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I 100% agree. U nailed it. If they had made this like 10 years ago it easily could've worked. Tom Hardy has the exact same type of vibe as Crowe. Just a super magnetic energy, even when they're not yelling or going big. Missed opportunity

I liked the film overall, certainly more than you, but you're right. I was shocked by how lifeless it all felt. There's almost no highpoints in the movie. With something like Dune or Furiosa, you can point to, in Dune's case, the speech he makes to all the Fremen as a real "Whoa" moment. Same with the first Sandworm ride. Furiosa you could say the assault on the War Rig, etc. But this movie really didn't have any THAT moment(s). 2nd half finally picked up a sense of momentum, but still. The Rhino and Boat battle both felt SOOOO Sluggish. The Lucius vs Acacius fight should have been the emotional highpoint of the movie given how morally and emotionally complex it was for many of the characters. But it came off so flat. And the very ending of the movie, which I like in theory and is the one truly visually stunning moment in the movie, felt so unearned. Really felt like Lucius never grappled with the fact of his bloodline. It fails to give its main character an arc. It should've been an easy Hero's Journey It's a bad script that was probably made even worse by a poor cut down edit. I feel strongly in that that is the case here. And you're also right, all the dialogue scenes are staged so poorly, which really makes the poor dialogue stand out as stale. I like Ridley a lot, I'm in the bag for a lot of his late period stuff. I think The Counselor is completely misunderstood and is pretty fantastic, I think The Last Duel is terrific. But man, he really dropped the ball here. I truly believe Gladiator II could've been a mini Top Gun Maverick. But he blew it. Can't believe he okay'd this script.

The main reason that feels clear to me is that it's being reported as 22m. So u know damn well it was probably more like $21.7 and they're rounding up, Maybe walkups can be stronger over the weekend, $60m would look nice, but yeah I'm doubting it. Frickin EmpireCity touting $63mil for it last night, SMH

I would certainly hope for more than $6m thursday previews for Gladiator II.... Maybe both movies do have better IM's, but in the age of 2024, it really feels like 8x IM is like the max these days... So $6m would not be good for Gladiator...

Wish we had more tracking on it, but didn't Charlie say Friday was where it was doing really well anyway? So maybe we're in for at least a great multiplier?

If Gladiator II can hit over $500m, I think that will be seen as a success and could greenlight a 3rd movie if Ridley Scott is actually serious about that (just as long as David Scarpa doesn't come back) With this international start, I think $300m international is doable. And then hopefully $200m DOM? It's probably gonna need at least an OW of $60m DOM to achieve that

Don't want to hit the panic alarm too early, but lowkey it kinda looks like this is disappointing the international box office so far... I guess we expected South Korea and Japan not to care much, but even Germany and Italy, where it should be gigantic, is just ok so far I really hope it can at least hit that $85m international OW that Deadline projected...

Now this we can deal with

The first trailer not featuring ANY track from the original Gladiator Soundtrack (that track in particular) is probably the single biggest marketing stumble I've seen for a movie in a long time. That should have been a no brainer. No idea what they were thinking NOT using that to kick off this movie's marketing

RT down 10% to 74% currently with 81 reviews.... I'm getting scared Confident it will stay fresh, but I would like it to be comfortably in the 70% range, hit the certified fresh,etc

If Napoleon was able to hit 58% on RT, I don't see how Gladiator doesn't hit at least 70% Though the reactions haven't been ecstatic the way I would've hoped, they are mostly at worst ok like Rocha. If I check Letterboxd, it's a lot of 3 stars to 4 stars, more frequent 3 and 3.5 ratings. Tho to be fair, I have noticed more actual film critics like Matt Lynch giving it a 2 out of 5 (he gave the first a 2.5). So I guess we'll see tomorrow.

Anora 11/1 Friday 10pm 10 other people Trailers: Gladiator II Queer (almost a religious experience watching this trailer in a theater) Babygirl Some documentary A good amount of laughter Juror #2 11/5 Tuesday 7:15 50% full Trailers: A Complete Unknown The Brutalist One of them Days (some laughs) Wolf Man September 5 F1 (looks way better on the big screen) Mickey 17 Some laughing, some OOOHs, and then the very ending had some enthused reactions. I was honestly stunned. Haven't seen a reaction like that to a movie ending like... ever

Yeah im definitely worried about Supergirl lol. Budget needs to be low but the lowest it'll be is $150m probably. Probably higher I'm sure. You have give that movie a bump in the casting of the villain and supporting characters. Casting Matthias Schoenarts as the villain, despite him being a terrific actor, does not inspire confidence for me

Ehh not too worried. He just doesn't act that much anymore. Hes clearly not interested in being the movie star he easily could and should have been. I agree with you in the sense that he only did 3 not good Venom movies in the span of 6 years during what should have been the prime of his career and did not much else. I wish he'd leveraged the success of the Venom movies and made Sony greenlight whatever the fuck he wanted to make. But nah it seems like he was happy with making a Venom movie and then just doing his own personal thing for like 2 years in between But as Venom comes to an end, The Bikeriders was a solid film in the filmography and he was very good in it. And that Netflix action movie is a Gareth Evans movie... That could be huge

Jesus, have we ever seen something be walkup frontloaded like this? Lol, that feels like a contradiction Thursday projections were looking like 6m all week leading up to Thursday, then on Thursday we were in the 7m range, only for the number to hit a solid 8.5m So it's wild that it's now not attracting walkups thru the weekend. I guess the WOM is just catching up with this one fast