Gladiator 2 Wasn't That Bad - Sunday!

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Good morning, everyone! Hope you’re all adjusted to springing forward. I always prefer springing back, that extra hour is a gift. But hey, it all evens out, right? Anyway, I finally watched Gladiator 2 yesterday. You guys had me convinced it would be a train wreck! Gladiator one, obviously, is one of the greatest movies of all time for me. The impact it had on me, how many times I watched it, that soundtrack… legendary. So, yeah, I wasn’t expecting Gladiator 2 to measure up, but the reviews I read made it sound unwatchable. Like, ‘don’t do it, you’ll hate yourself’ bad.

But I watched it… and I liked it! I thought it was a great homage to the first movie. It’s not going to have the same cultural impact, at least not for me, and probably not for most people. Sure, some things felt rushed, and some storylines weren’t as developed. I didn’t connect with some of the characters as deeply as I would have liked. But the way they intertwined it with the first movie? Great.

Being in the Gladiator universe is great and I still don’t know how these two Emperors or Caesars came to be. Like 16 years later and all of a sudden we’re in utter disarray. Obviously you can draw a lot of parallels to Rome and like when Rome fell to America which everyone says hey this is the next big Rome eventually this is going to fall and every time we get a wacky president or a shitty president like we do now we wonder if this is how Rome Falls. What other movie got blasted by critics but was actually okay? I’m thinking of catching up on some movies I slept on. Gladiator 2? Definitely not as bad as they said. Fun movie to watch, loved the action scenes. I even liked the story, even though the delivery could have been better. But then they’d have to add another hour and then you have a director’s cut, whatever. Good movie! That’s all I got to say. Peace!

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updated_at 31-07-2025
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