First time watching GLADIATOR (2000) | reaction/commentary/review

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  • @shawnkroll3950
    @shawnkroll3950 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    "The one who wants it the least is the one who deserves it the most" - Good leadership quote. As veteran..the counting of days, thinking and desiring to be home, caring out those you serve with, seeing the horrors of war and wanting peaceful life...etc...everything Maximus did literally is what veterans go through.

  • @hgman3920
    @hgman3920 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    At the start of the film, when Maximus rides home to see his family, he pretty much rides all the way from Germany to Spain. That's why the horse collapsed and died under him

    • @havok6280
      @havok6280 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's also why he took two horses. So he could ride the second when the first got tired.

    • @damianomastroiaco2457
      @damianomastroiaco2457 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Spain?...
      Italy Is way closer to Germany.
      Maximus was born in Spain, That doesn't mean he lived there.
      Marcus Aurelius was born in Spain too.

    • @hgman3920
      @hgman3920 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@damianomastroiaco2457 at the beginning of the film, he says his villa is in the hills above Trujillo, which is in western Spain

    • @LMBraun
      @LMBraun หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@hgman3920 Plus, you can hear the Spanish guitar kick in during the riding montage when he crosses the Pyrenees mountains!

  • @BlackStudies
    @BlackStudies 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Maximus wasn't being merciful when he spared Tigris of Gaul. He was waiting to see what signal Commodus gave so that he could openly defy him by doing the opposite.

    • @crapstirrer
      @crapstirrer หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He was being the bad boy of the arena and the crowd loved it.

    • @MysticalJessica
      @MysticalJessica หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes... he was being defiant!

    • @benjaminroe311ify
      @benjaminroe311ify หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very true.

    • @whoarocket
      @whoarocket หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@BlackStudies Yes, I think that's something people may not realize because they're thinking of him being "good", but I'm pretty sure he would have killed if Commodus said not to.

  • @iowanpatriotandrew2949
    @iowanpatriotandrew2949 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    "You aren't supposed to kiss any other woman but me even if I die!" It's understandable and cute :P

  • @Qualimar
    @Qualimar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    No one ever includes my favourite line ("I think you've been afraid all your life") in their reaction to this film. 😥

    • @FilthTribeFTP
      @FilthTribeFTP หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I've actually seen quite a few channels include it. But yes, I agree, this a cold blooded line for sure 😈

    • @benjaminroe311ify
      @benjaminroe311ify หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It always annoys me when I watch a reaction and they cut that line out and also the "You should know, He was your father" That scene between them is such an iconic scene with such great lines that to cut too much of it out is just... well...

    • @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258
      @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That's a great line, indeed 👍

    • @jayfe86
      @jayfe86 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The most cut line, yet most important line in any Gladiator reaction is "Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once, make us believe it again"

  • @Melomaniac1956
    @Melomaniac1956 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    12:30 The irony here is that the Praetorians are supposed to be the most elite soldiers in the Empire who always got the best; that's why they guarded the Emperor and his family. The best training, best equipment, best commanders, best of everything. And they were that once upon a time. But by the time of this emperor you can see how they've fallen into laziness, sloth and neglect since most of them will have never fought a battle in their entire lives.

  • @whoarocket
    @whoarocket หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This reaction is common among a lot of women reactors. Usually not expecting much because they think it is just a violent "boy movie". But then there is a really pleasant surprise with it having heart and characters and great dialog and an engaging plot. It's always fun to see.

    • @jairon_2518
      @jairon_2518 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And some shots and the OST too which makes it for me. It’s really a fantastic movie

  • @martinklaus2203
    @martinklaus2203 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The first spot where he camped in the rocky area after he escaped execution is our local camping area in California called Alabama Hills. It is absolutely beutiful.

    • @sca88
      @sca88 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Dated a girl from that area in college.

  • @toxicrevenuegaming
    @toxicrevenuegaming 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    "The music is giving me Pirates of the Carribean vibes."
    It's almost like the score was written by the same person. 🤔

    • @benrast1755
      @benrast1755 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You mean film composers can score more than one film? Wild! 😊

    • @moonmc1047
      @moonmc1047 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Pirate of the Caribbean copied Gladiator. This movie came in 2000 b4 Pirate of the Caribbean

    • @toxicrevenuegaming
      @toxicrevenuegaming หลายเดือนก่อน

      @moonmc1047 both scores were written by the same person.

