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Russell Crowe not a fan of Gladiator 2

Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:06 pm
Posted by hawgfaninc
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:06 pm

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Russell Crowe slams 'Gladiator 2'

"[It's] a really unfortunate example of even the people in that engine room not actually understanding what made the first one special ... It wasn’t the circumstance. It wasn’t the action. It was the moral core"

He did not like that Lucius was Maximus' illegitimate son

"So you’re saying at the same time he had this relationship with his wife, he was fricking this other girl? ... What are you talking about? It's crazy"

(via @triplej)

It’s shocking hollywood would do that to his character
Posted by sorantable
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:09 pm to
I still haven’t watched the sequel.
Posted by JetsetNuggs
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:09 pm to
Good.

Gladiator is one of my all time favorites so I refuse to watch it 2 now that I know how they tried to retcon Lucius.
This post was edited on 12/9/25 at 2:17 pm
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:14 pm to
I never finished watching it. Movie was dog crap.
Posted by BitBuster
Lafayette
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:15 pm to
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I still haven’t watched the sequel.


I refuse to watch it because everything I've read about it would piss me off. This Russell Crowe comment cements everything I've heard about it.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:16 pm to
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I still haven’t watched the sequel.


Don't waste your time. I waited a year or so to watch and regret watching. Actually made a thread about it being the worst movie I can remember watching and most people agreed it sucked. It was laughably bad.
Posted by Lawyered
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:17 pm to
It was really not good. And I wanted so badly for it to be awesome.. I left the theater going wtf was that shite ? 24 years we waited for that???

No rewatchability at all
Posted by TT9
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:24 pm to
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"So you’re saying at the same time he had this relationship with his wife, he was fricking this other girl? ... What are you talking about? It's crazy"

Hegseth sure x2 but not Maximus damn it.
Posted by cinemaguy23
Member since Apr 2025
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:24 pm to
Its horrible.
Posted by The Pirate King
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:32 pm to
In the same interview he said that in the original Gladiator they kept pushing stuff that was antithetical to the character of Maximus and it was a constant fight to keep the movie how it ended up.

Ridley Scott, his own worst enemy.
Posted by cinemaguy23
Member since Apr 2025
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 2:36 pm to
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Ridley Scott


He needs to retire
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 3:03 pm to
Basically a Road Warrior movie with out Mad Max.


What's the point?
Posted by dickkellog
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Member since Dec 2024
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 3:09 pm to
i stopped watching it during one of the arena scenes when a guy charges out into the ring riding a rino standing on him holding the rein's i've got a big picture of someone trying to bridle a rino
Posted by RollTide1987
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Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 3:13 pm to
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Ridley Scott


One of the most overrated filmmakers in history. For every good film he puts out he makes three bad ones. Since he made The Martian he’s put out House of Gucci, Napoleon, and Gladiator II.
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 3:31 pm to
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Hegseth
Damn, you found a way to squeeze Pete Hegseth into a thread about Gladiator 2. You are ALL tore up.
Posted by TT9
Global warming
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 3:34 pm to
just pointing out the hypocrisy from the mouth breathers that come here.
Posted by StrongOffer
Member since Sep 2020
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 3:41 pm to
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I still haven’t watched the sequel.
Don't. They burn down the first movie in the opening credits. And then proceed to shite on its ashes.
Posted by ATrillionaire
Houston
Member since Sep 2008
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 3:59 pm to
In Gladiator 1, wasn't it heavily implied that the kid was his son?

Posted by LSUPERMAN
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Member since Aug 2007
2959 posts
Posted on 12/9/25 at 4:04 pm to
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In Gladiator 1, wasn't it heavily implied that the kid was his son?



No. Even in the cell when she visited him after learning he was alive, there was no hint of. I mean, if there would have been a time to tell him, right there would have been it.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
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Posted on 12/9/25 at 4:12 pm to
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i stopped watching it during one of the arena scenes when a guy charges out into the ring riding a rino standing on him holding the rein's i've got a big picture of someone trying to bridle a rino



Just like the many "Hop & Chop" movies where combatants are flying through the air performing Kung Fu moves and leaving a destroyed enemy in their wake.

The makers like to go over the top with CGI and with that technology, the skies the limit for the ridiculous action sequences.
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