Gladiator 2 (film)

[Neil]

Watch this, and tell me if anything made you raise your eyebrows during it... And why is it seemingly every other film at the moment is a sequel?   Yes, WTF were they thinking of with that music????

[shootemindehead]

The fact that it even exists makes my eyebrows leap.

[JDP]

Watch this, and tell me if anything made you raise your eyebrows during it... And why is it seemingly every other film at the moment is a sequel?   Yes, WTF were they thinking of with that music???? There might also be yet another "woke" rewriting of history (a la "Cleopatra was black"), if Denzel Washington's character is supposed to be the historical Macrinus, that is. There's many surviving coins and busts depicting this "Moorish" Roman emperor, and he definitely was not "black" (in our modern sense of the word, i.e. sub-Saharan African)

[shootemindehead]

The were many black people in Rome and there were many people with name Macrinus too. It was quite a common surname. There's nothing "woke" about that. Washington's character seems to be a trader of some sort, so he's nothing to do with either the Emperor Macrinus or Marcus Nonius Macrinus. The most bizarre thing about this film, though, is that the gladiator of the title is Lucius Verus who never stepped foot in an arena in his life.

[MinionZombie]

1) The use of modern rap music in the trailer is an idiotic idea and totally yanks you out of the vibe. 2) Ridley Scott in his mid-80s directing this latest epic - bloody well good on him.