I like Phoneix but he was completely miscast. And that's only one problem.
The entire movie is trash. Occasionally unintentionally comedic, but mostly dreadfully plain and badly directed. Atrocious grey and blue and yellow filters. TV tier lighting. Ridley is cooked. Senile.
I think Phoenix knows, that's why he ran away from the premiere, but Ridley gave him frick all to work with.
What an atrocious movie, even excluding that blue filter poured over it.
>Napoleon flops >Now Ridley Scott is filming Gladiator II, with a budget so large needs to make 750 million to break even and cover marketing
Is this a plot by Hollywood to run historical dramas into the ground?
Oh but it's great! > Ridley Scott promised the follow-up to his Russell Crowe-starring original is "well worth the wait" and "possibly more extraordinary than the first."
>The footage shown in the room reveals the first look at Paul Mescal's grown-up character Lucius, the nephew of Commodus and the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen, who reprises the role) — first played by a young Spencer Treat Clark in the 2000 film. Mescal's Lucius is shirtless and very fit, fighting in the arena, which looks more run down than in the original film. Among his opponents are a man riding a rhino and a stampede of bloodied baboons. But he clearly has Crowe's Maximus and his fateful ending on his mind: "I remember that day. I never forgot it. That a slave could take revenge against an emperor. That a slave could get justice in the arena,” he says at one point.
>Denzel Washington is shown playing what seems to be nobility and a mentor figure to Lucius, possibly hoping he can use the young gladiator to inspire a rebellion. "Can you hear that crowd, the greatest temple Rome ever built, the Colosseum," Washington says in the footage. "This is what they believe in, power."
>The footage ends with a subtitle reading, "A rebellion will rise," and Lucius saying, "What we do in life echoes in eternity," in a callback to Maximus' famous quote from the original.
>The footage ends with a subtitle reading, "A rebellion will rise," and Lucius saying, "What we do in life echoes in eternity,"
I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!!!!!
>with a budget so large needs to make 750 million to break even and cover marketing
Holy shit, what the frick is going on in Hollywood?
Hollywood - frankly, financially speaking they've been shitting blood since streaming services killed the theatres and especially DVD sales
Franchises, Remakes/Reboots, so on - it's like the frantic but pointless struggling of a drowning man sinking to his grave
You don't understand how hollywood works, do you? Ridley is not some sort of auteur. He was hired to make a movie and come in under budget and that's what he did and always does flawlessly.
I have seen Napoleon but it does look like shit. That said Brian Cox plays the same person in every movie excluding maybe Troy. He gives the same delivery in everything and has no right to criticize others.
He's right.
He's completely right, what a shit film that was
I agree, it was really great. A masterpiece. Glad you liked it.
I like Phoneix but he was completely miscast. And that's only one problem.
The entire movie is trash. Occasionally unintentionally comedic, but mostly dreadfully plain and badly directed. Atrocious grey and blue and yellow filters. TV tier lighting. Ridley is cooked. Senile.
lawl i was just watching him on Frasier, same day I watch the investigator from Blood Simple on Frasier aswell as the movie
i dont know a single person who likes that movie
I think Phoenix knows, that's why he ran away from the premiere, but Ridley gave him frick all to work with.
What an atrocious movie, even excluding that blue filter poured over it.
Im still mad how bad that film was
>Napoleon flops
>Now Ridley Scott is filming Gladiator II, with a budget so large needs to make 750 million to break even and cover marketing
Is this a plot by Hollywood to run historical dramas into the ground?
>with a budget so large needs to make 750 million to break even and cover marketing
Holy shit, what the frick is going on in Hollywood?
Just boomers helping boomers, if a young director bombs then it's over. But boomers can waste billions again and again
Oh but it's great!
> Ridley Scott promised the follow-up to his Russell Crowe-starring original is "well worth the wait" and "possibly more extraordinary than the first."
>The footage shown in the room reveals the first look at Paul Mescal's grown-up character Lucius, the nephew of Commodus and the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen, who reprises the role) — first played by a young Spencer Treat Clark in the 2000 film. Mescal's Lucius is shirtless and very fit, fighting in the arena, which looks more run down than in the original film. Among his opponents are a man riding a rhino and a stampede of bloodied baboons. But he clearly has Crowe's Maximus and his fateful ending on his mind: "I remember that day. I never forgot it. That a slave could take revenge against an emperor. That a slave could get justice in the arena,” he says at one point.
>Denzel Washington is shown playing what seems to be nobility and a mentor figure to Lucius, possibly hoping he can use the young gladiator to inspire a rebellion. "Can you hear that crowd, the greatest temple Rome ever built, the Colosseum," Washington says in the footage. "This is what they believe in, power."
>The footage ends with a subtitle reading, "A rebellion will rise," and Lucius saying, "What we do in life echoes in eternity," in a callback to Maximus' famous quote from the original.
why is the counselor rated so low? its not a bad movie
>The footage ends with a subtitle reading, "A rebellion will rise," and Lucius saying, "What we do in life echoes in eternity,"
I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!!!!!
Hollywood - frankly, financially speaking they've been shitting blood since streaming services killed the theatres and especially DVD sales
Franchises, Remakes/Reboots, so on - it's like the frantic but pointless struggling of a drowning man sinking to his grave
You don't understand how hollywood works, do you? Ridley is not some sort of auteur. He was hired to make a movie and come in under budget and that's what he did and always does flawlessly.
Ridley Scott's real talent is convincing Hollywood he's directing the next big film.
Wait, did I say "real"? I meant "only"!
This is the mind of someone who truly, unironically believes "hollywood accounting" is a real thing.
I have seen Napoleon but it does look like shit. That said Brian Cox plays the same person in every movie excluding maybe Troy. He gives the same delivery in everything and has no right to criticize others.
His Hannibal was entirely different from his Major Hogan.
And his Stryker was also different from all his other characters.
>OCH AYE THE NOO VOTE LABOUR
Lol shut the frick up, boomer.
So is Brian Xoc just seething and coping or is the intentionally rl shitposting?
I'd probably agree with him, but I refuse to watch that movie. It's just looks so bad.
I respect Brian Cox for having standards. He's a Shakespearian, he should speak his mind about good and bad acting.
in a different Napolian movie he could have been really a movie
he shouldn't have put faith in Ridley Scott. Scott misses way more than he ever hits
>Scott misses way more than he ever hits
He made exactly two good movies in his life, so yeah.
he's debatably made 4 or 5 good/ solid movies
shit, sorry I forgot The Duellist, sorry
>in a different Napolian movie he could have been really a movie
I have read this sentence three times, and it still doesn't make any sense
Ridley Scott lost the plot (pun intended) a long time ago.