Fun fact about the Titanic, actually. There was a star-crossed romance on the ship that involved two first-class passengers that actually both made it and were happily married a year later, Karl Behr and Helen Newson. They were high school sweethearts, but Helen's mother did not approve of their love despite his wealthy background. She took her daughter and the rest of her family on a trip across Europe through the Titanic as an attempt to separate them, but Karl secretly booked tickets on the same ship, boarding at a different point so he could surprise Helen. It's quite interesting that there was a happy ending for the real-life example instead of the fictionalized version.
@dallasgrey4247 He could have done their story, yes. But that would've cut the tension severely as Karl and Helen boarded one of the first lifeboats to leave the ship when things were still relatively calm, and people thought it was simply a safety precaution.
You nailed the point of Maximus’s family being innocent vs Mescal’s warrior woman wife being killed in battle within the first 5 minutes. There was zero stakes involved for the viewer. That’s why I didn’t feel anything while watching Mescal seeking his revenge-ish thing.
Yup. Plus, what makes it worse is that they took him to the completely opposite route to execute him prior to that, which wasted time and he wasn’t there on time because of it. He didn’t even get a chance to run after and catch up to them.
She said in this video "I don't really have a problem with women warriors in fantasy." Sure, maybe you don't. Wanna know who does? THE MALE CHARACTERS IN FANTASY. There's a reason men don't like going to war alongside women and it's because there is an extremely deep evolutionary response in men to losing their partners. It's not like an accident that men ended up warriors. It's because in human biology men are quite literally more disposable.
At least this movie didn’t follow up that decade-earlier idea of the gods resurrecting Maximus and making him an FBI agent in the 21st century. It was so ridiculous that it was offensive to the overall idea of Gladiator
I let my 10 year old watch Gladiator this year & she said it was one of the best movie’s shes seen. I told her theres a sequel coming out & she replied “they didn’t need to do that…” 😅
This is equivalent to the "Straight to DVD" forgettable crappy sequels to blockbuster films that used to clog up Walmart bargain bins in the 2000s and early 2010s. For example... Who can forget such "classics" as, American Psycho 2. Roadhouse 2. TimeCop 2. The Crow 3. Universal Soldier 2 & 3 and any Hell Raiser after 2000. Yeah. This is peak late stage Hollywood folks. Let's just sit back and laugh.
I genuinely watch about 100x more content of people trashing movies than I see actual movies. I used to LOVE movies, I used to go to Blockbuster once a week and rent like 10 films to go watch that week. I was working my with through a book called "1001 Movies to See Before You Die". I still like seeing content ABOUT movies, but almost every time I go actually watch one I'm just miserable the entire experience. I just sat through all of Moana 2 just thinking "What is the point of this movie? Why is any of this happening? Why did she even need to do any of this?"
Try reading books from independent creators. NON-WEALTHY, non-corporatized ones. In other words, books crafted by *legitimate* storytellers. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
@@gloriathomas3245 Movies--or at least, Hollywood movies--have been going downhill for at least 20 years, till we've arrived at the trash-fire of today.
When I first heard of this movie I had one thought: but why though? There was nothing needed to be wrapped up. No franchise to be made here. If they wanted to create another sword and sandals movie just make another remake of Ben Hur
Honestly, a "sequel" that featured Telemachus and the final end of the games in Rome would have made for a compelling story itself. I doubt any Hollywood producer would pursue it, though.
This films existence is as much of a betrayal to the original story as every terminator sequel after T2 Judgement Day. The story ended. Hollywood corporate greed is incapable of telling a story with an ending. All more films do is cheapen the experience. Imagine the Mona Lisa having three sequel paintings that were derivative rehashes. Or Mozart rejigging the same piece of music over and over again with only a minor twist each time. Corporate greed ruins good art and ruins good entertainment and human beings are to blame for being dumb and willingly scooping up the slop.
mainstream Hollywood has become too corporate with a deluge of reboots prequels and sequels all to make a predictable profit off well known IPs,if one wants to experience originality,streaming and independent art house content is your best bet 🤔
@@gloriathomas3245People tend to think existence began the day they were born. The film industry has been making sequels and remakes for over one hundred years. If you get a hit, do it over and over until no one wants to see it anymore. Then remake it for the next generation.
yes,since its inception,there have always been reboots prequels and sequels in Hollywood/mainstream cinema but not to the extant that it is currently,l just find it safe and lazy,l’m old enough to remember when Disney would always present a new 2D animated project annually,l miss those days 🤔
The thing abt his wife being a warrior is that spartan women were indeed given a lot of freedoms and positions of power... but warrior/soldier was not one of them. I feel like spartan women being allowed to fight is a misconception - spartan women were allowed to do a lot of things, but they were not warriors. I wonder if the writers got confused and overestimated how much freedom spartan women had, or if they knew they were contradicting history and just didn't care
Women didn't fight because children needed mothers. In times when the only sure and safe way of contraception was celibate there was no way for married women to go to war alongside men with no kids to take care of. And even if an unmarried woman had gone to war, she'd have been sooner or later graped by some of the soldiers, and possibly got pregnant, let's be honest here.
The thing is, the wife is not spartan, she's Numidian. There are some reports of African women in the battlefield (the most famous one sre from Kush which is not this region), it sort of makes sense because the roman view warrior women as a barbarian thing and they do drive the point that "Janus" is a barbarian. The problem is that, as I said, she is numidian, and when the movie takes place Numidia had been part of empire for a while, they were fully integrate in roman culture. That means 1. no warrior women and 2. the romans should not be trying to conquer a territory they alredy owned.
but it was that one last gallic... eh I mean numidian village that resisted ;-) I don't see a huge problem with that one woman fighting when the world is ending and everyone tries do defend the hometown with what's left. More crazy things happened in history. But I see that movie as a fantasy fanfic anyway. It's more akin to that adventure film The Last Legion if anyone still remember.
Ridley Scott has always been a frustratingly hit or miss filmmaker. In his prolific career he has only made 8 maybe 10 truly good films with The Martian being his last really good one so far. He needs to retire if he can't pick a script worth a damn anymore. His revisiting of old glories is just embarrassing. I refuse to see Gladiator II. The original (can't believe I even have to say that) is the only one in my eyes and was made when he still had creative spark. Most filmmakers gradually burn out and sadly he is one of them.
