Gladiator 2

I'm half in agreement with Iro on this one.


As bad as Cave's idea was, it'd be way better than this.

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Honestly, I'm hoping it's a bait-and-switch where it starts off about Lucius being a high-ranking officer or whatever and he gets killed in a battle within the first 20 minutes and then - surprise! - we're doing an afterlife movie where he teams up with Maximus.

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Maybe it’s time for Ridley to repurpose his “Jesus was an engineer” idea.

I'm still annoyed that maximus didn't escape to re unite with His Army for G2.

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Hear hear... last thing we need is Gladiator 2.

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According to press reports, the budget has now ballooned to well over $300m

It's gonna flop at the box office.

Trailer apparently due July 9th and a few images from the film here:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...-ii-first-look

I'm in. I will never pass up a big FX movie with lots of ancient Roman stuff. I'm sure it will be highly fictionalized versions of the few actual characters who are in the cast. Caracalla was one of the weird emperors, most noted for having caused to be built, the legendary Baths of Caracalla. You couldn't do wrong in Rome if you built a huge bath complex. It's a ruin now, but a truly grand ruin. I'm assuming that the guy in the picture is a "barbarian". Romans generally did not like mustaches and especially body hair....wherever it be.

this is going to be so bad, but I am certainly going to watch it

is it going to be after gladiator 1 like following the storyline?

Not thrilled with the trailer, but still plan to see it.

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It’s the same freaking beats. Why did they have to put Denzel in this? I was so prepared to skip it, but now I won’t.

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Looks like Denzel is pretty kickass. But no Crowe or Phoenix means that this won't be that good. I do like Mescal though.

Hey. Not many films are better than Gladiator, so I wont hold it against the sequel. Impossible to top the first one so Ill just judge it on its own merits. Compared to the current film landscape Im sure itll be a good watch.

The only thing I liked about the first one was Joaquin Phoenix, so this holds no interest for me.

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I am curious. The first gladiator movie was fairly remarkable for its plausibility, if not its historic accuracy. I was the recipient/victim of 5 years of Latin in school, so the time and place of the first movie has the feel of my other home. The main thing that was missing WAS Phoenix's weak performance. The actual Commodus was a blustering maniacal egotist, not the quietly sinister character played by Phoenix. He did fight in the arena, but always won because his opposition was hobbled before the "game" started. He was a humiliation to the emperor's family and was assassinated.

Aside from Commodus, and the death of Marcus, who was not murdered, however, the rest of it was pretty good and believable, even to the big sunshades on the Coliseum and the hidden trapdoors that released the big cats. In the real Rome, they even could flood the Coliseum floor and have mock naval battles, the Star Wars of the ancient world.

I love occasional doses of ancient Rome and look forward to see just WHAT they do this time.

It doesn't look awful but it feels unnecessary, I've enjoyed Ridley Scott's historical films but I have to question the intelligence of releasing this film in November to compete with Moana/Wicked.



Interesting to see The Human Torch and Mr Fantastic play the villains in the story. But Mescal looks like a drag and Denzel looks like he's cashing a payday here.