Gladiator 2 Critics GASLIGHT Fans About Trailer Problems

[@disparutoo]

The Gladiator 2 official trailer is out and got instantly downvoted due an incredibly awful music choice. Music that just didn't fit the tone, aesthetic nor setting of ancient Rome. Yet the press decided to not just defend such an obviously unpopular choice, but misinterpret the problems in the first place. Deciding to spam the word anachronism, rather than realise it was simply about a holistic view of the movie. The gladiator 2 trailer also had a lot of other problems that distracted from the setting and made the trailer unrealistic. You end up spending your time analysing the trailer noticing problems, than getting emotionally involved in the story, like in A Knights Tale. But what did you think of the Gladiator 2 trailer? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

[@rayman17420]

Props to you for the Knights Tale shout out. Loved that film and it was chock full of top tier actors

[@joshbanks6367]

They’d have been better off using the theme tune from the TV show, Gladiators.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Agree. The music in First Knight pumped me up, in contrast the music in the Gladiator 2 trailer just confused me.

[@snakedaemongaming6590]

When you showed the squirrels you could have used something better Friday 13th where Crispin glover is dancing, the music they used isn't the music that was on at the time

[@wpjohn91]

Maximus' son

[@CorporateBillionaire]

My grandma told me "No matter what they teach you in school, Emperor Nero did in fact blast American gangster rap in the Colosseum"

[@irishsage2459]

This comment made me literally spit my drink out with laughter 🤣

[@AzureRoxe]

If parody movies were still a thing like Scary Movie was, this 100% would've been a scene.

[@napoleonfeanor]

Kanye isn't really gangsta rap though but yes, rap in trailers is annoying

[@insensitive919]

Your Grandmother!

[@tillyt4054]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@YuriBez2023]

Sound artists that aren't. Editors that can't. Producers that shouldn't. Writers that didn't. Viewers that mustn't.

[@TwistedTeaRex]

Underrated comment TBH

[@JB-yb4wn]

Best comment here. Clip and pasting that.

[@ggrarl]

"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should."

[@PhotriusPyrelus]

Who. WHO! Not "That". Who!

[@samuel5591]

My only edit would be "Viewers that won't"

[@Zan_Jayna]

'Are you not black and gay..?' - Biggus Dickus 2024

[@Yourmuthasaidso]

😂😂😂😂

[@crow4936]

Bwing out woderwick!

[@Trey-s6r]

You know that sexual relationships between men were normalized in Ancient Rome right? And by the way, Caracalla and Geto (who's actors are as white and caucasian as milk) were the sons of an arabic sirian woman and a north african man. In terms of appearance, even Michael B Jordan and Danny Glover make more sense than this two. If you are going to complain about black or LGTB representation, at least try to do it in a context less diverse than Rome. Open a history book once in while man

[@fracturedsolace145]

seems you do not know history. Denzel's character was a real person and emperor of Rome and was born in Algeria which is in Africa and he was a descendant of the Berber people who were black so there goes your narrative.

[@crow4936]

@@fracturedsolace145 😂🤣😂🤣 there's busts of him it looks like a white guy stop peddling crap

[@AzureRoxe]

"Black character!? ADD HIPHOP!!!" And they call US racists?

[@makuthreesixty8228]

exactly!! 🤣

[@KnightmareUSA]

Hip hop is not just a negative stereotype though, it's a genre that communities find hard to detach from and may not always feel the need to

[@david7384]

we should be.

[@AzureRoxe]

@@KnightmareUSA Adding hip hop to a scene, movie, game or trailer SPECIFICALLY cause there's black characters involved is 100% a negative stereotype. The same was done in Assassin's Creed Shadows when showing Yasuke murdering people, but since it's in Japan, they mixed in "Japanese-sounding" music with the hip hop.

[@KnightmareUSA]

@@AzureRoxe No one said it wasn't, or couldn't be. Note the words 'not' and 'just'. In the end, it's likely done because it's the fast, lazy and easy option that companies think is all that is needed to please the masses. Sometimes it is true, sometimes not, it depends on the target audience

[@Michael-uk3pj]

"Are you not entertained?!?!" "Well, no, as a matter of fact we're not..."

[@MegasXaos]

"If you're not entertained, then you ain't black"- Joe "Nero" Biden.

[@sd5458]

👎

[@heinewittgenstein3994]

You're racist!

[@Katsu_ragi]

​@@sd5458 subtle, but very nice reference.

[@lorag4664]

😂😂🤣😂

[@karlj1717]

Gladiator 2? Why? To what end? The first movie was a masterpiece and a stand alone film. We do not have the need for another.

[@Thetenmaumau]

I remember my grandma saying: "Doesnt matter what they tell you at school but all Gladiators were Straight Outta Compton"

[@glitterkitty1979]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Moses_PT]

Bro XD That's the best one I've seen 😂 Straight out of Compton 😂😂😂

[@Lonovavir]

Straight out of Pompey!!!

[@themollymachine]

Yeah, but europeans whitewashed all of history two hundred years ago. I guarantee you all the gladiators were melanated. Because when have you seen a white man? That's just ready to bang out, because he's so brave without a badge.

[@Littleman879]

GWA

[@WontStopMeNow]

"We want to appeal to a global audience." I had no idea that California was the entire globe.

[@Muck006]

Well ... they ARE communists ... and then DEMAND that "everyone has the same racial and most importantly SEXUAL makeup as they have.

[@Thunder_warrior]

Modern California shit

[@TotalBlackoutPainting]

They don't understand the world outside of it.

[@ndabenhlesibande9008]

Jay Z is from New York

[@dizzyishere.]

​@@ndabenhlesibande9008Didn't realize the whole glove was basketballers

[@ryanbesco8067]

The message is pretty obvious at this point: “The things you love now belong to us and we’re going to do everything we can to ruin them because we hate you”.

[@GolfMike09]

And because we have absolutely no effing idea how to make something new and original.

[@lingricen8077]

Never underestimate Gen-Zs ability to co-opt and destroy.

[@zephyrosuav9760]

​@@lingricen8077Gen z? This is all smol hats. Wake up for God's sake

[@lingricen8077]

@@zephyrosuav9760 You reap what you sow zoomer

[@zephyrosuav9760]

@@lingricen8077 Gen x failure thinking zoomers run the media companies. Noahide lover.

[@05Rudey]

The real shame is, the first Gladiator film, had one of the best musical scores ever made for film to take from.

[@LB-yg2br]

Omfg yes!!! Gladiator’s soundtrack was so f*ing epic and memorable!

[@arthurbonds7200]

​@@LB-yg2brSo memorable, Hans Zimmer reused tracks for another movie.

[@adrianagomes3172]

Agree 👍🏾

[@SL-mj2eq]

Well the first new movie of Dune also got best music awards but to me the music was mostly annoying...