The original Gladiator is one of my top three favorite films of all time!Wasn't apposed to the idea of a sequel, but after hearing a synopsis I was out. If I paid to see this in theaters I'd honestly feel robbed of both time and money
When Mescal was giving his warrior empowering speeches to groups, my first thought was "This wouldn't motive me to get out of bed let alone into battle" 🤨
Remember the scene at the end of Braveheart where Robert the Bruce is trying to be William Wallace? "YOU FOUGHT FOR WALLACE!!! ...NOW.... FIGHT FOR ME!!!" "🤨😶😐😐😶🙄🤔🤨😑😐😐"
@@joshuajarod1909 if both boys were 'nearly 8 years old' (as they clearly said in Gladiator), then he cheated on his wife. He was portrayed as a main of honor, honest, incredibly moral, family values... these are his main character traits. So this bs is completely out of character and makes no sense whatsoever.
@@bdleo300 Nearly 8 doesn't mean they are not several months apart. Lucilla maybe had to end her relationship with Maximus because she was to enter an arranged marriage. She might have already been in early pregnancy with Maximus son when she married Lucius Verus. Maximus went on to meet his wife within weeks and months got her pregnant quickly. You can see in Gladiator 1 movie that M is resentful with Lucilla and tells her that she has "talent for survival" (she had to dump him for Lucius Verus to survive/stay at the top of the ladder).
Russell Crowe said in an interview in an interview for Gladiator 2 “A couple of things that I’ve heard, I’m like, ‘No, no, no, that’s not in the moral journey of that particular character" and I remember one scene with Denzel and a senate member (?) getting drunk and talking about Lucilla and how her husband was supposedly gay. Lucien's age changed from 8 (as mentioned in Gladiator) to 12 when they sent him away.. So he's aged a few years over the space of about half a year? 🤔
Bravo! You listed every point, that i had about this movie. I was so shocked when i saw positive reviews. Gladiator 2 made me appreciate the original even more! Paul Mescal was sleepwalking through scenes. Pedro was kind of bored, Denzel was giving us Training day's Alonzo and two evil twins were trying hard to act crazy. Russell Crowe went through all the stages of grief after loosing his family. Joaquin Phoenix made us hate, but understand Commodus. There was gritty look, there was a sence of real tragedy, real threat. Just compare the beginning of the first Gladiator and the joke of a sequel. We meet the general, see him in the battle being the best of the best. In the sequel we get a stupid scene with chickens. Even the way Paul Mescal helps his wife to put on the combat uniform. He has no emotion, no love or tenderness and fear for her. And by the way in the original Lucius wasn't Maximus's son. Ridley Scott just tarnished his own Greatest achievement.
Gladiatrixes did exist. However they were not war combatants and thier battles were not as brutal as male gladiators. Slavery was very embedded into Roman society. One third of the society were slaves.
16:41 they also erased the progress of the previous Star Wars films to have an excuse to poorly retell the story in Force Awakens smh, it’s a sequel trend
When I heard they were making a Gladiator II, I thought, YES the sequel we've all been waiting for....... for 20+ years. Even though the protagonist is dead. ..... and the villain is dead. ...and it's been 20 years. And even though I love Denzel Washington...the only possible reason for wanting to see this... I already know that what Denzel does best just doesn't play in ancient Rome!
When it comes to accuracy. Not only women couldnt fight back then, they were not even allowed to sit in Collosseum in the front. They were all the way back with slaves.
This is the thing I don't understand about historical girlboss movies. Do women just want to forget that history happened? Like why do women want to make every historical movie about NOW instead of THEN?
Well, even if they allowed women to go to war, I doubt there were any that wanted to go, considering that fighting alongside men in those times was an almost sure way to get graped, most likely gang-graped by your fellow soldiers, and possibly impregnated. And even supposing she kept fighting during her pregnancy and survived the birth, what was she supposed to do with a newborn on a battlefield? Women fighting in wars in ancient times was a ridiculous idea and I don't know why everyone refuses to see it.
The beginning of the movie of the main character feeding the chicken is a copy of Maximus looking at a bird perching on the twig in the battlefield. The bird represents freedom, suggesting Maximus' longing for release from the duty as general and return home. The bird feeding scene would be more powerful if the encountering with the bird could somehow reflect Lucius' mind state of constantly running and finally settling down and finding peace somewhere. Modern day Hollywood just cannot shake off the empowering women men's masculinity whereas women are already powerful in their own right. There's no doubt women are equally powerful, resilient and fierce in history. Take Chiomara of Galatian tribe for example. Any men hearing her story will understand the end message, she is not to be trifled with. Gladiator 2 could've shown Lucius wife in a more battle-appropriate roles, tending the wounds or giving morale boosts as historically Germanic women were renowned for...but the scenes just kept breaking immersion.
I think citics are too harsh with this movie. It's not disappointing because it's awful, it's disappointing because it easily could have been SO.MUCH.better. It's apparent that a certain effort went into that film. Nonetheless, I also felt nothing throughout the runtime. It's just a solid every day standard craftsman's work that follows 30-40 year old formulas. You pay that craftsman to build a brick wall in your garden and then say "well done, that's a good brick wall, here is your money" without having any substantional critisism and then you forget about it. And that's immensely damaging to cinema as a media in general. It has so much burden.
I wouldn't say this sequel tarnishes the first movie, not for me anyway. it's just another sequel no one asked for and was bound to fail. the first one is still superior by mile.
I'm not surprise that you didn't like this one, JesterBell. Once again, Hollywood shows it greed as the only reason why this film was made is because they knew that it was going to make a lot of money, not matter how good or bad the film was going to be. I know I'll be waiting to see this on streaming service as I refuse to waste any money on a film I know isn't going better than the original.
I wouldn't call Mescal or Pedro Pascal's characters soyboys, they were just paperthin characters with barely any development, props to them for trying to do something with a garbage script.
So…I don’t believe Pedro Pascal is a bad actor. He proves that with his roles as Joel and Oberon and Din Djarin. However I will put forth that he is not one of those actors that can spin gold from garbage. He was given garbage so that’s what translated on screen.
I've watched it yesterday, knowing that it's shit. It feels like a Snow White live action remake. It's practically the same story as in the original, but EVERYTHING is worse, and you don't feel anything for anybody.
I watch this movie and I keep wondering why did they make this? It has no point and should not exist. It’s so stupid and bad not just ok it’s bad very bad. My wife went to sleep on it.
Because corpos think that using an established 'franchise' guarantee their profit. Also, Hollywood today is so uncreative they can't make anything new, they just keep recycling - sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots...
