This was an ok movie. Comparing it to one of the best movies of recent movie history and dogging it because it wasn't as good is ridiculous. Saying it never needed a sequel is also ridiculous because some folks wanted to revisit this world
@@calloway1972 "Comparing it to one of the best movies of recent movie history... is ridiculous" not when the title is one-of-the-best-movies-of-recent-movie-history 2.
@@calloway1972 Then revisit Rome with an entirely different story and don't call it Gladiator. I would've loved another period movie like Gladiator. There's plenty more stories to tell from Rome. Also, there were no surviving characters from Gladiator to build another story off of. The mom and her kid? Who cares? They weren't the story of Gladiator. The story of Gladiator was Russell Crowe and Joaquine Pheonix. There were interesting supporting characters but again, they're all dead. Sooo..... the logical decision is to move on from their stories and tell a new one. Star Wars is suffering from some of the same issues. There's new here and there being told, no doubt. But what was the point of Episodes 7-9 the way they were written? You retold episode 4 in 7 and kill Han Solo (what???), you made this weird chase movie in 8 that FINALLY intro'd Luke and then you kill him and you kill Leia, and then you retell episode 6 in episode 9 literally almost beat-for-beat (Jedi-turned-sith turns good and he helps the jedi kill the exact same bad guy from Episode 6). Honestly, the most intriguing part of it all was Snoke. Ren was a joke. The whole time. Jacked dude, powerful in the force, gets his rear end handed to him by an untrained, malnourished, twig of a girl. At least Gina Corano was believable when she stood toe-to-toe with Mando. BOY I'm triggered. I get it. There's some ranting above but it doesn't make any of it untrue. Just realized what I was doing and stopped where I stopped.
@@ericschuh9394 maybe, might even be on here a dozen times for all I know. I didn’t read anyone else’s comments before responding. Try reading comments on a watch, not easy, 😂
If they were going to do a sequel 24 years later wasn’t the answer. Just another example of how Hollywood is sequel crazy because they’ve run out of ideas.
They never make a sequel when a movie needs one, or when we the fans want one; we just get a crappy reboot or remake. I e. the Disney/Pixar movie Moana. It's getting a sequel next year, and a live-action remake in 2026. Yeah, what's the point in that?
Unbearable Weight with Nick Cage was amazing everything else you just see Pedro acting like Pedro the dumb liberal that thought we cared about his politics. The rich asshole calling poor people trash basically. He's still getting the roles though.
The moments when Maximus is dying and returning to his wife and child in the original movie make me cry even 20 odd years later- because he is a hero. He is admirable, brave and noble even in victory. It's such a powerful story. Beautifully filmed, acted, written, and directed. What arrogance would lead anyone to believe they could tell the same story better?
We live in a full on degeneracy, shameless world. Nothings sacred anymore. But they keep flopping, so who cares. Could've been an amazing film tho. I'm never again sequels, but they better deliver. They never do, unless it's Dune or Dark Knight or something. Aka the 2 best directors in the industry. That's who we need to rely on. Our only saviours.
Could’ve played Roman emperor Septimius Severus. At least he would feel like a Roman from there. But like Marcus Aurelius, he too would die out, but this death is attempting to conquer ancient Scotland.
@@elperrodelautumo7511 Nah, Severus was what we would call a racist. He saw a legionary from Nubia right before his invasion and freaked out. He thougt it was a bad omen😂. To be fair that'd be wierd to see id Denzel played him. There can only be one type vibes
I am afraid he just started the ball rolling. Some producers are probably monitoring the Drinker for movie ideas...and that's the kind of bad crap they'd go for.
"My name is Sir Ridley Scott, commander of the Order of the British Empire. Maker of the TRUE Gladiator, the one I made in 2000. Father to a murdered Alien franchise, husband to a murdered Napoleon film, and I will have my paycheques, in this life and the next"
I feel like everything needs to be faster now, passion does not exist anymore in hollywood. Just churn out content as fast as you can without thinking too much about it. They are trying to make tik tok on the big screen.
What bothers me is all the crazy things that happen in this movie You’ve got man eating baboons on steroids! People riding on rhinos and using them to fight! Sharks in the coliseum! At least the first one was grounded in some realism with how it portrayed gladiatorial games. But this is straight up fantasy.
Right?! I mean, this is obviously no documentary, but they could at least try to stick to the historical facts. At least make it believable or something.
The big tough white guy from the first movie that befriends Maximus and eats some of his food to prove it isn't poised after Maximus reveals himself to Commodus has more character and personality then anyone in the second movie.
That guy, Hagen, was played by Ralf Möller, a German bodybuilder and for past 20 years, whenever he does an interview, he just constantly talks about Gladiator. Often without even being asked. And his Instagram is just full of old set photos from that film. And with any other actor, that would probably be obnoxious, but honestly, he's just so endearing about it. He comes off, like such a nice guy, who just seems so happy, that he got a shot at this...
I saw this movie with my friend tonight and we both loved it. I especially loved all the performances, the cinematography, and Ridley’s directing. The first one is still better, but Gladiator 2 is a lot better than Ridley’s previous film Napoleon
That scene where MAximus takes off his helmet and gives that speech was such a damn good moment. "I am Maximus Decimus Meridicus, Commander of the armies of the North, General of the Felix legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next." It was GOOD, so much behind just a couple sentences. Layered with threat and information for the audience.
Theres ACTUALLY 5 of them The original Crow was amazing but the sequel that was filmed in '96 was actually half decent and didn't try to copy it. The Crow city of Angels from 1996 is the only sequel I've seen that probably does a great job of taking the idea and not trying to be better but just carry on the idea and plot. The 2024 film is the worst one..... they completely butchered it after #2
@@HFFCANADA The second movie was ok. It had a big problem of producer meddling. Like half of the movie was recut and ended up on the cutting floor, courtesy of Mr. Rapey Weinstein. I saw a video about it years ago from a youtuber whose whole channel was about Weinstein hating (and that was before the whole scandal came into light).
I saw Ghostbusters II when it came out and I can confirm my feelings about it were just about exactly my feelings about Gladiator II. Disappointing remake.
@@mkultra2456 Oh wonderful, how authentic. Haven't seen the trailer and will avoid the film. Did any of the legionnaires indulge in that time honoured Roman tradition of breakdancing?
I genuinely thought the trailer was some kind of joke trailer, or a parody skit that Denzel got in on. It really was so bad that my initial thought was that it was made intentionally bad to be funny. It's still surreal that this movie even got made.
@@darkglobe406 Also they literally tried to divide the two aspects of Joaquin Phoenix's Oscar worthy acting as a sadistic yet erratic emperor into 2 mid actors playing emperors. Not only unoriginal, but comical
@@stevecooper7883 yeah not to mention the motivations of a main character changed 180 degrees in a few minutes for literally no reason ... first we understand he was basically raised as a numidian and loves his wife , than comes rome and destroys his home and he hates rome and also the general of the attacking army with passion ... then few moments later he is like NAH i´m a roman hero revolutionary fighting for the people of rome ... i would understand his motivation wanting to save his mother , but he would most certainly not become the poster boy and the leader of roman political and civil revolution , what little connection he had with rome and his roman roots di€d with his mother , i would bet he could not care less what happens with the empire after that ... the entire idea of making him to be this "lost" son from the original movie (and the son of maximus on top of that) was $tup1d AF
We went from: My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. To: Yo, listen up, name's Max, I'm the man, no delirious, Rollin' with the North side troops, call me serious. General big boss of that Felix clique, Loyal to the real king, yeah, Marcus is slick. They took my boy, man, they crossed the line, Wife gone too, now revenge is mine. I'm comin' for justice, ain't gonna flex, Gonna get it done, in this life or the next.
The weirdest thing in this movie is how Lucius is able to convince the other gladiators to stand with him and act like they're his buddies, while the entire movie only has 2 scenes where you can see them bonding with each other. The relationship between the gladiators felt very underdeveloped and is a far cry from the dynamic between Russel Crowe and Djimon Hounsou in the original movie.
I agree 100% here. Also foe battle scenes seem so rushed..no emotion put into them, tye choreography is poor and overall doesn't get you excited like in the first movie. The movie fails in getting the audience emotionally involved and Lucius character doesn't get one to feel for and with him like Russel Crowes character got the sympathy of the audience. Overall the movie doesn't get one excited emotionally or visually.
Aye it was one of the moments where I was throwing my hands up in disgust going "why the fuck not?". It was full of "tell not show" and I honestly didn't give a shiny shite about any of the deaths. The wife at the start, whom you knew had to die, getting killed after we'd just been introduced to her had absolutely no weight. I came out of the cinema thinking I'd just seen the worst film I'd ever seen, and now that I've had a week to settle I'm still of the same opinion. Hollywood movies are basically now just thoughtless nostalgia bait.
The Colosseum of Ancient Rome was about giving people what they wanted. Tickets were free and you got fed and watered to boot. Modern Hollywood, however has given us something we don’t want. There’s a reason why the Roman empire lasted so long, and why we’re now seeing what the famous historian Edward Gibbon would have described as ‘the Decline and Fall of the Hollywood empire’.
@ I was talking about the people of Rome - its citizens. I do find it hilarious that actors were not allowed to attend. Their profession being classed as of very low social status. Ironic isn’t it.
Lmao! Ok buddy, blame the small hats for everything. You're no better than the tools marching the streets for a place they've never been to, or will ever visit. Just as ignorant too. I'm sure you believe you've done the appropriate "research" to be able to come to that asinine conclusion, but the truth is you're just not that well informed lol.