[@ScottishRoyal1]

The book of eli & meet Joe Black We're stunning soundtracks as well.

[@eyesonthey]

"Sir, I found a song with "colosseum" in the lyrics." "License it, quick!"

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

See, I could see it as a good choice for a fan made video, you know? But for the OFFICAL trailer? REALLY?!

[@herekblood]

I honestly think this was the entire conversation prior to this choice.

[@OOhlUkaTmEImGanSTa]

The stupid thing is the song (No Church in the Wild) fit well in The Great Gatsby film and marketing. A movie about super rich white people in the 1930's. The song itself is not the problem, it's the lazy pairing with Gladiator 2 because a couple of lyrics fit.

[@derrickmcadoo3804]

Air-headed, basic bitch logic. These current writers all passed college on the Grammarly train. No brains. 🙄

[@crow4936]

​​​​@@OOhlUkaTmEImGanSTaalso Kanye can't rap and his lyrics prove it. It simplistic he over uses words and repeats the same word to rhyme . It's a sign of no skill the new gen seem to forgot .

[@halohalo86]

Are they not aware that there was already a black gladiator in the original movie, played by Djimon Hounsou? And yet, they didn't need to put hip hop music in the background and make him gangsta or anything back then, they just made him a realistic period character of African origin.

[@mikeymy3042]

Gone are the days when characters had believable back stories and movie plots actually made sense.

[@Zepher0987]

They really picked a song that had the word coliseum in it and called it a day.

[@Ramsey276one]

Google search XD

[@secondchance6603]

They couldn't find one with the word colonoscopy in it so that was their next choice.

[@Blodhelm]

A TRAINING DAY!!!

[@GunbladeKnight]

Yeah, they should have used the song "Enter the Gladiators" since that song has gladiator in the title.

[@purpleprinc3]

​@@GunbladeKnightThey should've played the TV Show Gladiators theme, much better 👌

[@NickNapoli]

The reason it worked in Knights Tale was because it was tongue-in-cheek. With Gladiator 2 it’s just dumb.

[@alexandermccabe556]

they also used classic songs didnt make new ones themed to the movie

[@woldemunster9244]

@@alexandermccabe556 It worked fine for James Bond until "current day".

[@haraldbredsdorff2699]

Also, in knights tale the music was picked to give the correct feeling to the audience. Gladiator 2, they picked music where some of the lyrics could maybe match the scene, but who on earth listen to the lyrics in rap songs?

[@-Ryu]

​@@woldemunster9244 The last good song was Adele's "Skyfall"

[@alexandermccabe556]

@@woldemunster9244 well james bond at least takes place in the period the music would have been made

[@JohnSmith-op7ls]

The only entertaining part of “modern content” is watching how much money it loses.

[@t4tio]

Facts!! It baffles me HOW... much money they are content on losing. However at this point. Im Under the suspicion that they are actually, WINNING, at diverting our consciousness. So..... Reply. Who is laughing at who 🤔🫠

[@tommerker8063]

i would be totaly fine with it if it weren't for the hypocrisis. sure make a black roman emperor, but then don't complain when i make a shaka zulu movie with the whitest white boy i can find as shaka

[@t4tio]

@@tommerker8063 No. Bcoz that would be racist 😅 Common sense is against the law of human rights remember 😂 You're only allowed to have emotions and opinions that follow the narrative! Otherwise you're a cis white toxic masculine patriarchal womaniser who kills innocent animals and sacrifices babies, remember?! 😂

[@Aikurisu]

Gladiator never needed a sequel. The same can be said for a lot of films, though, with the rare exception.

[@awavey]

the point with that though is this is almost a reboot/remake except Ridley Scott would never allow that, so it becomes a sequel even though the main characters, rather than merely the supporting cast, all died and the story had concluded. for 310million, so its what nearly 620million after advertising, you can make alot of original films of new stories with new characters, some who may even be about hip hop music.

[@totomen666]

Sequel must be made ONLY if they can keep quality of original or make it better, but seems each and every talentless hacks at Hollywood thinking they some kind of Shakespeare... and they cry for damage control from SJW's and wokies. 1. they race-swapped white dude into black 2. cry that racists don't want to see or hear hip-hop rap in story about Romans/Greeks 3. repeat step 1 and 2 And these is same people who cring me a river why Aquaman and Wonder Woman...white, for real...

[@cropathfinder]

They should have just stuck to the original idea and made a prequel

[@SL-mj2eq]

@Nachtara-Szellas Well Hollywood has been creatively bankrupt for almost 2 decades.

[@Furzkampfbomber]

@Nachtara-Szellas His later movies don't even feel like he has just lost his mojo, but like he does not even give a flying F about anything. 'Prometheus' for instance suffered from a whole plethora of absolutely silly plotholes that I would not even expect from a bloody beginner, because they were so obvious. And the only explanation I can find when someone of the (former) format of a Ridley Scott is making such blunt mistakes is that he honestly, seriously does not give a crap anymore.

[@thomash3218]

My favourite part of the hobbit was when "rock you like a Hurricane" came on while Legolas was stone surfing. Really touching moment

[@tyrael303]

Mine was when ‘Freebird’ was played over the Mines of Moria fight scene in The Fellowship 😂

[@henrybruno4855]

Idk that could work.

[@creativi-tea398]

Well they did fuck it up with that awful "I see fire" pop song over the credits. Which jarred everyone out of the moment. LOTR had us leave to ethereal Enya and kept the fantasy feeling of the movie.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

You’re making a joke but that would’ve made the movie more fun. As it stands, those movies are hard to watch.

[@derrickmcadoo3804]

'But it's fitting, because the song has the word, 'Rock' in it! '

[@dlschgo]

I tried to watch the first episode of the second season of The Serpent Queen and I forgot that there were so many African women in positions of power in 16th Century France, much less all the other ethnicities. I was so mad at being lied to all these years that I turned it off.

[@amumuisalivedatcom8567]

As a French i can confirm, we all came from Africa, being white there is a genetic malfunction.

[@DrDuckMD]

😂

[@LtCommanderTato]

they are rewriting history in all levels

[@ShawnDraven]

Definitely not a good season we waited a damn year for. I remember when a season was 12 episodes and only took a 6 month break between seasons and were actually better each season lol the good old days.

[@DChosen13]

I know how you feel... Cannot watch any "Biblical Movies" and "God's of Egypt" is just ghastly!!! Imagine, the great K'met Empire, born from what is now South Sudan, had nothing but "White" Kings and God's. Ben Hur, an Arabic Jew, played by a great English Actor. Cleopatra, a Greek Empress of Egypt, played by an askanasi Jew. Talk about "Historical Accuracy"... but a movie with a Black man playing an African Emperor of an Empire that had a large African population (and an Emperor named Scipius the African).