I like you JesterBell but you've said "insert here is 1 of the worst fikms I've seen this year" like 4+ times this year. Maybe start your own Razzies award at the end of the year? Which of these worst films you've seen is the worst of the worst?
your review is spot on! this movie is total trash compared to the first one-5/10 at best !! the acting felt very generic and the storyline was not compelling or exciting at all... and dont get me started on the CGI sharks..... really?!? give me a break 😂😂😂😂
1:17 We have many theories how this audio effect was achieved, but we unanimously decided on it's that you are a 24th century wizard mistress of ill repute in the dark arts with her merry band of next-door neighbor imperial chickens whose clearly knocking on the looking glass of her mirror dimensional domain of madness. Town of No, duh. We the Mayor. Population: obvious.
A film that absolutely did not need a sequel. How Ridley thought it was a good idea, I will never know. But then again, he made Prometheus and Alien Covenant.
In fairness to the accents being off….rusell crowe just sounded like an Australian (himself) in the first movie. Didn’t sound like what we think a Roman would sound like
As someone who's never seen the original, Gladiator 2 was perfectly okay in my eyes. I think it's far better than movies like Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Madame Web if modern comparisons are being made. Maybe instead of Gladiator 2, a movie called "Title: A Gladiator Story" would've been better without following legacy characters. Something Star Wars and most nostalgic movies try to bank on but fail every time. Idk the movie was okay but all the hate seems a bit much when we've had far worse experiences this year.
no,the hate is totally spot on,give us a break movie studios with literally every single new sequel,ripping off a original,and very famous movie title,its like,yeaaa its a good movie,if trhis is you first movie ever.The thing is,movie studios are completely obvious (or really greedy cash addict assholes) about what people acutally want.and what they dont.No,we really dont want another bad,copied sequel with far superior original.i think the hate is little too small,because of how long this is happening and because it seems no matter of what critics says (the real one,not those on a payroll) they still go and fucks the original,and im not kidding when i say we have lot,a friggin lot of bad,very very bad....sequel movies,so many that i grewd up with as many others.
I agree. As someone who actually is not that much of a fanboy of Gladiator1 (hey it's a great movie but the plot and also the costumes were embarassing even back then), Gladiator2 fills every checkpoint of a mediocre adventure movie without any suspense or thrill which is just "ok". But mediocre doesn't cut it anymore. It generates no emotion besides frustration. Basically ok is the new bad.
Gladiator was a true masterpiece, but even if we ignore it for a moment, this "Gladiator2" is just mediocre on its own. Hollywood can't make a half-decent movie these days, nothing new and original, so they desperately 'repurpose' and recycle old stories, old ideas, old movies...
the general public went to see this instead of tf one, let me repeat that actual humans with brains went to see a lazy cash grab rip off sequel to a classic film that didn't need a sequel instead of watching a actual good movie.
His wife may have been an Amazon warrior? They didn't technically ever exist but they thought they did at the time. 'They were female warriors and hunters, known for their physical agility, strength, archery, riding skills, and the arts of combat.'
@@bdleo300 Those were Slavic in origin, a vrykolaka would be the the nearest equivalent. 'The bodies of vrykolakas have the same distinctive characteristics as the bodies of vampires in Balkan folklore. They do not decay; instead, they swell and may even attain a "drumlike" form, being very large, have a ruddy complexion, and are, according to one account, "fresh and gorged with new blood".' That's not quite what she looked like but she did have tribal facial tattoos no-one else had hinting at a different origin..
Movies have been atrocious this year, maxxine, joker, anora, megalopolis have been the last movies I’ve seen in theaters and they were all horrible. I hope nosferatu is good
I am rewatching Old Soviet films archived on the glorious channel Mosfilm. It is amazing how genuinely entertaining and non-political these films are compared to movies like Gladiator 2. Only the Stalinist Era films (not many of those on Mosfilm) come close to the saturation of "correct" social political messaging compared to modern Hollywood.
Surprisingly, that's actually true, western audience usually see 'propaganda' in everything foreign, especially from Russia. But they never see blatant propaganda in Hollywood. Truth be told Hollywood was always propaganda, but at least more subtle than this terror today. Today they are obsessed with enforcing corpo-globalist ideological narrative.
Can we please stop lying and being so overly hyperbolic with our reviews? Not everything is a 10/10 or 0/10 This objectively is by no possible means an awful movie It’s okay if you didn’t personally like it but it’s objectively fine or even enjoyable
It would be interesting to see you review more indie films instead of just mainstream blockbusters. Could make for a nice change from only focusing on the bad stuff.
The antagonists seem poorly developed. The villains carve out a lot of space for the heroes. They create a ladder for the protagonist to climb. When it seems like they are just tripping over a footstool, there's not much reason to cheer on the character. You don't see the hero IN the hero's struggle. There's no pay-off. Maybe the studio executives picked over the script and Ridley Scott needed a huge paycheck in a hurry.
Hilarious and insightful review. I always enjoy your channel and I’d like to see you expand outside of your room. Like I think you should do crazy stuff like knock on neighbors doors and I’d like to see your brother review something he’s passionate about with you positive or negative haha
I’m happy to chill in the minority that are saying this was absolute trash. Side note: during the opening battle, I was just thinking, “Man, I really miss playing Age of Empires.”
This is The Force Awakens of sword and sandal films. Just like they cut and paste 1977 Star Wars beat for beat into a new sequel they did the same thing here with Gladiator. I think Ridley Scott saw the Warhammer game being played and wanted killer fantasy monkeys and Skullcrusherd on rhinoceros in his next film. The shame is they could have made Gladiator an anthology by telling the story of different gladiator in a different Roman period not in the Maximus timeline. Demetrius and the Gladiators(1954) would have been an interesting film to remake.
The original Gladiator was a masterpiece! Finally got a chance to watch part 2 and I wished I didn’t. It was really bad, bad acting, bad script, bad everything.
Imo, Joker 2 wasn’t terrible, it was just a good idea that was executed horribly, I mean, history making horrible Gladiator 2 on the other hand, they didn’t even try, they just went, “money!” & started filming
Yep, I actually more like/less hate Joker 2 than Gladiator 2. At least they tried to make something original, Gladiator2 is just a cringe imitation of the first movie, lacking any quality of the first movie.
