FIRST TIME WATCHING Gladiator (2000) REACTION
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I mostly love your reactions but I must say I'm a bit sad that since you have seen so many movies and tv shows you still categorize people into either good or bad. I noticed it here several times. It's a bit more nuanced than that, don't you think.
Ninaofthe90s
2024-02-18 14:02:04 +0000 UTCAs to the history; Maximus was a fictional character. Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor, and philosopher. Lucius Verus was his adopted brother and indeed husband to Lucilla. Commodus was a lousy emperor, obsessed with gladiatorial combat (he thought he was Hercules) and did actually fight in the arena. So with the movie they drew a lot on real history, but then fictionalized it enough to fit the story they wanted to tell. This is still my favorite movie of all time! :D
Elizabeth F Dorner
2023-08-29 03:59:45 +0000 UTCHe didn't have to have cheated on his wife. It could've been just close timing overlap...maybe several months apart, or even 6 months... between the last time with Lucilla and marrying his wife. The children would still be of similar age. Back in the day, Ridley Scott was planning a sequel which confirmed Lucius as Maximus' unknown secret son. The upcoming sequel focuses on Lucius, but I have no idea if they are going with that or not.
Wendy Sparks
2023-08-28 05:28:18 +0000 UTCNot sure how you could even consider Lucius was his 'secret child' Certainly doesnt seem like the type to have cheated on his wife, as he had his own son around the same time. I guess its a movie trope that sometimes comes around and gives ppl those extra ideas sometimes though haha.
PhoenixReturns
2023-08-25 00:33:44 +0000 UTC"Does anyone want to take the piss on this one?"...OMG...I lost it! LOL!!!
Danny Madrigal
2023-08-23 14:44:05 +0000 UTCThis movie is the definition of epic. I n ever tire off rewatching it
Neal Riggins
2023-08-22 22:20:49 +0000 UTCSo glad you got to react to this one! Great reaction as always! I think you guys are truly my favorite reaction channel ever. Feels like rewatching films with friends. This film is such a Hollywood classic, with a classic soundtrack too. Lol I was wondering when you’d notice the Pirates theme in there! Yup, same composer: Hans Zimmer. This is random but I love how you point out how beautiful tigers are! I love cats, big and small, and it just made me happy that you had a cat appreciation moment. I appreciate your cat appreciation 😂 It’s interesting rewatching this. Think I have a different perspective now than I did in previous watches. I’ve seen it a good amount of times that I didn’t think I’d cry at the end but nope, I was crying with you guys by the end lol! The end score and song is one of my favorite film tracks ever. That’s not Enya singing vocals on the soundtrack but it’s easy enough to think it’s her. It’s Lisa Gerrard. What she sings at the end of Gladiator is a language she created. She’s so talented! When I used to watch this, I never really appreciated how they wove dream like vision sequences of the ending into the beginning section of the film, almost making it seem like it was destined to be. The interesting thing this film brings up is kinda but not really critiquing what we as the audience are doing yet also participating in the thing they’re kindaish critiquing ha! “Are you not entertained?” is such an iconic line but it can be seen as if the filmmakers are asking us the audience…bc as the audience, we actually are being entertained by bloodshed and injustice, too. And right alongside the crowds in the colosseum stands, we cheer when our hero is forced into a position to kill. We don’t think much about the lives of the people he was forced to kill or the lives of the people he killed as a soldier before becoming enslaved. If we can be entertained by this, it makes you take a look at our society and ask if we would join in with the crowds cheering if we lived back then when this was considered “normal” entertainment. Though the filmmakers are intentionally manipulating our emotions to make us cheer the deaths of anyone they paint as the bad guys. It’s a complicated story to film bc of the subject matter. Think watching this after film school makes me see it differently now lol! I so hope you do get to see the colosseum in Rome one day! I’ve seen it once when visiting family in Italy but I hope one day I can go back and explore & learn more. Truly an impressive, massive structure. It made me so grieved by the real history of the place, the amount of people who were brutally slaughtered there, the way it was a part of the system of slavery just hit me harder once finally seeing it. When you go inside the colosseum, they show you the slave quarters and viewing the colosseum from the POV of the slaves rather than someone in the stands …is very sobering. The film is mostly fictional. Some background setting and people are based on history but the story itself is fiction. But they do a good job at making it feel real. There is a legend of someone, however, who inspired the outlawing of the gladiator games: Saint Telemachus, an Eastern Christian monk. You can look up his story if you’re interested. Of course, the reasons the games ended are many & complex. But the legend of Saint Telemachus is part of the story.
Chrissy
2023-08-22 04:04:11 +0000 UTCThis is a brilliant film and one I added to my request list to be watched. Maybe one day!
kimburley
2023-08-21 20:21:34 +0000 UTCSuch a great movie showing strength and honor. One of my favs
kimburley
2023-08-21 20:19:45 +0000 UTCJoaquin was up for best supporting actor that year and so deserved the win. I was a bit miffed he didn’t get it
kimburley
2023-08-21 20:19:00 +0000 UTCFun fact seeing as you guys are watching Black Sails. The book Meditations which is so prominent in the first 2 seasons of the show was written by Marcus Aurelius
Jay
2023-08-21 10:46:26 +0000 UTCJoaquin Pheonix did such an amazing job that I couldn’t watch a movie with him in it for almost a decade because I despised him so much. And everyone tears up at the end, so you’re in good company. And on the bright side, I GUARANTEE that the last poll winner will not bring you tears.
