Movie Gladiator II (dir. Ridley Scott)

[crafty_bernardo]

 

[PoppedCorn]

yeah caught something on the tv this morn at work they were showing snippets and im like yup im there

Gladiator in my top 5 best

 

[Anja_Nees]

Eye catching trailer, that’s for sure.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Movie looks good but trailer ruined by hip hop track in a medieval film..

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Gladiator is my number 1 film, not sure I want this.

Love Denzel, the ship battle in a flooded colosseum, the Nero like emperor.

Dislike the Rhino fight which I was glad got cut from the original films script, the rap song doesn't fit, Hans Zimmers score is goated. Don't like Lucious as a gladiator, seems an unlikely path from the original.

Will wait and see but I think the first was lightning in a bottle and it won't be captured again.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Movie looks good but trailer ruined by hip hop track in a medieval film..

Yep, absolute shocking choice of music, who's idea was that?

 

[revo333]

Is this a totally different story to the first?

 

[Frank Bunn]

Is this a totally different story to the first?

It's a sequel set a couple of decades after the original events of Gladiator. The main character is Lucius, who was a boy in the first movie, and could be the son of Maximus. The story sounds fairly similar. Lucius is forced into slavery then becomes a gladiator.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

It's a sequel set a couple of decades after the original events of Gladiator. The main character is Lucius, who was a boy in the first movie, and could be the son of Maximus. The story sounds fairly similar. Lucius is forced into slavery then becomes a gladiator.

The grandson and nephew of two former Emperors becomes a slave? Not a good start

 

[Frank Bunn]

The grandson and nephew of two former Emperors becomes a slave? Not a good start

Commodus kills his father, Marcus Aurelius, and declares himself emperor. Later, Maximus kills Commodus. Commodus doesn't have children and Rome didn't have a clear succession system so the heir would be disputed. History shows children in that position are at risk of being killed or imprisoned. Lucilla might flee with her son to protect him then they both lose any status.

I'm with Ridley so far on this one.

 

[spinynorman]

Ridley Scott picked some fights with historians over Napoleon and, excitingly, it appears he's primed to do it again!

Some of these are nitpicking, but this

Another Gladiator II scene shows a Roman noble sipping tea in a cafe while reading the newspaper – which, as The Hollywood Reporter noted, would be an anachronism as the printing press would not be invented until 1,200 years later.

is awesome.

 

[Gasometer]

Iirc this guy read a newspaper, admittedly in Stone


I don’t get the need for a sequel to wat was an excellent ending of the first

 

[The Terrible Thinker]

Who seen it, is it worth the Dollarydoo's?

 

[Warsaw]

It's decidedly mid. Entertaining enough for a date night, but does not really do anything to justify its existence beyond being an easy cash grab.

Denzel mostly cooks and Mescal is doing his best, but it's largely recycled material that strangely never really builds.