    • @navylaks2
      @navylaks2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And written before Pirates of the Caribbean

  • @davidsumpter4933
    @davidsumpter4933 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Last Samurai needs to be on your list for a soon to be watched movie. It is another masterpiece of filmmaking.

  • @domingocurbelomorales8635
    @domingocurbelomorales8635 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    The actor who played Proximo (the Gladiator trainer) was Oliver Reed. He was an extraordinary british actor, with a very interesting, fascinating and atypical life. He also was known for his alcoholism, having some scandals on TV and cinema as a consequence of this. During the filming of Gladiator in 1999, he sadly passed away. He had been sober for months, but one night (during a break from filming the movie) in an Irish pub in Malta (after a bet), he drank three bottles of Jamaican rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous double whiskeys and challenged five young English sailors of the Royal Navy to arm-wrestling at The Pub bar (which after this incident was called Ollie's Last Pub). His bill, which was never paid, is preserved in a decorative frame in the bar.

    • @redhen2123
      @redhen2123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He scared the hell out of me as Bill Sykes when I was a kid.

  • @shauno7
    @shauno7 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You have a good ear. The music for Gladiator was composed by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard. Zimmer also composed the music for Pirates of the Caribbean. Hence, there are definitely some similar themes, as you picked up on.

  • @bkboy2384
    @bkboy2384 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Phoenix absolutely owns every scene he's in...put him on the map....great villain

  • @stefanhueckelheim
    @stefanhueckelheim หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus were real people. Commodus was emperor for 12 years and he also fought against gladiators in the arena. On December 31, 192 AD, he was strangled in a bath. The Praetorian Prefect QUINTUS Aemilius Laetus was an accomplice to the crime. The film is based on this very roughly and historically incorrectly.

  • @michelanio
    @michelanio 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This is a great movie and loved seeing your reaction to it! Also the soundtrack in this movie is amazing, and is made by the same person who did the Pirates movies, Hans Zimmer

    • @icedquokka
      @icedquokka  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ooo that makes sense! Fantastic music as always from him 🔥

  • @victore6242
    @victore6242 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Best line is... What we do in life echoes in eternity

    • @TheCarpyboi
      @TheCarpyboi หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And she talked over it, talking about accents 😂😂

  • @bourbonderben5362
    @bourbonderben5362 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hans zimmer is the composer. He did gladiator and the pirates movies too, so good ear! Hes also done Rain Man, Lion King, the Batman Trilogy, inception, intersteller. Hes an amazing composer

  • @MysticalJessica
    @MysticalJessica หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Romans spoke Latin which is considered a dead language but it survives in medicine and academia nowadays. I know of a series which portrays the life of Arminius the German hero who defeated the Romans in Germania and in that series the Germans speak German and the Romans Latin. I think it was done that way because it is portrayed from the Germans point of view and they want us to feel how the Germans felt towards the Roman invaders but in Gladiator the story is from the Romans point of view so having it in English makes us see their side and relate.

  • @MysticalJessica
    @MysticalJessica หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This movie is inspired by real history of course but it is fiction. The ending of the movie is the only historically accurate thing in this story. There once was a Roman emperor who loved gladiator games and even participated in them from time to time and one slave gladiator defeated and killed the emperor in a duel. That emperor (which I forgot the name, maybe someone can help me with that) did not leave any descendants so Rome became a Republic. Some inaccuracies of the first battle are the flaming arrows were not lit in tar like that because the flame would be extinguished by the time it hit the target, in reality it had a whole mechanism with fuse that would make the flame burn for hours and you couldn't even put it out with water and the cavalry did not run down the hill at full speed in the forest like that because all the horses would've broken their legs before even getting to the enemy but it sure looks cool in film.

  • @RandyYalch-iq4sz
    @RandyYalch-iq4sz 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Commodus was a real person.He was actually a very good fighter.But the scene when he was in the woods was choreographed to make him look good @ feed his ego.You can hear them counting off the moves the moves

  • @tehawfulestface1337
    @tehawfulestface1337 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Maximus (Russell Crowe) is called ‘Spaniard’, not used during this period. Maximus would be an Iberian or Celtiberian in Roman service. In a way his confusing accent was just right.

    • @havok6280
      @havok6280 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Incorrect. The name of Spain (España) comes from Hispania, the name used by the Romans for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces during the Roman Empire.
      Technically, English would not have been used at all. So translating Iberian as Spaniard is fine.

    • @tehawfulestface1337
      @tehawfulestface1337 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ Yes, that works. Thank you.

