Man imagine how a mocked naval battle looked like in the Colosseum back then! The noise! The crowds cheering! The splintering of wood! And the yells of the gladiators and screams of the dying mixed together!
@@Taffer1000 Actually, there were no mock naval battles (naumachiae) in the Colosseum. It wasn't designed for that. They did those in other, much smaller venues. But the last record of naumachiae date from the reign of the Julio-Claudians, like 150 years before the events of this movie. And, of course, they didn't have sharks!
I didn’t. I saw what happened to Joker 2 and I saw the writing on the wall for Gladiator 2. Nobody asked for a sequel and it’s 24 years too late. But to be honest the first Gladiator was released at a different time which was 2000 and society wasn’t as crazy as it is now
@@WizdaVision I forgot this movie was coming out. I've never seen the first one, but my buddy paid for my ticket and snacks so I wasn't going to pass up free movie theater popcorn. It's basically what you'd expect from an action movie from the early 2000s, but with modern audience writers.
@TheFinalGate_ I have hyperactivity and an overabundance of physical energy. Enjoying movies was nearly impossible for me as a kid. I can watch movies now as an adult, but I've never prioritized them as a form of entertainment over the years, and as a result, many movies have gone under my radar. In case you were curious, I do have a list of movies to someday watch, but considering I just finished the fellowship of the ring(This movie is awesome), last month for the first time, and I still have the other two to get through. I doubt I'll clear the entire list before I die.
@TheFinalGate_ also in case you were curious, I've never read a book that wasn't a comic. I do play video games, but at most, for only around 30-40 minutes at a time before, I need to go chop wood or something.
I hate the almost constant wokeism if current cinema, but to be fair d Washington character did exist in Ancient Rome. His character is based on historical fact.
@@nez9751 At best he MIGHT have been black. Very likely he wasn't or that's practically all the Romans would be talking about in reference to him positive negative and inbetween. He definitely wasn't a former slave. He was killed after one year at the top. All of the changes were for woke reasons.
The big tough white guy from the first movie that befriends Maximus and eats some of his food to prove it isn't poised after Maximus reveals himself to Commodus has more character and personality then anyone in the second movie.
Ralf Moeller, he was a former German bodybuilder who appeared in a bunch of 90's action movies (like Universal Soldier) and even played Conan The Barbarian, in a super cheesy tv-show back then. He's a well known tv-personality in Germany nowadays, often appearing in various game & reality-shows.
True. I loved that guy. And these are the small details that make older movies and series appear deep, like a world you can explore and immerse yourself in. Modern movies feel much more empty, because there is no care put into the world they are showing. This decline in quality is really sad.
its deeper than just plain diver city. its ediconeG propaganda. Why do you think only EU history is being nettirweR ? So much so I have to type it like this because they censore all exposure
its deeper than just plain diver city. its ediconeG . Why do you think only euros yrotsiH is being nettirweR ? So much so I have to type it like this because they censore all exposure
He doesn't need to retire, he need to be stopped, nuance. This mf has been shitting bad movies for way too long and people have been giving him credit for it because the public is fucking stupid and has no standards nor expectations.
Blacks were citizens in the Roman Empire. That's actually an attitude that Italians brought to America when they migrated--- they didn't mind working alongside blacks which is part of the reason why Scotts and Anglos disliked them and they weren't considered white to boot. Might be a stretch to say they make senator but Romans didn't care about ràce.
You don't... remember? Were you there? Anyways, go google a map of the Roman Empire - it includes a big chunk of North Africa, which is full of black people, so yeah, by this later stage of the empire, black people had been around for quite a while, and were in all strata of society.
@@Whoyouwishyouwere lmao italians hated blacks.... where are you getting this from? do you just think that because they were both discriminated against that italians and blacks were buddy buddy or something?
So much praise for a white actor with an Australian accent playing a Roman, and so much criticism for a black actor with an American accent playing a Roman. Why? And besides, white actors have been playing roles that were Asian, Native American, ancient Egyptian, etc since the dawn of Hollywood. British actor Alec Guiness as Arabian Prince Faisal in "Lawrence of Arabia." Russian actor Yul Brynner as the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II in the classic film "The Ten Commandments." Actor Glen Gordon (from NYC) playing the Chinese Dr Fu Manchu in the 1956 TV series! This is nothing new.
@@breukelenmanBecause no sub saharan bantu African was a Roman Emperor that's they. Let's make a movie about Nelson Mandela and cast a white actor....Would you be so smug & condescending ?
Not really, there were various other Emperors that came after him, who are considered "good rulers", like for example Septimus Severus ( who was the father of Geta & Caracalla, both of them were nothing irl like they're depicted in this crapfest here) or Diocletian or Constantine the Great. Sure, Rome in the later period was ruled by many incompetent Emperors, but they were only 1 of many factors responsible for the fall of Rome. The Empire had became too big, they spend too much money for their military while debasing their currency ( sounds familiar? ) , there were several epidemics like the ''Antonine Plague" and also all the ''barbarians" who frequently invaded.
@@doublep1980 And as with any long-lasting society it also had its fair share of leaders that can best be described as 'adequate'. They were competent enough to deal with keeping their drunken cow of an empire afloat but didn't do anything flashy like fighting off a massive civil war or foreign invasion.
