I’m Spartacus!
I can’t remember if Kerry hates this one or hates Ben Hur, but he’s crazy either way. They’re both fantastic. But a different kind of fantastic. Ben Hur is ridiculous whereas Spartacus is just flat-out good. The Ustinov/Laughton scenes are amazing, Olivier is never better and Kirk Douglas is made out of pure marble. While it is true that Kubrick took this as “just a gig” and Kirk was the real driving force behind everything, many of the sequences fit in with the Kubrick oeuvre quite nicely.
Will gladly watch this again with you if you have a spare afternoon.
