Apted, Allen Coulter, Timothy Van Patten
Actors: Ciaran Hinds, Polly Walker, James Purefoy, Lindsay Duncan, Indira Varma
Studio: HBO Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $59.98
Buy New: $30.97
You Save: $29.01 (48%)
Buy New/Used/Collectible from $30.97
Avg. Customer Rating:  (334 reviews)
Sales Rank: 713
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 619 minutes
Number Of Items: 6
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.8 x 1.9
MPN: HBOD92848D
UPC: 026359284823
EAN: 0026359284823
ASIN: B000FJH4X2
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 I enjoyed it. September 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
3.5 stars. Unlike a lot of reviews here, I didn't have a problem with the sex in this series. I thought it was realistic for the time. I did think the soap opera-ish stuff bordered on overkill-though the history books can and does support such a notion. I found the timeline whacky. Julius Ceasar's motivation elusive. Vorenus and Pollo's mancrush disturbing and the Cleopatra detour confusing. Still, I was reasonable entertained. Go figure.
 ROME ON DVD August 27, 2008
GREAT SERIES, LOVED THE SERIES AND RECOMMEND IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT, ADDED TO MY COLLECTION!!!!!!!!!1
Let me get right to it...... August 26, 2008
This was the best mini-series every created. Period. The Casting Director is worth her weight in diamonds and gold. Every charater was 100% spot on. An amazing series. Pity the BBC and HBO only made two seasons.
First in the series August 20, 2008
Everyone else has described the gist of the story so well that anything else I add would be totally superfluous,except to say that the costuming and make up are first rate and once you get over your initial shock at all of the exposed, even flaunted genitalia ( such as the sex slave sent as a gift to a very respectable Roman matron with his VERY large penis wrapped in twined gold ribbon), you quite soon get used to it all and take it for granted. I liked the idea of the Romans of all classes talking in what would be their proper accents, by the British actors, rather than some fancied up pseudo accent which was formerly used in sword and sandal movies years ago. Having a reasonable knowledge of the history of that era, I found it easy to follow the machinations of Pompey and Ceasar and their various cronies and thoroughly enjoyed this series.
Disturbingly vulgar and violent, but worth watching if... August 10, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although the real Rome of Caesar's time was chocked full of sex and violence, the makers of ROME easily could have depicted the pervasiveness of both without showing, for instance, a penis wrapped-up in a pretty bow and a man's bar-brawled head being opened by a local "surgeon."br /br /Having said this, the show is both entertaining and--for anyone who wants to "see" facets of the Rome he's only read about and is willing to be disgusted by unnecessary and tasteless scenes of nudity and gore to do so--worth watching.br /br /Be aware, however, that ROME is not uplifting. The confused morality that seeps through many of the episodes is disturbing. It's possible that the writers were trying to capture the moral uncertainties of many Romans of the time, but, underneath, I highly doubt this is the reason they chose to turn heroes into murderers and murderers back into "heroes." br /br /Overall, I was entertained enough to watch until the last episode; but I'm passing on the second season. I imagine it can only get less heroic (and it was just barely heroic to begin with), more depressing, and more vulgar and gruesome from here. br /br /br /Now if you've made it through all the other reviews to mine, I would recommend that you rent ROME, and hold your nose a little while you watch it.
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