Sacred Band of Thebes

By: buddhawannabe

Ridiculous? Utterly. Sexy and hot? That, too. There actually was a Sacred Band of Thebes, founded around 378 BC, and it was indeed constituted of male lovers, but there the resemblance to factual history ends. But if your fetish involves muscular men sporting the type of leather-wear that Steve Reeves wore in the Hercules movies of yore, you've hit the jackpot. My favorite scene is the first; not only does it focus on two hot guys who get completely naked, but the set design, for reasons I can't explain, makes everything hotter. Nobody gets completely naked in the other three scenes; I guess the producers figured that if everybody did get naked, it wouldn't be so much different from the average fuck film. Nevertheless, completely naked guys fucking in the context of Graeco-Roman surroundings get me hot (see my review of "Erectus"), and I was waiting, to no avail, for the men in the final orgy to shed those last leather accessories. Animated sequences provide a 'historical context' that includes scenes involving masses of armed warriors, etc.--scenes that obviously would be beyond the budget of MEN.com if they were staged with live actors--so that even though everything stays within the budget, you still get the 'epic' feel. You may find incomprehensible the narration provided by Paddy O'Brian, because of Paddy's strong British accent. But the proof is in the puds, and you get plenty of those. Recommended.