  • @ianarnett
    @ianarnett หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh dear, what language do you expect them to speak in? Latin was there tongue, but I doubt there are many actors who could do it, let alone viewers understand it! It’s a mish mash of actors and actresses from around the world, so all sorts of accents. However, I love the naive innocence in your reactions and comments. Made me smile continuously 👍.

  • @TheBeastsHere
    @TheBeastsHere หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If you think this was good, you should watch the 2004 movie ''Troy'' which has Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom, this is my second favourite film just behind Gladiator.

  • @JulioHernandez-chico
    @JulioHernandez-chico หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was 10 when I first saw this movie back then .when his death came on I cried so much. My tears now are yours .

  • @domingocurbelomorales8635
    @domingocurbelomorales8635 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Marco Aurelio was played by the first Dumbledore yes (Richard Harris). Harris did the first two HP films, but later on died. Therefore, Michael Gambon continued playing Dumbledore in HP saga.

    • @Ronuk1996
      @Ronuk1996 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      He also played English Bob in Unforgiven such a great actor.

  • @blizzywilk
    @blizzywilk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My favorite movie of all time since it came out in 2000. Great reaction! ❤️

  • @havok6280
    @havok6280 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Kudos for keeping Maximus's whole monologue in the edit. A lot of reactors cut parts of it.

  • @moonmc1047
    @moonmc1047 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This movie came in year 2000 before Pirate of the caribean so Pirate actually copied the soundtrack of Gladiator. This movie is as popular as Pirate of the caribean back then so dunno why many people only seen Pirate but not Gladiator.

  • @acereporter73
    @acereporter73 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Who will help me carry him?" 😭😭😭

  • @starlord3496
    @starlord3496 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Imo top 20 film ever made you could rank it anywhere in the top 20

  • @yruhatin1988
    @yruhatin1988 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of my all time favorites. My mom didn't allow me to watch it when it was new so one day when she was away I jumped on my bike and rented the VHS and went back home to watch the movie and then I biked back before my mom got home so she wouldn't know, hahaha.
    I agree with you on the kiss, it comes pretty much out of nowhere and is very weird for him to do.
    Great reaction! I got tickets for the second movie on the 14th, so hyped!

    • @icedquokka
      @icedquokka  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Omg bless ahahaha

    • @maggieshevelew1693
      @maggieshevelew1693 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I disagree about the kiss. It doesn’t come out of nowhere. Maximus and Lucilla know each other very well. They also know this could very well be the last night of their lives. They’re both broken, and needing comfort. Seems a very human thing to do. And has nothing to do with whether he’s mourning his wife.

  • @mrgonzale0978
    @mrgonzale0978 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    this movie is awesome. they should make more series and movies about the Roman Empire until its end. every war and every political issue. but now days. Hollywood only wants is superhero movies.

  • @victore6242
    @victore6242 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hans Zimmer wrote both movies. Can you have one phrase so much that he used it in both. The phrase fits both.

  • @petercofrancesco9812
    @petercofrancesco9812 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    While this story is fiction, there was an emperor Commodus. Surprisingly he did fight as a gladiator some have speculated he rigged it so he would win. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

    • @benjaminroe311ify
      @benjaminroe311ify หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Indeed. In fact truth is almost ALWAYS stranger than fiction.

  • @victore6242
    @victore6242 หลายเดือนก่อน

    London sits on the city founded by the Romans called londinium

  • @fernandomendez2709
    @fernandomendez2709 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It is not based on a true story but some aspects are. There were roman emperor by the name of Marcue aurelius and his son comodus was also an emperor.

    • @havok6280
      @havok6280 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's historical fiction.

  • @victore6242
    @victore6242 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Roman generals paid their army out of their own pocket

  • @benjaminroe311ify
    @benjaminroe311ify หลายเดือนก่อน

    People should really pay attention to the government organizations popularized by Rome like the senate as our western governments and congressional bodies are modeled after it. You understand it better if you understand the origins and can opinionate more on whether it's a good idea to have it or not.

  • @Chris55555.
    @Chris55555. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hello, if you don’t mind, can you do a movie reaction on a movie called, 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
    Adventure/Drama (1992). It stars Gérard Depardieu, Siqourney Weaver, Armand Assante. It portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous peoples.
    Directed by Ridley Scott. Thank you, Chris.

  • @williambranch4283
    @williambranch4283 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    History: Boy meets girl, babies happen, rinse and repeat ;-)

  • @adrianfuegoscuro6308
    @adrianfuegoscuro6308 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yeah...Rome is in Italy

  • @philCTO
    @philCTO หลายเดือนก่อน

    No she didn't recognize him until he took off the helmet

  • @francescolongo3860
    @francescolongo3860 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

  • @brianschepp9899
    @brianschepp9899 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Have you seen "The Odyssey"? Just a heads up it's pretty gory but it isn't excessive.