Good review. Why does this movie even exist? I can't imagine Ridley Scott is struggling for money, unless there are some bad gambling habits we aren't aware of. He is ruining the reputation he hard-earned as a younger director by making these straight-to-video quality flops.
That’s gonna be an instant watch to have Reaper tear apart that movie. You know WB messed up when fan animations on the Minecraft movie have more imagination than WB’s Minecraft movie.
That may be true for most of his recent roles, but you can't knock his amazing perfomances from back in the day in films like Cry Freedom, Glory, Malcolm X, etc.
I've seen Drinker post a video on this and haven't watched yet, but as soon as Reaper puts one out I drop everything... Thankfully I'm already on the throne so we're good.
@samaelament You still have DD? Where I live, they're gone just like Waffle House and Shari's Cafe and Pies. I'd love very much for the drinker to return to his Tweek coffee days. Sadly, that won't happen, I imagine the status quo is very profitable for book sales.
When you wonder "why was this stupid thing in this movie?" just remind yourself that they cast Denzel Washington as a Roman Emperor and all your questions are answered.
Isn't his character based on a real person that existed in those times? Plus it's Denzel effing washington. He has more charisma than the rest of the entire cast combined.
"Denzel Washington as Macrinus (loosely based on the historical figure Macrinus): A former slave who plans to control Rome." From a google search so take it with a grain of salt. Okay I did read up a little bit, Macrinus is described as a "north African" from the area where Algeria is today, so he would have looked probably somewhat different from Denzel.
@Sunny-sc5vq Denzel is great but him as a Roman Emperor would have been a comed sketch 10 years ago. The actual person he is based on wasn't black either
Geta and Caracalla, the two emperors, became emperors after the death of their father, SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, who was one of the more competent Generals in Marcus Aurelius' Reign. Severus was the governor of Syria. He quickly, after Commodus' death, could sway the rest of the legions to his side, and then crowned himself emperor. His reign was competent, but he introduced syrian customs to Rome, like syrian Gods and more oriential habits. After his death, his two sons became emperors, unter the mentoring of Julia Domna, the wife of Severus. But she could not stop the two emperors from becoming increasingly distrustful of each other. They both assembled large units of bodyguards, Army and criminals to protect them wherever they went. One of the most memorable incidents of that time was when Caracalla lured his younger brother into a meeting with himself and his mother, to finally kill him. Julia Domna knelt besides her dying Son and was completely distrought, a scene, ripe for a Shakespeare or a George R.R. Martin to write. And yes, both of them were highly incompetent, hedonistic clowns. There was literally nothing else to them. In that sense, the scriptwriter got it right. Historically. AFTER Caracalla´s death, another of that family followed on to the throne of Rome, one called HELIOGABALUS. He was even worse. He was such a hedonistic clown that he let himself make a vagina on his scrotum, so he could have sex with men and women alike. He was the first open transgender Emperor and his reign was complete trash.
Here's a reminder about how awesome Joaquin Phoenix is, and how epic his portrail of Commedus was. Jack Gleeson based his interpretation of Joffery Baratheon off of Joaquin's Commedus ..
I agree with everything you've stated...except for Denzel's character. The character was barely fleshed out, given a quick villain backstory to explain his motive. Denzel phoned it in on that performance. Also, Pedro's character in my opinion had the most compelling character story and a great story could have been built from what he was trying to achieve.
I agree with your story critiques. But I think the aninal fights were there because they happened. Gladiators regularly fought lions, tigers, elephants and even battled on water.
@@Visplight they only flooded it a few times, maybe only even once, at the start of the place’s existence, after which they put in all sorts of contraptions to make putting on the fights easier but made flooding the place physically impossible.
No shocker that Gladiator III is already in talks about being made. The only way I would watch that movie is if it was set during the rise of Constantine, the Roman empire's conversion of Christianity, and transformation into the Byzantine empire. Or if was set during the reign of Justinian who ended the Gladiator games altogether. I probably will not be wasting my time with Gladiator II. The first one was good enough on it's own. Though those AMC popcorn buckets are pretty impressive.
Justinian didn't end the games, those ended before even the West fell. Under the reign of Honorius. Although the fact that they're making a third one of these already is just beyond the pale of asinine
"It seems like it is two different movies at the same time"... Yeah, that seems to be a COMMON problem with movies today... I think it's EITHER from not having a script from the start and sticking to it.. Or it's because most movies seem to be made by committee anymore, so the story cannot be cohesive.
All I could think when I saw the previews for this was: "Why?".... The first one was phenomenal. Why would anyone have the ego to think they could top it, or even add onto it? This is just a "member-berry" nostalgia cash grab.
Correct. For me, what made Gladiator (2000) so phenomenal was how it perfectly captured everyone's feelings about America at the time. Maximus, like many people in the U.S., believed the greatest world power has to be the most civilized and was therefore worth fighting for. Like we Americans, he learns how twisted, self-serving and over-indulgent this super-power is the more positions he experiences through life, and only through experience then realizes what his mentor was lamenting about the fall from the grace of their forefathers and their great guidance. The whole movie is one big reality check. Without this, and with his status, Maximus could have been easily found his life sacrificed for the wrong cause; a powerful warning to Americans at the time. Blind belief in a system is scary, and societies who achieve the most incomprehensibly wicked things are only unfathomable until the horrors of this blind belief in the system is fully examined. Long Live Gladiator!!!
