Favorites #2: Movies – Double–Feature+

Mostly newer titles, sorted and commented for your convenience.

Some of them we experienced, some of them we intend to and some should hypothetically work.

************** HISTORY *****************

Prehistory: Old World
1. Ao, The Last Neanderthal (2010, aka Ao, le dernier Néandertal)
2. The Quest for Fire (1981, aka La guerre du feu)
(3. 10.000 BC, just too bad, except for the great killer ‘birds’, and is kinda remake of Apocalypto)

Prehistory: New World
1. Apocalypto (2006, Maya)
2. Rapa Nui (1994, Easter Islands)

The Rise And Decline Of Rome
0. Rome: Season 1 + 2 (2005 – 2007, TV)
1. Gladiator (2000)
2. The Eagle (2011)
3. King Arthur (2004)
(maybe Centurion (2010) before The Eagle)
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Hollywood is the reason for the continuing greatness of the U.S.A

This is a repost from G+.

It’s elections time in the U.S. and I read a bunch of kinda griefing reasons for the decline of America, or it’s true nature etc. Naturally.

It might be obvious, or just totally wrong, but I believe it’s the cultural export, mostly its movies, which establish America as an unique and dominant phenomenon among nations.
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