Sorry Drinker, but I am in fact entertained, by this review of course. It's another one of innumerable TCD reviews, that are way more entertaining than the actual movie. Well in this case, I didn't and am unlikely to ever watch this movie. Firstly because I can never get that drunk, secondly I didn't even find the first one to be that good, it was just okay for me (well Ruasel Crowe was great regardless). The best part of this review that I'll remember for a while is how the drinker kept on referring to Denzel Washington's character as Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal's character as Pedro Pascal 😂😂😂. Obviously he was trying to make a killer point of the hilarious kind, and he did so quite successfully! I rate this review 5 stars out of 5, like 2 thumbs way way up there.
I keep thinking about how Scott was critical of Blade Runner 2049. At that time I remember thinking "Well if he's so critical of it, would he have done a better job then?" We finally got the answer: no he wouldn't.
Roy's death seen was beautiful and tragic. Rutger Hauer made it so beautiful, not the directing or writing. You just can't remake certain things. They are a moment in time. When the Gladiator dies and we see him walking through the wheat, it's the same thing. We shouldn't try to recapture that magic.
Shadows and dust has been replaced by sparkles and glitter. I knew this would be a turd as soon as it was announced. Looking forward to the shawshank redemption 2
I wouldn't say Joker 2 was an unnecessary sequel, but the director did make it into an unnecessary sequel. Sad really, because Joker as a franchise had a lot of potential to expand into
When once-great filmmakers can no longer come up with anything good they should just retire instead of embarrassing themselves. There'd be much more dignity in that and it'd be for the best. You never wanna, y'know, jump that shark.
@@youngk1279 Personally I thought Joker didn't need a sequel, even before the rumors of the sequel being a musical started to spread. It simply had a perfect ending which left some things open to interpretation for the audience to think and theorize on, while also being a satisying conclusion to Arthur's story. I'd talk about it more but I'm not writing a whole book chapter on youtube lol
@hellboy4128 very much fun! Also rewatching gladiator 1 has such better writing but man the action also iconic. The cuts are so ugly especially the tiger fight (since they're actually real)
I stopped watching movies, period. You should go outside, it's actually nice out. There's tons of stuff to do. If it's bad weather, there's always books. Or you could start a hobby like building model airplanes or learn sculpting and make clay mugs for your friends and family for Christmas.
@@primefamousah yes, let me just stroll on down to a movie I don’t care about and drop a meals worth of money so I can suffer for 3 hours. Sounds like a sweet plan
@@primefamous I see this argument frequently and it's a silly one. People have long looked to movie reviews to decide if they want to spend their money on going to the theatre. It's not a matter of thinking for one's self or not. It's a matter of using someone whose opinion is frequently close to your own to form your decision. That's why there are trailers and movie reviews and movie critics. It's so that the public can be tempted or not tempted to spend their hard-earned cash to support the movie that is made. If we were meant to just watch whatever was made, there would be no attempt to market them. The movie would be there and people would dutifully flock to the theatre to watch it no matter what it was. THAT would be not thinking for one's self. I haven't been tempted to see a movie in a theatre for a long time. And in reality, I wouldn't necessarily use the Drinker to inform my decision. Things that he thinks are important aren't what I think are important, but I do appreciate his opinion and I like seeing his take on things.
1:34 Good lord the CGI on that uh… uh.. Baboon? Chimp? Shaved, tiny Bigfoot? Whatever it is, the CGI is atrocious. Zero realism in how it’s mouth “works” like that.
@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll They had CGI Great White Sharks swimming around in the Colloseum. FYI, even in todays modern world, we are unable to keep Great White Sharks in aquariums because they die without unlimited space. Apparently the Romans were superior to us because they could catch them, reel them in, and then succesfully transported them across hundreds of miles on land- Im guessing by Chariot 😂
Could not even sit through half it, it looked like it was expensive, Spartacus Blood,and Sand was 100x more times entertaining. Everything you said here was spot on, I want my time, and money back.
I was sad to hear that even Denzel sold his soul. I always thought he was one of the good ones, honest christian and all that. Never trust a Hollyweird celebrity.
Gladiatior is potentially my favorite movie of all time. That being said, it obviously did not need a sequel. The story that was told wrapped up beautifully and left no loose ends. It was truly a tale that would have stood the test of time.... Until now... On that note, I'll save my money and just watch the orignal again. And again. And again. And again.
In the original, I think that Commodus, as a character, was set up early and very well in a manner that avoided the over-the-top one-dimensional villain problem. It happened in the meeting with his father, where the audience is made to feel great pity for him, which is then turned into abhorrence when he kills his own father. The juxtaposition is horrifying, and throughout the rest of the movie, the viewer feels both of these perspectives in tension toward the character. All the way up to his death scene, when he is helplessly struggling to free himself from Maximus's grasp, that mix of sentiment remains.
Also helped that Joaquin Phoenix is such an amazing actor when it comes to playing unhinged characters because of how even his subtle mannerisms make them feel like genuinely unhinged people desperate to take control of situations that are spiralling out of control and letting his narcissism consume him when he gets the power he wants. He's so capable at making characters that can push the line of being cartoonishly evil if done wrong and make them feel genuinely scary, and he gave the performance of his life with Commodus
@@AR-bj5et Phoenix might have been better in Quills, which came out around the same time. His performance in Walk the Line was just as good but in a different way.
Great point. Just another example of the depth and subtlety of Gladiator that raised it far beyond a standard action film. Commodus wasn't just a one dimensional cartoon villain. He was a tragic figure. An immature man who just wanted to make his father proud but only ever failed in that endeavour. We feel disgust for him but also some sympathy.
I’m subscribing for the ELITE commentary!! Some people get all butt hurt because there are spoilers, my man you’re saving me $30 trip to the movie theater!! Thank you!
Lucius and Max's son were both 8 in the original, which means he would have had to cheat on his wife to impregnate Lucinda. That is completely out of character and makes G2 storyline bullshit.
@@Hudpix16never really implied in the original other than Rusty joining the dots in his first meeting with Lucius that Lucilla is his mum and then giving a weird sort of look that I guess could be interpreted as “ I wonder if he’s mine “
I remember watching the dvd commentary of Gladiator back in the day with Ridley and Russell Crowe. The film opens with a shot of a robin on a tree branch. Maximus sees the bird fly away and for a moment, forgets where he is and smiles at the beauty of nature. Then his scowl returns as he remembers he's about to go into battle. Scott says on the dvd, "we just thought, this is going to be a huge fcuker, so we should start with something small" More artistry in that opening 30 seconds of the original than in the full run time of the sequel..... where did it all go wrong Ridley?
It was a god damn master piece made entirely of coincidences and luck, cause they didn't even have a finished script when they started filming. Once in a life time movie and unfortunately it shows. Ridley has not delievered in a long time, though The Duel was fine.
Crowe was also supposed to stay back from his wife's corpse cause the director had it framed for lighting on the wide shot, but crowe disagreed cause his whole journey was to get to her, and they only had prosthetic feet nailed to a board so he said 'I don't care, I'll go up and kiss them or something'
Russel Crowe pushed back on Ridley constantly, making Gladiator the timeless classic that it was and curbing many of Ridley’s bad habits. This movie has a black??? Roman senator and no one in this cast is smart enough to push back on Ridley’s excesses. All around another failure for hollyweird
@@reginaldwooster235 They actually did fill the Colosseum with water for mock naval battles, but probably not deep enough for actual ships to float and maneuver.
@@reginaldwooster235 I think it was a different building they would use for the naval battles, but yeah, real thing. Especially in this time period, aka, the time of emperors drunk on power but before that led to Rome being weakened.
I'm so unbelievably sick of seeing pedro pascal in EVERYTHING. Especially after he got special treatment and was immune to any punishment for posting something far far worse than hollywood can even pretend gina corrano did. Gina literally just said "learn from the past, lets not hate other people". While pedro did the usual "the other side are yatzis, let your hate flow" and he gets handed role after role. Where we all know if the roles were reversed and someone posted something like that about the left, theyd be excommunicated. It's okay when we (D)o it!
LOL. Pedro Pascal is a quality actor who’s highly bankable. I’ve seen planks of wood with more charisma and acting chops than Gina. Even her two most recent movies (funded and distributed by Daily Wire) were such bombs that not even the right wing audience she was pandering to showed up. At the end of the day Hollywood is a cut throat business that prioritizes profits over everything else.
Spot on. The amount of reviews I've seen praising this as an absolute epic, it's mind boggling. No character development, the plot didn't know where it was going, and Paul Mezcal has the emotional range of a Gnat. Also, what happened with the baboon scene? did all the baboons just watch that one Baboon die and go "okay, we'll stop now and go home". Made no sense.
Seriously? They’ve got to be part of the DEI cult because I sat through about ten minutes and noped out, it was that predictable and forced. I must follow only intelligent reviewers online because I’ve yet to see anyone say anything different than what Drinker is l.
There are so many exciting events in the history of the Roman Empire that an original movie could be made about. The rise of Aurelian, civil wars of Constantine, revolt of Zenobia, and instead we get this rubbish.
I thought the Denzel fight was at least a little suspenseful - I mean what if The Equalizer Denzel had shown up? Nobody expects him to do what he does in the those films either, so he could have surprised us. And the "Fiery but mostly peaceful protests" line was classic, Drinker. You need your own late-night show.
One of the problems with this entire movie is the fact that we're now supposed to believe that Maximus from the first film who was a good man and was doing anything he could to get home to his wife and son only to find them murdered also was having an affair with The emperor's daughter. The same very emperor he looked to as a father figure and would have known that having a dalliance with his daughter would be bad for the family. This is just another example of a legacy character that is being destroyed for the sake of horrible sequels.