[@RobinMcBeth]

The biggest problem with this movie is that it shouldn't exist. There was ZERO reason for it to be made.

[@purpleprinc3]

Even Russell Crowe said "What's he gonna do, open up a f***ING burger joint?" Love Russel Crowe 😅

[@saneman7177]

As soon as I heard about it I knew it would be some nonsense… I can’t think of a single modern reboot/prequel/sequel that was actually good

[@lingricen8077]

EVERY franchise is being handed to Gen-Z, hurry up and recognise the pattern

[@skyevens8756]

I laughed pretty hard maybe that is their intention? It has to be a parody. Like scary movie.

[@StarWallowingBull]

I agree!

[@m13579k]

-Race swapped historical figures✔️ -Women in the military during ancient times ✔️ -Out-of-place music✔️ -Padro Pascal✔️ Yep, this is a modern dogshit Hollywood movie alright.

[@sidvyas8549]

Women did participate in military actions in Antiquity however, that would never fucking happen in Rome. Holy fuck.

[@sidvyas8549]

Also, I reckon someone might’ve read “Scipio Africanus” and been like ayo we wuz romanz, fuck me

[@Radbiker33357]

I mean tbf in gladiator 1 there was a black woman who was riding and shooting arrows from the chariot and got sliced in half. But I never really took it as out of place because of… well, the S word the Romans and people of that time committed to a lot and I figured she was just forced into it and became a good fighter because of it. The other girl in the trailer looks seriously out of place.

[@SBlazeable]

@sidvyas8549 we really are living in that time where so few people read the original source materials and they fill in the blanks with wikipedia and their own head canon.

[@StarkartOrg-urban-art-gallery]

just read Pedo Pascal and tought yeah that's fitting with the theme :D

[@06ridyn]

Remember tue ending music. His friend buries the little wooden figure. He says ....I'll join you soon, my brother, not yet, not yet. The epic music playing. You are just crying for the end that he's dead. EPIC.

[@sardonically-inclined7645]

"Are you not entertained?!" "No, the music choices among other things broke immersion." "Raycist!" "Don't care. Fix it or be quiet."

[@aaronfrantz25]

I want Ye to cameo in the stands

[@makuthreesixty8228]

And the hypocritical Rraycism is that if Denzel Washington wasn't in the movie, No church in the wild wouldn't be in the trailer.

[@Ryan-vl2nn]

Hollywood still hasn’t realized that the race card’s magnetic strip wore out long, LONG ago.

[@Fillycheesecake]

​@@makuthreesixty8228 that's actually a very good fracking point. Also I love Denzel Washington but unfortunately I don't think his presence alone can un-shit the movie and believe me the end product is going to be shit. Which is also another problem that movies are no longer art but instead a product.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Immersion? In a historical movie? You must not be a history nerd. If I see “knock, draw, loose” one more time I might go postal.

[@svetlanaandrasova6086]

Sequel nobody needed nor wanted

[@terberusp7030]

Did we deserve it?

[@nont18411]

Only one who wanted it is Ridley Scott

[@latetotheparty7551]

I really hate sequels removed by literally decades in time. I saw the first one in about 2002 so when I saw there would be a new one I was shocked. Like really? 20+ years later?! The original can drink! 😂

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Nostalgia milking

[@galil_6863]

and that no one will watch

[@heybrowhatup]

It’s amazing how the music can take a movie looking dramatic to using rap music and making it look like a comedy.

[@UncensoredScion]

WHO ASKED FOR A GLADIATOR 2?!

[@thelaughingrouge]

To be fair some people did... Like 20 years ago.

[@ameliaward7429]

Who asked for Alien 10? Cashgrabs.

[@jamesmetcalf5597]

A bunch of Hollywood executives in a business meeting discussing what unnecessary sequels to make next and one responded with "Gladiator 2" and another said "Genius and we can just insult the audience when it fails"

[@Jackrabbit_Slim]

*looks around.... shrugs* Good question

[@Rinavani]

No one, but Hollywood has zero original thoughts

[@jmelight142]

This is how much cinema has devolved. Gladiator is a story about revenge, honour and sacrifice. The music portrays this beautifully throughout. This trailer gives such a childlike mentality of “oooh sword fights wow look how cool it is to be a gladiator!”

[@muffinman4544]

Well in Lazywood sure, but there are those out there that still craft amazing films. Just look at Joker, Dune, Oppenheimer etc. modern western cinema can still deliver if they want to

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

What’s wrong with having fun? Movie ain’t even out. Seems like a fine movie. They’re even doing all the fun gladiator stuff like doing the sea battles in the colosseum, and the rhino rider was sick af. Look I’m a huge history guy. More than anyone I know. I’m not looking for a historical movie in this. If I was, then the first gladiator would have sucked. But I’m not, I want to have fun. Sets look awesome. I’ll give it a shot. We’ll see how the movie is on release.

[@Aubreysangel666]

​@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 even cgi looks terrible. That is breaking illusion already. This a skip for me

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@Aubreysangel666 rhino riding gladiator Im there for it

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@Aubreysangel666 I think all depictions of Rome need rhino riders. I now want a Rome Total War mod that adds Rhino Gladiators.

[@jbobdavis1984]

Gladiator didn't need a sequel. I naively thought that Gladiator was off limits. Gladiator is my number 1 favorite film of all time. There was literally a group of people, making 6 to 7 figures a year, sitting around a table that said " How can we ruin a great film by making a sequel with rap music?" It makes it even worse that they used one of the greatest actors of the past 25 years (Denzel). What pisses me off more than anything, is there's public commentary asking why are people so mad about this sequel? 😤😤😤 At this point Im expecting the Shawshank redemption 2 the revenge of Brooks. (Through a portal) Hollywood is dead... 🤮

[@pappabunny]

Reminds me when the orchestra on the deck of the Titanic tried to rally the passengers by belting out a great cover of Kiss' "I wanna rock and roll all night".

[@DoodsUnited]

Anyone remember in the 90s when big soulless corporations put awful rap into their bland films, shows and games to be "hip with da kids?" It was cringe then and it's cringe now.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

There was an absolutely hilarious commercial for a product called bubble tape. It was 6 feet of bubble gum in something that looks like a scotch tape cassette. “Your school principal can’t smile, can’t swim, can’t rap … and he can’t stand bubble tape. For YOU not them!” We laughed our butts off at how silly it was because it was obviously trying to show they “get” how kids think. And failing. 😂

[@rosssoyka860]

More cringe currently

[@LB-yg2br]

I remember when the simpsons added Pootchie and it was EXTREME and IN YOUR FACE!!!

[@Thunder_warrior]

The difference is, now we are told we are biggots for not liking it lol

[@jamesofallthings3684]

That's not why they do it.

