Gladiator 2 | November 22, 2024 | DENZEL IS REUNITING WITH RIDLEY?!

[Jaxon5]

7 hours ago, Speedorito said:

Well at least some reaction to the story, especially since it’s a sequel to an iconic Best Picture winner. Action and actors aren’t enough as we saw with Furiosa, and that actually got good reception from a consistent director.

Furiosa was destined to fail from the start

[Jaxon5]

7 hours ago, ThomasNicole said:

Green Book actually won best original screenplay, and i think we can all agreed that story is poorly written and overall trash. 

 

Like i said, i don´t think the Oscars means much about it´s reception. I agreed with you that Gladiator resonate strongly with audiences, it´s a straight up fact, i just don´t think the story was the reason for it, even if it´s obviously cool and well made. 

 

That´s probably what we can expect from Gladiator 2 imo even if it´s actually great, because even the great Ridley movies simply aren´t known for standout scripts. Which is why i think it´s normal to someone to say the movie is great and proceed to highlight the action and actors.

 

Anyway, i get your point, i assume you get mine, so that´s it.

What was wrong with Green Book's story? Oppenheimer aside, it's probably the most well recieved best picture winner of the past decade

[Jaxon5]

6 hours ago, Torontofan said:

Funny thing is if Ridley makes a very by the numbers decent movie that is entertaining or enjoyable, they will do well like the martian. 

The Martian was immune from being a fuck up. The book was just too damn entertaining. Could have been directed by anyone 

[WittyUsername]

4 hours ago, Jaxon5 said:

What was wrong with Green Book's story? Oppenheimer aside, it's probably the most well recieved best picture winner of the past decade

It’s a pretty generic feel-good story for white people. 

[Jaxon5]

1 minute ago, WittyUsername said:

It’s a pretty generic feel-good story for white people. 

Legging it's way to 321m dollars worldwide is impressive for a film like that though. It must have connected with audiences. 

 

[AniNate]

Green Book probably isn't the best example to make a point here. It's a movie the olds love but the internet youth hates. I think the internet is more or less a target audience here though so it needs to deliver with that dem.

 

 

Edited July 2 by AniNate

[WorkingonaName]

Green Book rocks.

[Jaxon5]

9 minutes ago, AniNate said:

Green Book probably isn't the best example to make a point here. It's a movie the olds love but the internet youth hates. I think the internet is more or less a target audience here though so it needs to deliver with that dem.

 

 

I dont think Gladiator needs to target the youth as it's main interest will be guys 30 years and over. It just needs that Maverick crowd which managed to propel it high despite the younger generation seemingly disliking Tom Cruise

[Torontofan]

30 minutes ago, AniNate said:

Green Book probably isn't the best example to make a point here. It's a movie the olds love but the internet youth hates. I think the internet is more or less a target audience here though so it needs to deliver with that dem.

 

 

Yeah my parents watched it and are not white and really liked it.

 

I dont look at the film as history but just a feel good tale and to me it works fine...

 

Most likely if you put a wise guy Italian bouncer and a sophisticated upper class black man going on a tour of the deep south in the 1960s, it most likely be a mess and a bumpy ride.

 

Maybe I am bit older but I do think about till the 2000s race relations were quite different then now. Like now the idea of a racist white guy can be friends with a black guy seem absurd to the youth today... but growing up I remember be white guys who hated Indians but be friendly to me... and over time they soften their views.

 

Today such relations don't exist (not saying they should btw) just was a different time. 

 

Edited July 2 by Torontofan

[ThomasNicole]

12 minutes ago, Jaxon5 said:

It just needs that Maverick crowd which managed to propel it high despite the younger generation seemingly disliking Tom Cruise

No movie makes 700M DOM without a big portion of young people

[Eric Deetz]

Moderation

 

Not the Green Book thread.

[cinema pal]

Well GB made $70 M in China, Gladiator 2 can only dream about this amount of money)

I can't find info about Gladiator (2000) release  there. 

Edited July 2 by cinema pal

[Firepower]

1 hour ago, AniNate said:

Green Book probably isn't the best example to make a point here. It's a movie the olds love but the internet youth hates. I think the internet is more or less a target audience here though so it needs to deliver with that dem.

Since when youth is a target audience of Gladiator? It's a swords and sandals epic which was never popular with comic book crowd.

[cinema pal]

Are there any epic histical dramas that didn't flop after Gladiator success? Troy did fine, but not really good in US.

I can't name any 

[kayumanggi]

10 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:

Was wondering why Joseph Quinn in this pic looked kinda weird to me but just realized after watching the new Quiet Place today, he look like a masc Daisy Edgar Jones lol

 

I thought he looked like Cersei Lannister. 😅

 

[filmlover]

10 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:

Was wondering why Joseph Quinn in this pic looked kinda weird to me but just realized after watching the new Quiet Place today, he look like a masc Daisy Edgar Jones lol

 

[PlatnumRoyce]

1 hour ago, cinema pal said:

Are there any epic histical dramas that didn't flop after Gladiator success? Troy did fine, but not really good in US.

I can't name any

Last Samurai isn't exactly the same genre but it's close enough. 

[Jaxon5]

1 hour ago, cinema pal said:

Are there any epic histical dramas that didn't flop after Gladiator success? Troy did fine, but not really good in US.

I can't name any 

Does 300 count?

[cinema pal]

42 minutes ago, PlatnumRoyce said:

Last Samurai isn't exactly the same genre but it's close enough. 

I guess, but domestic is still meh. The budgets are huge, everything costing north 100 M struggles

 

As for 300 I'm not sure anybody went for history  there) or story

[babz06]

I’m curious what the appetite for this is going to be. Because I’m not sure how much nostalgia is associated with Gladiator. Seems like a huge risk to spend 300m on this.