Gladiator (2000)
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It was so awesome to experience this emotional and epic film with Sam for her first time! We have done a handful of Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe films on the channel and all of them have been top tier for us! What are some other movies by these two that we need to check out!
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The men in my family require we watch this once a year to maintain our Man Card Membership
This is not one of Ridley Scott's best, and it's horribly inaccurate, but it's an awesome action/drama.
I really have always got the feeling that Commodus did not get the love from Marcus that he wanted or needed, because he was always a psychopath, even as child. Psycho paths are narcissistic, & said to be born without empathy or conscience. They only want love & attention for themselves, & no one else. If anyone else receives any honor, respect, love, attention, in front of them, or around them, they can't handle it. They will seek to destroy that person's life, or reputation, or whatever they can. Or they will hurt themselves for attention, or they will set other people up, to fail or to get in trouble, just for attention. Commodus strikes me as the kind of son, who was always seeking his father's approval the wrong way, competing for it, even when it wasn't necessary to compete, & actually causing his father more problems, that he had to find a way to solve. Because that's what psychopaths and narcissists are like. I don't think it's that Marcus didn't love his son, I think it's that he didn't know how to get through to his son, what honor is, & what is truly worthy of honor, & how to attain it. Commodus cared more about admiration than honor. Commodus is the kind of person who always gets the wrong lesson, out of a lesson. He wasn't just jealous of Marcus' love for Maximus, he was jealous from childhood, of his father's position of power, & probably grew up envying, & desiring his father's position & power. But took away none of the values, that his Dad probably tried to teach him. That's what I think Marcus was talking about, when he spoke of his failures as a father. Basically "I failed to teach you how to love, because you lack a conscience, & I don't know how to fix that." How do you convince your son, that "power", is not the end goal or the most important thing in life, when all of his life, you yourself hold a, "position" of power, & hold people's lives & deaths in your hands?
Samantha at 10:43 what's the point of that? Me as a refugee from the Middle East : what's the point of that question? lol on a serious note in many fascist countries around the world the gov inprisone and even torture the families of opposition parties who flee the country. and people had a climate sumet in Egypt despite the fact that the evil practice isinstitutional and even have the support of tens of millions of citizens.
Marcus Aurelius was one of if not the greatest of Rome’s emperors. He was very introspective. He told a servant to whisper in his ear everyday “You are just a man” to remind him to not to get carried away with power. He wrote his philosophy and his idea for living a noble life down and it was compiled into a book that you can still read today “Meditations”
Fun fact guys, the big guy that had the tigers in his fight against Maximus, he is the big guy who carried the huge hammer in Conan the Barbarian w/ Arnold. Awww, Sam cried! Its ok Sam, I was an Army Ranger and I cried at this movie. lol Its ok TBR, I was the same way as a younger man, I thought, woah, bad ass, but I cried at the end when a strong brave man was laid low but a scheming scumbag like Commadus. And yeah, sometimes they even FLOODED the arena to have naval fights!!! I kid you not. The Colosseum in Rome, Italy is an amazing place even to this day, I encourage all to see it in person, especially warrior type people.
That score….all I hear is Pirates of the Caribbean. (there is even a video comparing them two, the composer kind of…lifted from himself with Pirates) 🙂
Yes, if you ever get to visit the Colosseum, you can still see all the intricate little areas that used to be underneath the wooden floor, that was covered in sand. Funny thing, by the time of these 'historical' fights, the Colosseum was already antique, as in over a hundred years old. 😉
Compare this movie with Olivia wilde's "don't worry darling" 😂😂
Jouquin was fantastic in this
Props to the guy in the first fight when he asked if anyone had any military experience says "I served with you in vindabona". He knew who he was all along and kept his secret.
Y'all need to watch Interstellar!
Excellent reaction to a superb movie.
It has been said that the soil of the Coliseum has had so much blood spilled in it . That to this day you can pick up the dirt. Put water on it and you can see blood come from the dirt.
See how they established in the opening battle that Maximus wasn't finished even when he was in a disadvantaged position on the ground? That's so it seems more believable to us when it happens later in the Coliseum. I suppose it is a form of foreshadowing. The same thing was done with showing Commodus sparring with the soldiers in an impressive way. We have to take it seriously that he'd want to fight Maximus as a gladiator, albeit of course Commodus cheated by stabbing him in the lung first while he was tied up.
Life is not that simple for a soldier. His enemy will use every means of stealth, deception, and cruelty he can muster. There is no honor in war, only blood and death from an enemy that a soldier often never actually sees.