I think Hollywood realizes that audiences are sick of the reboots, so now they're just going to call them sequels. God forbid they try an original idea instead of rehashing ones less than 25 years old.
...not just sharks! Hungry cannibal sharks ...with laser beams attached to their heads! XDDD but seriously its The Last Jedi level of bad where the film ruins a hero figure type bad. Not only undoing his struggle, but even undermining his morality in the form of having 2 families and kids, one of whom he abandoned. What a hero...
UA-cam has to be one of the most broken platforms on mobile, I have to tap all over the place just to comment ffs. Thank you reaper you're content keeps us going!
They could’ve made the dream sequence so much more impactful if they actually used the fact that she had no coins on her eyes or under her tongue as a factor for Lucius’ revenge. Like because of Pedro Pascal’s and Rome’s sadistic attack, his wife was rid of a chance for an afterlife, because those without proper burial rites or cannot pay the ferryman Charon are stranded on the other side of the River Styx for eternity
@eg3711 it is but the Romans adopted the same mythology, just gave the gods different names; zeus being Jupiter, ares being Mars, Aphrodite being Venus, etc. The Romans still believed in Charon because somebody would dress up as him during gladiatorial games to make sure the dead fighters were actually dead. Sometimes they played dead and were either stabbed or branded to make sure
@@joshuaj.chinda9873 he made the last Terminator film and, worse, the stuff that makes money still sucks. Notice how once we’re away from the shiny movie theater no one talks about it anymore.
@@norm-bb3bb LOL he didn't 😂😂😂 ! The script was written by 3 other writers with Cameron. Besides, After T1 and T2, Cameron had zero involvement in the next Terminator films.
I was shocked while watching in the cinema by truly how awful it was compared to the original, The worst thing in my opinion was the laughably bad CGI but the entire thing was just bad. I can't believe how much more money studios have to create films and yet they cut more corners an end up making far worse films than the ones from decades ago. All they care about is whether they can use a film to make a quick buck not whether it'll be liked by the audience.
@@BecxyBoo Shocking considering the first movie was very good with the CGI, i remembered how they talked about using CGI with Oliver Reed after he died while they were shooting, it was impressive
Imagine Magneto in the X-Men movie not being played by Sir Ian McKellen, but instead by Dylan Mulvaney. That’s exactly what they did to Caracalla and Geta in this movie. I despise this movie.
A few MAYOR historic inaccuracies: - Numidia was never a “free” kingdom. It was a roman client state for a while until it was annexed… 200 years before the time of the movie, under Caligula’s rule. - Asians were such a foreign concept to Rome that it was always a myth, the then Kingdom of Xi Ti was so far away the few diplomatic missions that went there (to China) took a lifetime. - There is a debate if romans put sharks in the Colisseum, there is only one record that speaks of it, so it is likely false. The point being, naval battles became impossible under some modifications that happened 50 years before the time the movie sets in - They were a lot of emperors after Commodus before we even arrive to Caracalla and Geta. Like, 4 of them, including their father who ruled for a while. To have them link is just erase half a century of roman history - Caracalla and Geta never got along, let attend the Colisseum together. They stayed as far away as possible, as later Geta was killed presumably under Caracalla’s order, and he went to live for another 20 years after that - the idea of romans enslaving people on any skin related issue is laughable Just to name a few
@ actually, no. That “fact” comes from his father, Septimius Severus, who was from Leptis Magna, in modern day Lybia. Wokies tried to re write him as black just because he was from North Africa, meaning of course “we wuz”. But he wasn’t black, north africans at the time were roman, fenician, punic and greek colonist, so, mediterranean. So, white
@@felipemontero1087 If you look at Caracalla, he looks just like he'd be a black person. There are also lighter skinned black people, but even though we can only see monochrome statues, even BBC's Roman historians knows there were black Emperors. They probably weren't talking about Hadrian when they said it, I should think...
Remember: Ridley Scott is 86 years old. I would not give an 86 year old the rights to this film. This film should never have been made in the first place.
Romans painted all the buildings, their statues, everything. The fact everything is still grey or white in movies pisses me off
Low effort as heck
Man imagine how a mocked naval battle looked like in the Colosseum back then! The noise! The crowds cheering! The splintering of wood! And the yells of the gladiators and screams of the dying mixed together!
The tv show ''Rome'' was accurate regarding that
Damn good show
@@Taffer10001,000s of years later, Roman engineering is still kind of mindblowing.
@@Taffer1000 Actually, there were no mock naval battles (naumachiae) in the Colosseum. It wasn't designed for that. They did those in other, much smaller venues. But the last record of naumachiae date from the reign of the Julio-Claudians, like 150 years before the events of this movie. And, of course, they didn't have sharks!
Did literally anyone expect this shit to be good?
Talk about a film that was doomed from conception.
I didn’t. I saw what happened to Joker 2 and I saw the writing on the wall for Gladiator 2. Nobody asked for a sequel and it’s 24 years too late. But to be honest the first Gladiator was released at a different time which was 2000 and society wasn’t as crazy as it is now
@@WizdaVision I forgot this movie was coming out. I've never seen the first one, but my buddy paid for my ticket and snacks so I wasn't going to pass up free movie theater popcorn.
