Same here. I’m so glad that interview is getting traction because it says and articulates so much of what’s wrong with modern filmmaking. I’m no Luddite but I hate the way digital has made films look.
Do you think he and Scott will work together again? I like him better as a cinematographer on Scott's films than Dariusz Wolski, who is also a great cinematographer.
Yeah. This entire video he just recounts what happens and how the film was shot. He doesn't speak about his opinion or any creative opinion he had/didn't have
You can tell the cinematographer has been doing this his whole life. So he might come off sounding unenthusiastic, but it’s interesting that he found the boats in the colosseum scene among his favorite to film.
love listening to John and how enthusiastic he is about his work, really didn't like the film tbh or the lead character Paul. The best scenes was the opening IMO
It is a discount version if the first movie. Truly 80% is beat for beat the first movie but with a much lesser script writer and composer. But it brings storywise nothing new. Its what force awakens did to a new hope, recycling in nostalgia bait. You have seen it all before and done better
@@bekhele id say the first half of it is definitely just the first movie but shot more modernly, but i think it picks up and gets a lot better after and has a newer story
Can you please explain why the monkeys look so fake to you ? Because, I swear, I’ve watched that scene a couple of times and nothing ever bothered me. The CGI looked really good I think. I don’t understand why most viewers despise that scene. Maybe I’m missing something…
In the minority here. I enjoyed the movie. I was entertained. The criticism about the cleaniness and digitalness is a symptom of today's filmmaking. All the tech in service of what? no talk of storytelling. The entire movie looks like "coverage" instead of "shots". Look at the first Gladiator. What a marvel. Nolan is one of the few who undestands how to harness the tools to reduction instead addition.
But it’s the same director who made both films. The difference being that Ridley was deeply suspicious of CGI for the first film, and finally embraced it for the second. The rhinoceros, the ships attacking Numidia, the ships in the Colosseum all would not be possible without embracing the newer film technology.
I hate in videos like these where the audio recorded was probably VERY GOOD AND CLEAR but they need it to be ABSOLUTELY PERFECT so they run it through an AI audio cleanup process, resulting in it sounding like UNNATURAL GARBAGE
This scene..... getting all that water in an arena would take so much effort cause of the aqueduct system, and then the drainage of that water (cause that arena is primarily water free) that it must have bankrupted Rome. The boats being larger than the entrances the gladiators enter through and the fact they'd need a river to move them into the arena (!)..add the live sharks on top of all that..what?
I hope your trolling😅 You mean the intro scene where boats seige a city with Towers on the front and draw bridges??😂😂😂😂 Dune 2s intro is an epic cinematic achievement and is 100 times better than the whole of Gladiator 2
@@al3x4nderthegreat80 oh you mean the intro of dune 2, with a couple of dudes dressed like beggars and a couple of dudes with plastic aliexpress suits in black 😂 yeah, so cool. Go back to your teenager movies brodi!
I think the film did turn out really good, but there's no doubt it was incredibly rushed. You can tell by what he's saying here and what he said elsewhere about the film
Shame it was overly digital, too clinical and sharp. I wish he used more of his traditional filmic/vintage lensing techniques to keep it more grounded. His upcoming work on Jurassic World looks promising though.
Actually, I found much of it to be graded pretty close to film. All of the stuff in the Arena, including the close-ups of the emperors, the general, etc. looked very granular. It’s the stuff with the senators and the night shots in Rome with candlelight that stood out as too clean.
The difference between him here and the recent DOC interview where Mathieson goes scorched earth on how lazy Ridley Scott has become and how the cinematography has suffered as a result.
Terrible film. All the CGI and stunt work and terrible script couldn't deliver a decent sequel to 2000s Gladiator. These days, films are just too top heavy with CGI for my liking. Better next time Ridley....if there is a next time.
A historian said sometimes eels were used in the Colosseum. But they would bite, not kill. Apparently Ridley thought sharks would be more fun. And when I first saw them in the theater, I admit I did laugh.
