Gladiator 2

[marvlouslie]

Pedro Pascal.

........sigh.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

GOOD MORNING MOVIE BOMBS

Boy I can't wait for this movie to fucking fail.

Honestly I didnt like the first Gladiator beyond the visuals. The plot was obnoxiously melodramatic anne frankly badly structured, the characters were barely more than cardboard cutouts with only a few rising to two dimensional, the acting was either tired or hammy, the dialogue was downright embarrassing most of the time, and any affection I had for the soundtrack has long since faded as it was whored out for literally thousands of documentaries or trailers for decades. Finding out it was near universally held as a masterpiece has never ceased to confuse me.

>Talks about how embarrassing the first Gladiator was
>Rips off a joke from Team Four Star

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Who was this movie made for?

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Lucilla should've been 6 feet under 30 years before the start of the film, which means the main character shouldn't even exist.

 

[One Winged Pear Farmer]

We wuz emprors n shiet nigguh

 

[Tony Vivaldi]

Who was this movie made for?

Not me. Not you. Not anyone except Ridley Scott's bank manager.

Come on, this movie was made to capitalize on the first, not be any kind of compelling story. Scott knows this. He's not chasing any artistic vision, which arguably was somewhat the point of Gladiator (he admits to being inspired by Leni Reistafels' Triumph of the Will in the commentary for the first movie).

Gladiator was great sword-and-sandal entertainment for the time, with a great score that Hans Zimmer ripped off from Gustav Holst (and subsequently got sued for by the estate and lost).

Scott can occasionally make great and even classic films, but most of his stuff is uninspired and often dull.

 

[Product Placement]

Compare and contrast this trailer to that of the first movie.

The superbowl trailer on the other hand

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Looks like they are using hip hop music like they are in Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Of course a black guy is somehow in a leading position in ANCIENT ROME!

We wuz Romanz n' shieeet!

Is he the son of black Chleopatra?

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Oh look, Denzel pulled out his training day character again *rolls eyes*

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

Who was this movie made for?

Ridley Scott's bank account.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

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I hope this guy will be represented.

So after a Dragon was killed a Jogger became Ursuper and then was defeated by a distant relative of Tiber Septim and Severus Snape.

 

[Flatline]

Denzel always delivers a good performance but why him?

Ridley Scott's worked with Denzel before on Man on Fire and American Gangster. It doesn't hurt if you, an actor, get a call from your friend, a well-known director, for a role in a sequel to one of his most respected films. Denzel probably didn't need to audition; he'll need to be at this place at this time to read lines. Leave the salary negotiations to his agent, and... boom; you're in the movie.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Just let it sink in that this movie’s budget is $310 million.

Ridley Scott's worked with Denzel before on Man on Fire and American Gangster. It doesn't hurt if you, an actor, get a call from your friend, a well-known director, for a role in a sequel to one of his most respected films. Denzel probably didn't need to audition; he'll need to be at this place at this time to read lines. Leave the salary negotiations to his agent, and... boom; you're in the movie.

This. Denzel’s probably in that phase of his career, he’s so rich and accomplished that he doesn’t give a fuck anymore.

His role in this film is supposed to be a former slave-turned-arms dealer/power broker who runs the gladiators.

 

[vert]

Hollywood doesn't need to stop at Denzel and Jay Z, they could've really modernized Gladiator by making it about sideshow knife fights in a ghetto cul-de-sac.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

His role in this film is supposed to be a former slave-turned-arms dealer/power broker who runs the gladiators.

So they got a slave from Africa? Did Rome do that?

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

So they got a slave from Africa? Did Rome do that?

No idea. Not sure this is feasible, especially with Denzel’s lack of dialect.

 

[soulgains]

I thought Kingdom of Heaven was better than Gladiator 1 despite its historical innaccuracies. Ridley Scott can make good movies hes just choosing to be a nigger faggot and doubling down on the worst aspects of his best work.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Just let it sink in that this movie’s budget is $310 million.

So what's the break-even? $700M at least?

So they got a slave from Africa? Did Rome do that?

Presumably bought from a third party, assuming he wasn't the result of an Ethiopian in the woodpile or a free man who signed on with a provincial ludus for the chance at fame and fortune.

His role in this film is supposed to be a former slave-turned-arms dealer/power broker who runs the gladiators.

It's literally just Oliver Reed's character again. What's the betting that they don't even mention thr Republic being restored at the end of the last movie?

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Trailers getting assblasted on yertube a 2:1 ratio of dislikes to likes (250k to 100k) biggest complaints the fucking hip-hop.

 

[Miquella]

so glad it won't have Hans Zimmer AI level slop at least
The Irish lad is overused and uninspiring