Not too long ago I wrote a review about the Boondock Saints films and how I believe that they are great man movies. Well I don’t really want to make too many posts that are a lot alike, but I found a TV series that in my mind is great for all the same reasons that the Boondock Saints films are great.
This TV series is Starz television’s Spartacus. The first season of the show titled Spartacus: Blood and Sand ran in early 2010 while the second season titled Spartacus: Gods of the Arena began showing in January of 2011 and ran six episodes long. Below are the trailers for the two seasons.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.
If you can’t tell from the trailers, both seasons of Spartacus embody what I listed in my Boondock Saints review as necessaries for man movies (and shows) and that is fight scenes, half-clothed women, and large explosions. While Spartacus may lack in the large explosions department, due to the time period that the show is based in, it makes up for it with is intense fight scenes and the whole half-clothed women thing.
But more than just the raging fight scenes and beautiful women go into making Spartacus a great TV series. The way the show portrays honor and glory amoung the characters in the movie is enough to make any man look in the mirror and evaluate how he is living his life. It is enough to make any man proud to be a man and it is enough to make any man want to hit the weightroom!
With all joking aside Spartacus is a great TV show that is action packed but at the same time is also able to do what few things in this world are able to pull off. And that is stir a man’s emotions and make him think about how he is living his life.
natebski 
Have you ever seen the original movie with Kirk Douglas? It’s also the first movie that broke the anti-communist blacklist of the 1950s. Kirk Douglas hired blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo to write the film and openly credited him. One of the great movie spectaculars of the late 50s, early 60s.