Gladiator 2 Official Trailer: REACTION - It's A Mess!

[@metatronyt]

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[@JohnGeometresMaximos]

8:00 1211 A.D??? You obviously meant to say 211 A.D Minor slip... 😊

[@Suzanne_sf]

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[@TheresaGraf]

Nasty crap. No thanks. Eat MEAT.

[@metatronyt]

Also since I see quite a few comments saying this, I didn't say twelve hundred eleven, I said two hundred eleven. Maybe it's an accent thing? I know 1211 is the Middle Ages guys xD

[@miastupid7911]

@ 25:12 well...

[@darthonly5664]

"I don't care what they teach you in school, Colosseum was build for rap battle." - Someone's grandma.

[@claudiaxander]

For those too young to know, one of the first trailers for Gladiator had 'Bawitaba' by Kid Rock as a song. So you are correct!

[@jonboyjovi8383]

My grandma and your grandma sitting by the fire

[@shadowlancer45]

Always has been. There goes the foreshadowing of their agenda again. The teenage emperors with mulvany-like make up, "strong independent" women warriors etc. I will not be surprised if those two emperor bros had a bed scene together hikhikhik just kidding 😁😁😁😒

[@re1v3r]

Mom's spaghetti 🍝

[@claudiaxander]

@@shadowlancer45 Orange haired dark triad type tyrants wearing too much makeup...no, that'll be your side!

[@J..P..]

The biggest historical inaccuracy from the first one was the idea that the Praetorian guard would allow anyone else murder the emperor. That right belonged only to them.

[@ThePawcios]

Right in point XD

[@Gab3784]

Christos anesti ☦️

[@talithakoum3922]

I hope Metatron pins this comment. It's magnificent.

[@proudcanadian5713]

Same as how the Secret Service are the only ones allowed to assassinate a president. RIP JFK

[@kinsmarts2217]

Or when he walked while gravely injured from gaul to hispania if im not mistaken.

[@txaggievet]

If there was ever a movie that did not need a sequel, if ever a movie had a perfect ending and could have just been left alone... Gladiator was it.

[@DxV04]

100% agreement. This is a money grab project.

[@IeremiasMoore-El]

you can't think of any other movie that didn't need a sequel more huh...die hard...jaws...the mask....evan almighty, Highlander-"There Can Be Only One," ...wait we needed -HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING lol

[@txaggievet]

@@IeremiasMoore-El I didnt say that, I just said this one DID NOT need a sequel

[@kregorovillupo3625]

Disney's Mulan 2: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@kiiltochii1607]

How about Aliens or Terminator 2: Judgement Day

[@kenwarren9450]

As a purely zoological note -- a rhino at full charge would have absolutely no problem turning away from a cloud of dust. If you've ever seen rhinos in action in person, you know that they can turn on a dime.

[@MegaKnight2012]

@@kenwarren9450 They even create dust clouds before and during charges.

[@Lttlemoi]

Yeah, but "big and heavy" means "uncontrollable, dumb and slow to react" right? (goes back to the zoo to watch the hippos swim in their water basin)

[@grimsonforce7504]

Fr that was some bugs bunny loony toons shit. Rhinos are not only fast but can pivot like crazy.

[@Ntwister]

i found it funny because isnt rhinos basically almost blind already ? ^^

[@MegaKnight2012]

@@Ntwister Certain rhinos eyesight is so bad, they'll charge rocks thinking they're an adversary

[@JohnBownsArmy]

I dislike the way we treat history nowadays. No matter if its a simple Movie or something important like History Class. The World needs People like you, Metatron. Thank you for your Work.

[@HalfBlackSahraoui]

Cry

[@JohnBownsArmy]

@@HalfBlackSahraoui?

[@HalfBlackSahraoui]

@@JohnBownsArmy cry

[@JohnBownsArmy]

@@HalfBlackSahraoui I feel sorry for you. 🤣

[@mysterionmccormick_]

Metatron is a big liar

[@GothPaoki]

Ridley Scott lately has been trying his best to destroy his reputation earned earlier in his career.

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

Scott has gone full Biden. You never go full Biden.

[@YandreYak]

but he always been sorta weird fella, so dunno. what reputation? :)

[@dusk6159]

That might be the most incredible part of all of this, more than the garbage itself He is willing to do this Completely destroyed himself

[@anasevi9456]

It's sad because I really respect Ridley Scott for Alien, and even his first historic; 1492 Conquest of Paradise was an actually really epic and above average in accuracy film; that was unjustly tarred and feathered by American indigenous 1 dropper |ynchmob. But his historics since have all been pretty unhinged pantomime. The signs of "Ridley DGAF anymore about historical accuracy" was there with the original Gladiator, but it's been off the rails with increasing intensity since. Though King of Heaven kino cut is a decent watch too.

