Gladiator (2000). What We Review in Life Echoes In Eternity.
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
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Stam Fine Reviews looks at Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe as Maximus, a Gladiator, who gladiates in the gladiatorial arenas. Also stars Joachin Pheonix, Connie Nielsen, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, Tommy Flanagan, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris. - Zábava
The bathurst joke didn't go unappreciated!
And check out Damo on B-Rock FM morning show for mor Gladiator!!!!!
“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”
(“You ever seen a grown man naked?”)
"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"
12:16
This is not a joke: The actor who played the pilot, Peter Graves, once said this to a boy in a supermarket because he was staring at him. He thought he recognised him from the movie, but the boy had never seen it. His mother was horrified.
My dad says you don't play defense.
Well, this leaves me thinking that in the near future you should do Master and Commander and I Claudius. Both brilliant and well deserving of the Stam Fine treatment.
Your freeze frames show how beautifully lit and composed this movie was. Ridley Scott knows how to make a good looking film.
Personally though, I think Master & Commander is much stronger as a film from a plot, pacing, and script standpoint (also with Crowe)
Waaaaait a minute, this is a regular movie!
Where's the obscure 1970s low budget Scandinavian sci fi series that was streamed on SBS between 1993 and 1994?
This film was flawed but saved my good performances and spectacle. Great review as always
In truth, Braveheart and Gladiator have similar levels of historical accuracy
Slim and none.
why does no one talk about the brother: Minimus?
I read that when Ridley Scott was approached to direct "Hannibal", he thought it was about Hannibal who went over the Alps with elephants, and he'd just finished shooting "Gladiator". He wasn't too keen on directed another ancient Rome film after finishing with "Gladiator". And he *did* find out it was about Lechter, lol.
Lisa Gerard's song in the end is pretty spectacular! But then, everything she does is. I like this movie, but your points made about its flaws are pretty accurate!
I loved it at the time, and while it's still fantastic, it is hard to rewatch it now without expecting Captain Jack Sparrow to somehow pop up during the first battle.
excellent retrospective!
That ending really got to me. The action was great, but I guess I'd learned enough of the era then that their liberties with historical figures annoyed me, but the very human ending sort of won me over. I can't say I love the film but I respect it, I guess?
Nice B-52s reference slipped in there.
One of the few films I vividly remember seeing in the theater.
The score gave me chills. One of Zimmer's best.
One of my favourite Ridley Scott movies.
My last viewing was a bit strange experience tho, as it was the first time I watched it and it occurred to me that it was a 2000’s movie. If that makes sense. It felt less timeless.
Not a problem though, I still love it. But I think of all Ridley’s historical epics, the Director’s Cut of Kingdom of Heaven is his best.
I was NOT prepared for Russ Le Roq ! Didn't know that...
You haven’t heard his hit single “I just wanna be like Marlon Brando”? I left an “s” out of the last sentence, can you spot where?
I went to see this film in the cinema by myself, because I didn't ask my friends "do you like movies about gladiators?"
My date and I left the theatre half way through and headed to our home arena.
Great review
The line about nobody knowing just how late in Reed's career, was sublime!
After challenging sailors to a drink contest, Oliver Reed had three bottles of Captain Morgan Jamaican rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous cognacs, then one several arm wrestling contest before passing out and dying during the making of this movie… that’s the most “Oliver Reed” thing I’ve ever heard lol
I really wanted to like this movie, but the acting and writing felt like they took a back seat to the fights, stunts and cinematography.
👍👍👍🎥
Excellent, Stam. I admit to being entertained.
The launch of Russell crowe’s giant ego.
The launch of Russell crowe’s giant ego.
Well, hard to find an internationally recognised star who is humble...
@@Yxalitis apart from not making a good film since, his ego is beyond even normal Hollywood standards
@@Yxalitis I'm not going to say you are wrong, but I do think your opinion is colored by the press that likes to "beat to death" something negative a star does while ignoring the nice things stars do. There were countless stories that came from Crow's temper tantrum because he could not call home from NY and Mel Gibison's "sugar Ts" incident. But so little coverage about Keanu Reeves and the really cool things he has done for complete strangers.
And waistline 😂
@@saynotocensorship 🤣
Do you like films about Gladiators. What a fantastic insert from Peter Graves. He must have had a great sense of humour hidden by his powerful voice and straight laced and usually serious on screen demeanour. Plus he had a great career considering he Co shared his voice with his brother.
Thanks!
Nice. Thank you very much.
Go Russ!
Didley Trott Strikes Again
Been waiting!😅
They dont make em like this anymore. I can kinda see why people dont like it but i dont think people will argue it's not a well made, modern epic. The acting is just.. incredible (crowe is fine) and the dialogue is fantastic
Bathurstinium boy here
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Quod in Vita Facimus, In Aeternum Resonat
Actually, gladiator deaths were rare. While slaves, they were also expensive to train and maintain. To put on the best fights meant they needed considerably better food than a typical slave would get. Killing them in the numbers you see in a typical gladiator movie would not have been worth the expense. Deaths in the arena were more likely executions, not gladiatorial combat.
