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Posted on 5/8/25 at 12:35 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Remember the days when Midget was warning everyone this trailer looked terrible with every one they released and that this movie would suck? I remember.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 12:39 pm to SidetrackSilvera
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Dune 2 sucked worse than the first one.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 12:56 pm to CocomoLSU
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But they actually did flood the Colosseum and have naval battle reenactments though. That part is historically accurate.
The only thing that is remotely historically accurate about that scene is that one time Titus put water into the colosseum. The similarities end about there. And it wasn't nearly to the degree in the movie. So little water that horses and bulls were the animals used in the reenactments. Nothing was swimming around in the colosseum, much less sharks, which they probably didn't even know about, and definitely not massive battle ships. And again, the design of the arena from Gladiator would have made it impossible.
It was one of the worst scenes in a movie that I can ever recall. Well tied with the monkey fights and the rhino fight from the same movie
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:01 pm to iwyLSUiwy
I gave up about a third through the movie.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:02 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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I turned it off about half way through. Haven't bothered to finish it.
It took me four nights to finish it. Fell asleep again last night but was like there is no way in hell I am taking five nights to finish a movie so I woke myself up enough to rewind it and finish it.
Couldn't get over how many plastic surgeries it looked like Lucious' mom has had over the years too.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:27 pm to iwyLSUiwy
agree....will add that the black/white scenes of him screaming losing his wife reminded me of a cheap calvin klein obsession commercial
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:38 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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How is the water holding in the arena? How do you get massive ships inside the arena? How are the Gladiators just hanging out in the locker rooms and the locker rooms not be completely flooded with water? Sharks? Really?
They were able to flood the colosseum. And they could actually fill it and drain it relatively quick.
They had Nile Crocodiles in the colosseum as well. The sharks was a stupid choice when Nile Crocodiles would have done the same thing.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:39 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Apparently you didn’t see Purple Rain.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:53 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Oh really was not good
Not sure I’ve even thought about it after I saw it
Completely unmemorable
Not sure I’ve even thought about it after I saw it
Completely unmemorable
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:57 pm to BigBinBR
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They were able to flood the colosseum
And how does one flood this platform colosseum?
One where a massive ship can sail in but at the same down below level is dry. Where you clearly see in two movies now the gladiators running up steps to get to the arena. But now he runs up the stops and I guess is an above ground pool. The entire colosseum would have flooded with the way they portrayed it. Nothing about that scene can be defended, I'm sorry.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:09 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Coliseum Flooding
The movie was not good but dying on the hill of a provable fact is strange.
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When the Colosseum was finished, Romans asked themselves: what better way to celebrate the building’s capability than to flood the Colosseum and hold a massive naval battle? And so, the first Colosseum naval battle was held during the arena’s opening ceremony.
Emperor Titus ordered the new Colosseum to be flooded. Then, they used special flat-bottomed ships during the battle to accommodate for the shallow water. The event replicated the battle between Athens and Syracuse. They even made an artificial island in the middle of the arena where the sailors landed to fight.
So, the depiction of a sea battle in Gladiator II was actually historically accurate in some ways. One thing the movie may have exaggerated is the shark.
The movie was not good but dying on the hill of a provable fact is strange.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:14 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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One where a massive ship can sail in but at the same down below level is dry.
The boat's were scaled down versions. I don't know what to tell you. They actually flooded the colosseum in real life.
quote:Univ. of Chicago
[Martin] Crapper, who has done one of the few hydraulic studies of the Colosseum, indicates the flow of the Claudian aqueduct to be 2.12 m3 per second, although this volume would have been reduced by half by the time it was piped from the distribution tank (castella) on the Caelian Hill and distributed through the network of pipes, channels, and drop-shafts of the amphitheater. Using a smaller circumference for the arena (80 by 45 meters), he has calculated (in a later correction to his original article) that the arena of the Colosseum (4241 m3) could be filled in approximately thirty-four to seventy-six minutes, depending upon where flow was measured and assuming that all the water was dedicated to that purpose. To the spectators, this certainly must have seemed as if Titus "suddenly filled this same theatre with water" (Dio, LXVI.25.2).
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:17 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
Where the post did I deny they did that? On the first page I acknowledge the very reenactment you're talking about
I'm saying that it was not even remotely close to what actually took place with Titus' reenactment and the flooding makes zero sense in relation to the Gladiator's colosseum design. I literally commented on the difference on page one.
I'm saying that it was not even remotely close to what actually took place with Titus' reenactment and the flooding makes zero sense in relation to the Gladiator's colosseum design. I literally commented on the difference on page one.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:17 pm to iwyLSUiwy
It wasn't very good. Denzel was weird. It was Gladiator 1 with all the depth taken out.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:18 pm to BigBinBR
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They actually flooded the colosseum in real life.
My god.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:19 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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The movie was not good but dying on the hill of a provable fact is strange.
But the ships in the movie where not flat bottomed and the water was deeper than 5 ft which most historical data said was the maximum depth they could go. He's not arguing they couldn't flood it, just not to that extreme.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:25 pm to LSUPERMAN
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But the ships in the movie where not flat bottomed and the water was deeper than 5 ft which most historical data said was the maximum depth they could go. He's not arguing they couldn't flood it, just not to that extreme.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:26 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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My god.
You can be contrarian all you want, but It's actually well documented that they flooded the colosseum so I don't know why you are trying to argue it. They quit flooding the colosseum around 85 AD - 89 AD when they did major renovations and added the larger Hypogeum.
This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:31 pm to iwyLSUiwy
I was going to reply but this movie sucked so complain about whatever aspect you'd like.
This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 3:43 pm
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