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(+) Yeah! (+)

...come out a few yrs after the first one

Ye

Yep

I don't think that the movie missed its moment or anything but a sequel made by prime Ridley Scott would've been better. The fact that he's like 97 and still making movies is impressive but Gladiator 2 and Napoleon are very weird movies. Like, Gladiator is probably just as ahistorical as Gladiator 2 and Napoleon but it feels internally consistent enough that it doesn't matter. Gladiator 2 has Geta and Caracalla just spawning out of nowhere (I think there's a limp handwave about their dad but he also would've come from nowhere) as white blond (their dad was Libyan), weak dandies (literally obsessed with being a manly super soldier emperor) and everything stems from that weird wrongess until it gives up and just tries to be exactly the same as the first movie.

SomeUsername529 posted...

I don't think that the movie missed its moment or anything but a sequel made by prime Ridley Scott would've been better. The fact that he's like 97 and still making movies is impressive but Gladiator 2 and Napoleon are very weird movies. Like, Gladiator is probably just as ahistorical as Gladiator 2 and Napoleon but it feels internally consistent enough that it doesn't matter. Gladiator 2 has Geta and Caracalla just spawning out of nowhere (I think there's a limp handwave about their dad but he also would've come from nowhere) as white blond (their dad was Libyan), weak dandies (literally obsessed with being a manly super soldier emperor) and everything stems from that weird wrongess until it gives up and just tries to be exactly the same as the first movie.

You saw glad 2and liked it?

ThaGuyFromGTA3 posted...

You saw glad 2and liked it?

3/5 movie. I probably won't make an effort to ever see it again on my own (maybe if I do a Ridley Scott catalogue project) but I would watch it again if someone suggested seeing it or if it were on tv as background noise. Its not bad so much as it is silly.

SomeUsername529 posted...

3/5 movie. I probably won't make an effort to ever see it again on my own (maybe if I do a Ridley Scott catalogue project) but I would watch it again if someone suggested seeing it or if it were on tv as background noise. Its not bad so much as it is silly.

What did you think of the first one? Pretty impressive , Scott is 86 yrs old

GranTurismo posted...

What did you think of the first one? Pretty impressive , Scott is 86 yrs old

5/5 Absolute treasure of cinema. It helps that its one of my strongest early movie theater memories but its also just a really really great cool-ass movie. No matter how many substacks and youtube essays get made about how Gladiator is historically inaccurate I will never yield an inch about how awesome that movie is and how cool it makes ancient Rome look.

did you see titanic in theaters , that was like 2 yrs before that. Is gladiator the best movie you've ever seen in theaters