For me Ridley Scott is very hit and miss I enjoyed this one Alien Blade Runner and Hannibal but Prometheus Alien Covenant and Worst of all The Historical Propaganda Movie 1492 Conquest of Paradise Which turned the Genocidal Christopher Columbus in to some sort of victimised Hero. Also I think this film benefits alot for the Editing more then the plot as all the figures in this story were real but much like Columbus its a very inaccurate version, thought at least it got historical Accuracy to Rome something that was carred on with TV shows the mostly Dull Rome and the Fantastic Sparticus Blood on the sand (Something you should review) and actually this isn't the first time a book that was quite old about the Accent World as the Walter Hill Super Stylish The Warriors which would have been too expensive to be about a troop of soldiers caught behind enemy line which was instead a film about a gang trying to get back to there home ground in New York.
I think about Rome several times a day. More today.
Ah, Russell Crowe, one of the few New Zealand things the Aussies claim as their own that we're happy to let them have! It came down to either him or Pavlova and the Pavlova won.
It has much in common with "The Fall of the Roman Empire" from 1964.
I was about to add that. It is far closer to being a remake of that than Spartacus.
13:42 You want some mustard with your ketchup?
My name is Stamiator
Commodore was not the inventor of the Amiga either.
Gladiator in 7 Day
Just think maximus had said took commodus hand he didn’t have to mean it he would have not lost his family 🙈
Scott reminding audiences that films can be cinematic and CGI is there to enhance not to cover the cracks
Cgi enhances the cracks.
I like Gladiator but it is typical Ridley Scott fare with some bloat, some visual flair, some actors and something that passes for a script.
Sometimes he gets away with it and sometimes it's Robin Hood. Kingdom of Heaven, that's the one I'm thinking of.
American Gangster.... hold on.... Legend!
Just an FYI re health and safety: there's been some pretty indepth scholarly research done regarding the actual combat. 4000 gladiators died per year at the empires height. Rather a lot. However, this was spread throughout the 400 amphitheatres throughout the Empire... so roughly 10 deaths per year per stadium, or less than one a month... and the deaths were generally due to poor medical conditions in treating infections.
Nearly all the time the referees did stop the fights before any serious injuries occurred.
And as some well learned person observed: the full helmets: rather ideal for some clandestine midcombat conversations where I'll strike to your right and you duck to your left. After all, the Roman military helmets which were for actual combat bared little resemblance to gladiatorial garb.
Which is why so many gladiators kept re-enlisting: the chance of a mortal wound wasn't high: probably more likely to die of some disease in a Roman bath, money was really, really good, and fame and the ladies.
But it would've been a bit of a disappointment in the movie if the ref kept grabbing maximus' sword saying he could do an injury with that...
By the way, largely due to their fame and popularity, gladiators could and did hold sway in many a political arena, and with this they weren't all they seemed, establishing what we would nowadays recognise as being a labour union.
With the fame, huge amounts of money invested and the betting fraternity and the like, managers are not going to risk their golden goose in any shape or form.
Sorry for the movie digression...
A dill, joyless slog.
What movie is the clip of a sheep jumping on a gladiator from?
I never understood the appeal of Gladiator. I think the fact that everyone loves this movie makes me kinda hate it; it's like an Apple product.
Ridley Scott was a wonderful director to grow up with because he gave me Alien and then Blader Runner (the good one), so he convinced my young supple mind that he was the greatest director of all time. But then I got older and wiser.
Ridley Scott is the kinda director that needs a really, really good script, and probably a good producer to keep him in check. Astrology charts also need to align.
My "bitterness" comes from the fact that Ridley is capable of 10/10 movies but he usually ends up at 6/10 - which on imdb is a very average score, we're talking rom-com territory here.
I wish Ridley would focus on fewer projects, imdb has him connected to 900 different projects at any given time.
that sheep was from the goodies
@@robvegas9354 Thanks!
Yes it was comedy show The Goodies. Tim Brooke Taylor was on the receiving end.
I know I'm in minority but I never really liked it. For me it was style over substances. It's a solid movie but I don't feel all of its hype.
1.) So much for wearing a helmet. 2.) Roller skates. 3.) Did Zack Snyder see this and develope his grain fetish ?
Its very much a film with style over substance. The high points (basically pick a fight scene, any fight scene) are fantastic and still look fantastic. But everything else, acting performances aside (Crowe, Phoenix, Reed et al), are just meh.
I have bad news for you regarding braveheart.
Gladiator is so convoluted (oh so he just happens to be enslaved as a gladiator into the arena of his sworn enemy? So lame), ugly (that colour pallet is yuck), and worst of all boring. Lisa Gerrard’s beautiful voice illuminating the soundtrack and excellent turns by Phoenix and Reed (they deserved a much better movie) it’s a below average pop corn flic at best.
Awful movie. JUST AWFUL and the CGI was horrible even for the time. Saw this when it came out in 2000 and it didn't deserve best picture.
I wouldn't call Braveheart historical.
Few actors are more overrated than Wacky Phonics coupled with Scott's skewed revisionist understanding of history makes for extremely mediocre viewing. Napoleon was worse.