Your comedy JesterBell Rocks! JesterBell, you are a woman of, and for the people, but the neighbor chicken squat would have been to go infinity and beyond +1, so, imo, you made the right choice! Also, I never saw Titanic, but the fire breathing dragon might have got me on board. It be what it be. Alas, my heart will go on. Thanks again! Glad you thought the original Gladiator was a masterpiece, and I had Maximus on my list of most admirable fictional characters I could remember from a fuzzy childhood onward but completely forgot about Commodus for my top villain list. Thanks! Hope you see a new good movie soon! When I saw the original Gladiator I gave it a 10/10 but because my memory sincerely stinks, and people were dissing it, I didn't know if I'd think it was worthy, especially I saw it on my phone while working out....but.... From my mixed meme-machine multiple-choice memory from a fuzzy childhood onward, these are imo 10/10 movies I can remember, trying to be relatively impartial with my flawed intellect standard, where I might have only seen once...multitasking, again from childhood onward! Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) You Can't Take it With You (1938) Gone With the Wind (1939) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Wizard of Oz (1939) Rebecca (1940) The Maltese Falcon (1941) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Old Arsenic and Lace (1944) It's a Wonderful Life (1946)- This is my choice for greatest movie, especially because of the theme of showing the priceless precious gift of a single life. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Rear Window (1954) Dial M for Murder (1954) Ben Hur (1959) Psycho (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Sound of Music (1965) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Gladiator (2000) The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) The Incredibles (2004) Godzilla Minus One (2023) And then for, imo, best performances I can think of: Maria Falconetti's Joan (1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc) Ronald Colman's Sydney Carton (1935 A Tale of Two Cities) Charles Laughton's The Hunchback Quasimodo (1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Anthony Hopkin's Hannibal Lector and Ted Levine's Buffalo Bill (1991 Silence of the Lambs) along with best performances, these are also the most three dimensional characters from film I can remember- Longfellow Deeds Semple (1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town) Ernest Borgnine's Marty Piletti (1955 Marty) Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates (1960 Psycho) Paul Newman's Lucas Jackson (1967 Cool Hand Luke) Liv Ullman's Eva (1978 Autumn Sonata) Daniel Day Lewis' Reynolds Woodcock (2017 Phantom Thread) Hope you and your family have a great week, JesterBell! Thanks again! Still looking forward to your short film!
i watched this movie. after it ended i didn't feel any emotion and instantly wanted to forgot it. this is very bad for a movie. the first gladiator movie i still remember and hold in high regards and revisit scenes. they are million miles apart in terms of quality. the second one failed in so many ways. damn. they tried to do this watered down maximus character...why the f. they don't have no heart or mind put into second.
Gladiator II is worse than bad. The very basic goal of a sequel : don't make the original look worse than it was. And then . . . Gladiator II pissed on the original and made Maximus less than he was before II came out. It's not just the worst movie I've seen this year. It may be the worst movie made since The Last Jedi. Stop ruining good stories!
Yes, "Gladiator II" nullified the sacrifice of Maximus at the end of the first movie. But so did history. Ridley Scott is famous for playing fast and loose with history, but even he couldn't undo the fact that the Pax Romana ended during the events of the first movie. It would be as if in his movie "Napoleon," France somehow won the Battle of Waterloo.
From someone who say the penguin is good I’m really surprise , they’re both the same thing. Overrated by a mile , penguin is just the one of the worst mob series ever made and gladiator 2 is just a product.
The whole thing felt like a bad fanfic except it was from the original creator. The phoned in acting didn't help either. A prequel about how Proximus knew Marcus Aurelius (or how he touched his shoulder) could have been better and without the need of retconning the orginal plot.
I have seen clips of the beginning and wasn't impressed by the CGI monkeys they pale in comparison with the tigers entering the arena in the original movie. i will go to the cinema to watch it.
Megaflopolis and (cash) Grabiator are merely two examples of the multitude. Rings of Flour and The Arseolyte were two more prime candidates for the cognitive dissonance plaguing Hollywon't. Oh well; *I say let 'em burn.* 🔥
Fun fact about the Titanic, actually. There was a star-crossed romance on the ship that involved two first-class passengers that actually both made it and were happily married a year later, Karl Behr and Helen Newson. They were high school sweethearts, but Helen's mother did not approve of their love despite his wealthy background. She took her daughter and the rest of her family on a trip across Europe through the Titanic as an attempt to separate them, but Karl secretly booked tickets on the same ship, boarding at a different point so he could surprise Helen. It's quite interesting that there was a happy ending for the real-life example instead of the fictionalized version.
James Cameron should have tried to market it as a true story
@dallasgrey4247 He could have done their story, yes. But that would've cut the tension severely as Karl and Helen boarded one of the first lifeboats to leave the ship when things were still relatively calm, and people thought it was simply a safety precaution.
I wish someone would do a film about that. Not an epic like “Titanic” but something small and beautiful and romantic.
@@kimberlyrobinson3992 I could see that happening. It would probably just have to be a film or miniseries released through streaming.
People fall in love on cruise ships literally all the time. There's a whole TV show called The Love Boat, For Goodness sakes!😂
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
no
IS THIS NOT WHY YOUR HERE!?!?
Nah. Not even a little bit.
In a year of Joker 2 and Borderlands, that's a feat.
and they destroyed The Crow too. Can't they just make new movies, its depressing.
You nailed the point of Maximus’s family being innocent vs Mescal’s warrior woman wife being killed in battle within the first 5 minutes. There was zero stakes involved for the viewer. That’s why I didn’t feel anything while watching Mescal seeking his revenge-ish thing.
Yup. Plus, what makes it worse is that they took him to the completely opposite route to execute him prior to that, which wasted time and he wasn’t there on time because of it. He didn’t even get a chance to run after and catch up to them.
She said in this video "I don't really have a problem with women warriors in fantasy." Sure, maybe you don't. Wanna know who does? THE MALE CHARACTERS IN FANTASY. There's a reason men don't like going to war alongside women and it's because there is an extremely deep evolutionary response in men to losing their partners.
It's not like an accident that men ended up warriors. It's because in human biology men are quite literally more disposable.
At least this movie didn’t follow up that decade-earlier idea of the gods resurrecting Maximus and making him an FBI agent in the 21st century. It was so ridiculous that it was offensive to the overall idea of Gladiator
Wait, what?
Nah yer trolling 😂😂😂
Just wait for Gladiator III: Return of Maximus Gladiator Reloaded
I let my 10 year old watch Gladiator this year & she said it was one of the best movie’s shes seen. I told her theres a sequel coming out & she replied “they didn’t need to do that…” 😅
That's a lie
@@doubtfulhenry its not. We watched all Hans Zimmer movies early this year since we saw him live recently. Interstellar & Gladiator were her favs.
What did she think of the emperor wanting his sister subplot?
That's a based 10-year old
10 year old daughter's top five movies probably: Frozen, Frozen II, Inside Out Two, Gladiator and #1 Battleship Potemkin.
This is equivalent to the "Straight to DVD" forgettable crappy sequels to blockbuster films that used to clog up Walmart bargain bins in the 2000s and early 2010s.
For example...
Who can forget such "classics" as, American Psycho 2. Roadhouse 2. TimeCop 2. The Crow 3. Universal Soldier 2 & 3 and any Hell Raiser after 2000.
Yeah.