It's basically what you'd expect from an action movie from the early 2000s, but with modern audience writers.
@@TheLazyBlademasterdude why havent u seen the 1st movie
@TheFinalGate_ I have hyperactivity and an overabundance of physical energy. Enjoying movies was nearly impossible for me as a kid. I can watch movies now as an adult, but I've never prioritized them as a form of entertainment over the years, and as a result, many movies have gone under my radar.
In case you were curious, I do have a list of movies to someday watch, but considering I just finished the fellowship of the ring(This movie is awesome), last month for the first time, and I still have the other two to get through. I doubt I'll clear the entire list before I die.
@TheFinalGate_ also in case you were curious, I've never read a book that wasn't a comic. I do play video games, but at most, for only around 30-40 minutes at a time before, I need to go chop wood or something.
Denzel Washington taking control of the Roman Empire? Sure! That's real believable.
"My man!" - newly crowned roman emperor
🙄 modern day California bs!
Maybe this was just before the Roman empire collapsed.
I hate the almost constant wokeism if current cinema, but to be fair d Washington character did exist in Ancient Rome. His character is based on historical fact.
@@nez9751 At best he MIGHT have been black. Very likely he wasn't or that's practically all the Romans would be talking about in reference to him positive negative and inbetween. He definitely wasn't a former slave. He was killed after one year at the top. All of the changes were for woke reasons.
"Omg! I cant wait to see the new Pedro Pascal movie!"
- Absolutely Nobody Ever
There's lots of thirsty older women.
Dumbass
Literally. How tf did he become so popular
@@GargantuanD I think he is ok in some series like got, bobafet and last of us.
@@Jozzu-sz1rt last of us sucked
This is the year of unnecessary sequels.
Felt this way for the past 5 years in my opinion
@@chucksenhowzen9740 yeah good point
More like decade Lmao
@chucksenhowzen9740 more than 5. I'd say at least 10.
I hated Jaws 2 when it came out.
While no Citizen Kane, it's solidly made, and watchable.
Compared to modern mid movies, Jaws 2 seems like DeMille.
The big tough white guy from the first movie that befriends Maximus and eats some of his food to prove it isn't poised after Maximus reveals himself to Commodus has more character and personality then anyone in the second movie.
Ralf Moeller, he was a former German bodybuilder who appeared in a bunch of 90's action movies (like Universal Soldier) and even played Conan The Barbarian, in a super cheesy tv-show back then.
He's a well known tv-personality in Germany nowadays, often appearing in various game & reality-shows.
Braccus from Best of the Best 2.
True. I loved that guy. And these are the small details that make older movies and series appear deep, like a world you can explore and immerse yourself in. Modern movies feel much more empty, because there is no care put into the world they are showing. This decline in quality is really sad.
Is this a bot? I saw this exact comment a day or two ago.
Yeah, what happened to that guy in the first movie? Did he survive? I can't remember.
Pedro Pascal’s career hasn’t been the same since he took off the Mandalorian helmet.
Oddly True 😂
Pedro Pascal has no business being a movie star. He should be delivering crates of oranges.
@@newtonshiggers wow you didn't even try to hide it
@@rolandecoupard175
Trump won the election.
@@rolandecoupard175 Hide what?
Denzel Washington in this film has that look of "I don't care just pay me my Motherfuckin money!"
Nobody plays Denzel better than Denzel. He thought he was in Training Day Part 2
He has that bastard son and side chick to keep in goochi
he was overated in this movie
cos atp he KNOWS hollyweird aint sh*t no more. He'll take the paycheck, but dont ask him to be a Hollywood type. He wont do it
Denzel just wants a kiss
they had baboons in it coz of their diversity mandates
bix nood mufuggah kfc
You are a gentleman and a scholar
For making a black guy laugh at this, you get 3 😂😂😂
....But I will steal joke.
its deeper than just plain diver city. its ediconeG propaganda. Why do you think only EU history is being nettirweR ? So much so I have to type it like this because they censore all exposure
its deeper than just plain diver city. its ediconeG . Why do you think only euros yrotsiH is being nettirweR ? So much so I have to type it like this because they censore all exposure
"Are you not entertained?!"
*Clearly not*
THANK YOU REAPER!!!!!
He vanishes for a month and when we need a video he delievers.
Ridley Scott is well, well past his prime.
Absolutely,
@@ohannesjarjisfrancis8837and no one who works with him has the guts to say ‘for the love of God man, please retire!’
The Last Duel is his last good movie. Has some of Ridley Scott's best action scenes too
@ Yh. Came out at the wrong time. No one saw it
What did ye expect from Senile Scott and the Coke Fund, eh? 💀
Ridley Scott needs to retire. A complete hack.
Napoleon was good
@@zacherayno it wasn't
He made terrible movies but also good classics, he isn't a hack. Though he should retire before his bad outpaces his good.
@@JefAnder He should have retired 20 years ago. His last good movie was the first Gladiator.
He doesn't need to retire, he need to be stopped, nuance.
This mf has been shitting bad movies for way too long and people have been giving him credit for it because the public is fucking stupid and has no standards nor expectations.
Calling Gladiator 2 "a Bad Sequel" is an understatement. This movie is complete garbage
Calling it "mediocre" is also an understatement
@@primal1233 calling it complete garbage is an insult to garbage.