[@lance134679]

Hollywood is determined to constantly remind you that you're not visiting ancient Rome, but sitting in a theatre in 2024 wondering why you left the house, found parking, bought your snacks and sat in an uncomfortable chair where the floor is sticky for some reason, spending nearly a hundred dollars for you and wife. And you notice all those things because you're not immersed in the movie.

[@samblack5313]

Hollywood: “as if you have a wife you filthy incel”

[@FXIIBeaver]

To answer the sticky floor question. It is a type of industrial floor cleaner. We use it at my job and it makes the floor tacky.

[@gowokeyoubecomebroke.4747]

I once read a study arguing it was alien kum.

[@stevenschultz9637]

Most of us stopped going to theaters in 2020 and just bought better couches, speakers, and tvs. It's actually way cheaper that way.

[@debraleyva6538]

@@FXIIBeaver It couldn’t possibly be because someone spilled a sticky carbonated sugary drink? Oh my goodness. It’s a commercial grade substance that helps adhere to make it stick😂wax on wax off anyone?

[@SolaceOfLyra]

Hans Zimmer made the original movie atmospheric, sorrowful, uplifting and it added that overall timeless gleam...now it's just another movie that will age terribly as the accompanying music is just as critical as the actual screenplay itself.

[@joemama1691]

The music in the original, can bring you to tears. This trailer, laughter lol there’s literally no talent left.

[@cropathfinder]

H.Z.'s music like it or hate and the work its in, but it always uplifts the work it is in. Take crysis 2 for example , a lot of people don't like it as a game but everyone admits when the Hans Zimmer tracks hit during that game it always amplifies the moment and whatever impact it has dramatic or otherwise. Just take a look at some of the loading screen cutscenes for the game or its intro/trailer scene and you can see where Mick Gordon and many great composers nowdays drew inspiration from there with how it implements music into the game.

[@Muck006]

NEVER let an UNCULTURED AMERICAN design the music for any big movie. Either this AMERICAN composer makes CLASSICAL MUSIC ... or they are crap.

[@PapaKayode]

Nobody likes euro culture anymore, get over it. We like 808s, dancing and a good time now OK 👌

[@PapaKayode]

We like tasty food too 😂

[@Poepopdestoep]

All they had to do was say; sorry we made a mistake by letting a 20 year old in charge of the music. Here's a new version of the trailer.

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

"How do you know the Romans did NOT play rap, where you there?"- Ridley Scott, probably

[@the_absurd_hero]

Ridley Scott should have called it a day after the f'n catastrophe that was _Alien: Covenant_

[@Blodhelm]

@@the_absurd_hero Alien 3 killed what could have been a massive franchise because he didn't like how popular James Cameron's Aliens was. He'll never be done sucking at this point.

[@FrostyMts]

Italians don’t even act like Brits. So seeing Brits try their best at playing a Roman is always laughable. Their performances are always super stale. Just watching an Italian film is a better representation of Roman’s. Barbarians was close but season 2 ruined it.

[@Furzkampfbomber]

@Nachtara-Szellas Prometheus was a bad movie. The fotography was amazing, but that is where the positive things I can say about this movie end at least in my book. The story was horrible in general and often a complete mess in detail and the whole movies is full with logic holes a bloody beginner would not make, _if_ he cares even a bit. And that's how the whole Prometheus movie feels to me, like Scott gave a flying crap and simply could not be bothered to care.

[@billjacobs521]

@@FrostyMts Okay, but from what limited information we have about how Romans behaved, I honestly think it'd be closer to Brits. They were a bit stuffy and conservative and uptight.

[@Randomgirl3468]

These people aren't journalists, they're bullys. Insulting people for having different opinions is bullying. Simple as that.

[@AngerOfTheLand]

I find it funny that in the time of torrenting, these people think they have power to dictate to us. Too funny.

[@swampfaye]

Imagine my shock when I went to Texas and found out it was full of Texans!

[@JJ-hw2gn]

Theyre not just bullies, they are self worshipping morons... and cowards to boot.

[@MagNo-s3y]

​@@swampfaye that's why Texas is so bad, no racial diversity. I expected to find a Sri Lankan mayor and People carrying fruit baskets on their head... I came to just a state full of bigoted Americans!!!

[@DontThinkso-kb9tc]

Brainwashed commies

[@adamm8067]

I was a big fan of the original, and this is enough to make me ignore this film. Of course, 2024 Hollywood doesn’t care one bit about my generation and demographic. Nor do they care about film making as an art anymore. It’s now all pandering, mass-marketed BS.

[@FacloFormerFavorite]

It’s a fucking trailer. A trailer

[@Karzir1]

"The song mentions a mausoleum and a coliseum.....its so perfect!" - Bonehead Hollywood

[@Muck006]

"It'll be hip-hoppin' with da kidz" - same person.

[@noticing33]

😂😂 that is reason enough for suicide by face palm

[@JackChurchill101]

Definitely a native USA accent is the right choice for a North African Roman.

[@ExploderMaster18]

North africans were never black, they were more like arabic or semite

[@ClarkWahlberg-bo3oh]

Naturally.

[@napoleonfeanor]

Is a British one better? Both are equally new

[@Calvinosaur]

English didn't even exist back then. An American accent is fine, but the regional accent defies convention and is distracting.

[@JackChurchill101]

Not taking about realism, talking about thematic context. It's drama. It's fiction. It's art. Might as well have a deep South Alabama accent for the Roman emperor if it "doesn't matter". Let's not be silly though.

[@Petey17564]

Why would they even touch the gladiator property!! What a joke

[@lazytyrant9010]

Hans Zimmer. One of the most talented composers of movie scores ever.... Who was nominated for an oscar FOR Gladiator.... In a sequel for a stand alone movie made over 2 decades ago which is trying to leverage nostalgia to attract viewers, chose to say 'f*ck it, throw in hip-hop.'

[@havtor007]

Too be fair Hans Zimmer does not have that much difference in his music you know it when it is his music for the most part in the Original Gladiator there is literally a music piece called He is a Pirate and is the main theme from pirates of the Caribbean. Do not misunderstand me he is way way better then this.

[@awavey]

@@havtor007 not the first composer to reuse motifs in different movies, whisper it even John Williams has done.

[@boboboy8189]

Hanz zimmer refused to do this sequel telling a lot about quality of this sequel

[@PrincessBunhead]

@@havtor007 Man I'm tired of hearing this, people can't stop bringing it up ever since Honest Trailers mentioned it. Mozart recycled and so have a lot of composers/musicians/bands over the centuries including the Beatles and Green Day. It's their music to do what they want with it, if they want to throwback to a particular sound, they can.

[@lazytyrant9010]

@@boboboy8189 Frankly they could use the same music and it would likely end up better anyways.

[@BabarizamDK]

Ridley is on a mission to destroy his own legacy. First Alien and now Gladiator, I wonder what will be next.