[@dusk6159]

@@anasevi9456 Conquest of paradise was actually something that came up to me Very lovely like Stone's Alexander

[@metatronyt]

Also since I see quite a few comments saying this, I didn't say twelve hundred eleven, I said two hundred eleven. Maybe it's an accent thing? I know 1211 is the Middle Ages guys xD PS: Oh I did didn't I? Apologies for that I meant 211

[@JohnGeometresMaximos]

Either way, we love the content. 😊

[@DYT2]

I think you just misspoke. Even with an accent, two hundred (and) eleven sounds quite different to twelve eleven.

[@metatronyt]

@@DYT2 You are correct!

[@dr.sergeykutzofykock9720]

He definitely said 1211. I rewound it twice lol. Threw me off gaurd. But hey, at least he acknowledged it! That's why I love The Metatron!

[@oscarberolla9910]

Me salio en los subtitulos y dije ¿¿que??

[@TetsuShima]

The fact this thing was written by the guy who wrote Napoleon makes me feel not surprised at all with the things they are showing, ngl

[@FigmentHF]

No one has seen the movie lol. People are mostly angry at the rap. It looks like a fun Sunday afternoon romp, maybe we all need to chill out a bit and elevate what we like, above what we don’t, in order to have more cool stuff while we’re alive. You can’t change reality, but you can change your perspective to be more receptive

[@bigguy7353]

​​@@FigmentHFThey didn't say anyone saw it, lol. You shoehorned that in. And no, it isn't just the rap. Hispanics are annoyed because they rightfully observe that Hispanics didn't genetically exist at the time so why are any Hispanic people in any roles in a movie set in ancient Rome? There's many other reasons as well. Sorry, but you don't have it all figured out. Changing perspective doesn't include accepting lies, race hustling and historical revisionism.

[@jabronisauce6833]

@@FigmentHFBror the trailer is showing parts of the movie stop being a little soft ass kisser secretly hurt by every negative comment because it’s going to be ass.

[@astrol4b]

He also wrote gladiator 1

[@TetsuShima]

@@astrol4b David Scarpa didn't write Gladiator 1

[@talithakoum3922]

My therapist: Mad Roman Emperor Ed Sheeran isn't real. He can't hurt you. Mad Roman Emperor Ed Sheeran: 13:50

[@FazeParticles]

Jarring indeed.

[@DanielThureskog]

Ed Sheeran and Danny Elfman.

[@talithakoum3922]

@@DanielThureskog Yes 😂

[@davidjones8043]

Why is he so ghay looking?

[@Gaibreel]

I'm sobbing

[@eglantinepapeau1582]

Denzel plays a character that really existed (Macrinus, born c. 164 -died June 218), he was moorish, from northern Africa (Algeria), not black . Think Rami Malek or Tony Shalhoub with a beard . Also he was never a slave nor did he sell slaves himself . they completely changed his story for the movie , they just used the fact that he was from Africa .

[@simonsmith1974]

I'm just wondering why they didn't ask Rami to play him? He'd be awesome AND accurate

[@dominictafoya2205]

​@@simonsmith1974because Denzel is a better actor and the movie was never suppose to be historically accurate. I mean they speak English lol

[@simonsmith1974]

@@dominictafoya2205 so historical accuracy is just a thing to you? They CHANGED a man's story just for the movie. Think about that, that's pretty insulting to the memory of the guy being portrayed. I'm not against Denzel taking the part but with historical figures it's important to me as accurate as possible. Or you get people believing Cleopatra was a different colour than she was for example.

[@dominictafoya2205]

@simonsmith1974 if they really wanted to be accurate then they'd have the whole film be spoken in classical latin and not English. It's an action movie with historical aesthetics that doesn't claim to be historical accurate or at least shouldn't as even the first wasn't accurate

[@eglantinepapeau1582]

@@dominictafoya2205 I was just pointing out the differences . I know it's historical fiction like the first one . Simply geeking around with historical lore that's all .

[@firingallcylinders2949]

We went from Now We are Free by Hans Zimmer to Lil Yachty....Ridley Scott needs to just hang it up.

[@ahmorgan]

You do know Ridley Scott didn’t cut the trailer, right?

[@diggidy5367]

Calm down, Hans Zimmer still produces the score for the movie, it's just a trailer. The original gladiator movie also had rock music for it's trailers.

[@firingallcylinders2949]

@@diggidy5367 I just went to the Gladiator 1 trailer and all I hear is the movie score.

[@diggidy5367]

@@firingallcylinders2949 there's several trailers, there's one where in a coliseum battle it's implied that a guys head is cut off at the end of the trailer. That was set to Rock music.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

@@ahmorgan You know the trailer is supposed to use the music from the movie? If it doesn't, somebody is slipping

[@foosmonkey]

Gladiator 2: Training Day

[@firingallcylinders2949]

hahahaha

[@gimmethepinkelephant3685]

Good one.