This is peak late stage Hollywood folks.
Let's just sit back and laugh.
“Sick of watching bad movies…” oof 😅 it’s a bad era to be a Critic then 😏
A good era
I genuinely watch about 100x more content of people trashing movies than I see actual movies.
I used to LOVE movies, I used to go to Blockbuster once a week and rent like 10 films to go watch that week. I was working my with through a book called "1001 Movies to See Before You Die". I still like seeing content ABOUT movies, but almost every time I go actually watch one I'm just miserable the entire experience.
I just sat through all of Moana 2 just thinking "What is the point of this movie? Why is any of this happening? Why did she even need to do any of this?"
This movie was probably the biggest cash grab since Space Jam 2.
I couldn’t even finish washing that crap
Movies suck now.
@@gloriathomas3245 Can you you name some movies I/we should look up (being genuine)?
No. Your shitty attitude about movies suck.
Try reading books from independent creators. NON-WEALTHY, non-corporatized ones. In other words, books crafted by *legitimate* storytellers.
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"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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@@gloriathomas3245 Have actually gotten what?
@@gloriathomas3245 Movies--or at least, Hollywood movies--have been going downhill for at least 20 years, till we've arrived at the trash-fire of today.
When I first heard of this movie I had one thought: but why though? There was nothing needed to be wrapped up. No franchise to be made here. If they wanted to create another sword and sandals movie just make another remake of Ben Hur
Or unrelated characters. A spiritual sequel. Not continuing a finished story.
Honestly, a "sequel" that featured Telemachus and the final end of the games in Rome would have made for a compelling story itself. I doubt any Hollywood producer would pursue it, though.
Oh God no. Please don't make a remale of that classic Ben Hur.
@@OoLOSTWORLDoO they already did and its was a massive flop, probably why you never heard of it mate
HAHA
Ben-Hur 12 2016 ‧ Action/Adventure ‧ 2h 3m
This films existence is as much of a betrayal to the original story as every terminator sequel after T2 Judgement Day. The story ended. Hollywood corporate greed is incapable of telling a story with an ending. All more films do is cheapen the experience. Imagine the Mona Lisa having three sequel paintings that were derivative rehashes. Or Mozart rejigging the same piece of music over and over again with only a minor twist each time. Corporate greed ruins good art and ruins good entertainment and human beings are to blame for being dumb and willingly scooping up the slop.
Conan Doyle had some choice words regarding people and authors who did this
mainstream Hollywood has become too corporate with a deluge of reboots prequels and sequels all to make a predictable profit off well known IPs,if one wants to experience originality,streaming and independent art house content is your best bet 🤔
@@gloriathomas3245People tend to think existence began the day they were born. The film industry has been making sequels and remakes for over one hundred years. If you get a hit, do it over and over until no one wants to see it anymore. Then remake it for the next generation.
@ being picky with the content l choose to indulge in 🤔
yes,since its inception,there have always been reboots prequels and sequels in Hollywood/mainstream cinema but not to the extant that it is currently,l just find it safe and lazy,l’m old enough to remember when Disney would always present a new 2D animated project annually,l miss those days 🤔
@@hamiltoncox7651the horror industry is the biggest proof of your argument right there.
@@skepticalsmurfi mean they haven't really done that since the 2000s though.
The thing abt his wife being a warrior is that spartan women were indeed given a lot of freedoms and positions of power... but warrior/soldier was not one of them. I feel like spartan women being allowed to fight is a misconception - spartan women were allowed to do a lot of things, but they were not warriors.
I wonder if the writers got confused and overestimated how much freedom spartan women had, or if they knew they were contradicting history and just didn't care
Considering this is the same guy who made Napoleon I say they didn't care
Women didn't fight because children needed mothers. In times when the only sure and safe way of contraception was celibate there was no way for married women to go to war alongside men with no kids to take care of. And even if an unmarried woman had gone to war, she'd have been sooner or later graped by some of the soldiers, and possibly got pregnant, let's be honest here.
The thing is, the wife is not spartan, she's Numidian. There are some reports of African women in the battlefield (the most famous one sre from Kush which is not this region), it sort of makes sense because the roman view warrior women as a barbarian thing and they do drive the point that "Janus" is a barbarian. The problem is that, as I said, she is numidian, and when the movie takes place Numidia had been part of empire for a while, they were fully integrate in roman culture. That means 1. no warrior women and 2. the romans should not be trying to conquer a territory they alredy owned.
but it was that one last gallic... eh I mean numidian village that resisted ;-)
I don't see a huge problem with that one woman fighting when the world is ending and everyone tries do defend the hometown with what's left.
More crazy things happened in history.
But I see that movie as a fantasy fanfic anyway. It's more akin to that adventure film The Last Legion if anyone still remember.
@@FalkFlakEven if the world is ending and you have to defend your home, women still wouldn't be fighting. Sending women to be slaughtered is stupid
When my mom asked how the movie was, I could only answer with : it was definitely a movie.... with actors and stuff.
Ridley Scott has always been a frustratingly hit or miss filmmaker. In his prolific career he has only made 8 maybe 10 truly good films with The Martian being his last really good one so far. He needs to retire if he can't pick a script worth a damn anymore. His revisiting of old glories is just embarrassing. I refuse to see Gladiator II. The original (can't believe I even have to say that) is the only one in my eyes and was made when he still had creative spark. Most filmmakers gradually burn out and sadly he is one of them.
Gladiator 2 is a great film though. Best film of the year and I'm very picky with movies. Watch in theaters, it's amazing.
The original Gladiator is one of my top three favorite films of all time!Wasn't apposed to the idea of a sequel, but after hearing a synopsis I was out. If I paid to see this in theaters I'd honestly feel robbed of both time and money
I must say this. Now we are Free is the most beautiful, amazing, fantastic piece of film music I've ever heard (except LOtR music).
"crazy rabid fantasy monkeys" sounds like a band
When Mescal was giving his warrior empowering speeches to groups, my first thought was "This wouldn't motive me to get out of bed let alone into battle" 🤨
Remember the scene at the end of Braveheart where Robert the Bruce is trying to be William Wallace?
"YOU FOUGHT FOR WALLACE!!! ...NOW.... FIGHT FOR ME!!!"
"🤨😶😐😐😶🙄🤔🤨😑😐😐"
You forgot to mention how ridiculous it was to imply Maximus cheated on his wife…
Great men tend to get around, especially before they get married.
@@joshuajarod1909 if both boys were 'nearly 8 years old' (as they clearly said in Gladiator), then he cheated on his wife.
He was portrayed as a main of honor, honest, incredibly moral, family values... these are his main character traits. So this bs is completely out of character and makes no sense whatsoever.