This was hyped so much in the media too. Anything the media hypes I now know is going to be a bucket of horse s***.
Not it wasn't. I liked it. The fight scenes were great and well choreographed. Much better than given credit for. Will definitely be buying it on 4k
@@JonathanBresnihan77 There is a difference between liking something and it being good.
Reaper always has a refreshing unfiltered take.
Agreed, tells it as is
its filtered. He isnt calling out the sreggiN and the sweJ responsible for this.
I went to Hans Zimmer live LA and hearing the Gladiator soundtrack live was life changing, chills and zen, Gladiators soundtrack was 11/10
Went to the one in ATL jaw dropping experience!
Those CGI baboons have been shaved. They look like people with long faces.
Pedro Pascal made this flic an automatic pass. Now I won't even bother with it at home.
There's a black senator at 2:11. I don't remember ancient Rome being this diverse.
Don't forget, all the workers in Rome had Unions too. They went on Strikes also. Don't ya just love sanitized history?!
Blacks were citizens in the Roman Empire. That's actually an attitude that Italians brought to America when they migrated--- they didn't mind working alongside blacks which is part of the reason why Scotts and Anglos disliked them and they weren't considered white to boot. Might be a stretch to say they make senator but Romans didn't care about ràce.
You don't... remember? Were you there? Anyways, go google a map of the Roman Empire - it includes a big chunk of North Africa, which is full of black people, so yeah, by this later stage of the empire, black people had been around for quite a while, and were in all strata of society.
@@Visplightbut they weren’t senators buddy
@@Whoyouwishyouwere lmao italians hated blacks.... where are you getting this from? do you just think that because they were both discriminated against that italians and blacks were buddy buddy or something?
We waz Caesar and sheeeet.
Spartacus was a Maori
So much praise for a white actor with an Australian accent playing a Roman, and so much criticism for a black actor with an American accent playing a Roman. Why? And besides, white actors have been playing roles that were Asian, Native American, ancient Egyptian, etc since the dawn of Hollywood. British actor Alec Guiness as Arabian Prince Faisal in "Lawrence of Arabia." Russian actor Yul Brynner as the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II in the classic film "The Ten Commandments." Actor Glen Gordon (from NYC) playing the Chinese Dr Fu Manchu in the 1956 TV series! This is nothing new.
Ave!
@breukelenman literally just praised garbage because there was other garbage before it. If that isnt a lefty view I dont know what is.
@@breukelenmanBecause no sub saharan bantu African was a Roman Emperor that's they.
Let's make a movie about Nelson Mandela and cast a white actor....Would you be so smug & condescending ?
Always good when Reaper posts.
You must feel like a gladiator torturing yourself with these films
A sacrifice to save our wallets and time
I feel like Commodus sticking his tongue out, seeing the negative reviews pour in.
The film was really fun to watch tho
When I saw the trailer I thought it was a joke.
There is only one "Gladiator" movie.
There is only one "Starship Troopers" movie.
To be fair, the third one is kind good. It's a good day to d!e is a banger.
Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Five Good Emperors so maybe that explains why Rome became California
More like the entire united States 😂
America is like the Roman empire. It's destroying itself.
Then Saint Constantine came, saved the empire, and made it new all over again.
Not really, there were various other Emperors that came after him, who are considered "good rulers", like for example Septimus Severus ( who was the father of Geta & Caracalla, both of them were nothing irl like they're depicted in this crapfest here) or Diocletian or Constantine the Great.
Sure, Rome in the later period was ruled by many incompetent Emperors, but they were only 1 of many factors responsible for the fall of Rome.
The Empire had became too big, they spend too much money for their military while debasing their currency ( sounds familiar? ) , there were several epidemics like the ''Antonine Plague" and also all the ''barbarians" who frequently invaded.
@@theunknowncommenter725 Such is the way of societies, to fall, rise and fall again over and over.
@@doublep1980 And as with any long-lasting society it also had its fair share of leaders that can best be described as 'adequate'. They were competent enough to deal with keeping their drunken cow of an empire afloat but didn't do anything flashy like fighting off a massive civil war or foreign invasion.
Honestly, ever since Napoleon I’ve lost faith in anything he makes.
It was Prometheus for me. Hasn’t made a good movie since.
The Last Duel was also atrocious.
Alien covenant pissed me off. I have not spent money on ridley scott film since, cant trust him anymore to deliver
@@kd9749wtf the sequal, Alein covenant and the recent alein sequal were awsome.
@@tigerfist5120Wtf that film was great as well as the recent sequal.
Good review. Why does this movie even exist? I can't imagine Ridley Scott is struggling for money, unless there are some bad gambling habits we aren't aware of. He is ruining the reputation he hard-earned as a younger director by making these straight-to-video quality flops.
FFS can somebody give that guy Ridley Scott a history book?
When Im in a generational fall-off tournament and my opponent is Ridley Scott
I don't think he'd read it
Has Ridley Scott become like Uwe Boll?
Basically. Uwe Boll with a budget.
Does anyone else notice Reaper seems more quiet and less angrier than usual
We are in the "Straight to Video" phase in terms of quality and quantity from late stage Hollywood.
Ahh, the Reaper rip. I needed to hear this after HISHE and Drinker😂
Is Critical Drinker selling out?
@@aymarafan7669 always
@aymarafan7669 Always has been.
