Posted on 11/24/2024 10:16:14 AM PST by Mean Daddy
Wife and I love movies so we got our tickets for Gladiator II last night. Got there about 5:45 for a 6:00 showing and no one was there so I had to double check time/theater etc. Handful of people showed up, but it has to been one of the worst movies I've ever seen and were big Denzel Washington fans.
One little nugget, they flooded the coliseum and had a battle between two boats of gladiators with the coliseum teeming in sharks. The next day, the coliseum floor was bone dry.
I agree 100%.
If you have a big flat screen tv there is almost no reason to go to a theater any more
Overpriced popcorn and people talking on their phones?
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Thanks for the first-person tip! I was wondering if it would be worth seeing, especially coming on the heels of the original “Gladiator” which won so many awards.
I’ve been watching the Netflix series “The Lincoln Lawyer” and have really enjoyed it. It’s a good murder mystery / courtroom drama with lots of fascinating plot twists and surprises.
I watched a 2007 movie starring Jim Carrey (in a dramatic role) called “The Number 23.” It’s a fascinating psychological thriller with lots of surprises and it slowly unfolds revealing more and more. It only got a 6.4/10 on IMDB, but I liked it. The opening credits are very novel and well done, too.
Thanks! I was going to see it in iMax. As a director, Ridley Scott is a great cinematography. His movies generally look great, but they are not great movies. The original “Blade Runner” is kind of a piece of crap, with some compelling scenes, but with a great look to it. I never bothered with the sequel.
Garrett Ryan (the “Told in Stone” guy) regards the original Gladiator as one of his favorite movies (he did a recent YouTube about it). It’s entirely a work of fiction, but the trappings — that opening battle scene, the arena stuff — is historically pretty accurate. It’s actually a sort of knockoff of some dubbed gladiator sword-and-sandal quickie from the early 1960s. :^)
I thought it was ironic that the depicted dystopian Roman leaders resembled the outgoing Biden administration. There was one character that looked exactly like Sam Brinton!
Thanks for the review I was wanting to see this but now I’ll save my money :)
Did you hear about the happy Roman?
Whoops! “cinematographer”, not “cinematography”.
CGI animation is not substitute for a good story. Best "gladiator" style movie was Spartacus.
The fact Russell Crowe wasn’t in it, told me everything I needed to know.
Except the real guy was a Christian, not a pagan.
I’ll go with Ben Hur.
Amazon Prime has a great selection of older films which I really enjoy. What I can’t find there, I find free on YouTube. The last movie I went to was Peter Jackson’s documentary, “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which brought World War I back to live with colorization.
62 and enjoy the movie experience. There’s just something about seeing a movie in a theater. Last good movie we saw was Top Gun: Maverick but will go see the new Mission Impossible next year.
That made me LOL!!
“One little nugget, they flooded the coliseum and had a battle between two boats of gladiators with the coliseum teeming in sharks. The next day, the coliseum floor was bone dry.”
It was filmed in the desert. It was always bone dry.
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