  • @toxicrevenuegaming
    @toxicrevenuegaming 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "his voice sounds like Dumbledohr." 🤣🤣 You are giving me so much joy!❤❤❤

  • @francistregear
    @francistregear หลายเดือนก่อน

    Roman soldiers were from all over the empire.

  • @victore6242
    @victore6242 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Romans also named Germania

  • @victore6242
    @victore6242 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Romans spoke Latin

  • @faisalmemon285
    @faisalmemon285 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You should see Gladiator II in the theaters rather than 9 months later on streaming. Everyone would’ve seen it by then. Some movie you gotta see on the big screen, not on a small computer monitor.

  • @jakobschmitt7642
    @jakobschmitt7642 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What the hell? This epic music sounds like pirates of the Caribbean? The emperor sounds like Dumbledore?
    Your destroying my movie😭

    • @icedquokka
      @icedquokka  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bro it is Dumbledore 😂 the same actor

    • @jakobschmitt7642
      @jakobschmitt7642 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ sure but you make me see Dumbledore in the one true emperor of Rome lol😂 stop it haha jk

  • @kornelthunderbolt9962
    @kornelthunderbolt9962 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Like...he like...i was like....like actually now...like....like^^

  • @martinmayhew145
    @martinmayhew145 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They all spoke the common language at the time, depending on which area of Europe they come from, the accents will be different

  • @paulmartin2348
    @paulmartin2348 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this move and enjoy watching reactions to it. After about the 5 minute mark I was down here to block your channel for the rest of my life but decided to leave a comment before I do. You need to talk and react but if you say 400 words for ever 6 said it the movie it quickly becomes unwatchable. Goodbye forever.

    • @icedquokka
      @icedquokka  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ahahahahaha

  • @matthewzimmerman5064
    @matthewzimmerman5064 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It’s crazy that you called every single thing that would happen right before it did. Almost like you have seen it before.

    • @icedquokka
      @icedquokka  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It wasn’t that hard to predict

    • @charger348
      @charger348 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes noted as well, it happens to a lot of these reaction vids, so makes one wonder about sincerity

    • @Quboid
      @Quboid 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a great film, but it's not subtle or unpredictable. Like, it ending with them fighting in the arena (sorry, "ring" 😅) is the obvious way for a film about gladiator versus the emperor to end. I'm sure she edited out all the times she predicted the Terminator traveled through time to kill John Conmodus...

  • @nixxol
    @nixxol 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hello Hello

  • @miamicool666
    @miamicool666 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Alice in Wonderland

  • @samuelbutterworth4303
    @samuelbutterworth4303 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Maybe a more knowledgeable co-reactor would be a good idea. And a better editor.

    • @icedquokka
      @icedquokka  28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wtf?? No

  • @scottiepatterson4251
    @scottiepatterson4251 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yes lady the Romans would have spoken Latin...If so, you couldn't have understood a movie...grow up

  • @seanbumstead1250
    @seanbumstead1250 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its a fun movie but historical inaccurate

  • @victore6242
    @victore6242 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not exactly historically accurate play a good tale

  • @faisalmemon285
    @faisalmemon285 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    GALDIATOR CAME OUT IN 2000 WHILE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN CAME OUT IN 2003. SO INSTEAD OF SAYING GLADIATOR SOUNDS LIKE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN YOU SHOULD SAY THAT PIRATES SOUND LIKE GLADIATOR! Got it?

    • @shmick6079
      @shmick6079 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She saw Pirates before she saw Gladiator, hence the comment.

    • @faisalmemon285
      @faisalmemon285 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ No shiznit. My comment was supposed to be humor.

    • @shmick6079
      @shmick6079 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ oh. It came across as rude. Hard to convey tone with text.

  • @carlosmanzo2298
    @carlosmanzo2298 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    get over the accent

    • @johnrenton3217
      @johnrenton3217 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As a fellow Aussie I can tell you the Quokka's accent is just as hybrid - there's a strong hint of pretentiousness in there to make it worse...

    • @ronweber1402
      @ronweber1402 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ya that's just the way Russel Crowe speaks in everything I've seen him in. It's not like he's putting on an accent.

  • @fern4real733
    @fern4real733 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Easily one of my favorite movies of ALL time, I definitely enjoyed the sequel, but I like this one better.
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