I fear of Pedro Pascal's portrayal of Reed Richards.
This may seem like a wild, far-fetched prediction but I think that in that film Pedro Pascal will be playing... Pedro Pascal
It's joeover
I'm getting so sick and tired of seeing this guy in every movie
It really makes me appreciate Ioan Gruffund's portrayal of him in the 2000s a lot more.
@@thebatman4279Stop it.
I can’t wait for the Reaper to roast WB’s crap Minecraft movie next year!
That’s gonna be an instant watch to have Reaper tear apart that movie. You know WB messed up when fan animations on the Minecraft movie have more imagination than WB’s Minecraft movie.
@@ParkerCS2 somehow that movie will be good, and it'll get a reaper seal of approval.
@@TheLazyBlademaster I doubt that
@@JonathanGaeta Block By Block especially looks Transformers One level good (except it has a better trailer than T1 did)
@@ParkerCS2 Yeah, it was a joke.
When he roundhoused the guy and said "its gladiatorating time!" I was pumped. What a thrill ride!
Finally another video!!! I’ve been having withdrawal symptoms………..
IKR???
Should have been a musical!
when i was younger ( 20 minutes ago), i had no idea how god aweful this film could be... and now i do. its impressive really
I love when Denzel says “What up My Romanz!”
17:45 I never get tired of this line.
Same. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's not even the whole thing... just a piece of it! 😂
I forgot to mention that Scott missed the opportunity to have kangaroos and buffalos in the arena to make it more authentic.
An Little Chihuahuas with Sombrero hats on, we need to give representation towards our Latino audience after all.
We need to stop pretending Densel Washington is an amazing actor. He's exactly the same in every single film he's in.
That may be true for most of his recent roles, but you can't knock his amazing perfomances from back in the day in films like Cry Freedom, Glory, Malcolm X, etc.
@@kjp4250where he played the same role 😂
I can summarize this video
"What happens next is stupid"
Still worth the watch though
Why do they keep casting pedro pascal in roles that he doesn't look suited for?
Why do they keep casting him in roles period?
We have Gladiator at home…
I was naive and had so much hope for this...
There's no hope for masculine movies these days.
@@cristianjohnston2975 It's okay to have hope.
This is how cynics are born..
You got played.
Yup you were
"Women cross for free." It's always ladies night in Hades.
I've seen Drinker post a video on this and haven't watched yet, but as soon as Reaper puts one out I drop everything... Thankfully I'm already on the throne so we're good.
@@samaelament Drinker has become the Starbucks of movie critics.
@TheLazyBlademaster I'd say more a Dunkin Donuts but I do agree it's a bit of that international chain vs. Tweek Coffee
@samaelament You still have DD? Where I live, they're gone just like Waffle House and Shari's Cafe and Pies. I'd love very much for the drinker to return to his Tweek coffee days. Sadly, that won't happen, I imagine the status quo is very profitable for book sales.
@TheLazyBlademaster I bet so, and good on him for the success!
Yeah, DD and Waffle Houses all over here, thankfully. Not enough Shoney's, though.
It’s easy to be nerdrotic or drinker- just say what you know everyone will agree with and reap the profits
It's weird hearing Reaper say the name Maximus after he kept saying "Maxipad" in his review of that horrendous Fallout show
When you wonder "why was this stupid thing in this movie?" just remind yourself that they cast Denzel Washington as a Roman Emperor and all your questions are answered.
Isn't his character based on a real person that existed in those times?
Plus it's Denzel effing washington. He has more charisma than the rest of the entire cast combined.
"Denzel Washington as Macrinus (loosely based on the historical figure Macrinus): A former slave who plans to control Rome."
From a google search so take it with a grain of salt.
Okay I did read up a little bit, Macrinus is described as a "north African" from the area where Algeria is today, so he would have looked probably somewhat different from Denzel.
@Sunny-sc5vq Denzel is great but him as a Roman Emperor would have been a comed sketch 10 years ago. The actual person he is based on wasn't black either
Geta and Caracalla, the two emperors, became emperors after the death of their father, SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, who was one of the more competent Generals in Marcus Aurelius' Reign. Severus was the governor of Syria. He quickly, after Commodus' death, could sway the rest of the legions to his side, and then crowned himself emperor. His reign was competent, but he introduced syrian customs to Rome, like syrian Gods and more oriential habits. After his death, his two sons became emperors, unter the mentoring of Julia Domna, the wife of Severus. But she could not stop the two emperors from becoming increasingly distrustful of each other. They both assembled large units of bodyguards, Army and criminals to protect them wherever they went. One of the most memorable incidents of that time was when Caracalla lured his younger brother into a meeting with himself and his mother, to finally kill him. Julia Domna knelt besides her dying Son and was completely distrought, a scene, ripe for a Shakespeare or a George R.R. Martin to write. And yes, both of them were highly incompetent, hedonistic clowns. There was literally nothing else to them. In that sense, the scriptwriter got it right. Historically.
AFTER Caracalla´s death, another of that family followed on to the throne of Rome, one called HELIOGABALUS. He was even worse. He was such a hedonistic clown that he let himself make a vagina on his scrotum, so he could have sex with men and women alike. He was the first open transgender Emperor and his reign was complete trash.
I love you Reaper. You perfectly articulate how I feel about everything in these modern day movies and shows.