In ancient rome wives were used to have children, while the men could have affairs, concubines or sex slaves. The period in these movies is before christianity became relevant and tried to change that.
Not to mention that Lucius was the same age as Maximus son. And he was away from his family for around 2 yrs. There's no way maximus had time to sleep with both women the same year. So unless Max's wife cheated on him while he was away. The math isn't mathing
@@sonofcronos7831 that may be true, however it is not in line with the character and his motivations. He was happy to die in the end so he could be with his family. If he loved his kid, and had one out of wedlock, he would have loved Lucius too. Therefore he wouldn't have wanted to die in the end
Lucius was years older than Maximus other son. It was intimated in the first film Maximus and Lucille had a past relationship. So this child was reasonably conceived before he met his eventual wife.
@@rzagza11 of course your position is reasonable. However, Maximus showed no fatherly love towards Lucius. If Lucius was his actual son, would the character act that way towards him? Also, I haven't seen the movie in quite a while but recall getting the impression that he and her had past feelings that were not consummated due to her being the emperor's daughter
Yeah... going through the histories written by Herodotus, Tactitus, Pliny the elder, Polybius and Suetonius et al they never mention this "Black American Gangster Dude" who kept the senate entertained and ran stuff and shit". You see... people in Rome were able to handle the assimilation of many peoples, whom Rome had conquered, into the Roman republic including Black skinned folk...but usually black people were slaves. I mean 99.9% of the time. Either slaves, gladiators or men trained as bodyguards. They weren't invited into the Roman classes. Once Rome became an Empire and the rulers were individuals who oversaw the senate while they essentially raped the Roman taxpayer for everything they could before retiring to a very well guarded and appointed villa near the coastline(very easy to escape to the water if they were fallen upon by forces aiming to murder the retired leader) thongs only got worse for Blacks. Having Denzel as a mover and shaker in Rome is just plain bullshlt. An attempt to modernize the movie for "Modern Audiences!" There would have been very wealthy and influential traders possessing of dark skin in Rome but not in this capacity seen here. This is pandering Hollywood style 101.
@@shannonpincombe8485you are uh...you are false on black people, they weren't "slaves 99.9% of the time" black people were administrators and "scroll men" across the empire, the stigma of black and white skin meant nothing to the Roman's, if you embraced roman culture and became "Roman" you were in theory treated as an equal to every other Roman. we even have evidence of black Equestrians which was a very good social class. We do have what some would consider evidence of racism in one of the Roman Emperors considering one of his legionnaires to be an bad omen because of his black skin, but that was purely down to his religion which saw the color black as being a bad omen oh and Rome had darker skinned north African born Emperors as well as what could be considered Arab Emperors, the Empire was a melting pot of cultures that didn't have any views on skin color. Roman society judged people based on culture and social standing, if you believed and practiced a culture deemed inferior to Roman culture you were looked down on. Skin color as a method of racism wasn't really developed until after the fall of the Western Roman Empire
So question you have a problem with denzel because he black but you're fine with the other actors who are irish & british playing romans? He'll pedro pascal is Latino and not one of them did roman accents.....
@@Nettingyournetworth Let's not forget about Djimon Hounsou in the original. I guess people let that slide because he was a slave/gladiator lmao but he was actually a great warrior from his own land not too far away. Historians point to the fact that there were black people, or dark-skinned people like the moors, all around Rome. It is heavily believed that some roman statues show black characteristics as well leading strong belief in black politicians and other high-power positions. Some peoples' racism and ignorance are truly showing.
I felt so much pain for my generation when I saw this movie last night. It felt like the perfect representation of how inferior our world is now compared to our parents world back in 2000. The quality of our entertainment, education, politics, news, etc. All has been Wokeified. Nothing has been left intact for us.
The wokeness is receding. We are defeating it slowly but surely. The woke movies that were already in development will release but they are a dying breed.
Art. They're destroying art. In logos, in movies, films, music, in the streets, in buildings, it's sad. The world is healing though. Were going in a different direction. People are tired.
@@j.f.almeida9081 Said like a true consoomer. Art has been dying for a while now, while everything has become soulless and ruined. Everything we once loved. Just because our corpo corrupt overlords like to brainwash people and think they're too big to fall, so they keep releasing crap after crap, year after year... And here you are, little Almeida, a nobody, bending over for the overlords. Pat yourself on the back.
CNN illo tempore : "Aliquæ protestationes undique in urbe occurrunt hoc momento sed de istis protestationibus non metuete : majora pars ex iis est ignea sed præcipuissime pacifica."
The mere fact that Maximus' wife in the original doesn't have a single line of dialogue and we only see her one or two times in dream sequences and still we want her avenged tells you all you need to know about story telling and character buliding. We only know her and her son through Maximus' accounts and we feel for them because we feel for him.
I think the major issue with the film is that it expects you to care about Lucius without giving you anything to believe in or rail against. 20 minutes into the first film, you despise Commodus with an unmatched fury. He is truly despicable. Originally here, you think the antagonist might be Pedro Pescal but his character is meaningless. Then you’ve got two simpleton emperors with zero character development that you feel sympathy for more than hatred. Mescal isn’t bad by any stretch but doesn’t have the believability that Crowe had in the role. Denzel is Frank Lucas in Rome.
and Commodus' character only gets worse as you watch the film, lusting after his sister, threatening her son, sending the praetorians out to arrest his political opponents, giving Maximus a mortal wound out of sight before their duel so the assembled roman audience can see him kill a traitor
I've just finished the film and I actually thought it was pretty terrible, Crowe looked like a fully fledged man physically and Mescal doesn't have that vibe at all. The fight scenes in my opinion looked so poor aswell with swords being swung far away from where the target even is, the sharks were such unnecessary overkill. Also, the fact Lucias goes from hating his mother one scene to loving her in the next with nothing having changed inbetween really. The fact it was never really discussed why she never looked for him. I lost it when he sends the Indian guy with the ring and he just rides into an army camp pushes a few soldiers and walks right up to the general. I'm a massive Denzel fan and I thought he was miscast, the actress who play Lucilla I thought put in a weak performance. The only couple of people I enjoyed and were believable were Pedro and I thought the emperors were entertaining in their own right and if they'd been fleshed out could have worked. It's actually really made me realise how epic films such as the original Gladiator are possibly gone forever.
Exactly! You 100% understand what everyone is doing and why. You cheer for the good guy, cheer against the bad guy, and continue to do so more and more the longer each character is on screen.
All you said I agree with. I suspect a lot of scenes got cut out of the editing room. I would rather cut out one of the arena scenes (like the ship battle was so short it didn't do anything for me).
I mean me and my friend were entertained….but that’s because we were having a laugh, mocking most things and making jokes that Lucius is gonna die from baboon rabies. Also seriously the quote “It’s about survival. Survive.” Just kills me 😂😂😂
Because stupid writing is stupid. Obviously kid couldn't turn evil, noone would buy that. But making him emperor that is forced out of his position by some brutal contender, going into hiding, forced to fight on arenas, just to return to Rome to retake what's his - it's still not the story that had to be told, but at least I'd consider watching something between these lines. What we got - I am never going to see, there's no point.
Well, in real life this did not happened either (not that this movie is about real life). Rome was not a monarchy. The one to become emperor was the one with aproval of the senate or the military. You could come from anywhere as long ad you have their aproval. So of course when Lucius was a kid, anyone would try to get the throne and kill him before he could claim anything.
Power shifted in Ancient Rome between different dinasties. The kid was sent off from Rome in order to be protected. If he hadn’t there would be no movie.
We already had a spiritual sequel to Gladiator; four seasons of Spartacus. Which was more interesting, better acted, infinitely more quotable, and had a lot of tits in it since it was trying to be Game Of Thrones. You can pick up the complete box set for like, £15 these days. Just watch that instead.
I love how they vandalized the honour of maximus and lucilla by inventing lucius is actually maximus's bastard just because they thought it'd be an epic plot twist.
@@GreenClassified I think it was a good way to "close the circle" but without them even considering the damage to the characters reputation. I call it BS on her part. I never saw it was hinted in the 1st movie. They have children of about the same age, so then maximus would have been nailing his ,already, wife and lucilla at the same time, making the whole deal even worse. Not to mention the reputation hit to Caesar's daughter.
It would have been more interesting if Lucilla's son was fathered by her brother Commodus. Emperor Caligula married his own sister, not to mention the Egyptian and Ptolemaic royal families all married their siblings, aunts, uncles and first cousins to consolidate power.
@@deco2gogo Caligula did not marry his sister. There's no evidence, besides lurid rumors written long after he was dead, that he was even interested in his sister. He was just very loyal to the family he had left because Tiberius murdered most of them. Rome was okay with marrying cousins, that was considered distant enough, but incest closer than that was not okay in Rome, a fairly conservative society.
Or Flavius Aetius and Atilla or Lucius Aemilius Paullus, or the Pompey family, or Boudica...man, why do we NOT have more movies even loosely based on Roman history?
@@arthurfrayn7619 The guy got war elephants into Europe and crossed mountain ranges with them, and keep in mind pretty much nobody in Europe had seen an elephant before. Imagine being on the front lines and suddenly the enemy is coming at you with gigantic, armored beasts that you've never seen before. They're so big they can literally just step on you, and just shrug off almost anything you can throw at them.
@@ares_bluesteel Yea bringing elephants, victories like Cannae, his father dying in front of him saying attack Rome etc... his life is a legit war epic.
"Gladiator has no sequel. Gladiator needs no sequel."
