I cannot wait for this; the first one IMO was so dam good, but this looks like it could do just as well
I'm cautiously optimistic. The first one was amazing for many reasons, but primary among those was how good Russel Crowe was. Is this new guy going to be anywhere close to that? Who knows.
Not only Russell Crowe, but Joaquin Phoenix as the villain. "I'm very vexed." Certainly can't complain about Denzel as an acting choice; and the petulant twin-looking "let them eat war" "youts" (twenty-somethings), well, here's hoping Ridley Scott pulls off greatness again. (Still can't believe Ridley Scott is directing these epics well into his 80s. Dude must be made of adamantium.)
I'm just over the whole Rome Coliseum fighting thing personally. But, if there is an actual good story supporting it like "Gladiator", then I will check it out. Did anyone watch the Rome gladiator series with Sir Anthony Hopkins? Was it any good? I tried to watch the first episode but I kind of gave up.
Wife and I watched all of it, very middle of the road. I was mainly watching for Hopkins but he's was gone a few episodes in, no big spoiler. The rest is watchable but never gripping enough to be anything besides background noise. I wouldn't be surprised if its a one and done type season.....
This movie was great, easily a 8, maybe even a 9 for me! It helped to think it was going to suck for a long time, until reviews came in and said it was really good and it’s exactly the type of movie to see in the cinema so was cautiously optimistic. It probably helped I didn’t have emotional ties to the original and only really saw it a few years ago, as in properly trying to follow the story. So that being said, this is a rare sequel that’s done a decade later, of a classic movie and manages to be entertaining, pay homage to the original, hits the right cues, doesn’t overdo it on the references, re-using the score minimally and actually follows up on the original in a not too obvious way as well as making it part of the bigger story rather than be the focus of the story. Loved Denzel in this, Pascal is actually not that great but he’s solid enough, Paul Mescal was great and in general the casting was good, but the one big negative to me are the new emperors. They are too much alike, too goofy and too obvious and not at all believable in being powerful leaders, even if on the crazy side with a thing for blood, frivolity and enjoying the fruits of being rich. Job well done
Haha fair enough, but both lacked something in their appearance that made them have some charisma, fear-inducing and menacing qualities. At least one of them should’ve had that for me. They are too much alike now. It doesn’t help that a movie in Rome, as I think the same with the previous one, lacks any serious Italian (looking) characters. Pedro Pascal came the closest. It would've helped had they looked Italian instead of Northern European.
7/10 Solid but just way less authentic than the original. Have to grade things on scale. Feels like this goes backwards but is that really saying much?
I will probably give Glad 2 a try, but I was, like, one of the few who thought Glad 1 was not a good action movie. The action sequences are super jumpy, full of close ups that don't make a lot of sense. You spend your whole time inferring what must have happened or what must be happening. Close up of bystander face. Close up of a spear. Close up of Maximus nose hair. Close up of a turning chariot wheel. Great cast and great performances throughout, but... For anyone who's seen the new one, is the action legible, or do they recreate the quick close up school of WTF action?
This was a fun, if not totally accurate, little Netflix series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire_(TV_series)