Diet Maximus...I prefer my Maximus pure,raw & uncut. There's only one Gladiator movie & there's only ever gonna be one Gladiator movie;)
Here's a reminder about how awesome Joaquin Phoenix is, and how epic his portrail of Commedus was. Jack Gleeson based his interpretation of Joffery Baratheon off of Joaquin's Commedus ..
One month without a Reaper review is one month too long
Someone in Hollywood has a beef with Reaper, they're deliberately making bad movies just to spite him.
I remember when Ridley Scott made good films, not just soulless cashgrabs
One of the best channels on UA-cam my friend 👍
I agree with everything you've stated...except for Denzel's character. The character was barely fleshed out, given a quick villain backstory to explain his motive. Denzel phoned it in on that performance. Also, Pedro's character in my opinion had the most compelling character story and a great story could have been built from what he was trying to achieve.
I agree with your story critiques. But I think the aninal fights were there because they happened. Gladiators regularly fought lions, tigers, elephants and even battled on water.
Yup. A shame about the CGI sharks - that bit was dumb, and definitely didn't happen. They did flood the colloseum for naval battles, though.
@@Visplight they only flooded it a few times, maybe only even once, at the start of the place’s existence, after which they put in all sorts of contraptions to make putting on the fights easier but made flooding the place physically impossible.
@@John-fk2kyAnd???? Still happend.
espically with Nero.
No shocker that Gladiator III is already in talks about being made.
The only way I would watch that movie is if it was set during the rise of Constantine, the Roman empire's conversion of Christianity, and transformation into the Byzantine empire. Or if was set during the reign of Justinian who ended the Gladiator games altogether.
I probably will not be wasting my time with Gladiator II. The first one was good enough on it's own. Though those AMC popcorn buckets are pretty impressive.
Justinian didn't end the games, those ended before even the West fell. Under the reign of Honorius.
Although the fact that they're making a third one of these already is just beyond the pale of asinine
@@AorER1613 "In talks" doesn't mean "Definitely happening".
Who Knows? Maybe Gladiator III will take 50 years to reach the screens!
A movie about Saint Justinian would be amazing, but I fear Hollywood will just butcher the life of an Orthodox saint.
@@Damascene749 So do I, my fellow brother in Christ ☦️. So do I.
"It seems like it is two different movies at the same time"... Yeah, that seems to be a COMMON problem with movies today... I think it's EITHER from not having a script from the start and sticking to it.. Or it's because most movies seem to be made by committee anymore, so the story cannot be cohesive.
I've noticed that too. Most movies nowadays aren't cohesive.
They wanted a sequel AND a re-skin.
Wow, not a surprise.
All I could think when I saw the previews for this was: "Why?"....
The first one was phenomenal. Why would anyone have the ego to think they could top it, or even add onto it?
This is just a "member-berry" nostalgia cash grab.
Correct. For me, what made Gladiator (2000) so phenomenal was how it perfectly captured everyone's feelings about America at the time.
Maximus, like many people in the U.S., believed the greatest world power has to be the most civilized and was therefore worth fighting for.
Like we Americans, he learns how twisted, self-serving and over-indulgent this super-power is the more positions he experiences through life,
and only through experience then realizes what his mentor was lamenting about the fall from the grace of their forefathers and their great guidance.
The whole movie is one big reality check. Without this, and with his status, Maximus could have been easily found his life sacrificed for the wrong cause; a powerful warning to Americans at the time.
Blind belief in a system is scary, and societies who achieve the most incomprehensibly wicked things are only unfathomable until the horrors of this blind belief in the system is fully examined.
Long Live Gladiator!!!
Gladiator was one of my dad’s favorite movies. He passed away four years ago. He would’ve been mighty disappointed in this piece of garbage.
11:46 "Pilfers the corpse"
Well that is a polite way of putting it
Gladiator needed no sequel.
5:23 Lmao😂
Definitely a high probably 😂
This movie doesn't exist in my mind.
There is only one gladiator movie.
13:30
A fucking Crossbow.... the the 2nd century
Ironically would have made sense in ancient China in that time period. But not Rome.
The Roman Senate is so diverse!😂
I think Hollywood realizes that audiences are sick of the reboots, so now they're just going to call them sequels. God forbid they try an original idea instead of rehashing ones less than 25 years old.
We really took Russell crowe for granted. We didnt know what we had till it was gone.
...not just sharks! Hungry cannibal sharks ...with laser beams attached to their heads! XDDD
but seriously its The Last Jedi level of bad where the film ruins a hero figure type bad. Not only undoing his struggle, but even undermining his morality in the form of having 2 families and kids, one of whom he abandoned. What a hero...
7:18 - the right one's expression looks like Harry Enfield playing a teenager lol
The only value this movie will have to me is when the fight scenes get uploaded to yt, and I might watch those. I'm certainly in no rush.
UA-cam has to be one of the most broken platforms on mobile, I have to tap all over the place just to comment ffs. Thank you reaper you're content keeps us going!
@@jasonvors1922 I'm not sure what you're talking about. You click the comments box to open comments, then click the text spot and you can comment.
Go back to using a laptop, like a proper human.
Hollywood cries "why did this fail!"
The rest of us asked "why did you make an unnecessary failure?"
I had been expecting you to tear into RS most recent dogshit flop
Yet another sequel no one asked for.