- Boromir, probably
Blade, probably ;)
This was an ok movie. Comparing it to one of the best movies of recent movie history and dogging it because it wasn't as good is ridiculous. Saying it never needed a sequel is also ridiculous because some folks wanted to revisit this world
@@calloway1972 "Comparing it to one of the best movies of recent movie history... is ridiculous"
not when the title is one-of-the-best-movies-of-recent-movie-history 2.
@@calloway1972 Then revisit Rome with an entirely different story and don't call it Gladiator. I would've loved another period movie like Gladiator. There's plenty more stories to tell from Rome. Also, there were no surviving characters from Gladiator to build another story off of. The mom and her kid? Who cares? They weren't the story of Gladiator. The story of Gladiator was Russell Crowe and Joaquine Pheonix. There were interesting supporting characters but again, they're all dead. Sooo..... the logical decision is to move on from their stories and tell a new one.
Star Wars is suffering from some of the same issues. There's new here and there being told, no doubt. But what was the point of Episodes 7-9 the way they were written? You retold episode 4 in 7 and kill Han Solo (what???), you made this weird chase movie in 8 that FINALLY intro'd Luke and then you kill him and you kill Leia, and then you retell episode 6 in episode 9 literally almost beat-for-beat (Jedi-turned-sith turns good and he helps the jedi kill the exact same bad guy from Episode 6). Honestly, the most intriguing part of it all was Snoke. Ren was a joke. The whole time. Jacked dude, powerful in the force, gets his rear end handed to him by an untrained, malnourished, twig of a girl. At least Gina Corano was believable when she stood toe-to-toe with Mando.
BOY I'm triggered. I get it. There's some ranting above but it doesn't make any of it untrue. Just realized what I was doing and stopped where I stopped.
@@calloway1972 wow, isn't it crazy that people compare a sequel to the movie it was based on...isn't it just the most ridiculous thing...
A 70 year old fighting a 28 year old at the top of his game? I think I just watched this on Netflix.
Lol
Well played xD.
Solid comment 🤣
Great comment
This comment has nothing to do with the movie. I just seen it.
Fun fact: Russel Crow had no idea this movie was happening until the marketing came out and is just as confused as to why this movie exists
Russell Crowe lied he has interviews from over 5 years ago with Ridley telling him he was developing it and it was greenlit. Smh
I think someone asked him if he was going to be in the sequel and he pointed out that his character died in the original.
He's probably frustrated that he couldn't return for a flashback cameo, given how overweight he is now.
We are all confused why this exists
Loved how he was like "if i got paid Everytime they asked about pt 2 id be so rich" 😂😂
Hey look, It’s Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson in the Roman Empire!
😂
Now I can’t unsee Jake Paul’s face 😂
@ 🤪😝😜
Someone already made this joke. Its under top comments
@@ericschuh9394 maybe, might even be on here a dozen times for all I know.
I didn’t read anyone else’s comments before responding.
Try reading comments on a watch, not easy, 😂
@OLOHEKAI well now my question is why are you on youtube on your watch and not your phone?
If they were going to do a sequel 24 years later wasn’t the answer. Just another example of how Hollywood is sequel crazy because they’ve run out of ideas.
Production is starting on Titanic 2
I am Spartacus.
Gladiator is one of the best movies of all time. I’ll watch it again tonight.
Top Gun Maverick was made nearly 40 years later
It worked for Beetlejuice and Twister
"Start fiery but mostly peaceful protests.." That quote was worth the watch.
took me right out!🤣
It was perfect!
I loled
That one hit like a 2x4.
Mostly peaceful.
This never needed a sequel
Very true. The first one is a masterpiece.
They never make a sequel when a movie needs one, or when we the fans want one; we just get a crappy reboot or remake. I e. the Disney/Pixar movie Moana. It's getting a sequel next year, and a live-action remake in 2026. Yeah, what's the point in that?
Ding ding!
It never did needed one.
when I heard they were doing a gladiator 2, my reaction was "what? why?" and that's it
I'm getting tired of seeing Pedro Pascal's face in every box of cereal
He compensates from Mandalorian ;D
@@Vidãr-76 😂😂😂. True.
Stop buying crunchy nut then
I gotta respect the grind tho
Unbearable Weight with Nick Cage was amazing everything else you just see Pedro acting like Pedro the dumb liberal that thought we cared about his politics. The rich asshole calling poor people trash basically. He's still getting the roles though.
The moments when Maximus is dying and returning to his wife and child in the original movie make me cry even 20 odd years later- because he is a hero. He is admirable, brave and noble even in victory. It's such a powerful story. Beautifully filmed, acted, written, and directed. What arrogance would lead anyone to believe they could tell the same story better?
crying over a movie is pathetic, grow a pair and dont ever cry in front of a woman during a movie for god sakes
Agreed, Gladiator made you feel a whole pantheon of emotions and you cared about the characters. Great movie!!
Money. I think. To me it looks like that...and trying to revive "old glory" from the first movie which was a really bad idea.. .
@@chrismarkenson2755 Your best and most beautiful contribution to the human race would be suicide. You should commit it.
We live in a full on degeneracy, shameless world. Nothings sacred anymore.
But they keep flopping, so who cares.
Could've been an amazing film tho. I'm never again sequels, but they better deliver. They never do, unless it's Dune or Dark Knight or something.
Aka the 2 best directors in the industry. That's who we need to rely on. Our only saviours.
As the immortal Highlander once said......
"There can be only one".
And that is the original.
That was the five word review of highlander 2 in the London times
Then they made 3 further fims, an animated fim, and 9 full seasons of television including with "a new Connor Mcleod" but this time called Duncan.
@@darthkek1953 and apparently a reboot is on its way at some point.
When they added rap music to the trailer I knew it was doomed. Pissed on such a timeless classic.
I did like the highlander series
I honestly felt that Denzel was playing his character in American gangster rather than someone living in Ancient Rome.
Could’ve played Roman emperor Septimius Severus. At least he would feel like a Roman from there. But like Marcus Aurelius, he too would die out, but this death is attempting to conquer ancient Scotland.
@@elperrodelautumo7511 Nah, Severus was what we would call a racist. He saw a legionary from Nubia right before his invasion and freaked out. He thougt it was a bad omen😂. To be fair that'd be wierd to see id Denzel played him. There can only be one type vibes
@@elperrodelautumo7511you know that just because he was born in Libya, that didn’t mean he was black, because he wasn’t.
JAKE!
The New York accent really fits well in Ancient Rome
Fight Club II. Starring Pedro Pascal
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol please don't 😂
“I am Jacks unnecessary sequel.”
@@Socrates458 😂
I am afraid he just started the ball rolling. Some producers are probably monitoring the Drinker for movie ideas...and that's the kind of bad crap they'd go for.
We're officially in the age when our theatrical movies are just bigger budget "straight-to-video" pseudo sequels
so true
Can't wait for Saving Private Ryan 2 and Titanic II 😀
@@bdleo300im still waiting for the remake of Encino Man
Seagal was ahead of his time!
Absolutely. These beautiful audio visual spectacles combined with generic or moronic scripts.
"My name is Sir Ridley Scott, commander of the Order of the British Empire. Maker of the TRUE Gladiator, the one I made in 2000. Father to a murdered Alien franchise, husband to a murdered Napoleon film, and I will have my paycheques, in this life and the next"
nice
Ridley Scottt made amazing movies but the past few years he lost his marbles..
*Knight of the Order of the British Empire.
I feel like everything needs to be faster now, passion does not exist anymore in hollywood. Just churn out content as fast as you can without thinking too much about it. They are trying to make tik tok on the big screen.
At least Denis Villeneuve got to _Bladerunner_ first 😬
What bothers me is all the crazy things that happen in this movie
You’ve got man eating baboons on steroids!
People riding on rhinos and using them to fight!
Sharks in the coliseum!
At least the first one was grounded in some realism with how it portrayed gladiatorial games. But this is straight up fantasy.
"With frickin laser beams?"
"It could work"
I think this movie failed, because it needed a strong, independent, gay woman with purple hair as a lead actor
Right?! I mean, this is obviously no documentary, but they could at least try to stick to the historical facts. At least make it believable or something.
Maybe this is actually a joint sequel to both Gladiator and Sharknado.
You’ve got man eating baboons on steroids!
Something something typical night out in Glasgow.
I knew it was a bad idea to make a sequel for Gladiator. Gladiator is one of the movies which does not need a sequel. Movie was perfect. PERFECT.
I only paid 5 bucks to see it tonight, and it was worth about as much
"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?"
No. No we're not.
I was
Is sequal is not the solution, then you are not entertaining enough sequals.
DO EEEET, the Disney way.
NON HABETIS GAUDIAM ATQUE LUDUM!!!?
Non. Non habemus.
every time i read the title i think " I was not in fact entertained"
🙄
Gladiator ( 2000 ) works very well as a stand-alone movie. This is just unnecessary cash grab.
💯💯💯
Ohh they ain't grabbing anything here, i can already see news in few weeks "Gladiator 2 struggles to break even".
What cash is there to grab? 😂
@@hereb4theend NONE.
Agreed it was a great self contained story that wrapped up well. No need for a sequel at all especially story wise imo
The big tough white guy from the first movie that befriends Maximus and eats some of his food to prove it isn't poised after Maximus reveals himself to Commodus has more character and personality then anyone in the second movie.
That guy, Hagen, was played by Ralf Möller, a German bodybuilder and for past 20 years, whenever he does an interview, he just constantly talks about Gladiator. Often without even being asked. And his Instagram is just full of old set photos from that film. And with any other actor, that would probably be obnoxious, but honestly, he's just so endearing about it. He comes off, like such a nice guy, who just seems so happy, that he got a shot at this...
