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Have you seen "Gladiator 2"?
What do you think?
Filmmaking / Directing : A Legendary Panel for a Legendary Film: Behind the Scenes of Gladiator II - IndieWire by Florin Şumălan
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I'm going this weekend, Florin Şumălan - can't wait to see it.
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I think everyone is going to see this
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Sam Sokolow , enjoy!
If you wish, please say what you think, after you see the movie.
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Saw it. Eeeeeeew. Literally one of the worst, weirdest scripts I have ever seen on the screen. They put a gazillion dollars into production value... but it looked like historical research and script development from a discount coupon in FIVERR, at the very best. Why Ridley, Why?
Shadow Dragu-Mihai, Esq., Ipg , I don't know...I was thinking that Ridley Scott could do something about this in the "Director's Cut" release.
Florin Şumălan Well I doubt it can be made into anything other than a way to spend a few hours without thinking. It's already being ridiculed to extreme degrees for setting the story in a goofy fantasy Rome that never existed and using the names of historical figures without reference to those figures. For one, Caracalla and his brother were at least part African, being the children of Emperor Septimus Severus (Caracalla's busts clearly show his African ancestry), and they were not effete effeminate twits. Caracalla was a respected military leader, while the Praetorian Guard assassinated his brother. Numida was annexed to Rome in 46 BC, not in Caracalla's time. No one has ever used a Rhino as a war steed. While the Coliseum was flooded for LARGE naval battles, sharks were not part of the games, and couldn't be for reasons of... biology at the least. That's all not to ignore the atrocious script and a story which, even given the historical weirdness, was about events not character, and seems patched together by a group of wannabe film school students instead of actual professional writers. Can it be saved? Nope, not IMO.
Then perhaps we here at this portal could jointly write a part three for Ridley ?
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Shadow Dragu-Mihai, Esq., Ipg, ...but ignoring the historical inaccuracies, I think that somehow "Gladiator II" could be a great sequel if they add scenes that somehow fill in the blanks and if they take out some parts that don't fit. Maybe it isn't really like that, but that is what I think...
Florin Şumălan Sure. But it isn't. It's an intentional thing, right, when you spend millions of dollars on a film...