@@bdleo300 Nearly 8 doesn't mean they are not several months apart. Lucilla maybe had to end her relationship with Maximus because she was to enter an arranged marriage. She might have already been in early pregnancy with Maximus son when she married Lucius Verus. Maximus went on to meet his wife within weeks and months got her pregnant quickly. You can see in Gladiator 1 movie that M is resentful with Lucilla and tells her that she has "talent for survival" (she had to dump him for Lucius Verus to survive/stay at the top of the ladder).
Russell Crowe said in an interview in an interview for Gladiator 2
“A couple of things that I’ve heard, I’m like, ‘No, no, no, that’s not in the moral journey of that particular character" and I remember one scene with Denzel and a senate member (?) getting drunk and talking about Lucilla and how her husband was supposedly gay.
Lucien's age changed from 8 (as mentioned in Gladiator) to 12 when they sent him away.. So he's aged a few years over the space of about half a year? 🤔
@@joshuajarod1909 Maximus isn't a "great man", he's a character in a movie that has a fake story that never happened.
Bravo! You listed every point, that i had about this movie. I was so shocked when i saw positive reviews. Gladiator 2 made me appreciate the original even more! Paul Mescal was sleepwalking through scenes. Pedro was kind of bored, Denzel was giving us Training day's Alonzo and two evil twins were trying hard to act crazy.
Russell Crowe went through all the stages of grief after loosing his family. Joaquin Phoenix made us hate, but understand Commodus. There was gritty look, there was a sence of real tragedy, real threat. Just compare the beginning of the first Gladiator and the joke of a sequel. We meet the general, see him in the battle being the best of the best. In the sequel we get a stupid scene with chickens. Even the way Paul Mescal helps his wife to put on the combat uniform. He has no emotion, no love or tenderness and fear for her.
And by the way in the original Lucius wasn't Maximus's son. Ridley Scott just tarnished his own Greatest achievement.
I don't wanna see Pedro Pascal ever again. I feel sorry for Paul Mascal and Denzel Washington being shoved in this shit!
Gladiatrixes did exist. However they were not war combatants and thier battles were not as brutal as male gladiators.
Slavery was very embedded into Roman society. One third of the society were slaves.
I don't believe you. Anyone who tries to project wokeness onto history is usually lying.
16:41 they also erased the progress of the previous Star Wars films to have an excuse to poorly retell the story in Force Awakens smh, it’s a sequel trend
It’s rumored that the woman warrior character was cut out of the move because she was Palestinian.
Meaning she would've been a colonizer who just occupied the land that the Romans forcibly expelled the Jews from?
No that warrior is israeli but the actress that was cut out was May Calamawry and was supposed to play denzels characters daughter and a love interest
I think Hollywood is incapable of making a decent movie
Wicked
@MrRayRockstar I'm not female or gay
@voodoochile333 It's still a good movie regardless of your gender or preferences
When I heard they were making a Gladiator II, I thought, YES the sequel we've all been waiting for....... for 20+ years. Even though the protagonist is dead. ..... and the villain is dead. ...and it's been 20 years. And even though I love Denzel Washington...the only possible reason for wanting to see this... I already know that what Denzel does best just doesn't play in ancient Rome!
When it comes to accuracy. Not only women couldnt fight back then, they were not even allowed to sit in Collosseum in the front. They were all the way back with slaves.
This is the thing I don't understand about historical girlboss movies.
Do women just want to forget that history happened? Like why do women want to make every historical movie about NOW instead of THEN?
THANK YOU! It's a mindless copy of the first movie, but a copy that doesn't even understand what made it so great.
"He's a SOY BOY." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well, even if they allowed women to go to war, I doubt there were any that wanted to go, considering that fighting alongside men in those times was an almost sure way to get graped, most likely gang-graped by your fellow soldiers, and possibly impregnated. And even supposing she kept fighting during her pregnancy and survived the birth, what was she supposed to do with a newborn on a battlefield? Women fighting in wars in ancient times was a ridiculous idea and I don't know why everyone refuses to see it.
It's a good thing they never made a Gladiator sequel, because if they did it'd boring, pointless and tedious to watch.
The beginning of the movie of the main character feeding the chicken is a copy of Maximus looking at a bird perching on the twig in the battlefield. The bird represents freedom, suggesting Maximus' longing for release from the duty as general and return home. The bird feeding scene would be more powerful if the encountering with the bird could somehow reflect Lucius' mind state of constantly running and finally settling down and finding peace somewhere.
Modern day Hollywood just cannot shake off the empowering women men's masculinity whereas women are already powerful in their own right. There's no doubt women are equally powerful, resilient and fierce in history. Take Chiomara of Galatian tribe for example. Any men hearing her story will understand the end message, she is not to be trifled with. Gladiator 2 could've shown Lucius wife in a more battle-appropriate roles, tending the wounds or giving morale boosts as historically Germanic women were renowned for...but the scenes just kept breaking immersion.
I think citics are too harsh with this movie.
It's not disappointing because it's awful, it's disappointing because it easily could have been SO.MUCH.better.
It's apparent that a certain effort went into that film. Nonetheless, I also felt nothing throughout the runtime.
It's just a solid every day standard craftsman's work that follows 30-40 year old formulas. You pay that craftsman to build a brick wall in your garden and then say "well done, that's a good brick wall, here is your money" without having any substantional critisism and then you forget about it.
And that's immensely damaging to cinema as a media in general. It has so much burden.
There was absolutely no emotional impact in the movie whatsoever
2:07 2:07 "His wife is also a warrior." We're done. (Thumbs up for the Chicken Scene.)
I wouldn't say this sequel tarnishes the first movie, not for me anyway. it's just another sequel no one asked for and was bound to fail. the first one is still superior by mile.
I'm not surprise that you didn't like this one, JesterBell. Once again, Hollywood shows it greed as the only reason why this film was made is because they knew that it was going to make a lot of money, not matter how good or bad the film was going to be. I know I'll be waiting to see this on streaming service as I refuse to waste any money on a film I know isn't going better than the original.
The original gladiator is my favourite film, I've seen it probably 100 times. I knew this would be slop and never even bothered seeing it.
I wouldn't call Mescal or Pedro Pascal's characters soyboys, they were just paperthin characters with barely any development, props to them for trying to do something with a garbage script.
So…I don’t believe Pedro Pascal is a bad actor. He proves that with his roles as Joel and Oberon and Din Djarin. However I will put forth that he is not one of those actors that can spin gold from garbage. He was given garbage so that’s what translated on screen.