[@lingricen8077]

Notice the common thing in both: ZOOMERS.

[@Johnbartheart]

Yeah, what's all the crap after Aliens??..

[@ebf336]

I heard he's doing a sequel series to Blade Runner called 2099. Hoping to god it isn't as tone deaf and backwards as some of his other recent work

[@smith9157]

Napoleon was trash also

[@lingricen8077]

@@ebf336 How much you wanna bet it will star 20-something year old zoomers, despite all the others ones having people in their late 30s/40s? Because what franchise don’t zoomers get

[@bjw509]

I like Denzel Washington, he's a great actor, but he wasn't the right guy for this part for me. Oliver Reed half drunk still bought more dramatic authenticity without even trying.

[@SRMoore1178]

The only thing I want to hear in a Gladiator movie is Lisa Gerrard's vocals over Hans Zimmer's symphonic music.

[@BluegrassKnight]

R. Scott "Yeah I want to make a new Gladiator movie, but I want to distance this movie from the original"! Shills "Yes, that's a great idea, what are you going to call it"? R. Scott "Gladiator" "2"!

[@listrahtes]

😂 describes it perfect

[@JulianCooke-yn5lh]

Once upon a time, certain actresses or actors indicated the likelihood of whether that movie would be a block-buster. Today, certain actresses, actors, or those who identify under a different pronoun, indicate when you should steer clear of a dogs dinner.

[@Lttlemoi]

hip hop: music about criminals glorifying their criminal behavior all to further their personal greed, hunger for power, lust and disrespect for others who aren't within their small circle. Gladiator I: revenge story about a highly respected person done wrong by a criminal pursuing personal greed and hunger for power. Gladiator II trailer: those things are basically the same, right?

[@glencurtis6052]

Hip hop is a bit broader than that

[@Cobbido]

@@glencurtis6052 It is, but the most popular acts are doing just that

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

Fun fact: the investment firms that own the rap music companies also have controlling stocks in private prisons. Things that make ya go "hmmmm"

[@chrisreid4711]

​@@sarasunshinemt4444They don't give care. Black people bad...reeeeeee

@@Cobbido Hip Hop: rap and spoken word poetry plus dancing, music and street art. The genre Gangster Rap is a subdivision within that. One which is poison.

[@AmeliaBodilia]

Let’s play where’s Pedro… Name a modern movie and he’s IN it. 😂

[@AzureRoxe]

Not only is he in it, but just like many people mention that Denzel Washington is just playing Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal pretty much only does that now.

[@samspurgeon4222]

Pedro is the Latino Jon Voight, who is the white Samuel L. Jackson....one of them has been in every movie made in the past 30 years, I think

[@user-zq6sz2cr6g]

Much easier than finding Wally.

[@danielkeizer4174]

​@@samspurgeon4222to be fair Samuel Jackson can actually act. Pedro Pascal not so much...

[@danielkeizer4174]

​@@AzureRoxecan't say I would be able to identify the Pedro Pascal specific acting quirks honestly. Denzel has something specific to his "style" like Pacino or de Niro has. You kind of know their way of acting. Pedro is generic at best.

[@GamerBunny2024]

I call this the "Hamilton" effect. Some people really liked the musical Hamilton (which was no where near historically accurate, and it had rap music)... I never understood the blind fascination or the awards it received, but now that we got over the hurtle of trying to do a period piece with accuracy (too much work, & oh so boring)- we can now do anything we want with any play, movie or show and no one's allowed to complain out of fear of being called a racist if you don't love it. I love Denzel Washington as an actor... but this was a weird role to take. Especially considering if the Romans ever got their hands on a dark skinned Nubian, he'd of been fed to the lions alongside the Christians. Rome was a terrible place to be if you weren't Roman.

[@dco1019]

I thought you meant lewis hamilton in f1.. did the same sort of thing clamoring and winning souls (for his own social profile) for some sort of forced diversity. Where the sport, the technology and the people working there are chosen based on quality and performance and merit. Just as an actor you either fit the part or you dont...diversity should have nothing to do with it. Actually, normalcy returned to sport and other drama is more prevalent lol... perhaps showbiz will see the light too soon. I mean how many times can people not like what youre doing and you keep doing it...

[@Trey-s6r]

So Denzel Washington, (who can pass as a north african or even etrurian in terms of appearance) is weird, but Joseph Quinn (who plays Caracalla and was the son of a sirian woman and north african man) is not weird?

[@dco1019]

@@Trey-s6r true... (Seeing the statue of that emperor) I guess the historic perspective is really missing and people over generalize what the color of a roman should be. Hollywood/production companies also put people on edge you know, by forcing this diversity and wokeism into their cinema. Now, even when it might be acceptable, people protest when they see something that looks like that.

[@Trey-s6r]

@@dco1019 That's a sad thing. Everyone is so busy following a political agenda or rejecting the same agenda, and anyone opens a history book.

[@dco1019]

@@Trey-s6r we live in the age of complaints

[@A-Negative]

It’s about Hollywood 2022. Which is when all this was really put together. Keep in mind they are always 2 years behind due to production. Which is why they shouldn’t chase trends they need to make them.

Thoughts like these are why I read the comments. Thank you.

[@chongli3007]

Try the early 2010's

[@lingricen8077]

You absolute dullard.

[@Kross415]

I'm not supporting any new movie, show or game made for "new audiences" but using an old beloved name just for marketing.

[@EquineDreams3]

Imagine being thought of as uncouth because you don't like low grade rap and it was used in a completely incorrect way. It seems every time ppl dont like another thing that Hollywood crapped out, its because we're stupid and 'ist. Lots of great films from elsewhere, like Guy Ritchie.

[@BlazingOwnager]

I had so many people trying to say it was ist in every comments section about the trailer music who insisted we'd been fine if it was Aerosmith or something. And no, that'd been terrible too

[@Ramsey276one]

It needed *LADY GAGA*

[@scottwright6822]

Rock or Hip Hop could have been fine. Making mid trailers is simple - music with a simple but punchy time signature and a memorable sound then edit the action to match it. It'll always be at least decent. They failed on every point.

[@boboboy8189]

​@@scottwright6822disagree, for ancient time. It's better to have traditional music because traditional music touch your heart and giving positive energy. Meanwhile what rap does for you brain? Nothing.....

[@Pull_a_Bharv]

Run Dmc and Aerosmith?

[@scottwright6822]

@@boboboy8189 For a good trailer? Absolutely. For a mid trailer you just go punchy and memorable with action edited to match. Dead easy and well understood. They couldn't even do that.

[@conanmn2381]

I was at a Minnesota Vikings game at the Metrodome when they decided to get the crowd fired up with some awful rap noise. When it finally ended you could hear a pin drop in the stadium. All I could do is laugh out loud at such a misplaced choice of music. Thankfully that was the end of that failed experiment.

