Originally Posted by Dunerdr:
The floor is dirt? Maybe blocks under it I don't know. Why wouldn't walls be able to be sealed. I mean there's literally written history of them flooding it. They had roughly 300 miles of aqua ducts( in Rome), bath houses all over and roads that are still in tact today. Why wouldn't they be able to divert water there and seal it off is my question? They clearly demonstrate the ability to do it on a public pool/ sex house level. Why not a 272 ft by 157 ft area?
I do know that the Coliseum was built on Nero's massive artificial lake in the city of Rome. That's why it had the aqueducts to supply water for sea battles. [Reply]
I am getting really fucking pumped for this movie to come out. Gladiator II is getting some pretty hefty first reviews. Lots of Oscar talk for Denzel and this being Ridley Scott's best movie in a long time.
A defining drama & marvelous triumph. Goes without saying that’ll sweep the Oscars next year. There’s nothing quite like Paul Mescal & Pedro Pascal being unleashed. Pure manly juice. Visceral, gritty & bold filmmaking. WOW! MUST SEE IN THEATERS. pic.twitter.com/CQr7OG9suR
An unbelievable experience that will go down in cinematic history. Not only does it surpass the original, it tops all-timer sequels like The Godfather Part II, The Dark Knight, etc. Ridley Scott doesn’t hold back.
Ridley Scott returns to the Colesseum to prove to the world that HE'S. STILL. GOT. IT. Absolutely BUZZING after #GladiatorII! An EPIC shakespearean tale of hope, futility & power w/in a crumbling system. Denzel FEASTS in a showstopping, Machiavellian performance. What a picture! pic.twitter.com/B5Woi7Tqku
Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy:
Spiderman Vs Batman.
Make it so.
lol Would definitely cross a billion but it’d be just like Batman vs Superman: some contrived plot so that Spider-Man doesn’t squash Batman’s head like a grape within the first 10 seconds. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
lol Would definitely cross a billion but it’d be just like Batman vs Superman: some contrived plot so that Spider-Man doesn’t squash Batman’s head like a grape within the first 10 seconds.
Batman with 5 days prep. Batman, low diff.
(those online arguments always make me chuckle, lol) [Reply]
I won't lie. The story is objectively a mess. Obviously they started at the end, and worked backwards. But that's not to say it a bad movie. The action is incredible. The production is incredible. Denzel is cookin. Pedro is good. There is some decent heel turn palace intrigue stuff. And I won't lie, the music from the first gladiator fucking hits.
Spoiler!
I just couldn't get past the "oh fuck off" factor. No chance that dude makes it Nubia, survives the battle, gets picked up by Denzel, becomes a badass infallible warrior, gets into the games, Denzel goes from just rolling in to figuring out who he is to forming a master evil plan, executes this ridiculously unnecessarily complicated plan to singlehandedly overthrow the government. All to hit precisely the same beats from the first one. Oh fuck off. Too much.
It was much flatter. There was no comradery with the other gladiator. The black dude and the giant fucker in the first one were awesome - I was here for the jokes. They were just redshirts in Star Trek. And they drew entirely too many connections to the first one.
All that being said, I went to see dudes get hacked up. And dudes got hacked up. I'm not mad I watched it, and I'll probably see it again.