That was Ralf Moeller, a 6’6” german unit and former IFBB pro bodybuilder.
@@solomonrichards599 Ralf Möller, legend
That actor played as Conan as well in a TV series adaptation that was kind of a guilty pleasure to watch back in the day!
He was also in Universal Soldier
Love how you just called them Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington every single time ahhahahahaah
I actually find it relaxing that Hollywood keeps churning out movies I can so easily ignore
Same less stress about what to watch nowadays.
True- I watched a couple of smaller budget movies and local productions instead, and those were surprisingly good.
All the money I've been saving! 🤑
Same, beside Deadpool I can’t remember the last movie I went too.
@@arthurfisher1857and time
Now we can look forward to Saving Private Ryan 2.
NO!
Platoon 2 where Denzel is the new Barnes
Scarface 2
Apollo 13 Returns
This is hilarious. But if this happens, you called it.🤣🤣🤣
I’m so sick of sequels, reboots and remakes. Hollywood is DEAD!
Honestly, I rather prefer that stuff. I'd rather see these IPs continued and develop further than have new stuff
Died decades ago
@@TheBackseaterYT You and all the other braindead ticket purchasers are part of the problem.
It's about DAMN TIME!
@@TheBackseaterYTYou'd prefer crappy sequels over original and iconic movies like the first Gladiator movie?
I saw this movie with my friend tonight and we both loved it. I especially loved all the performances, the cinematography, and Ridley’s directing. The first one is still better, but Gladiator 2 is a lot better than Ridley’s previous film Napoleon
That scene where MAximus takes off his helmet and gives that speech was such a damn good moment.
"I am Maximus Decimus Meridicus, Commander of the armies of the North, General of the Felix legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next." It was GOOD, so much behind just a couple sentences. Layered with threat and information for the audience.
Nice
Crowe is just so good at speeches. Same as in Master and Commander. I'd follow that man into battle.
I can hear the music working up during the speech.
Crowe actually thought the speech was stupid when he was filming the scene
Agree. It was delivered with mush anger and emotions.
Just like "The Crow" I'll save money and just watch the original again.
Theres ACTUALLY 5 of them The original Crow was amazing but the sequel that was filmed in '96 was actually half decent and didn't try to copy it.
The Crow city of Angels from 1996 is the only sequel I've seen that probably does a great job of taking the idea and not trying to be better but just carry on the idea and plot. The 2024 film is the worst one..... they completely butchered it after #2
Haha, that's exactly what I did! Damn that original movie is brilliant!
@@HFFCANADA The second movie was ok. It had a big problem of producer meddling. Like half of the movie was recut and ended up on the cutting floor, courtesy of Mr. Rapey Weinstein. I saw a video about it years ago from a youtuber whose whole channel was about Weinstein hating (and that was before the whole scandal came into light).
Is it the second that has Edward Furlong?
The first Gladiator was lightning in a bottle. And just like the 1st Ghostbusters and Robocop, it never needed a sequel.
Or Jaws.
Ghostbusters 2 are better.
I saw Ghostbusters II when it came out and I can confirm my feelings about it were just about exactly my feelings about Gladiator II. Disappointing remake.
Or Predator. 1987 was pure perfection. Everything else after that wasn't good enough.
@@stevemuzak8526 eh prey was really enjoyable for me
So all I’m hearing is there’s no need to watch this or waste my time, just go and watch the original again… got it!
Watch it for the nice costumes and art direction, don’t expect a good film (saw it last night)
It was great
@@TimPeters41 it was SH1T
the opening battle is amazing, the rest sucked 😮💨
The moment I saw them use rap in the trailer
I gave up all hope
They did what?
@@The_Reality_Filter They added gay rap music to the trailer.
@@mkultra2456 Oh wonderful, how authentic. Haven't seen the trailer and will avoid the film. Did any of the legionnaires indulge in that time honoured Roman tradition of breakdancing?
@@The_Reality_Filter Yeah and Denzel drops the n word a few times while giving people high fives.
I genuinely thought the trailer was some kind of joke trailer, or a parody skit that Denzel got in on. It really was so bad that my initial thought was that it was made intentionally bad to be funny. It's still surreal that this movie even got made.
I’m sorry I can’t get over the clip of Peter-Protagonist yelling at a CGI monkey.
Denzel isn't CGI 🫢
Peter-Protagonist?
@@CASPB lmao
@@CASPB😂😂
Damn that was a sick burn
Scott is successfully continuing his tour of ruining his legacy. Can’t wait for his impending GiJane prequel.
I hope jada pinkett smith gets the role.
Gosh, it's so sad to witness. Scott completely lost his mojo.
Thelma and Jeez Louise.
GI Jane 2 can’t wait to see it
Definitely going to star a tranny, and be all about zer transition.
Denzel didn’t belong in this movie
this entire movie didn´t belong on the screen
@@darkglobe406 Also they literally tried to divide the two aspects of Joaquin Phoenix's Oscar worthy acting as a sadistic yet erratic emperor into 2 mid actors playing emperors. Not only unoriginal, but comical
@@stevecooper7883 yeah not to mention the motivations of a main character changed 180 degrees in a few minutes for literally no reason ...
first we understand he was basically raised as a numidian and loves his wife , than comes rome and destroys his home and he hates rome and also the general of the attacking army with passion ...
then few moments later he is like NAH i´m a roman hero revolutionary fighting for the people of rome ...
i would understand his motivation wanting to save his mother , but he would most certainly not become the poster boy and the leader of roman political and civil revolution , what little connection he had with rome and his roman roots di€d with his mother , i would bet he could not care less what happens with the empire after that ...
the entire idea of making him to be this "lost" son from the original movie (and the son of maximus on top of that) was $tup1d AF
me and my brother were cringing every 10 minutes during the second half. What a load of cliches and empty speeches@@darkglobe406
Ya think?
We went from:
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
To:
Yo, listen up, name's Max, I'm the man, no delirious, Rollin' with the North side troops, call me serious. General big boss of that Felix clique, Loyal to the real king, yeah, Marcus is slick.
They took my boy, man, they crossed the line, Wife gone too, now revenge is mine. I'm comin' for justice, ain't gonna flex, Gonna get it done, in this life or the next.
😂😂😂☠👌
Ya ain't entertained homie? Que pasa no entertainment cabrone??
Man gtfo with Pedro Pascal. Tired of him already
@@yipperdeyip same 🤝 and to think he'll play Reed Richards... 😢
I mean... I'd watch that movie, but I lay if produced by In Living Color and Boys in the Hall...
no way ! The hubris of it all. theres a woman behind this
Ridley Scott’s retirement is long overdue
That guy is undoing his own legacy with his failed Alien movies and the recent disaster Napoleon
@@theunraveler he doesn't know when to quit...
When you live long enough to become the bad guy lol
Not before he tries to remake Alien again
I'm willing to give him that one last chance for redeeming the franchise, but know what yall are sayin.
Phoenix's performance as Commodus was incredible.
Oscar worthy.
AM I NOT INCREDIBLE?!
(Couldn't resist 😅
But yes, he was!)
yes, truly incredible, such a great film. Hollywood is dead now.
Thank you for this. I almost saw it in theaters and instead drank 11 beers and watched Heat on my couch.
It’s actually a good movie this guys just buthurt with nostalgia
Heat the movie, or just 2 dogs going at it on the couch?
Just clarifying
@ the one with Pacino saying “she’s gotta great ASS”
Are you not entertained?
Dr Evil: HOW BOUT NO??!!
You crazy Roman bastard
Ya freaky Dutch bstrd
Anything with pronouns on their instagram account means the movie is gonna be shit….aka pedro pascal the extreme leftist
How bout NO!
Needs more male kissing 2/10
Next, Hollywood will make Titanic 2.
Jack's Revenge
Well about that
Premise: We made an EVEN BIGGER boat. This one definitely won't sink
Twist: An EVEN BIGGER iceberg
The Titanicking.
Ok, gore a whey now.
Can't believe Ridley Scott JJ Abramsed his own movie.
Ridley Scott is weird one. For every 3 bad films has an amazing one.
Ridley Scott is actually a terrible story teller.
What, you mean like what he did with the Alien franchise?
*movieS
Shell of his former self at this point
Okay, you've convinced me... I'll go watch Gladiator again.
The weirdest thing in this movie is how Lucius is able to convince the other gladiators to stand with him and act like they're his buddies, while the entire movie only has 2 scenes where you can see them bonding with each other. The relationship between the gladiators felt very underdeveloped and is a far cry from the dynamic between Russel Crowe and Djimon Hounsou in the original movie.
I agree 100% here. Also foe battle scenes seem so rushed..no emotion put into them, tye choreography is poor and overall doesn't get you excited like in the first movie. The movie fails in getting the audience emotionally involved and Lucius character doesn't get one to feel for and with him like Russel Crowes character got the sympathy of the audience. Overall the movie doesn't get one excited emotionally or visually.
YES god, I completely agree.
Aye it was one of the moments where I was throwing my hands up in disgust going "why the fuck not?". It was full of "tell not show" and I honestly didn't give a shiny shite about any of the deaths. The wife at the start, whom you knew had to die, getting killed after we'd just been introduced to her had absolutely no weight. I came out of the cinema thinking I'd just seen the worst film I'd ever seen, and now that I've had a week to settle I'm still of the same opinion. Hollywood movies are basically now just thoughtless nostalgia bait.
The movie feels like a poorly made compilation of a show, so much information throwing at you at once with no connections
To be fair, he starts bossing them around in the arena and one of the other gladiators says "Why should I??".