@@marctwinam-cauchi3488I do, it’s used most commonly on backdrops, buildings, etc. I mean for things such as… the water shots in the coliseum, the stupid cgi baboons 😂 just incorporate a script that lends itself to scenes that can be curated without a cgi reliance, that’s all ✌🏼
wrinkly old men with too much money man. Can't wait for the new filmmakers to start appearing because this movie and all this hollywood sequel shit suuuuucks
@@somerandomlittlechannel7860 I'm not related to anyone in production and my dad isn't a famous actor. That's the only way you can get into it these days
All CGI and aah, Pedro Pascal... 2 reason I will never watch this modern era amalgamation of AI cgi and watery script not to mention stoned and unreal acting. Even Denzel cannot convince me to watch this shit.
Here after Mathieson's extremely honest interview. Fascinating comparing how he really feels, to how he is presented here.
Which interview might this be and how is he really feeling?
That honest review is wild. I’m so grateful for it
Same here. I’m so glad that interview is getting traction because it says and articulates so much of what’s wrong with modern filmmaking. I’m no Luddite but I hate the way digital has made films look.
@paulhoffmann3405 Apparently it is meant to be a secret. Just copy and paste the title so the rest of us can watch it!
Do you think he and Scott will work together again? I like him better as a cinematographer on Scott's films than Dariusz Wolski, who is also a great cinematographer.
I love how he can’t hide the lack of honesty in what he’s saying
Yeah. This entire video he just recounts what happens and how the film was shot. He doesn't speak about his opinion or any creative opinion he had/didn't have
I thought this was Daniel Craig for a second
Thank-youuuuuu
Oh yeah
him playing Benoit really has changed how we imagine him. he'd totally wear this incredible outfit 😊
😂😂😂😂
haha same
Such a great scene!
I LOVE these kind of videos. Thank you.
Yes zooms are much quicker to work with and change things.
By the end, I didn't even mind the silly cap.
An absolute legend ….amazing that Ridley brought him back inspite having Darius wolski as regular collaborator ….he has shot kingdom of heaven too ❤
Loved his work on Gladiator, x men first class, Logan and doctor strange 2
And 4 other Scott films
It makes sense that Ridley wanted the original cinematographer for the first movie involved in the sequel.
I loved the movie.... so there!
Known John for years!! A great guy!!
You still can’t beat practical effects. The choppy CGI in the film was like watching a bad video game at times.
Amazing ❤
I love this guy, Really.
Cringe 😬
You can tell the cinematographer has been doing this his whole life. So he might come off sounding unenthusiastic, but it’s interesting that he found the boats in the colosseum scene among his favorite to film.
I'm glad to see VFX getting the recognition they deserve
VFX should be INVISIBLE and so should CGI. When audiences saw those Baboons, do you REALLY think that anyone was convinced?
it really ruined the movie - it should of had no baboons or sharks that both looked like very cheap CGI
that CGI was horrendous
VFX is on the shortlist for an Oscar nomination. That’s the recognition for incredible work.
He doesn't sound too enthused.
Excellent film, I thought the opening siege sequence was incredible.
Same here. Loved the opening battle.
As an editor, 7:05 that muchly help.
I am more interested how they managed to film the sharks!
love listening to John and how enthusiastic he is about his work, really didn't like the film tbh or the lead character Paul. The best scenes was the opening IMO
The second isn’t 10% of the first. The first is an amazing film. The second is an empty husk.
These technical aspects are the only thing that makes the film worth anything. The script is rubbish. But visually it is magnificent.
Im sorry did this INSANE MAN say he graded this film in 5 DAYS??! 😮
This became one of the three best action films of the year!!!
What are the other two top picks?
@@Carlo_ReNews i guess Dune 2 & Furiosa, but i think this Gladiator 2 is definitely best film of the year hands down, epic production
@@ThunderBolt-j4j i like it but still I don’t think it’s any where near the best. Glad you loved it though
🤣🤣🤣🤣 mmmmmkaaaaayyy
thats a low bar
I dont feel like I understand how they filmed the flooded coliseum anymore than I did before I watched this.
Lol
The boats were on wheels, the water was added in post production
what is he wearing?
result it was he says: good. not more or less
Loved the movie can’t wait for the third.
Looks like Daniel Craig’s brother or uncle 😂
Gladiator was so special I hope Gladiator 2 doesn’t water it down. No pun intended. Great video!