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

About Vikings and music. The singing technic in Death/Black Metal called growling is actually how Vikings would sing, some songs. So, next time ask them to play some Norwegian Black Metal 🤘😁🇳🇴

[@conanmn2381]

@@DEATH-THE-GOAT hey, do you have a link to an example so I can listen to it?

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

@@conanmn2381 by some youtube curse am I not allowed to post links. But the band *"Dimmu Borgir"* song - _"Mourning palace"_ is a good start

[@Blodhelm]

@@conanmn2381 Heilung isn't Viking, it's an older style, but it does have a gravelly tone and a lot of drums. You might like them.

[@ravensblade]

@@DEATH-THE-GOAT Actually not. We don't have records of Vikings songs. It's mosty modern association made based on what now we thing of music fitting vikings.

[@RedWaveRedWave]

Hollywood is like being in an abusive relationship. After so many bad movies I threaten to leave but they know all it takes is one good movie to bring me back -_-

[@marcosgin777]

It’s so sad how they can’t make anything good anymore

[@Muck006]

It is entirely ON PURPOSE ... because they are COMMUNISTS and WANT TO DEMORALISE EVERYONE.

[@alexandermccabe556]

Ridley Scott is a hack its a sad realization but there is no other option

[@theunknowncommenter725]

He's seen better days.

[@dmacarthur5356]

It really is amazing that the same guy who gave us Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator to name a few can push out a turd like Gladiator II. ​@@theunknowncommenter725

[@the_absurd_hero]

What _was_ his last good film? I can't remember anything good that's more recent than _Gladiator_ which is ironic... (And if you say _Prometheus_ was OK, you're wrong)

[@alexandermccabe556]

@@the_absurd_hero prometheus was what made me realize this

[@dmacarthur5356]

@@the_absurd_hero The Last Duel was a decent movie.

[@tommerker8063]

casting denzel washington as a roman emperor is already enough to never watch this movie.

[@FacloFormerFavorite]

Why?

[@tommerker8063]

@@FacloFormerFavorite for the same reason i wouldn't watch a movie about shaka zulu starring daniel brühl as shaka. there was no roman emperor of subsaharan decent.

[@FacloFormerFavorite]

@ and Commodus wasn’t killed by a vengeful general.

[@tommerker8063]

@@FacloFormerFavorite so you would be fine with a white shaka zulu? or a white nelson mandela?

[@sandman_says_runrunner4701]

A good example of this issue in the past was the soundtrack for "Young Guns II". The film makers wanted to use Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive" because of the title of the song and it had the lyrics "I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride...". Jon said that the lyrics didn't fit the genre or movie (steel horse is a motorcycle for one), so he wrote "Blaze of Glory" specifically inspired by that movie. The end result speaks for itself.

[@danielkeizer4174]

Not just that track though they brought out a couple of singles around that movie. Both the movie and it's OST where bangers I might add. Still have them lying around somewhere.

[@mattjones7226]

I wore out my cassette of that soundtrack. Love that movie.

[@derekhamel2991]

Loved that song as a kid. Yung Guns 2 was awesome... up there with dirty jobs? For Emillio

[@sandman_says_runrunner4701]

@@derekhamel2991 You're right, it is a great movie and sound track. Are you thinking of "Men at Work" with his brother Charlie from 1990? Yeah his YGs movies are at the top... along with "Repo Man", "The Outsiders", "The Breakfast Club, and "St. Elmo's Fire".

[@magilser78]

Repo man always intense.

[@Reaper1744]

Same, got halfway through the trailer and hated it. Never wanted a 2nd Gladiator, we never needed another one. Gladiator is a top 3 movie for me and never though that Denzel would join a DEI project. Seeing Hollywood's cuck Predro Pascal in it, for some reason, told me everything I needed to know.

[@amyqb117]

They really may have pitched him something good. but clearly post-production is a b*tch

[@Blodhelm]

@@amyqb117 I think they just threw a ton of money at him and told him he wouldn't have to change his accent, that it wouldn't matter and he could phone in his performance like Anthony Hopkins in that terrible Transformers movie.

[@JohnSmith-op7ls]

Hope they keep making more of these flops. If they want to bleed themselves out, I’m happy, can’t happen soon enough

[@LunarSpiral1127]

There's a fan edit of the trailer that included a cover of Now We Are Free instead of the rap music, and it was 100X better than the actual trailer. In fact there are other fan edits trailers to Gladiator 2 where better music is added.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

Please link it!

[@ChaniElkin]

@@theunknowncommenter725 Evidently KZbin gets triggered by any links in comments as spam & will make the comment invisible. I actually made one b/c I got so annoyed when the hip-hop song started, which is a rush job & not great (some words got a bit cut off), although I do enjoy how it turned out. The other 2 best fixed versions I've seen are: 1) the one in the article that Disparu played a bit of & is by AD_edits, and 2) the fixed music version done by Foghorn Films. All 3 are on KZbin (my take's the most recent uploaded video on my channel) so if you include the channel name when searching, it should pop up easily in results.

[@LunarSpiral1127]

@ChaniElkin Dammit, is that why my comment isn't showing up? Aw, man.

[@ChaniElkin]

@@LunarSpiral1127 Probably. Evidently there's a thing if you swear in a comment KZbin lets you see the comment but no one else can. As for the comment being listed (says 1 reply), but not showing up if it has links: I love watching sports climbing comps & there was a recent copyright block issue on Lead semis & finals videos. Found out about the link issue when I was trying to inform people about Twitter updates & when the videos were available again. I was so confused at first, then learned about the algorithm-spam glitch so had to manually direct them instead of using link. Annoying but not the most aggravating thing KZbin does to users, so I just default now to general directions/info to find whatever it is I'm talking about.

[@Andrew-ix6ni]

I'm just sick of them trying to rewrite history to fit their narrative

[@DChosen13]

In what way? Rome conquered Carthage and their nobles were integrated into Roman nobility. This is BEFORE, the Arabs conquered North Africa. So the Cathagenians would have looked like the South Sudanese (the decendants of the K'met Empire, the place the "West" now calls "Ancient Egypt"). African nobles would also find themselves integrated into European nobility centuries later when the English, French, Germans, Spanish, Dutch, Belgians were trying to weasel their way into the African Empires, which they would later conquer from within.

[@tommerker8063]

@@DChosen13 dude, carthage was a phoenecian colony, they are not subsaharan, they are a semitic group and have roots in modern lybia. from your quotation marks i assume that you also believe that cleopatra was subsaharan african too. and your entire take on history is just baffling, you wokes realy are a pest.