I’m not Glad-iator with this movie
They could’ve made the dream sequence so much more impactful if they actually used the fact that she had no coins on her eyes or under her tongue as a factor for Lucius’ revenge. Like because of Pedro Pascal’s and Rome’s sadistic attack, his wife was rid of a chance for an afterlife, because those without proper burial rites or cannot pay the ferryman Charon are stranded on the other side of the River Styx for eternity
Isn't that the greek mythology? Sorry if I'm wrong.
@eg3711 it is but the Romans adopted the same mythology, just gave the gods different names; zeus being Jupiter, ares being Mars, Aphrodite being Venus, etc. The Romans still believed in Charon because somebody would dress up as him during gladiatorial games to make sure the dead fighters were actually dead. Sometimes they played dead and were either stabbed or branded to make sure
What happened to these amazing directors and screen writers?! Ridley scott, james cameron, Spielberg and more?! My god!
All under the thumb of the noncey elites.
Cameron isn't doing bad lol. I mean he just made more money with his avatar sequels.
@@joshuaj.chinda9873James Cameron killed off John Connor
@@joshuaj.chinda9873 he made the last Terminator film and, worse, the stuff that makes money still sucks. Notice how once we’re away from the shiny movie theater no one talks about it anymore.
@@norm-bb3bb LOL he didn't 😂😂😂 ! The script was written by 3 other writers with Cameron. Besides, After T1 and T2, Cameron had zero involvement in the next Terminator films.
0:36 to be fair, that's literally what happened, Rome continued its long decline and eventually collapsed entirely
I was shocked while watching in the cinema by truly how awful it was compared to the original, The worst thing in my opinion was the laughably bad CGI but the entire thing was just bad. I can't believe how much more money studios have to create films and yet they cut more corners an end up making far worse films than the ones from decades ago. All they care about is whether they can use a film to make a quick buck not whether it'll be liked by the audience.
@@BecxyBoo Shocking considering the first movie was very good with the CGI, i remembered how they talked about using CGI with Oliver Reed after he died while they were shooting, it was impressive
Imagine Magneto in the X-Men movie not being played by Sir Ian McKellen, but instead by Dylan Mulvaney.
That’s exactly what they did to Caracalla and Geta in this movie.
I despise this movie.
Love your videos bro…I don’t understand why they made this gladiator 2 why not just have it another rome movie? Hollywood sucks
You have the funniest memes inserted! Love your vocal intonations too - truly entertaining!
A few MAYOR historic inaccuracies:
- Numidia was never a “free” kingdom. It was a roman client state for a while until it was annexed… 200 years before the time of the movie, under Caligula’s rule.
- Asians were such a foreign concept to Rome that it was always a myth, the then Kingdom of Xi Ti was so far away the few diplomatic missions that went there (to China) took a lifetime.
- There is a debate if romans put sharks in the Colisseum, there is only one record that speaks of it, so it is likely false. The point being, naval battles became impossible under some modifications that happened 50 years before the time the movie sets in
- They were a lot of emperors after Commodus before we even arrive to Caracalla and Geta. Like, 4 of them, including their father who ruled for a while. To have them link is just erase half a century of roman history
- Caracalla and Geta never got along, let attend the Colisseum together. They stayed as far away as possible, as later Geta was killed presumably under Caracalla’s order, and he went to live for another 20 years after that
- the idea of romans enslaving people on any skin related issue is laughable
Just to name a few
Very good. and they should have made this bad emperor black. Caracalla was dark toned, not fare skinned.
@ actually, no. That “fact” comes from his father, Septimius Severus, who was from Leptis Magna, in modern day Lybia. Wokies tried to re write him as black just because he was from North Africa, meaning of course “we wuz”. But he wasn’t black, north africans at the time were roman, fenician, punic and greek colonist, so, mediterranean. So, white
@felipemontero1087 Emperor Septimius Serevus was black-ish. Mediterranean maybe me more accurate. Much like Caracalla and Geta were.
@ he wasn’t black. He was just like most roman emperors, white mediterranean. Claiming he was black is revisionist history
@@felipemontero1087 If you look at Caracalla, he looks just like he'd be a black person. There are also lighter skinned black people, but even though we can only see monochrome statues, even BBC's Roman historians knows there were black Emperors. They probably weren't talking about Hadrian when they said it, I should think...
The least-requested sequel ever
No baboons where harmed while making the movie. Can't say this about my brain cells while watching the movie.
so you went from 1 to 0 not too bad
I wanted to take my girlfriend to see the movie and I'm so glad I didn't waste my time. I just streamed it and the plot was dumber than dumber😂
I can't be the only one who really loved the emperors. Their characters were so entertaining.
So. Just another soulless money-grab then. Great. 🙃
There is a dream that is Rome. It is but a whisper
Why do they keep insisting on using leather chest armor that has nothing to do with historical accuracy and can't stop a single arrow
To be fair what armor from back then could stop an arrow.
I'm shocked they didn't make the Roman's suspiciously darker in complexion
The scenes with the dead wife on the boat were very cringe and slowed down action.
Remember: Ridley Scott is 86 years old. I would not give an 86 year old the rights to this film. This film should never have been made in the first place.
that Matt Berry jumpscare at the end sent me 😂 truly a fantastic summary of the film!