Hearing about how bad Pedro Pascals performance is in this movie makes me worried about Fantastic Four next year
I've watched it yesterday, knowing that it's shit. It feels like a Snow White live action remake. It's practically the same story as in the original, but EVERYTHING is worse, and you don't feel anything for anybody.
Your review of the movie is actually better than the movie itself
Yeah you're making me want to watch Gladiator once again, for the thousandth time
So..... it's a copy and paste from the original
its so stupid that his wife is fighting in the war and hes all sad when she dies. are you kidding me? who writes this slop?
How many One of the Worst Movies/Shows of the Year does that make now? And yet we're still getting our hopes up
I watch this movie and I keep wondering why did they make this? It has no point and should not exist. It’s so stupid and bad not just ok it’s bad very bad. My wife went to sleep on it.
Because corpos think that using an established 'franchise' guarantee their profit. Also, Hollywood today is so uncreative they can't make anything new, they just keep recycling - sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots...
I like you JesterBell but you've said "insert here is 1 of the worst fikms I've seen this year" like 4+ times this year. Maybe start your own Razzies award at the end of the year? Which of these worst films you've seen is the worst of the worst?
your review is spot on! this movie is total trash compared to the first one-5/10 at best !! the acting felt very generic and the storyline was not compelling or exciting at all... and dont get me started on the CGI sharks..... really?!? give me a break 😂😂😂😂
1:17 We have many theories how this audio effect was achieved, but we unanimously decided on it's that you are a 24th century wizard mistress of ill repute in the dark arts with her merry band of next-door neighbor imperial chickens whose clearly knocking on the looking glass of her mirror dimensional domain of madness. Town of No, duh. We the Mayor. Population: obvious.
This has been one of the worst years for media ever. The Acolyte, this. The few tolerable bits were just ok.
Gladiator 2 is the worst.
Joker: " Hold my beer".
Gotta be money laundering at this point. The cartel is in on this. Come on.😅
A film that absolutely did not need a sequel. How Ridley thought it was a good idea, I will never know. But then again, he made Prometheus and Alien Covenant.
In fairness to the accents being off….rusell crowe just sounded like an Australian (himself) in the first movie. Didn’t sound like what we think a Roman would sound like
Well, I've heard Russel's real accent and he definitely wasn't using it in Gladiator. He was using more of an English accent
@@andrewvincent7299 yeah, kinda reminds me of 'Master and Commander'
Thank you for your honesty. We need it more from movie reviewers. 🤝🏼
I liked it. Yes, the plot is basically the same, but it was reasonably good for what it was.
As someone who's never seen the original, Gladiator 2 was perfectly okay in my eyes. I think it's far better than movies like Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Madame Web if modern comparisons are being made. Maybe instead of Gladiator 2, a movie called "Title: A Gladiator Story" would've been better without following legacy characters. Something Star Wars and most nostalgic movies try to bank on but fail every time. Idk the movie was okay but all the hate seems a bit much when we've had far worse experiences this year.
Watch the original then.
no,the hate is totally spot on,give us a break movie studios with literally every single new sequel,ripping off a original,and very famous movie title,its like,yeaaa its a good movie,if trhis is you first movie ever.The thing is,movie studios are completely obvious (or really greedy cash addict assholes) about what people acutally want.and what they dont.No,we really dont want another bad,copied sequel with far superior original.i think the hate is little too small,because of how long this is happening and because it seems no matter of what critics says (the real one,not those on a payroll) they still go and fucks the original,and im not kidding when i say we have lot,a friggin lot of bad,very very bad....sequel movies,so many that i grewd up with as many others.
I agree. As someone who actually is not that much of a fanboy of Gladiator1 (hey it's a great movie but the plot and also the costumes were embarassing even back then), Gladiator2 fills every checkpoint of a mediocre adventure movie without any suspense or thrill which is just "ok".
But mediocre doesn't cut it anymore. It generates no emotion besides frustration. Basically ok is the new bad.
Gladiator was a true masterpiece, but even if we ignore it for a moment, this "Gladiator2" is just mediocre on its own. Hollywood can't make a half-decent movie these days, nothing new and original, so they desperately 'repurpose' and recycle old stories, old ideas, old movies...
the general public went to see this instead of tf one, let me repeat that
actual humans with brains went to see
a
lazy
cash grab
rip off
sequel
to a classic film that didn't need a sequel instead of watching a actual good movie.
yea but then again,their brains are only strong for buying a ticket...not strong enough for knowing the difference between shit movie and good one
They showed his wife dying/dead in the trailer. So that's another layer of: 'meh'.
I had fun with it, but the history was so bad that Life Of Brian is legitimately more historically accurate.
His wife may have been an Amazon warrior? They didn't technically ever exist but they thought they did at the time.
'They were female warriors and hunters, known for their physical agility, strength, archery, riding skills, and the arts of combat.'
She could be a vampire. They didn't technically ever exist but they thought they did at the time.
@@bdleo300 Those were Slavic in origin, a vrykolaka would be the the nearest equivalent.
'The bodies of vrykolakas have the same distinctive characteristics as the bodies of vampires in Balkan folklore. They do not decay; instead, they swell and may even attain a "drumlike" form, being very large, have a ruddy complexion, and are, according to one account, "fresh and gorged with new blood".'
That's not quite what she looked like but she did have tribal facial tattoos no-one else had hinting at a different origin..
I hated this movie too. I think this movie should have cut thirty minutes to make flow better. This movie was stupid.
Actually The general did order for The wife to be killed, after she was fired a Arrow that almost hit him but instead killed a another man behind him.
Yep, so-called "Gladiator 2" is a cringe parody.
agreed 110%
it's one of the year's WORST.
Movies have been atrocious this year, maxxine, joker, anora, megalopolis have been the last movies I’ve seen in theaters and they were all horrible. I hope nosferatu is good
I am rewatching Old Soviet films archived on the glorious channel Mosfilm. It is amazing how genuinely entertaining and non-political these films are compared to movies like Gladiator 2. Only the Stalinist Era films (not many of those on Mosfilm) come close to the saturation of "correct" social political messaging compared to modern Hollywood.
Surprisingly, that's actually true, western audience usually see 'propaganda' in everything foreign, especially from Russia. But they never see blatant propaganda in Hollywood. Truth be told Hollywood was always propaganda, but at least more subtle than this terror today. Today they are obsessed with enforcing corpo-globalist ideological narrative.
Can we please stop lying and being so overly hyperbolic with our reviews? Not everything is a 10/10 or 0/10
This objectively is by no possible means an awful movie
It’s okay if you didn’t personally like it but it’s objectively fine or even enjoyable
It would be interesting to see you review more indie films instead of just mainstream blockbusters. Could make for a nice change from only focusing on the bad stuff.