[@DChosen13]

@@tommerker8063 the Egypt that everybody tries to claim was known as the K'met Empire. You know, the Pyramids, the Sphinx, the Great University Cities, the birth of European Mathematics and Medicine (Hypocrates and Pythogoras both studied in K'met under the students of High Priest Imhotep). Semitic people do not look anything like the Askanashi Jews of Europe. Streisand is Jew(ish) not Semetic. Do note that I pointed out that Cleopatra was "Greek". She is the decendant of the Macedonian who held Egypt after Alexander died... hence the quotes around the Greek. Macedonia has never been a part of Greece, but the greatest Macedonian is a "Greek". I note that YOU have nothing to say about the all white leading cast of a movie set in an African empire, before they had any interaction with the European continent. Make it all make sense.

[@tommerker8063]

@@DChosen13 if there was a world championship in mssing the point, you would hold it for life.

[@DChosen13]

@@tommerker8063 sorry for not agreeing with you on your very strongly held points, but I didn't want BOTH of us to be wrong. Keep on keeping on with your Ron DeSantis style history.

[@oraclejams]

Hears the word "colosseum" in the lyrics Critics: "It perfectly fits!"

[@crcartstv]

As a black man and being in film and editing ain’t no reason hip hop in anything involved in gladiator, we didn’t ask for that 😭🤣

[@oddbod4442]

Pedro Pascal and whoever that main actor is have all the gravitas and screen presence of a cave troll.

[@danielkeizer4174]

I thought it was the same person with de-aging software...not even joking. They are indeed both actors with the range of an orange.

[@ReLiKchaser]

looked like daniel radcliffe

[@dontgiveinfo]

i was thinking more like a wet fart

[@ironmonkey1512]

Music aside pretty much all of the cuts were a mess for various reasons

[@nickkoyle3599]

Two woksters playing Gladiators... Ahh Fk it they had a Commie play Capt America sooo.... Least back then they didn't value wokeism above all.

[@alannevin2490]

Hans Zimmer's soundtrack to the original "Gladiator" is stunning. What the Hell is going on with this crap?!!!

[@MrPopo-nn7kp]

It was so good he repackaged it several more times for other soundtracks.

[@frags4679]

To be honest it's just the trailer, and if anyone wants to say anything, I hope you didn't forget that the trailer back in 2000 played Kid Rocks Bawatiba

[@dicnar]

Watching the fan trailer with original Gladiator music is not only better but also gives me those nostalgia vibes. Using modern music in historical dramas/epics can work. Like in the BBC Barbarians documentary trailer and 300, which also had totally diffrent music in it’s trailers.

[@zeroryuj6093]

"Change the formula of the original" - "Distance itself from the original" Everything wrong with Hollywood summed up in two sentences.

[@lonestar6709]

_"Are you not entertained?!"_ With Jay Z, and Kanye West polluting my ears, a resounding no.....

[@RogueReplicant]

Wtf is Denzel doing in a Roman sandal epic? Tf

[@Trey-s6r]

Considering the fact that the parents of the two antagonists were sirian and north african, less sense has Joseph Quinn than Denzel Washington (who can pass as north african, common in Rome).

[@RogueReplicant]

@@Trey-s6r Yes, good point. Denzel could pass for North African and yes, many Roman citizens probably looked like him.

[@tommerker8063]

@@RogueReplicant no, he couldn't. just because someone is from africa doesn't make them a subsaharan native.

[@Nesut-king]

@@Trey-s6r he is black and he cant pass as north african

[@sid-alitelab8958]

@@RogueReplicant no he couldn't wtf

[@Ryan-qo9pr]

"But if people like our product, how will we lose millions?" -Hollywoke. 😂

[@nafisaustin5063]

Pascal and Denzel in a gladiator 2 movie spells death 💀

[@JaySimms-3lfer]

Holy shiet, I got goosebumps with that original Gladiator music!

[@Mr72Dolphins]

Long live the Star Wars Holiday Special

[@christophercoade977]

Italian theme movie + modern ghetto black culture A fantastic combination

[@Jirka-j2g]

Roman theme movie, italian music wouldn't make sense either

[@leonfrancis3418]

It's a fantastic combination, actually. As both are, neither the case.

[@Andrea_Gabrielli]

“It’s racist to say that Denzel Washington doesn’t fit in the setting of Gladiator 2.” Equalizer 3 is a movie set in Italy, which also stars Denzel Washington. Only difference is that it takes place in modern times. Nobody complained about that, so how exactly are we racist?

[@alessandrobaggi6129]

Agreed. 👍 And it's only starting to ramp up here, while finally common people in the USA are starting to react to the insanity. I thought we were in safer position due to the Vatican being here, but i guess i was wrong and, as usual, everything USA arrives here more or less 5 years later since the end of WW2... 🤦‍♂️

[@def_not_dan]

"music should be like an audible wallpaper. Just there, ignorable." - Great advice I got once from a very very drunk dude about music in film.

[@cristela4034]

Yeah, music in movies should set the tone but not distract from the scene or take the audience away from it. I'm so tired of Hollywood saying that I'm obligated to praise and spend money on their crappy movies. I'm not even american, I couldn't care less about their freaking politics.

[@samuel5591]

That sounds like bigoted istaphobe talk!!! How dare you not care which side of history you'll be on!?!? Etc etc.

[@alanbeaumont4848]

Terrible advice actually. As we have seen, the wrong music wrecks a scene, the right music sells it, as does silence and ambient sound used properly e.g 'Once Upon a Time in the West' which employs all forms brilliantly.

[@def_not_dan]

@@alanbeaumont4848 The only reason you know the wrong music is wrong is because you couldn't ignore it.

[@nathanjora7627]

@@def_not_danRight but there’s a difference between “ignorable” and “seamless”. A music should fit seamlessly with the scene it accompanies, unless the intent is to be jarring which isn’t all that often but does happen (as in knight tale where the contrast is purposefully comedic), but often the best musics are the ones that are as integral to a scene as any other visual element on screen. Like I don’t think anyone would say that the music in SW or LOTR is “ignorable”, because it clearly isn’t, it drags you right in the moment the movies are showing to you, and they’re hyper memorable precisely because they are not ignorable. A music that is merely ignorable is a mediocre score at best.

[@mudcrab3420]

My big concern is that I saw Napoleon, Big Shark and Godzilla -1 in the same week. Godzilla was the most historically accurate and Big Shark didn't have the most incoherent story line. Scott is past it

[@EndofTimeGaming-m9s]

i remember my grandmother saying to me "I don't care what they tell you in school, Maximus Decimus Meridius was black"

[@Trey-s6r]

The father of the two main antagonists was in fact, north african (and their mother sirian). So... They should be more black. At least Denzel can pass as a north african ruler (who were in Rome)

[@jay-by1se]

as an Italian, seeing my heritage erased. in my race replaced is both racist and disgusting.

