[Film] GLADIATOR 2

Greg Bobkin said:

These are a good film.

Gladiator is Mrs Bobkin's favourite ever film and we went to see the second one last Sunday. Absolutely loved it and I actually thought it was better than the original (I've watched it loads of times, because of the above!).

Mescal was pretty good, I thought. Probably not as strong as Crowe, but a convincing lead who grew throughout the film.

Opinions, eh?

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Normal Rob said:

Just come back from the cinema. It bored me sh*tless. Mescal was terrible. The sharks
Sorry, it was a dreadful film.

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Easy 10 said:

It's ok. Basically it follows the plot of the original almost step by step, but doesn't do any of it even half as well. Mescus was a weak casting option, he drags the whole production down. How he got the part I'll never know. Plus the sharks and baboons are just silly.

It's not boring. It's just all a bit...meh.

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Triggaaar said:

I've got a horrible feeling that Rob is going to be right.

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Comrade Sam said:

Saw the fantastic Blitz at the flicks and they showed the trailer for Gladiator 2 - it was greeted with laughter by most people present. Personally as a history obsessive I found the original a bunch of old cobblers patched together with epic action. Especially as I'm a big fan of the Gracchi brothers, both of whom had been murdered several centuries before the Coliseum was constructed (Flavian Amphitheatre).

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Easy 10 said:

I do tire of the historic smuggathons who pull films apart due to "oh this, that and the other" bollocks which was wrong or could never have happened because blah blah blah.

Look. Its not a documentary. Its a FILM, to make it dramatic and entertaining. You want bona-fide facts ? Then get a VHS of the Open University and cob off on that, or go to a library. Leave the rest of us to take in a film for a bit of entertainment.

I didn't expect to watch Alien Romulus as a docu-drama on what happened to the Mars Mission droid when it set down on LV426.

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Greg Bobkin said:

Feel what you like, Trig. I'm not changing my mind

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CHAPPERS said:

I thought it was alright. Maybe could have been a little bit longer and some of the acting was quite weak but not a bad way to spend a couple of hours at the Dukes like.

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Triggaaar said:

I don't want you to change your mind. You loved it. I'd like to love it too, I'm just not convinced I will.

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Greg Bobkin said:

Yeah, I think I read too much into your 'right' comment, because it's all subjective at the end of the day.

I mean, *some* people like Mrs Brown's Boys, FFS!

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Han Solo said:

"Historical epic film" means overproduced, overly sentimental and filled with stuff that is considered beautiful/romantic/crazy/genius by those who think salt and pepper is a gastronomical eccentrism.

The first Gladiator fits all of that and if this new one is the same shit but with CGI monkeys... thanks but no thanks.

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Normal Rob said:

Spoiler alert!


Don't think, personally, I've dissed it due to historical innacuracies. It's just a poor film in my opinion.
The lead character is about as engaging as a dead fish. The storyline is very rushed, there's no clear plot development. The battle scene at the start was dull and the ending, rather than have a huge set piece battle between 2 armies had 2 people splashing around in a river before a clichéd 'why can't we all just be friends' speech to close the film.

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