I’ve been following Film Threat for decades. Please keep politics out of the conversation. I don’t mind if you talk about DEI, the culture war, etc. It’s just off putting and you’re not Gary.
Politics is downstream of culture …. But you do you. And shows how much you watch Nerdrotic. Gary used to never say anything political until this year …. Or Maybe you can go cry into your BLM T-shirt over the Kamala loss somewhere else …
I'm really not impressed with Chris and Alan review of gladiator 2. I saw it last night and my friend and I came out actually amazed an really enjoyed the movie. The world building and sequences were excellent and the main actor was great too! Some people commenting that Ridley Scott should retire is absolutely a nut job. How many 86 year olds you know that can still hammer out some good movies?
You know I'm wondering if both of them have become a little bit jaded recently with some of the other people they've been hanging out with. I think there are more positives in gladiator to the negatives. The ship battle in the Colosseum was absolutely insane!
Jesus sometimes I think you guys just say shit to have something to say. The insertion of Gladiator footage to build sympathy for the main character was not "100% the only reason". It was actually not a reason at all. For starters, there is a single scene in the movie that uses original footage, which was expanded on to serve a narrative function for this movie. Stop acting like the movie was littered with scenes. Secondly, the flashback has no connection to current day Lucius whatsoever. If anything, it is meant to allow the audience to find sympathy for Lucilla. Up to that point in the movie, Lucius is already a sympathetic character. He is shown in the beginning as being on the losing end of a siege at the hands of the Roman Empire (a great change or perspective from the first movie where we are rooting for Rome as they invade Germania). In that battle, we see him lose his wife at the command of Pascal's Acacius. We then see him recount his childhood as a runaway never really having a home. If he wasn't sympathetic enough at that point, we along with Lucius find out his own mother is married to the man that is responsible for his wife's death. The flashback scene is meant to provide context as to how and why Lucius ended up where he was, and why Lucilla had to make that tragic decision.
I dread this movie crossing the billion mark as a person that despises musicals. This might green light a ton of garbage musicals.
SPARKLESSSSS!!!!!
I’ve been following Film Threat for decades. Please keep politics out of the conversation. I don’t mind if you talk about DEI, the culture war, etc. It’s just off putting and you’re not Gary.
Oh man exactamundo you nailed it! I like their channels but I don't necessarily always want to hear that same crap on film threat
Politics is downstream of culture ….
But you do you.
And shows how much you watch Nerdrotic. Gary used to never say anything political until this year ….
Or Maybe you can go cry into your BLM T-shirt over the Kamala loss somewhere else …
@@RobertKirwell said
I'm really not impressed with Chris and Alan review of gladiator 2. I saw it last night and my friend and I came out actually amazed an really enjoyed the movie. The world building and sequences were excellent and the main actor was great too! Some people commenting that Ridley Scott should retire is absolutely a nut job. How many 86 year olds you know that can still hammer out some good movies?
You know I'm wondering if both of them have become a little bit jaded recently with some of the other people they've been hanging out with. I think there are more positives in gladiator to the negatives. The ship battle in the Colosseum was absolutely insane!
Jesus sometimes I think you guys just say shit to have something to say. The insertion of Gladiator footage to build sympathy for the main character was not "100% the only reason". It was actually not a reason at all.
For starters, there is a single scene in the movie that uses original footage, which was expanded on to serve a narrative function for this movie. Stop acting like the movie was littered with scenes. Secondly, the flashback has no connection to current day Lucius whatsoever. If anything, it is meant to allow the audience to find sympathy for Lucilla. Up to that point in the movie, Lucius is already a sympathetic character. He is shown in the beginning as being on the losing end of a siege at the hands of the Roman Empire (a great change or perspective from the first movie where we are rooting for Rome as they invade Germania). In that battle, we see him lose his wife at the command of Pascal's Acacius. We then see him recount his childhood as a runaway never really having a home. If he wasn't sympathetic enough at that point, we along with Lucius find out his own mother is married to the man that is responsible for his wife's death. The flashback scene is meant to provide context as to how and why Lucius ended up where he was, and why Lucilla had to make that tragic decision.