Gladiator 2

Bradders is famous for this. Anyway the trailer tells us it's the same story as the first one but now with cgi baboons and sharks.

It's a weird review. Says it's great but also admits it practically copied the original scene by scene.

Times reviews sound exactly like what I was expecting this to be.

In the early 2000's they couldn't find a serious and compelling plot to suit all the interested parties, particularly Russell Crowe. It seems in 2024 without any requirement to shoehorn in a dead character and even less requirement to write a quality script, they have reverted to giving us yet another superhero movie in a toga.

Gladiator might be my favourite film ever and whether this was needed or not I haven't been this excited about a film since… Prometheus! Which I loved!

The reviews indicate it'll be worth a watch and a rollicking good time. Although I'm already thinking about plot holes like how they transported the sharks to the arena. They even struggled to transport large sea creatures in Star Trek IV, even with all their tech.

For anyone interested Paul Mescal does a "Hot Ones" interview. Never knew him before and think he came across really well on it. Some fun bits about the term "Shitehawk" and GAA Chants and he managed to slip in that old Irish Phrase "Now we are sucking diesel" :)

youtube.com/watch?v=oBiQB68cGzs

I didn't like Gladiator at all to be honest. I do think this movie will be very successful. There hasn't been a big action movie like this, with global appeal, in a while.

The sharks may be BS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , but the Romans did actually flood the Colosseum on occasion so they could stage mock sea battles.

Really enjoyed it too..

.. the end is maybe slightly anticlimactic.

But good solid blockbuster fare!

An incredibly annoying film. So many poor narrative decisions. It's like they had a series of cynical moments they wanted to shoot and didn't have a chorerent story to bridge them together.

I'd low expectations, and feel somewhat glad that I did.

Many might appreciate it for the spectacle, but there's not a single element of this that comes close to capturing the original.

And... it absolutely p*sses on the originals legacy, which is very cheap. hard to believe it's from the same director.

During Paul Mescal's Late Late Show interview last night, they showed a clip where his character gives a "stirring" speech to a bunch of gladiators before they head out into the arena. It was obviously an attempt to replicate the speech Maximus gives to his cavalry before they charge in the opening battle scene of the original. It was absolutely atrocious stuff, terrible writing. The kind of overly grandiose, pretentious twaddle that a fan or student might come up with. Of course, it was almost drowned out with soaring music designed to tell the viewer "THIS IS THE ROUSING SPEECH BIT, GET ALL EXCITED NOW!"

I'm sure the visuals, the battle scenes and the sheer scale of it will rescue this film, but anything I've seen of it looks like B movie writing and scripting.

This is the pinnacle of Paul Mescals career...dont mind your Gladiator shìte...

It's called Gladiator 2. Like your cheap comedy franchise. It was never going to be anything but cheap.

Gladiator stood on its own. A remake/sequel is just another example of shareholder value focused executives. Hollywood is dead

Yes. It's a fair attempt but it doesn't land quite right. Russell Crowe managed a sort of neutral accent in the original that was neither his own or an over the top RP accent. Mescal's feels a little too "British theatre actor does Julius Caesar"

Were you not entertained? 🤔