The Colosseum of Ancient Rome was about giving people what they wanted. Tickets were free and you got fed and watered to boot. Modern Hollywood, however has given us something we don’t want. There’s a reason why the Roman empire lasted so long, and why we’re now seeing what the famous historian Edward Gibbon would have described as ‘the Decline and Fall of the Hollywood empire’.
You seem to forgetting that half of the city's population had no entitlement to grain dole or entertainment because they were non citizens or slaves
Rome, like us, was laid low by the chosen tribe.
@@iratepirate3896 Who cares about them? They aren't even Romans.
@ I was talking about the people of Rome - its citizens. I do find it hilarious that actors were not allowed to attend. Their profession being classed as of very low social status. Ironic isn’t it.
Lmao! Ok buddy, blame the small hats for everything. You're no better than the tools marching the streets for a place they've never been to, or will ever visit. Just as ignorant too. I'm sure you believe you've done the appropriate "research" to be able to come to that asinine conclusion, but the truth is you're just not that well informed lol.
At what point did Denzel smile at a gladiator and say, “My man!”?
It happens, but he actually says "My ni ga!"
Hilarious
Well done
Ok, THIS COMMENT WINS IT!!! 💯. 😂😂😂
There’s actually one part where he walks into a room laughing and I swear I thought he was going to say it
“We didn’t land on The Coliseum, The Coliseum landed on us!”
Sorry Drinker, but I am in fact entertained, by this review of course. It's another one of innumerable TCD reviews, that are way more entertaining than the actual movie. Well in this case, I didn't and am unlikely to ever watch this movie. Firstly because I can never get that drunk, secondly I didn't even find the first one to be that good, it was just okay for me (well Ruasel Crowe was great regardless).
The best part of this review that I'll remember for a while is how the drinker kept on referring to Denzel Washington's character as Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal's character as Pedro Pascal 😂😂😂. Obviously he was trying to make a killer point of the hilarious kind, and he did so quite successfully! I rate this review 5 stars out of 5, like 2 thumbs way way up there.
Once again, creatively bankrupt Hollywood gives us a film absolutely no one asked for. This movie looks even worse than I imagined.
Honestly, it's not bad.
I keep thinking about how Scott was critical of Blade Runner 2049. At that time I remember thinking "Well if he's so critical of it, would he have done a better job then?"
We finally got the answer: no he wouldn't.
Roy's death seen was beautiful and tragic. Rutger Hauer made it so beautiful, not the directing or writing. You just can't remake certain things. They are a moment in time. When the Gladiator dies and we see him walking through the wheat, it's the same thing. We shouldn't try to recapture that magic.
Ah, Blade Runner. Another movie that didn't need a sequel.
2049 is one of those rare sequels that works on every level.
@@jarink1maybe not but 2049 is an amazing film
@@jarink1nah fuck that i enjoyed 2049 more than the original
It's just a typo, the title was meant to be Gladiator Too. 🙅♀
Gladiator, As well.
Actually the working title was: "Gladiatore Russell Corvus, Ecce Tu?"
"Gladiator, Too?"
Gladiator All Along.
A Gladiator too far.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius
Star of a murdered movie
And I will have my vengeance in this life or the next.
😊 I see what you did there. 👍
Lol, nice!
Shadows and dust has been replaced by sparkles and glitter.
I knew this would be a turd as soon as it was announced.
Looking forward to the shawshank redemption 2
Todd Phillips and Ridley Scott fighting with all their might over who can make the most unecessary sequel of 2024 💀
I wouldn't say Joker 2 was an unnecessary sequel, but the director did make it into an unnecessary sequel. Sad really, because Joker as a franchise had a lot of potential to expand into
When once-great filmmakers can no longer come up with anything good they should just retire instead of embarrassing themselves. There'd be much more dignity in that and it'd be for the best. You never wanna, y'know, jump that shark.
Your name and profile picture is worse than anything this movie could do. Makima is the second worst character in all of fiction after all.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki lil bro has ZERO reading comprehension, just go back to putting fries on bags 😭🙏
@@youngk1279 Personally I thought Joker didn't need a sequel, even before the rumors of the sequel being a musical started to spread. It simply had a perfect ending which left some things open to interpretation for the audience to think and theorize on, while also being a satisying conclusion to Arthur's story. I'd talk about it more but I'm not writing a whole book chapter on youtube lol
Who’s really surprised that a modern sequel fails to live up to the expectations of the original film?
Exactly! Key word "modern"
Not at all 😂😂😂😂
You people can't enjoy movies. What a shame. Gladiator 2 was a fun watch on the big screen
@hellboy4128 Maybe some of Us are tired of all the unnecessary remakes/sequels 🙄
@hellboy4128 very much fun! Also rewatching gladiator 1 has such better writing but man the action also iconic. The cuts are so ugly especially the tiger fight (since they're actually real)
Thank you for saving me time and from hate watching this. I appreciated it.
RUclips critics: This franchise really 'jumped the shark'
Gladiator 2: there's an actual shark in this movie.
3/4/5-headed shark:ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!
seriously?
Not even real sharks all CGI so no they didn't have actual sharks. Shyt movie glad I watched a stolen version.
@nakai123 ha ha 😄
@@sigmacademy you dare compare the cinematic masterpieces that are the multiheaded shark movies to this
Thanks to the drinker I don't have to waste my time and money with awful movies
or you can think for yourself and go see the movie to form your own opinion. Just a thought.
I stopped watching movies, period. You should go outside, it's actually nice out. There's tons of stuff to do. If it's bad weather, there's always books. Or you could start a hobby like building model airplanes or learn sculpting and make clay mugs for your friends and family for Christmas.
@@primefamous nah im good i dont want to waste my money
@@primefamousah yes, let me just stroll on down to a movie I don’t care about and drop a meals worth of money so I can suffer for 3 hours. Sounds like a sweet plan
@@primefamous I see this argument frequently and it's a silly one. People have long looked to movie reviews to decide if they want to spend their money on going to the theatre. It's not a matter of thinking for one's self or not. It's a matter of using someone whose opinion is frequently close to your own to form your decision. That's why there are trailers and movie reviews and movie critics. It's so that the public can be tempted or not tempted to spend their hard-earned cash to support the movie that is made.
If we were meant to just watch whatever was made, there would be no attempt to market them. The movie would be there and people would dutifully flock to the theatre to watch it no matter what it was. THAT would be not thinking for one's self. I haven't been tempted to see a movie in a theatre for a long time. And in reality, I wouldn't necessarily use the Drinker to inform my decision. Things that he thinks are important aren't what I think are important, but I do appreciate his opinion and I like seeing his take on things.
1:34 Good lord the CGI on that uh… uh.. Baboon? Chimp? Shaved, tiny Bigfoot? Whatever it is, the CGI is atrocious. Zero realism in how it’s mouth “works” like that.
I was legit wondering if it was like an undead monkey or something.
@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll They had CGI Great White Sharks swimming around in the Colloseum. FYI, even in todays modern world, we are unable to keep Great White Sharks in aquariums because they die without unlimited space. Apparently the Romans were superior to us because they could catch them, reel them in, and then succesfully transported them across hundreds of miles on land- Im guessing by Chariot 😂
@@walkwithoutrhythm9858 yeah it's like they tried to give it the look of the monsters in I Am Legend or something.
It's an alien space monkey.
@@walkwithoutrhythm9858 Right? I thought it was something out of The Mummy.
Could not even sit through half it, it looked like it was expensive, Spartacus Blood,and Sand was 100x more times entertaining. Everything you said here was spot on, I want my time, and money back.
'At my signal, unleash a waste of time.'
Denzel Washington bragged about how they deleted his kissing scene with another man . I knew I didn't wanna see it, I'm good.
Lgbt agenda everywhere
Boooo !!homophobic Denzel !!! 😅😅
It’s giving Diddy
Denzel Washingballs
I was sad to hear that even Denzel sold his soul. I always thought he was one of the good ones, honest christian and all that. Never trust a Hollyweird celebrity.
The only reason that I get excited about new movies nowadays
is because I know that the Drinker will review it.
Same here. The Pitch Meetings are good fun too.
The movie nobody wanted to see.
Riddley Scott: "Hold my beer!"
Gladiatior is potentially my favorite movie of all time. That being said, it obviously did not need a sequel. The story that was told wrapped up beautifully and left no loose ends. It was truly a tale that would have stood the test of time.... Until now... On that note, I'll save my money and just watch the orignal again. And again. And again. And again.
I read that last bit as Commodus.
I used to watch the original almost weekly. Sad what they've decided to do to its legacy.
Hated the whole story plot.
Gladiator is 1988 Mike Tyson. Gladiator 2 is 2024 Mike Tyson.
Here's hoping they leave "Troy" alone.
That movie is like a piece of film history right up next to "Gladiator".
In the original, I think that Commodus, as a character, was set up early and very well in a manner that avoided the over-the-top one-dimensional villain problem. It happened in the meeting with his father, where the audience is made to feel great pity for him, which is then turned into abhorrence when he kills his own father. The juxtaposition is horrifying, and throughout the rest of the movie, the viewer feels both of these perspectives in tension toward the character. All the way up to his death scene, when he is helplessly struggling to free himself from Maximus's grasp, that mix of sentiment remains.
Also helped that Joaquin Phoenix is such an amazing actor when it comes to playing unhinged characters because of how even his subtle mannerisms make them feel like genuinely unhinged people desperate to take control of situations that are spiralling out of control and letting his narcissism consume him when he gets the power he wants.