It is a discount version if the first movie. Truly 80% is beat for beat the first movie but with a much lesser script writer and composer. But it brings storywise nothing new. Its what force awakens did to a new hope, recycling in nostalgia bait. You have seen it all before and done better
Greatest hits meets Temu
@@bekhele id say the first half of it is definitely just the first movie but shot more modernly, but i think it picks up and gets a lot better after and has a newer story
@@laserpoint3741 Agree. Halfway through, Lucius realizes he’s made a mistake. Everything changes from there.
No surprise at how this individual looks
I think the monkeys look so fake, I’m shocked at the quality of the cgi
Cgi still looks like a worse end result rather than real animatronics and effects
The quality is very high. The exaggerated animation is Ridley's fault. The animators would never do this.
@@i20010yes finally someone who says it. Scott has been making films for the deaf lately.
Can you please explain why the monkeys look so fake to you ? Because, I swear, I’ve watched that scene a couple of times and nothing ever bothered me. The CGI looked really good I think. I don’t understand why most viewers despise that scene. Maybe I’m missing something…
Need his hat 🔥🔥💧
This film just looks like that 2016 remake of BEN HUR lol. Not the original.
It does look a lot like Ben Hur remake.
28 years old PAUL MESCAL
26 when he was offered the role, 27 when they filmed it, 28 now.
Oh, you can tell it was shot on dry land. I’ve seen more realistic water in video games than in this film. 😬😬😬
you telling me this isn't benoit blanc?
Gladiator 2 deserves best cinematography and prodcution design oscar nominations this year
It's got nothing on Dune Part 2
How the CGI looks cheap even in the scenes he's showing here, lol
A Different Man for cinematography.
It was a ridiculous scene. Those sharks were hilarious.
What cinematographer do?
Type that into Google
I was expecting IMAX Cameras in this movie. anyway it good to have this great movie sequel.
Wait, it wasn’t shot in IMAX? This is a sincere question.
Luscious grew up by the SEA? WHAT? SInce when? He was 12 in the first one and grew up I'm Northen Rome
He fled Rome as a boy after Maximus and Commodus died, and lived in coastal Numidia until he reached adulthood.
It was meh. Paul was great, Denzel was cool but the storyline was lacking.
In the minority here. I enjoyed the movie. I was entertained. The criticism about the cleaniness and digitalness is a symptom of today's filmmaking. All the tech in service of what? no talk of storytelling. The entire movie looks like "coverage" instead of "shots". Look at the first Gladiator. What a marvel. Nolan is one of the few who undestands how to harness the tools to reduction instead addition.
But it’s the same director who made both films. The difference being that Ridley was deeply suspicious of CGI for the first film, and finally embraced it for the second. The rhinoceros, the ships attacking Numidia, the ships in the Colosseum all would not be possible without embracing the newer film technology.
@@swakyaby3339 And that's totally fine.
I hate in videos like these where the audio recorded was probably VERY GOOD AND CLEAR but they need it to be ABSOLUTELY PERFECT so they run it through an AI audio cleanup process, resulting in it sounding like UNNATURAL GARBAGE
The water looked pretty bad. I think it's that it's overly shiny. It just immediately screams computer water.
this guy will doing avengers doomsday??
I like your hat. I have to draw you….
I thought this was Daniel Craig wearing a silly hat.
I feel like some of the scenes were too dark, like a few of pedro and lucilla.
The first one is so much better because of the built sets and not being as dependent on special effects.
@@Iankiely did you not watch the video?
This scene..... getting all that water in an arena would take so much effort cause of the aqueduct system, and then the drainage of that water (cause that arena is primarily water free) that it must have bankrupted Rome. The boats being larger than the entrances the gladiators enter through and the fact they'd need a river to move them into the arena (!)..add the live sharks on top of all that..what?
Best film of the year hands down!!!
Dune 2 is turning circles around this nostalgia bait lazy copy past writing. This is the first movie repacked and done on discount
@bekhele Gladiator 2 eclipses Dune by a mile. The intro scene alone is worth more than both dunes combined 😂😂
I hope your trolling😅 You mean the intro scene where boats seige a city with Towers on the front and draw bridges??😂😂😂😂 Dune 2s intro is an epic cinematic achievement and is 100 times better than the whole of Gladiator 2
@@al3x4nderthegreat80 oh you mean the intro of dune 2, with a couple of dudes dressed like beggars and a couple of dudes with plastic aliexpress suits in black 😂 yeah, so cool. Go back to your teenager movies brodi!
