The biggest issue with this film is our main character is an empty vessel.

Jake giving the most ominous “okay” I’ve ever heard as Nadia reveals how much she enjoyed it 😅

I'm not the slightly interested about that show, and the again race swap of a character, being a black girl being a witch, isn't really interesting. I've seen Blade 2 recently, it's much better.

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The Woman carrying Person is bout to burst 😮😮😮

Do you guys go to the movies together, same car? I’m trying to imagine the car rides home, trying to resist the urge to talk about the movie 😂

Did everyone forget that Ariana Grande started her career acting?

Funny to hear Jake’s criticism and then the guys who are like “DEI Wokeness etc”

This makes me so excited to watch it now! I love the musical and the book and I was worried the film might not do it justice, especially since it was announced it would be split into two films

Woman carrying baby (Jake)

Nadia and Jake off camera:

Quite the contrast. Digital movies. Amirite

Yep can confirm its actually pretty good, and only a 1 year gap between part I and part II which means you'll actually still remember some of part I compared with Mission Impossible...

Gladiator 2 is what's going to destroy this relationship.

I loved the movie but I thought the editing was annoying. I wish they would let scenes play out more instead of cutting every three seconds

You’re the first reviewers to say that Cynthia Erivo was the standout. I saw it yesterday and I agree 100%. Couldn’t take my eyes off Erivo. Erivo made me feel EVERYTHING. She was sublime.

Please review the rest of the season!!

We've heard what you think about Ariana Grande.... What do you guys think of Areola Grande?

nadia always positive and Jake that mise-en-scene film school negative Nancy :)

wickedddd 🤙🤙🤙

I live for these reviews

Did you see it at Cinemark Century Point Ruston?

i think the flying monkeys were on her side, in the original, elphaba was the one who stood up for them while the animals were being mistreated

I remember seeing this years ago in London and thinking that the big flying set piece and song (I think it's the end of the first half) was the end of the show. I was horrified that it was only an intermission because I was ready to leave.

Woman Defying Gravity (Part 1)

Definitely superb casting

Cynthia and Ariana were absolutely sublime casting choices as Elphaba and Glinda, respectively. You need to have a strong onscreen chemistry to make their bond seem all the more convincing, and they both pulled it off with ablomb.

I usually love Nolan. I didn't like it. A lot of it has to do also with how mediocre the acting is and how badly the female characters are written

I dunno how you go in with the fear of it ending up a cash grab and a rehash of the original, and then walk away from Gladiator II thinking it ISN'T any of those things. But alright.

There was one scene in the movie, after main guy found his dead wife's corpse, he just leaves her floating, and goes with roman soldiers without any resistance, and they pat him on the back like "come on, buddy, we enslaving you, there-there".

I agree with the guy. The story was terrible. Spoiler: How do we even know Macrinus was bad or good? He wanted go get rid of current authorities and rule Rome, but to do what with it??? And Lucius is going to do what? He is not competent in ruling. The death od the wife was at battle, it was not personal, taking it personally made Lucius look like a moron.

He's so right

I will always stand by my argument that Chris Evans is much more fun to watch when he plays a villain.

I think Arthur Christmas, Rise of the Guardians, and Violent Night all did Red One’s ideas much better.

Sorry kids, we have silence of the lambs at home

She likes this hideous movie? 😂😂😂 I'm out of here. It's nonsense

ha ha ha ha ha

Man, this makes me want to see Violent Night even more, at least I feel that movie will be more Christmas than this _thing_ .

This is exactly the kind of film you'd see having a fake trailer in some comedy.

When white people white wash the role of middle eastern or even Asian roles in films everyone is up in arms when a black actor black washes the role of a middle eastern character nobody cares because white guilt is all about appeasing black people while ofc treating North African and middle eastern people in the same dehumanizing way they always have. Macrinus was Berber. It’s absurd to have a black African man play a senator in Rome it’s wildly historically inaccurate

In actual history gladiators rarely died. It wasn’t this thing where gladiators constantly died. Like slaves, gladiators were expensive. Most retired and died. So the films of Ridley Scott as usual just want to portray Rome as Barbarians so its spectacle. Moronic. Also Denzel Washington being black bothers me as someone from a North African background because macrinus was Berber not sub Saharan African. As usual black washing is done by white people to appease black people and their own guilt but takes away representation from middle eastern and North African people.

It was an insult to the first film and to all those who understand the depth of the first film. It was a boring rip-off of the first with awful DEI for 2024 - only unthoughtful people with no appreciation for story, historical Rome or film-making would enjoy Gladiator 2. Dr Patel leading a Roman army? FFS. Fk off. A Roman army allowing the new emperor - old man Denzel - fight and be killed by a gladiator? No way. Mescal, a gardener pleb at the start, was unkillable and had virtual superpowers by the end. BS.

"a level 8 badlister?"

Just found this channel and I have to say that I don’t like that you have a real first name. I'm going back to the main channel where I can pretend that your name is actually "Man."

jake is onto something, cause that movie felt like straight up corporate capital P Propaganda

There was nothing tasteful about this sequel. It made zero sense and had so many leaps of logic to retell the original while also being a sequel.

I haven’t watched a video from either of you in a while so this was my first time noticing, congrats on the baby! I hope they feel so loved

Everytime the trailer come on in theaters was a good opportunity for a last minute piss break.

Gotta agree with Jake here

Great movie. The ending made my friend cry