[@samipersun9995]

310M$, geez. Adding that abomination of music is like getting the most expensive item in the menu (albeit it should not cost that much in the first place) and across it there’s smeared shit just because an owner of a restaurant is a prominent shit eater and they insisted on it.

[@sidvyas8549]

Salt Bae vibes

[@FacloFormerFavorite]

It’s a hip hop song. In a trailer. This is an insane thing to be mad about

[@questlazy122]

Gladiator is one of those movies that is so good it never needed a sequel. They were better off putting the OG film in theaters then do this abomination.

[@VictorLugosi]

He was Sicilian, Sicilian people are tanned, more than usual Italians. Basically they’ve taken “tanned” and decided that’s black..

[@tannagra]

There's so much stretching now to push a black narrative. Its not helping black people st alll.

[@G.D.G.]

Egypt sued for Cleopatra, Japan is sueing for a fantasy black samurai and I hope Italy sues this shit to alll hell.

[@sharwama992]

​@@G.D.G.Italy isn't going to sue because the North European looking individuals do not also represent them.

[@Veteran_Nerd]

The more checkboxes, the better quality film. That's what I've always heard.

[@Jeartozer]

When I first saw there was gonna be a Gladiator 2, my first thought was "why...?" My second thought was "Oh, Denzel... maybe it wont be so bad..." my last thought before closing the trailer was "oh.. Padro Pascal... welp now its gonna be stupid and dull... thanks guys..."

[@762Super]

They should rename it Alligatorator and have them fight alligators in the Colluseum to rap music.

[@davids2977]

The Gladiator 2 Trailer had my curiosity until that song started playing.

[@MugabesChin]

I lost my faith completely when Ridley farted on my balls

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

Yeah... as soon as that music started in the trailer I went from 😊 to ☹ pretty quickly...

[@FacloFormerFavorite]

@@xLionsxxSmithyxIt’s a trailer. Like you need to grow up and realize it’s a trailer

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

@@FacloFormerFavorite No, you Grow up.

[@FacloFormerFavorite]

@@xLionsxxSmithyx hip hop music hurt muh feelings

[@bintube5269]

Gladiator: The Way of Water

[@Blodhelm]

The way of something that flows, like a creek, a sh*t creek or a sewer.

[@lkhagwadorj]

More like way of sand

[@darthlaurel]

Guess who review bombs your trailer....... YOUR POTENTIAL AUDIENCE. F-ING 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Mocklericus]

It's about "aesthetic and mood". Which is why they used music that would best fit a bank heist movie.

[@ADHDX20]

Rappers be wearing sandals and carrying 9mm swords.

[@tootzy-the-roll]

I will never watch that movie. The first was a self contained story. I fail to understand what the second would be about.

[@TheFourthEmperorOfTheSea]

At this point, whenever I hear that Pedro Pascal is in something, I turn around and run in the opposite direction. This was someone who I used to respect when Mando season one came out, but then he got comfortable with his new “Hollywood It-Guy” status and showed his true colors. He became an absolute shill for the corporate media, and that’s not a very respectable title there. But even after that, I thought that his skills as an actor were admirable. Then something magical happened. It came out that he was only doing the voice of the Mandalorian, meaning all of his assumed talent(like be able to convey emotions through body language from behind a helmet) was not actually his, but Brendan Wayne’s and Lateef Crowder’s. Pedro’s absence was also one of the main reasons that Mando season 3 was ruined. They had to give his character arc away to Bo-Karen Reeeeeeze because Pedro wasn’t there to actually do his job as the protagonist. Right now, Pedro Pascal may be the Hollywood It-Guy, but soon, maybe after he messes up Mr. Fantastic too, everyone will see him for what he really is: a talentless hack who made his name off of being typecast as a “daddy”.

[@glitterkitty1979]

I totally agree. He's insufferable 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@cristela4034]

Him and Awkwafina seem to be everywhere these days. It's so annoying, so many good actors to choose but they get sidelined cause they don't have the "right" politics.

[@TheFourthEmperorOfTheSea]

@@cristela4034like Gina Carano!!!!!! She’s a miles better actress than those two!!!!

[@lJ0blixen]

@@TheFourthEmperorOfTheSeathat’s exactly why I’ll never watch anything with pascal or mark in it

[@TheFourthEmperorOfTheSea]

@@lJ0blixenboth Marks!!! Hamill and Ruffalo

[@TJCID22]

If Denzel was playing some random Roman noble/whatever I wouldn't have minded because there were black Romans at the time. In fact there were a lot of ethnically diverse Romans because as Rome conquered many of the conquered became citizens over time and rose to power (I think there were black senators too). But when you race swap a very specific historical figure (cough)Cleopatra(cough) for literally no good reason whatsoever, THEN we have a problem.

[@BookSquirrelUK]

Denzel W seems only good in the same kind of film, playing similar roles. He’s out of place in this film, which is jarring. Crowe was perfect in the original, and nothing so far makes me inclined to see this sequel.

[@amyqb117]

Denzel is actually so good an actor that I was willing to forget his obvious DEI hire, but i cant stand this DEI sound track.

[@nickeddy7919]

So dei just means black to you racist clown

[@johnjames4007]

“Knight’s Tale” and “Blazing Saddles” are highly entertaining, and no one cares about the anachronisms because these are good stories.

[@alanbeaumont4848]

Well Blazing Saddles isn't a cowboy film, it's a film about cowboy films and it dared to offend everybody.

[@ChaoticYak1]

I'll admit that I cared about the anachronisms in Knight's Tale. It bugged me to the point I couldn't enjoy it much. But I am a historian so I generally care a lot more about getting the details right than most.

[@samblack5313]

@@ChaoticYak1 That movie wasn't supposed to be a historically accurate time piece. That movie is great fun.

[@kaasmeester5903]

The anachronisms in those movies are intentional and used for comedic effect.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Nobody would squint an eye IF this movie was just a comedy about sword-and-sandal movies. BUT they call this Gladiator 2 and hence it dares to be compared to Gladiator. That’s why all the „these other movies did xyz“ arguments don’t work. This movie doesn’t name itself „Knight‘s Tale 2“ or „Blazing Saddles 2“, it named itself „Gladiator 2“. That name by its very nature raises expectations and if Hollywood wants the success it’s gunning for, it better delivers on those expectations (hint: the criticism with the trailer shows that between what the audience expects for a Gladiator 2 and what Hollywood intends to deliver is kind of a huge gap).

[@82yadav]

Gladiator was a soulful masterpiece. It made me cry when i first watched it at age 21 in India. Now im 42 years old and it still makes me cry. It did not deserve this bastardized soulless sequel. Not going to watch this disaster.

[@MyRealDelusion]

I thought everybody knew that America is the only world in the world. We are in a very delusional time in our country.

[@KennethRobinson-rf9wj]

Appreciate your authenticity, keep being real