Marcus Aurelius obviously didn't know his son very well if he gave him the news before telling everyone else and without guards to protect himself.
Commodus had Maximus' family murdered because of jealousy and the false sense of vengeance that comes from that.
The maggots of some species of flies are actually rather picky eaters, and will only eat the dead, rotting flesh. Just like Juba said, they cleaned Maximus' wound, and probably saved him from gangrene and/or sepsis. Ages ago, some physicians used this technique, and in some rare, difficult cases, maggots are even used today.
Sold and for half the price of the animals.
That's red dye for the wool, although the blood-like color was deliberate symbolism.
That guy who played Tigris is a tank, alright, and when I was a kid, I watched a TV show called Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (don't laugh too hard, that was actually a pretty well written show), in which the same actor played a character literally called Tank. 😄 He also played Thorgrim (one of Thulsa Doom's two high priests) in Conan the Barbarian (1982), which you've seen, of course.
The movie was not historically accurate, so it sucks. Just kidding. It really is extremely inaccurate, but it's also one of the greatest movies I've ever seen.
On the one hand, Marcus was indeed, by his own admission, a bad father. On the other hand, Commodus was most likely born a psycho–a deeply immoral man with no real conscience–and that didn't help his father to develop any warm feelings for him. Marcus loved Maximus because of who he was as a person, but just didn't have the automatic, instinctual, unconditional love of a father for his own children, and that sure didn't help anyone.
Nurture matters–always has and I think always will–but over time all I've seen is it gradually losing ground to nature proportionally in determining what kind of a person someone turns out to be. In other words, as researchers learn more and more, they're finding that nature, as in genes, matters more and more than nurture. Twin studies probably provide the most reliable and convincing scientific evidence that nature is more important overall (albeit not everything) than nurture, as it is very clear that identical twins (same genes) who were raised apart, even under different conditions, strongly tend to end up being very alike in most respects.
Maybe Commodus could have been a better person to some degree, had he been given what he needed from the start, but he was so evil that it is difficult to believe that nurture could have overcome nature in this case. His sister isn't a psycho like him, and she, too, considered Marcus a bad father.
Hey dude i got an honest question for you. Is your wife Polynesian? Like she from Samoa or New Zealand or Hawaii?
At the very start of the film Maximus overrides an order to move their artillery back. He says the danger to their cavalry is "acceptable." This might give you the impression that Maximus is a callous commander when it comes to the lives of his men. Maximus immediately turns that on its head by going to lead the cavalry charge personally. He wouldn't order his men to take a risk he wouldn't take himself. That is a beautifully subtle bit of character writing to clue the audience in to the personality of the main character.
You must watch 1960 Spartacus, for my money the far better film. Based on the true slave uprising of 73BC.
One of the best 3 films ever made!
I remember watching a behind-the-scenes when this first came out. The tiger trainer said that "tigers can't act. So, if you want a tiger to seem pissed off, well… you actually need to piss it off." Not a super-safe environment.
The Quick and the Dead (1995) and 3:10 to Yuma (2007) are two pretty great westerns. I think period drama is something Russell Crowe is excellent at.
If you look on Ridley Scott's IMBD page you see he is involved in working on Gladiator 2
Russel Cowes' description of Maximus' home was unscripted; It was an actual description of his real home.
You two are far and away the best reactors on YouTube. Your film selection, your reactions and your commentary are all great. You've already reacted to one of Ridley Scott's greates films, "Blade Runner". And a fantastic Russel Crowe film, "L.A. Confidential". Russell Crowe is great in "A Beautiful Mind" and disturbing in "Romper Stomper".
A recommendation by me: "Romper Stomper" was Russell Crowes breakthrough movie. It was arguably one of his best performances.
Should definitely watch Blood Diamond great movie with Leo Dicaprio and Djimon Hounsou again as great support 👍
The Woman said Unhinged. Another Masterpiece of Russel Crow Films.. but in this Gilm , He is the Villain
MF Doom 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Try to watch "The Next Three Days" also a great movie starring Russell Crow
Love the reaction, guys! you 2 are awesome. It's been a pleasure to re watch the moments of this movie right along with you guys.
Really fun reaction. You guys are awesome.
Russell Crowe also plays a good part in a Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man was pretty good. Loved Master and Commander. And Gladiator are my two favorites. Gladiator being my favorite. He also portrays Robin Hood. But I haven't watched it. Because I liked Kevin Costners Robin Hood. And once I like a certain actor as a certain character I hate someone else playing the part.