I loved both Gladiator II and Dune 2, can I say that? But G2 is my favorite.
The CGI water looked terrible. And those baboons...
I think to average viewer, like me, water looks just fine.
It does look terrible
I think the film did turn out really good, but there's no doubt it was incredibly rushed. You can tell by what he's saying here and what he said elsewhere about the film
What is he wearing on his head 🧐
Terrible CGI in a very expensive mediocre movie. A hot awful mess of a silly sequel to a great movie.
Daniel Craig in disguise?
Shame it was overly digital, too clinical and sharp. I wish he used more of his traditional filmic/vintage lensing techniques to keep it more grounded. His upcoming work on Jurassic World looks promising though.
Actually, I found much of it to be graded pretty close to film. All of the stuff in the Arena, including the close-ups of the emperors, the general, etc. looked very granular. It’s the stuff with the senators and the night shots in Rome with candlelight that stood out as too clean.
Which Hollywood films have you directed ?
Pity they couldn't buy a decent script where this bloke bought the lenses.
And which Hollywood movie scripts have you written ?
@@JamesSmithTexas Have you seen Me and your Mom
Interesting hat..
why he wearing that
The difference between him here and the recent DOC interview where Mathieson goes scorched earth on how lazy Ridley Scott has become and how the cinematography has suffered as a result.
He backtracked those comments a week later, but not convincingly.
Terrible film. All the CGI and stunt work and terrible script couldn't deliver a decent sequel to 2000s Gladiator. These days, films are just too top heavy with CGI for my liking. Better next time Ridley....if there is a next time.
This film looks like a classic present day Didley film. In other words. Ass.
it was interesting and engaging until the sharks showed up. then it was just silly.
He must have spoken about this a lot because he’s now flying over his talk, skipping every 3rd and 4th word.
the CGI ruined the 2nd Gladiator and made it look like someone just used snapchat style filters
A sequel with0ut s0ul to make m0ney
Imagine the levels of self-importance to casually walk around in a cap like that.
I still dont get why they think it made sense to have sharks in there…how did the romans get sharks in the coliseum? A crane? Lol
Catapulted obv
A historian said sometimes eels were used in the Colosseum. But they would bite, not kill. Apparently Ridley thought sharks would be more fun. And when I first saw them in the theater, I admit I did laugh.
please directors…. LESS CGI=BETTER
Trust me when I tell you that you don't even know when CGI is being used it is so seamless
@@marctwinam-cauchi3488then why is it so noticeable?
@@marctwinam-cauchi3488I do, it’s used most commonly on backdrops, buildings, etc. I mean for things such as… the water shots in the coliseum, the stupid cgi baboons 😂 just incorporate a script that lends itself to scenes that can be curated without a cgi reliance, that’s all ✌🏼
Hack
The cgi was the worst thing I’ve ever seen
This is a boderline bad movie - storywise.
Wow. Didn’t realised Daniel Craig is equally talented behind the camera too. What a legend 😂👍
Did he just graduate from cinematography school?
?
The outfit ;)
Daniel Craig's next film is full method as Gladiator II' DP, John Mathieson.
This dude looks the part too lol
it was garbage tbh
Ridley Scott should retire.
No. You should stop watching his movies.
WTF is he wearing?
The hat?
Should we expect he is interesting by wearing that hat?
No I wouldn't have thought so. He's wearing it because he wants to. What are you going to about it...nothing
wrinkly old men with too much money man. Can't wait for the new filmmakers to start appearing because this movie and all this hollywood sequel shit suuuuucks
You do it
It's a beautiful film regardless
@@somerandomlittlechannel7860 I'm not related to anyone in production and my dad isn't a famous actor. That's the only way you can get into it these days
Youll be waiting a long time
I appreciate Ridley Scott movies. What he creates is better than at least 80% of what other directors put out, young or old.
Why are you wearing your Nan’s pillbox hat from the 50s? Couldn’t find a real hat?
What's with the hat...some sort of weird posh Taliban style
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All CGI and aah, Pedro Pascal... 2 reason I will never watch this modern era amalgamation of AI cgi and watery script not to mention stoned and unreal acting. Even Denzel cannot convince me to watch this shit.
Then don’t watch, and stop opining on movies you admit you never watch. No big loss.