Just be thankful it wasn't a musical.
Just wait for Gladiator 3: Musical Legion
I agree with you , Gladiator 2 is terrible , i am so disappointed .
The antagonists seem poorly developed. The villains carve out a lot of space for the heroes. They create a ladder for the protagonist to climb. When it seems like they are just tripping over a footstool, there's not much reason to cheer on the character. You don't see the hero IN the hero's struggle. There's no pay-off. Maybe the studio executives picked over the script and Ridley Scott needed a huge paycheck in a hurry.
Hilarious and insightful review. I always enjoy your channel and I’d like to see you expand outside of your room. Like I think you should do crazy stuff like knock on neighbors doors and I’d like to see your brother review something he’s passionate about with you positive or negative haha
There weren’t any blacks in Ancient Rome
Sequels are just not the vibe anymore
“meh” face was too much! Thank you for the review. I’ll gladly skip this
I’m happy to chill in the minority that are saying this was absolute trash.
Side note: during the opening battle, I was just thinking, “Man, I really miss playing Age of Empires.”
Thank you people keep trying to say the gladiator fights were good they werent. This movie is truly trash.
This is The Force Awakens of sword and sandal films. Just like they cut and paste 1977 Star Wars beat for beat into a new sequel they did the same thing here with Gladiator. I think Ridley Scott saw the Warhammer game being played and wanted killer fantasy monkeys and Skullcrusherd on rhinoceros in his next film. The shame is they could have made Gladiator an anthology by telling the story of different gladiator in a different Roman period not in the Maximus timeline. Demetrius and the Gladiators(1954) would have been an interesting film to remake.
The trash truck lmao
I loved Joseph Quinn in stranger things but I thought this was really strange casting and didn’t make any use of his talents
The original Gladiator was a masterpiece! Finally got a chance to watch part 2 and I wished I didn’t. It was really bad, bad acting, bad script, bad everything.
Imo, Joker 2 wasn’t terrible, it was just a good idea that was executed horribly, I mean, history making horrible
Gladiator 2 on the other hand, they didn’t even try, they just went, “money!” & started filming
Yep, I actually more like/less hate Joker 2 than Gladiator 2. At least they tried to make something original, Gladiator2 is just a cringe imitation of the first movie, lacking any quality of the first movie.
Your comedy JesterBell Rocks! JesterBell, you are a woman of, and for the people, but the neighbor chicken squat would have been to go infinity and beyond +1, so, imo, you made the right choice! Also, I never saw Titanic, but the fire breathing dragon might have got me on board. It be what it be. Alas, my heart will go on. Thanks again! Glad you thought the original Gladiator was a masterpiece, and I had Maximus on my list of most admirable fictional characters I could remember from a fuzzy childhood onward but completely forgot about Commodus for my top villain list. Thanks! Hope you see a new good movie soon!
When I saw the original Gladiator I gave it a 10/10 but because my memory sincerely stinks, and people were dissing it, I didn't know if I'd think it was worthy, especially I saw it on my phone while working out....but....
From my mixed meme-machine multiple-choice memory from a fuzzy childhood onward, these are imo 10/10 movies I can remember, trying to be relatively impartial with my flawed intellect standard, where I might have only seen once...multitasking, again from childhood onward!
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
You Can't Take it With You (1938)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Old Arsenic and Lace (1944)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)- This is my choice for greatest movie, especially because of the theme of showing the priceless precious gift of a single life.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Rear Window (1954)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Ben Hur (1959)
Psycho (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Sound of Music (1965)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Gladiator (2000)
The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Incredibles (2004)
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
And then for, imo, best performances I can think of:
Maria Falconetti's Joan (1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc)
Ronald Colman's Sydney Carton (1935 A Tale of Two Cities)
Charles Laughton's The Hunchback Quasimodo (1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Anthony Hopkin's Hannibal Lector and Ted Levine's Buffalo Bill (1991 Silence of the Lambs)
along with best performances, these are also the most three dimensional characters from film I can remember-
Longfellow Deeds Semple (1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
Ernest Borgnine's Marty Piletti (1955 Marty)
Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates (1960 Psycho)
Paul Newman's Lucas Jackson (1967 Cool Hand Luke)
Liv Ullman's Eva (1978 Autumn Sonata)
Daniel Day Lewis' Reynolds Woodcock (2017 Phantom Thread)
Hope you and your family have a great week, JesterBell! Thanks again! Still looking forward to your short film!
i watched this movie. after it ended i didn't feel any emotion and instantly wanted to forgot it. this is very bad for a movie. the first gladiator movie i still remember and hold in high regards and revisit scenes. they are million miles apart in terms of quality. the second one failed in so many ways. damn. they tried to do this watered down maximus character...why the f. they don't have no heart or mind put into second.
Gladiator II is worse than bad. The very basic goal of a sequel : don't make the original look worse than it was. And then . . . Gladiator II pissed on the original and made Maximus less than he was before II came out. It's not just the worst movie I've seen this year. It may be the worst movie made since The Last Jedi. Stop ruining good stories!
Yes, "Gladiator II" nullified the sacrifice of Maximus at the end of the first movie. But so did history. Ridley Scott is famous for playing fast and loose with history, but even he couldn't undo the fact that the Pax Romana ended during the events of the first movie. It would be as if in his movie "Napoleon," France somehow won the Battle of Waterloo.
From someone who say the penguin is good I’m really surprise , they’re both the same thing. Overrated by a mile , penguin is just the one of the worst mob series ever made and gladiator 2 is just a product.
The whole thing felt like a bad fanfic except it was from the original creator. The phoned in acting didn't help either. A prequel about how Proximus knew Marcus Aurelius (or how he touched his shoulder) could have been better and without the need of retconning the orginal plot.
Thank you, this movie was horrible
After watching this I need to go rewatch Gladiator for the 100th time
Playing "Chicken" has now a completely new meaning for me. Thank you for this performance!
Thing is if you watch Aftersun, Paul mescal can ACT act. Like, oh my god. So something went wrong at a fundamental level
Did the sand in the coliseum out shine all these characters?
I saw it ,it wasn't close to the masterpiece the first one was but ot also wasn't bad.
I have seen clips of the beginning and wasn't impressed by the CGI monkeys they pale in comparison with the tigers entering the arena in the original movie. i will go to the cinema to watch it.
Megaflopolis and (cash) Grabiator are merely two examples of the multitude. Rings of Flour and The Arseolyte were two more prime candidates for the cognitive dissonance plaguing Hollywon't. Oh well; *I say let 'em burn.* 🔥
Megalopolis is not a Hollywood film.