He's so capable at making characters that can push the line of being cartoonishly evil if done wrong and make them feel genuinely scary, and he gave the performance of his life with Commodus
@@AR-bj5et The 'am I not merciful?' scene always comes to mind.
@@AR-bj5et Phoenix might have been better in Quills, which came out around the same time. His performance in Walk the Line was just as good but in a different way.
He was both pitiable and disgusting at the same time. A difficult balance to pull off.
Great point. Just another example of the depth and subtlety of Gladiator that raised it far beyond a standard action film.
Commodus wasn't just a one dimensional cartoon villain. He was a tragic figure. An immature man who just wanted to make his father proud but only ever failed in that endeavour. We feel disgust for him but also some sympathy.
What next? "The Alamo is back, and this time it's personal"
Been done. See _Chupacabra vs. the Alamo_ .
@@johnnyelizabethton damn, that really is an actual movie
Passion of the Christ 2: Crucify this w/ The Rock as Jesus
Alamo 2: Steampunk Boogaloo
Titanic 2.
I’m subscribing for the ELITE commentary!! Some people get all butt hurt because there are spoilers, my man you’re saving me $30 trip to the movie theater!! Thank you!
We came from "what we do in life, echoes in eternity", to "what we say in this movie, echoes in the empty theater".
" people should learn when they're conquered" " would you Quintus? Would I?"
😅😅😅😅. Good one!
We went from "shadows and dust" to "sparkles and glitter"
Lol😂😂😂
Lucius and Max's son were both 8 in the original, which means he would have had to cheat on his wife to impregnate Lucinda. That is completely out of character and makes G2 storyline bullshit.
Was it ever suggested in the original who Lucius’ father was?. I always assumed it was Maximus.
Didn't they mention Lucillas husband in the first moving and that he had died?
Lucius was 12
@@Hudpix16never really implied in the original other than Rusty joining the dots in his first meeting with Lucius that Lucilla is his mum and then giving a weird sort of look that I guess could be interpreted as “ I wonder if he’s mine “
I know right?
I remember watching the dvd commentary of Gladiator back in the day with Ridley and Russell Crowe. The film opens with a shot of a robin on a tree branch. Maximus sees the bird fly away and for a moment, forgets where he is and smiles at the beauty of nature. Then his scowl returns as he remembers he's about to go into battle. Scott says on the dvd, "we just thought, this is going to be a huge fcuker, so we should start with something small"
More artistry in that opening 30 seconds of the original than in the full run time of the sequel..... where did it all go wrong Ridley?
It was a god damn master piece made entirely of coincidences and luck, cause they didn't even have a finished script when they started filming. Once in a life time movie and unfortunately it shows. Ridley has not delievered in a long time, though The Duel was fine.
Crowe was also supposed to stay back from his wife's corpse cause the director had it framed for lighting on the wide shot, but crowe disagreed cause his whole journey was to get to her, and they only had prosthetic feet nailed to a board so he said 'I don't care, I'll go up and kiss them or something'
Fabulous cinematography
Zero believability
The sharks' cgi looked like sharknado lol
Ridley Scott needs to be stopped for Christ's sake 🤦
He needs to just retire now.
I bet he is preparing a sequel for black hawk down
@@domenico9992 Black Hawk Up?
Fucking Prometheus. Holy Fuck.
@@SirHilaryManfat followed by Black Hawk Left and Right
Ridley Scott doesn’t know what made Gladiator great.
He figured it was the action.
Russel Crowe pushed back on Ridley constantly, making Gladiator the timeless classic that it was and curbing many of Ridley’s bad habits. This movie has a black??? Roman senator and no one in this cast is smart enough to push back on Ridley’s excesses. All around another failure for hollyweird
_MUST MAINTAIN UNREALISTIC AND UNNECESSARY DIVERSITY IN ORDER TO BE EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE!! DUHHHH!!_
I know the Romans were great engineers, but they lost me with the giant colosseum swimming pool.
@@reginaldwooster235 They actually could flood it and have mock naval battles, it just wasn't done very often.
@@reginaldwooster235 They actually did fill the Colosseum with water for mock naval battles, but probably not deep enough for actual ships to float and maneuver.
@@reginaldwooster235 I think it was a different building they would use for the naval battles, but yeah, real thing. Especially in this time period, aka, the time of emperors drunk on power but before that led to Rome being weakened.
I’m optimistically awaiting a sequel to Titanic.
I'm so unbelievably sick of seeing pedro pascal in EVERYTHING. Especially after he got special treatment and was immune to any punishment for posting something far far worse than hollywood can even pretend gina corrano did. Gina literally just said "learn from the past, lets not hate other people". While pedro did the usual "the other side are yatzis, let your hate flow" and he gets handed role after role. Where we all know if the roles were reversed and someone posted something like that about the left, theyd be excommunicated. It's okay when we (D)o it!
The answer is incredibly obvious there lol.. *shhhh* just coincidence, again.
Still think he was fine in GoT. Dunno about rest cuz I had bigger problems than his performance in the other stuff he played in.
Hollywood seems to not be able to do heroes or villains anymore.
LOL. Pedro Pascal is a quality actor who’s highly bankable. I’ve seen planks of wood with more charisma and acting chops than Gina. Even her two most recent movies (funded and distributed by Daily Wire) were such bombs that not even the right wing audience she was pandering to showed up. At the end of the day Hollywood is a cut throat business that prioritizes profits over everything else.
I think it has something to do with DEi.
Spot on. The amount of reviews I've seen praising this as an absolute epic, it's mind boggling. No character development, the plot didn't know where it was going, and Paul Mezcal has the emotional range of a Gnat. Also, what happened with the baboon scene? did all the baboons just watch that one Baboon die and go "okay, we'll stop now and go home". Made no sense.
Seriously? They’ve got to be part of the DEI cult because I sat through about ten minutes and noped out, it was that predictable and forced.
I must follow only intelligent reviewers online because I’ve yet to see anyone say anything different than what Drinker is l.
Hey don't compare him to a gnat since gnats got more emotional range than Paul Mezcal.
"Firey but mostly peaceful protest" OMG I had to pause it because I was laughing so hard!! Good one!
😂...love drinker!!!
Denzel Washington in "Training Day: Colosseum".
"People should know when they're entertained..."
"Would you, Hollywoodus? Would I?"
"Hollywood should know when they're making garbage."
"Would you Dacradadalus? Would I?
Pedro Pascal, is a lib tard who compared Trump to HlTL3R. Hard pass on this.
Ridley Scott: Want to see me ruin a franchise in which i made an excellent movie in the past?
Want to see me do it again?
He has an extensive history of doing just that.
I'm still thankful he didn't get his senile mitts on the Blade Runner sequel. Thank you, Denis!
That's the problem, it was a single movie not a franchise. Hollywood wanted it to be one though.
@@thebatman4279I would criticize Blade Runner 2049, but it was so boring that I fell asleep after like 30 minutes… so who knows..
@@thebatman4279I thought he was making BR2099?
There are so many exciting events in the history of the Roman Empire that an original movie could be made about. The rise of Aurelian, civil wars of Constantine, revolt of Zenobia, and instead we get this rubbish.
I thought the Denzel fight was at least a little suspenseful - I mean what if The Equalizer Denzel had shown up? Nobody expects him to do what he does in the those films either, so he could have surprised us. And the "Fiery but mostly peaceful protests" line was classic, Drinker. You need your own late-night show.
One of the problems with this entire movie is the fact that we're now supposed to believe that Maximus from the first film who was a good man and was doing anything he could to get home to his wife and son only to find them murdered also was having an affair with The emperor's daughter. The same very emperor he looked to as a father figure and would have known that having a dalliance with his daughter would be bad for the family. This is just another example of a legacy character that is being destroyed for the sake of horrible sequels.
In ancient rome wives were used to have children, while the men could have affairs, concubines or sex slaves. The period in these movies is before christianity became relevant and tried to change that.
Not to mention that Lucius was the same age as Maximus son. And he was away from his family for around 2 yrs. There's no way maximus had time to sleep with both women the same year. So unless Max's wife cheated on him while he was away. The math isn't mathing
@@sonofcronos7831 that may be true, however it is not in line with the character and his motivations. He was happy to die in the end so he could be with his family. If he loved his kid, and had one out of wedlock, he would have loved Lucius too. Therefore he wouldn't have wanted to die in the end
Lucius was years older than Maximus other son. It was intimated in the first film Maximus and Lucille had a past relationship. So this child was reasonably conceived before he met his eventual wife.
@@rzagza11 of course your position is reasonable. However, Maximus showed no fatherly love towards Lucius. If Lucius was his actual son, would the character act that way towards him? Also, I haven't seen the movie in quite a while but recall getting the impression that he and her had past feelings that were not consummated due to her being the emperor's daughter
Why tf is Denzel here? Was my initial reaction.
Yeah... going through the histories written by Herodotus, Tactitus, Pliny the elder, Polybius and Suetonius et al they never mention this "Black American Gangster Dude" who kept the senate entertained and ran stuff and shit". You see... people in Rome were able to handle the assimilation of many peoples, whom Rome had conquered, into the Roman republic including Black skinned folk...but usually black people were slaves. I mean 99.9% of the time. Either slaves, gladiators or men trained as bodyguards. They weren't invited into the Roman classes. Once Rome became an Empire and the rulers were individuals who oversaw the senate while they essentially raped the Roman taxpayer for everything they could before retiring to a very well guarded and appointed villa near the coastline(very easy to escape to the water if they were fallen upon by forces aiming to murder the retired leader) thongs only got worse for Blacks. Having Denzel as a mover and shaker in Rome is just plain bullshlt. An attempt to modernize the movie for "Modern Audiences!" There would have been very wealthy and influential traders possessing of dark skin in Rome but not in this capacity seen here. This is pandering Hollywood style 101.