Paul Smith
2023-08-21 08:16:33 +0000 UTCAs for the song at the end, Enya is just pure class. As she was in Lord of the Rings.
adam99x
2023-08-21 07:50:22 +0000 UTCEasily one of the greatest 'historical' epics ever made. Won 5 Academy Awards -- including Best Picture, and Best Actor for Russell Crowe. Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for best supporting actor, as he did an amazing performance as Commodus, but didn't win. I still like to use his "It vexes me / I'm terribly vexed" line.
Wendy Sparks
2023-08-21 06:04:38 +0000 UTCAlso, Connie Nielsen is now Wonder Woman’s mother in the DECU. 😎
Beware The Jabberwock
2023-08-21 05:32:01 +0000 UTCRussell Crowe won the Oscar for Best Actor for this role. I love this movie SO much! His friend, Played by actor Djimon Honsou was in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Not sure of you caught that, or if I just missed it. 😎 (If you liked this film, I really think you will like Braveheart if you haven’t seen it yet. ❤️)
V
2023-08-21 05:29:26 +0000 UTCMan, Joaquin Phoenix is so good. I love this movie but I'm excited for him in the Napoleon movie later this year. It looks like another banger. Another Ridley Scott directed movie as well! I really hope you guys react to that as well.
Landon DuVall
2023-08-21 04:29:45 +0000 UTCAlmost 25 years later, Gladiator 2 is scheduled for release in November 2024. Following a grown Lucius. Again directed by Ridley Scott. And with Connie Nielsen (Lucilla), Djimon Hounsou (Juba), and Derek Jacobi (Gracchus) reprising their roles. Might get pushed back though because the writers strike has paused filming. (Go on Derek Jacobi... still alive and kicking!)
Octavia
2023-08-21 04:08:44 +0000 UTCCommodus and Lucia gave me Cersie and Jamie Lanister vibes...I had forgotten about Commodus' attraction to his sister. I loved this movie 🎬! Back in the early 2000s I remembered that they made epic period movies like that of the 50s and 60s.
Anthony Ancona
2023-08-21 02:07:11 +0000 UTCThe thumbs up and down thing was reversed I heard in reality
Redstir National Socialist
2023-08-21 01:27:18 +0000 UTCLiterally everything the Romans did echoed into our modern world. The dimensions of rocket engines on space vehicles can be traced back to the size of transport vehicles we have to move them, which itself can be traced back to the width of roads we use all throughout the world, which itself can be traced back to the width of wagon tracks that would eventually turn into worn roads to be paved, which in turn can be traced back to the width of the wheels of Roman wagons, which in turn can be traced back to the width of two horses side by side to pull the wagons. If you told a Roman craftsman that what he was designing would affect the construction of vehicles that would travel to other heavenly bodies, they would have thought you were insane.
Keith Duperreault
2023-08-21 01:04:20 +0000 UTCWeren't a lot of Southern Europeans near the Mediterranean considered to be Roman (like people from Spain and Portugal) ? I thought they would be considering they were a part of the Roman empire.
Kevin Przy
2023-08-20 22:00:26 +0000 UTCThe Count of Monte Cristo is another great movie from the early 2000s that featured Richard Harris
Nathan Hill
2023-08-20 21:18:15 +0000 UTCHe was called Spaniard because he was found at his home in Spain, they assumed he was Spanish
Jaxon's Jerseys
2023-08-20 17:42:47 +0000 UTCThis is one of the few times when the main protagonists death at the end of the movie didn’t feel forced or just straight piss me off. It felt like the perfect ending to this story.
James
2023-08-20 16:18:28 +0000 UTCYeah we did not know an extended one existed.
Take a Ticket
2023-08-20 16:07:49 +0000 UTCTo be honest, this was the only one on Amazon Prime and we had no idea about an extended version existing 😂
Take a Ticket
2023-08-20 16:07:23 +0000 UTCFirst of all, thank you for watching the superior theatrical version of the film, and not the extended cut. The longer version really doesn’t add much, and makes it begin to drag a bit. Back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, Russell Crowe couldn’t do a bad movie. I’m hoping maybe some of them will make it through a poll eventually. From “L.A. Confidential”, to “Master and Commander: Far Side of the World”, to “Cinderella Man”, he did some wonderful films.
MaggieS61
2023-08-20 16:04:43 +0000 UTCI'm guessing this is the theatrical version, correct?
Miles E Coburn
2023-08-20 15:50:41 +0000 UTCR.I.P. Oliver Reed I had the pleasure of seeing this epic film in theaters. I am a big Oliver Reed fan and this was the only movie of his that I ever saw on the big screen. I’m very happy you guys enjoyed it.
CheshireKat528
2023-08-20 15:42:55 +0000 UTCBy coincidence, I was watching this yesterday 😅🤦🏾♀️ 🫶🏾
Jenny Lee Villanueva
2023-08-20 13:53:31 +0000 UTClol i just looked it up too
ezza
2023-08-20 13:39:51 +0000 UTCZuccabar was in present-day northern Algeria. I hadn't heard of it either...
Michael Celia
2023-08-20 13:09:59 +0000 UTCWhen the emperor yells “Am I not merciful?” That was improvised
Schmaster
2023-08-20 12:11:23 +0000 UTC
