Havent seen either. Have heard both are good, just havent made time i suppose.
Gladiator II trailer
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She's like the Judy Greer of Asian women. Often the plucky best friend of lead.
Nothing will cement the fact that Hollywood is out of ideas more than the fact they are making a sequel to Gladiator. And they got an All Star cast to sign up for it. This should be like the 300 sequel, and consigned to B movie silliness.
How many sequel retreads have made money this year? Inside Out 2? How well did Furiosa do? What makes you think this will make money? These movies haven't.
The only bad thing about it is the follow up (Covenant) pretty much ditches where Prometheus was going in favor of a smaller cheaper-to-film side story. It's still a Ridley Scott Alien movie with a solid cast though so if you view it on its own in a vacuum it's pretty fun.
Movies in the 50s-90s weren’t as original as people think either.
Many hit Disney movies are in the public domain because they are based on books well over 100 years old.
A lot of the uniqueness was in figuring out how to film something, the stories have been retreads for centuries.
To me Maverick and Fury Road were the most interesting big budget movies recently because they pushed new ground filming real action like never before. They were sequels/franchises but absolutely smoked all previous action in how they were filmed.
I'll have to give it a re-watch. I just watched Alien in the theaters about a month ago and it just felt so much superior than Prometheus even though the plots are very similar.
What was that TV series about the templars set in France where they all had British accents? I don't know why that bothered me so much but I just couldn't handle it and quit watching 3 or 4 episodes in. JFC even the British nobility spoke French during that time period so at least give them a Pepe Le Pew accent to make it somewhat accurate.
Cautiously optimistic.
The original is an all-time classic action film with impressive character and thematic depth.
Brilliant performances top to bottom with Russell Crowe as a "last of the Romans" figure, Joaquin Phoenix as the menacing and insane Emperor Commodus, Derek Jacobi as the noble Senator, Richard Harris as the dying Marcus Aurelius, and the last performance of Oliver Reed as the gladiator trainer.
And that Zimmer score... *drools*
It presented an interesting "What If?" counterfactual about the end of the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty and the period of Roman military dominance, economic prosperity, and cultural flourishing from 96 through the late 100s that went awry in 193 and never returned to the same levels. What if Marcus Aurelius had attempted to appoint the best man for the job, a magnificent general who abhorred politics with no personal ambition but nonetheless was a natural leader and had the loyalty of the army, instead of his mentally unstable and incompetent son, to be the next emperor the way the imperial throne had de facto worked since Nerva?
Great stuff.
A+
When Ridley Scott is on he's made some of the greatest films of all-time...
Alien
Blade Runner
Gladiator
Kingdom of Heaven (criminally underrated if you watch the Director's Cut)
Plenty of "merely good" films in his catalog, too...
Thelma & Louise
Black Hawk Down
The Last Duel
etc.
But he's definitely a dude who can swing and miss, too.
Napoleon kind of sort of worked as a cringe comedy and parody of grand historical epics (the sort that Scott is known for directing) but... I'm 99.9% sure it wasn't intended to be satirical.
This sequel just has so much to live up to.
The original is an all-time classic action film with impressive character and thematic depth.
Brilliant performances top to bottom with Russell Crowe as a "last of the Romans" figure, Joaquin Phoenix as the menacing and insane Emperor Commodus, Derek Jacobi as the noble Senator, Richard Harris as the dying Marcus Aurelius, and the last performance of Oliver Reed as the gladiator trainer.
And that Zimmer score... *drools*
It presented an interesting "What If?" counterfactual about the end of the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty and the period of Roman military dominance, economic prosperity, and cultural flourishing from 96 through the late 100s that went awry in 193 and never returned to the same levels. What if Marcus Aurelius had attempted to appoint the best man for the job, a magnificent general who abhorred politics with no personal ambition but nonetheless was a natural leader and had the loyalty of the army, instead of his mentally unstable and incompetent son, to be the next emperor the way the imperial throne had de facto worked since Nerva?
Great stuff.
A+
When Ridley Scott is on he's made some of the greatest films of all-time...
Alien
Blade Runner
Gladiator
Kingdom of Heaven (criminally underrated if you watch the Director's Cut)
Plenty of "merely good" films in his catalog, too...
Thelma & Louise
Black Hawk Down
The Last Duel
etc.
But he's definitely a dude who can swing and miss, too.
Napoleon kind of sort of worked as a cringe comedy and parody of grand historical epics (the sort that Scott is known for directing) but... I'm 99.9% sure it wasn't intended to be satirical.
This sequel just has so much to live up to.
Black Hawk Down is an excellent movie. Especially if you are old enough to remember that incident and watching the aftermath on the news.
demoncore1031
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I don't care for him. When I watch him in movies it doesn't seem natural. I feel like I'm watching an actor act.