@@shannonpincombe8485you are uh...you are false on black people, they weren't "slaves 99.9% of the time" black people were administrators and "scroll men" across the empire, the stigma of black and white skin meant nothing to the Roman's, if you embraced roman culture and became "Roman" you were in theory treated as an equal to every other Roman. we even have evidence of black Equestrians which was a very good social class.
We do have what some would consider evidence of racism in one of the Roman Emperors considering one of his legionnaires to be an bad omen because of his black skin, but that was purely down to his religion which saw the color black as being a bad omen
oh and Rome had darker skinned north African born Emperors as well as what could be considered Arab Emperors, the Empire was a melting pot of cultures that didn't have any views on skin color. Roman society judged people based on culture and social standing, if you believed and practiced a culture deemed inferior to Roman culture you were looked down on. Skin color as a method of racism wasn't really developed until after the fall of the Western Roman Empire
Same reason Julius Caesar is black in the last Vegas hotel! DEI planted😊
So question you have a problem with denzel because he black but you're fine with the other actors who are irish & british playing romans? He'll pedro pascal is Latino and not one of them did roman accents.....
@@Nettingyournetworth Let's not forget about Djimon Hounsou in the original. I guess people let that slide because he was a slave/gladiator lmao but he was actually a great warrior from his own land not too far away.
Historians point to the fact that there were black people, or dark-skinned people like the moors, all around Rome. It is heavily believed that some roman statues show black characteristics as well leading strong belief in black politicians and other high-power positions.
Some peoples' racism and ignorance are truly showing.
"Starts fiery, but mostly peaceful protests in the cities."
Never change Mr Drinker. Never fek'n change!
Watched Gladiator II yesterday. I *really* wanted to like this movie.... just wait for it on Netflix.
I felt so much pain for my generation when I saw this movie last night. It felt like the perfect representation of how inferior our world is now compared to our parents world back in 2000. The quality of our entertainment, education, politics, news, etc.
All has been Wokeified. Nothing has been left intact for us.
You were cooking until you said "parents world back in 2000" 😂
The wokeness is receding. We are defeating it slowly but surely. The woke movies that were already in development will release but they are a dying breed.
Art. They're destroying art. In logos, in movies, films, music, in the streets, in buildings, it's sad.
The world is healing though. Were going in a different direction. People are tired.
The only thing this generation do is complain about everything. It was an amazing movie. Be appreciative for what you have and you'll be happier.
@@j.f.almeida9081
Said like a true consoomer.
Art has been dying for a while now, while everything has become soulless and ruined. Everything we once loved. Just because our corpo corrupt overlords like to brainwash people and think they're too big to fall, so they keep releasing crap after crap, year after year...
And here you are, little Almeida, a nobody, bending over for the overlords. Pat yourself on the back.
I loved it when Denzel yelled, “King Caracalla ain’t got nothin’ on me!”
😅
2:29 "fiery and mostly peaceful Protests" lol
CNN illo tempore : "Aliquæ protestationes undique in urbe occurrunt hoc momento sed de istis protestationibus non metuete : majora pars ex iis est ignea sed præcipuissime pacifica."
An allusion to CNN double standard
They have no idea how to make the characters interesting anymore. Its just content for the sake of content at this point.
The mere fact that Maximus' wife in the original doesn't have a single line of dialogue and we only see her one or two times in dream sequences and still we want her avenged tells you all you need to know about story telling and character buliding. We only know her and her son through Maximus' accounts and we feel for them because we feel for him.
As was said in Jurassic Park
“Just because you could, you didn’t stop to think if you should”
This firmly applies to this situation.
I think the major issue with the film is that it expects you to care about Lucius without giving you anything to believe in or rail against. 20 minutes into the first film, you despise Commodus with an unmatched fury. He is truly despicable.
Originally here, you think the antagonist might be Pedro Pescal but his character is meaningless. Then you’ve got two simpleton emperors with zero character development that you feel sympathy for more than hatred. Mescal isn’t bad by any stretch but doesn’t have the believability that Crowe had in the role. Denzel is Frank Lucas in Rome.
and Commodus' character only gets worse as you watch the film, lusting after his sister, threatening her son, sending the praetorians out to arrest his political opponents, giving Maximus a mortal wound out of sight before their duel so the assembled roman audience can see him kill a traitor
I've just finished the film and I actually thought it was pretty terrible, Crowe looked like a fully fledged man physically and Mescal doesn't have that vibe at all.
The fight scenes in my opinion looked so poor aswell with swords being swung far away from where the target even is, the sharks were such unnecessary overkill. Also, the fact Lucias goes from hating his mother one scene to loving her in the next with nothing having changed inbetween really. The fact it was never really discussed why she never looked for him. I lost it when he sends the Indian guy with the ring and he just rides into an army camp pushes a few soldiers and walks right up to the general.
I'm a massive Denzel fan and I thought he was miscast, the actress who play Lucilla I thought put in a weak performance.
The only couple of people I enjoyed and were believable were Pedro and I thought the emperors were entertaining in their own right and if they'd been fleshed out could have worked.
It's actually really made me realise how epic films such as the original Gladiator are possibly gone forever.
Exactly! You 100% understand what everyone is doing and why. You cheer for the good guy, cheer against the bad guy, and continue to do so more and more the longer each character is on screen.
All you said I agree with. I suspect a lot of scenes got cut out of the editing room. I would rather cut out one of the arena scenes (like the ship battle was so short it didn't do anything for me).
@@jwr3289Connie Nielsen played Lucilla in the original too
I mean me and my friend were entertained….but that’s because we were having a laugh, mocking most things and making jokes that Lucius is gonna die from baboon rabies.
Also seriously the quote “It’s about survival. Survive.” Just kills me 😂😂😂
Why is the kid from the first movie NOT the Emperor in this one ???
Because they have to undo everything accomplished on the first one. Welcome to the 2020s
Because stupid writing is stupid. Obviously kid couldn't turn evil, noone would buy that. But making him emperor that is forced out of his position by some brutal contender, going into hiding, forced to fight on arenas, just to return to Rome to retake what's his - it's still not the story that had to be told, but at least I'd consider watching something between these lines. What we got - I am never going to see, there's no point.
Well, in real life this did not happened either (not that this movie is about real life). Rome was not a monarchy. The one to become emperor was the one with aproval of the senate or the military. You could come from anywhere as long ad you have their aproval. So of course when Lucius was a kid, anyone would try to get the throne and kill him before he could claim anything.
Power shifted in Ancient Rome between different dinasties. The kid was sent off from Rome in order to be protected. If he hadn’t there would be no movie.
@@Hudpix16 Which would have been for the best.
We already had a spiritual sequel to Gladiator; four seasons of Spartacus. Which was more interesting, better acted, infinitely more quotable, and had a lot of tits in it since it was trying to be Game Of Thrones. You can pick up the complete box set for like, £15 these days. Just watch that instead.
Great series, but I recommend only watching the first 2 seasons.
I love how they vandalized the honour of maximus and lucilla by inventing lucius is actually maximus's bastard just because they thought it'd be an epic plot twist.
Actually it was hinted at in the original, watch commentary from Connie Nielson, that was probably the strongest plot line they had going into this.
@@GreenClassified I think it was a good way to "close the circle" but without them even considering the damage to the characters reputation. I call it BS on her part. I never saw it was hinted in the 1st movie. They have children of about the same age, so then maximus would have been nailing his ,already, wife and lucilla at the same time, making the whole deal even worse. Not to mention the reputation hit to Caesar's daughter.
It would have been more interesting if Lucilla's son was fathered by her brother Commodus. Emperor Caligula married his own sister, not to mention the Egyptian and Ptolemaic royal families all married their siblings, aunts, uncles and first cousins to consolidate power.
@@deco2gogo Caligula did not marry his sister. There's no evidence, besides lurid rumors written long after he was dead, that he was even interested in his sister. He was just very loyal to the family he had left because Tiberius murdered most of them. Rome was okay with marrying cousins, that was considered distant enough, but incest closer than that was not okay in Rome, a fairly conservative society.
"Mostly peaceful protests..."
Didn't expect to hear that this morning. 🤣
Band Of Brothers Season 2
Starring Pedro Pascal as Winters.
"I had enough of war"
THE END
Let's have a film about Hannibal and the Punic war?
No. Gladiator 2!!!!
That would be so fucking sick
Or Flavius Aetius and Atilla or Lucius Aemilius Paullus, or the Pompey family, or Boudica...man, why do we NOT have more movies even loosely based on Roman history?
Hannibal not having a big budget epic is a miss. No one leader gave Rome such a challenge IMO.
@@arthurfrayn7619 The guy got war elephants into Europe and crossed mountain ranges with them, and keep in mind pretty much nobody in Europe had seen an elephant before. Imagine being on the front lines and suddenly the enemy is coming at you with gigantic, armored beasts that you've never seen before. They're so big they can literally just step on you, and just shrug off almost anything you can throw at them.
@@ares_bluesteel Yea bringing elephants, victories like Cannae, his father dying in front of him saying attack Rome etc... his life is a legit war epic.
I remember seeing a comment from the first trailer saying “The best thing about this movie will be all the people rewatching the original”
Those CGI baboons look like crap.
Makes the sped up tiger in the original Gladiator look like a work of art now 😂
The best part was when Denzel's character was talking to the other slaves, and he was like, "Monica!"