Just finished watching this and the first one back-to-back. This one is more ridiculous than the first, especially at the end. But I suppose they're just following in the tradition of Ben Hur, Spartacus, et al, as being cheesy Hollywood spectaculars. I'll never watch either of them again.
Film Ridley Scott is making Gladiator 2
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Not a patch on the first one but I still enjoyed it tbh
Never understand how these films continually look worse than their predecessors despite it being over 20 years later. Hard for me to invest in such heavy green screen fests like this.
That confuses me too. I assumed it was because standards have improved so much over the last 20 years our expectations are much harder to meet? Or does the latest technology actually look worse?! I’m willing to believe that. Seeing as so much tech seems to be more shit than it used to be.
Caught this earlier this week. It's utterly ridiculous. I loved it. 
I switched my brain off for a few hours and watched Denzil have the time of his life. Laughed every time he sauntered on screen. Loved his wardrobe choices, too.
Hail Dondus!
What on earth was Ridley thinking with those horrendously cgi-ed baboon things and SHARKS? Hahahah. I loved it.
I switched my brain off for a few hours and watched Denzil have the time of his life. Laughed every time he sauntered on screen. Loved his wardrobe choices, too.
Hail Dondus!
Disappointing. Could have been passable but the lead character was so wooden. Shame because the first one is a great film
This is how I feltCaught this earlier this week. It's utterly ridiculous. I loved it.
What on earth was Ridley thinking with those horrendously cgi-ed baboon things and SHARKS? Hahahah. I loved it.
I switched my brain off for a few hours and watched Denzil have the time of his life. Laughed every time he sauntered on screen. Loved his wardrobe choices, too.
Hail Dondus!
I can't confess to being an expert Roman historian, but one thing I definitely don't think they had in Rome, is badly CGI'd sharks.
I can't get past this. Why did there need to be sharks? They didn't even do anything that had any relevance to the scene they were in. Juat swam about eating dead bodies.
I mean the zombie alien monkeys, ok, bit of a stretch, but at least he had to fight them. The sharks just swam about, looking like conputer graphic sharks. That was their role. At least have one of them flip out of the water and do a drop kick or something. I mean you've come this far.
Why couldn't they just have filmed some real sharks swimming about?
All in all it was ridiculously stupid and kind of fun anyway, but most of the film after the sharks I spent thinking about why you would put cgi sharks in a gladiator film.
Why wasn't Maximus's son a shark? I mean a monkey was made commander of the armies of Rome? Why couldn't one of the sharks turn out to be the Prince of Rome?
A complete waste of badly cgi'd sharks.
I can't get past this. Why did there need to be sharks? They didn't even do anything that had any relevance to the scene they were in. Juat swam about eating dead bodies.
I mean the zombie alien monkeys, ok, bit of a stretch, but at least he had to fight them. The sharks just swam about, looking like conputer graphic sharks. That was their role. At least have one of them flip out of the water and do a drop kick or something. I mean you've come this far.
Why couldn't they just have filmed some real sharks swimming about?
All in all it was ridiculously stupid and kind of fun anyway, but most of the film after the sharks I spent thinking about why you would put cgi sharks in a gladiator film.
Why wasn't Maximus's son a shark? I mean a monkey was made commander of the armies of Rome? Why couldn't one of the sharks turn out to be the Prince of Rome?
A complete waste of badly cgi'd sharks.
Really, really shit.
Cant agree more with some of the comments above. Paul Mescal wasnt a great lead, I had zero emotional investment in any of the characters other than that I was ok but basically any of them being offed being fine with me, and the historical liberties taken with this one compared to the first were so extreme (IMHO) I couldn't enjoy it for the historical part of the historical epic genre that this allegedly is a part of. For instance - the relationship between Caracalla and Geta would have been just as - if not more so - impactful if they had basically literally followed what we actually know about them.
I mean hell - Those About to Die was way more engaging to me and had a fraction of the financial might at its disposal compared to this.
I mean hell - Those About to Die was way more engaging to me and had a fraction of the financial might at its disposal compared to this.
.. Should've kept with the Cave script.