{"id":628098,"date":"2024-07-18T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-anthony-hopkins-has-dumb-pulpy-fun\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T14:15:00","slug":"watch-anthony-hopkins-has-dumb-pulpy-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-anthony-hopkins-has-dumb-pulpy-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Anthony Hopkins Has Dumb, Pulpy Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27fbace1942\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27fbace1942\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-anthony-hopkins-has-dumb-pulpy-fun\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Anthony_Hopkins_Has_Dumb_Pulpy_Fun%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Anthony Hopkins Has Dumb, Pulpy Fun&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-anthony-hopkins-has-dumb-pulpy-fun\/#%E2%80%9CAnthony_Hopkins_Has_Dumb_Pulpy_Fun%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Anthony Hopkins Has Dumb, Pulpy Fun&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Anthony_Hopkins_Has_Dumb_Pulpy_Fun%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Anthony Hopkins Has Dumb, Pulpy Fun&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAnthony_Hopkins_Has_Dumb_Pulpy_Fun%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Anthony Hopkins Has Dumb, Pulpy Fun&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Time is a Circus Maximus. Back in the early aughts, \u201cGladiator\u201d conquered the box office before HBO established its bona fides as a home for sex, violence and big budgets with \u201cRome\u201d a few years later. In 2024, the \u201cGladiator\u201d sequel is imminent, and television has once again returned to classical antiquity \u2014 in fact, to the very same text that inspired \u201cGladiator\u201d a quarter century ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The Peacock drama \u201cThose About to Die\u201d is based on the Daniel P. Mannix novel of the same name, initially published in 1958. Adapted by screenwriter Robert Rodat (\u201cSaving Private Ryan\u201d), the TV version is a sword-and-sandal epic of the old school, spanning the seedy underbelly and opulent excess of ancient Rome. Blockbuster director Roland Emmerich \u2014\u00a0behind such <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> as \u201cIndependence Day\u201d and \u201cThe Day After Tomorrow\u201d \u2014 makes his series directing debut by helming half of the season\u2019s 10 episodes, with Marco Kreuzpaintner taking the rest. Emmerich is not a highbrow auteur, and \u201cThose About to Die\u201d is not a drama that traffics in prestige. Instead, it\u2019s a pulpy, bloody bacchanalia, playing to the cheap seats of the theater we now know as the Colosseum \u2014\u00a0though back then, it was the Flavian Amphitheatre. For every aspect of the show that\u2019s objectively bad, like the hammy acting or garish CGI, there\u2019s another that makes \u201cThose About to Die\u201d a surprisingly compelling watch. You can\u2019t tell a story about arena fighters without knowing how to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The face on every poster for \u201cThose About to Die\u201d belongs to Anthony Hopkins, who plays the emperor Vespasian in the twilight years of his decade-long reign. But, as is often the case with actors whose decorated CV far ous<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s the rest of the cast\u2019s, Hopkins\u2019 gravitas is more of an accent than a centerpiece. To the extent the unwieldy ensemble has a protagonist, it\u2019s Tenax (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> of Thrones\u201d alum Iwan Rheon), a penniless orphan turned proprietor of Rome\u2019s busiest gambling parlor, among other semi-licit endeavors. In an early demonstration of the show\u2019s haphazard approach, Tenax provides an opening voiceover that quickly disappears as a device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The loose, overarching plot of \u201cThose About to Die\u201d juxtaposes Tenax\u2019s quest to form his own chariot racing faction with the tensions between Vespasian\u2019s two sons and prospective heirs. That logline nonetheless fails to encapsulate a stuffed roster of racers, gladiators, slaves, bettors, patricians, clerics and royalty, all vying to gain or retain status in a brutally violent, hierarchical society. Tenax\u2019s tendency to coin sweeping aphorisms about his hometown \u2014 he drops both\u00a0\u201cRise or die: the Roman way\u201d and \u201cThis is Rome; it\u2019s all blood money\u201d in the space of a single episode \u2014 may be grating, but it\u2019s not inaccurate. Besides, the sheer density of characters and subplots helps \u201cThose About to Die\u201d avoid the molasses pacing that\u2019s become endemic to hourlong streaming shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The surfeit of story also helps smooth over some glaring flaws. Emmerich\u2019s fees must have eaten up the visual effects budget, because wide shots of grand temples and crowded racetracks have all the detail and grandeur of an elaborate Lego set. Lions sicced on prisoners for the masses\u2019 entertainment are meant to be menacing, but because they\u2019re so transparently digitized, the scenes carry all the dramatic tension of watching a playthrough of a video game. Other attempts to inject intrigue are laughably overused. I\u2019m no anti-sex scene puritan, but we see so many players mid-coitus that, by the season\u2019s midpoint, a bare nipple elicits little more than a yawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet \u201cThose About to Die\u201d is, in practice, a himbo of a show: dumb, musclebound and appealing because of these qualities, not in spite of them. Vespasian\u2019s scheming son Domitian (Jojo Macari), who enlists Tenax in various schemes to undermine his brother and rival Titus (Tom Hughes), is a spittle-spewing, scenery-devouring antagonist who\u2019s no less fun to watch for being by the numbers. (He\u2019s also a textbook gay villain trope, though gradually balanced out by other, less malevolent queer characters.) Champion chariot driver Scorpus (Dimitri Leonidas) insists on referring to himself in the third person, further evidence of the show\u2019s sense of humor. When a soldier informs him he\u2019s under arrest, the athlete responds, with complete sincerity: \u201cNo, I am Scorpus!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cRome\u201d aired at a time when the conventions of dramas on premium cable, and eventually those on streaming, were in their infancy. \u201cThose About to Die\u201d arrives at a moment when those same elements are familiar tools, which makes them less groundbreaking but no less useful. Tenax, for example, is a Stringer Bell-like figure, a criminal kingpin who yearns to convert his wealth into legitimacy. (The other racing factions are run by Roman elites who chafe at an interloper.) Rheon was terrifying as the sadistic Ramsay Bolton; here, he\u2019s still menacing, but also more nuanced, especially as Tenax teams up with Cala (Sara Martins), a mother working to free her enslaved children. There\u2019s a simple satisfaction in watching two highly competent people work in conjunction, and their chemistry is surprisingly slow-burn on a show that\u2019s otherwise brisk to a fault.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThose About to Die\u201d is not conventional summer TV, but in a sense, it\u2019s perfectly timed to blockbuster season, which has recently expanded from the multiplex to the small screen. And unlike \u201cThe Acolyte\u201d or \u201cHouse of the Dragon,\u201d there are significantly lower stakes to this show than the fate of a larger franchise. Emmerich and Rodat rarely linger long enough on the story\u2019s weaker parts to test our patience, and there\u2019s just enough that works to keep us binging. Like a gladiator in the pit, the show earns a thumbs up to fight another day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <em>All 10 episodes of \u201cThose About to Die\u201d are now available to stream on Peacock.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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