[@HPLovesCraftsCat]

lol yup

[@An2oine]

This one here.

[@IndianArma]

Training day was great. This looks like it's going to sour the memory of the most perfect movie ever.

[@danielmontilla1197]

Hollywood Hollywoo'ing hard with this one.

[@pedroroggla8129]

you got it right friendo

[@dusk6159]

Netflixing mainly The worst and most forgettable and obscure thing ever, that's what is this film, like the other ones of its kind in the recent years People won't care or take it seriously, let alone in a situation where there's The Gladiator by the same Scott

[@brunomerinocanales3433]

I can swear someone messed up the Caracalla and Geta casting and casted Nero and Caligula instead

[@James_Ford4815]

yup getting caligula look vibe from both and caligula persona from the short weird one

[@dragoninthewest1]

0:26 I'm going to level with you, if they didn't call this Gladiator 2 and it was just some sword and sandal fantasy movie , I'd be all in.

[@TetsuShima]

The guy who plays Caracalla literally looks like he was supposed to play Elagabalus. I think the writers got the historical records of the wrong Severan ruler 😅

[@gordonhuskin7337]

Not if you follow kosher history

[@defectiveindustries]

@@gordonhuskin7337 Oy Vey!

[@martinkafka9510]

Yep, my exact thought when I saw him.

[@talithakoum3922]

​@@martinkafka9510 Right. Unless it's well-known that the younger brother was taller than the elder - for example, Lorenzo _il Magnifico_ Medici and his younger brother Giuliano - shouldn't the taller of the two actors be playing the older brother?

[@notsocrates9529]

Wasn't Caracalla an Arab or a Semitic man?

[@anastasiosgkotzamanis5277]

I just experienced the ultimate meta: near the three minute mark, the video got interupted for an ad and the ad was the "Gladiator 2" trailer...

[@rdf4315]

😂

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

Now take a deep relaxing breath and tell me : are any of these trailers in the room with us now...?

[@DJWeapon8]

That's a "Yo Dawg" moment, right there.

[@Torfin2001]

13:50 I get that an actor doesn't need to be identical to the historical character he represents. Klaus Maria Brandauer looked almost nothing like Nero, and yet he gave one of the greatest portrayals that emperor got in the 1985 adaptation of "Quo Vadis." However, the actor who plays Caracalla not only looks nothing like the Severan, but he also doesn't act like him, seeming more like a cheap rip-off of Caligula than the savage sociopath that Caracalla was.

[@bigguy7353]

Is getting the race correct so difficult? None of us even know exactly what the any of these people looked like for sure.

[@aidan1R]

We have more than enough evidence for what most of them looked like dude, emperors had a lot of statues and busts ​@@bigguy7353

[@waterbloom1213]

​@@bigguy7353 We have descriptions, we have paintings, we have thousands of sculpts that along with genetic testing give us an extremely good idea of what they looked and didn't look like, also with the fact that when individuals of another ethnicity rose to prominence their appearance was sure to stand out and be described, like Emperor Philip the Arab or even the Severans from the movie period due to some of their Syrian ancestry To me it seems like this movie does the racial part well as it is not shoehorned in

[@willfakaroni5808]

Well how else would you get the effeminate man child Roman vs muscular barbarian with stubles?

[@MegaKnight2012]

@@Torfin2001 This seems on brand for Ridley Scott's dogged dedication to piss on historical accuracy, so it's accurate for his track record

[@stevenmortelmans2877]

Just a quick museum advertisement: in the Gallo-Roman museum in Tongeren, Belgium (formerly Atuatuca Tungrorum), there's an exhibition on colours in antiquity, with reproductions of statues with how the would have been coloured based on the analysis of paint residu. Exhibition runs until September 1st, 2024.

[@lilibug.]

As they say in the TV series Rome "Those lions you brought me were useless! Wouldn't pull my chariot for shit, and bit the arm off a perfectly good groom!"

[@theramblinmahoney2316]

As a huge fan of the original I refuse to acknowledge this things existence.

[@theramblinmahoney2316]

@ch-yq5ynPlenty of people like trash, doesn’t change it from being trash.

[@nigelw7626]

@ch-yq5yn You can't account for good taste.

[@djbillybopdjbillybop2817]

@ch-yq5yn Spot on.

[@djbillybopdjbillybop2817]

@@theramblinmahoney2316 you have not seen the Movie yet.

[@Vahisofficial]

The first one is My all time favorite movie, so im really skeptical about this but hopeful.

[@donaldmcgillavry1292]

finally a authentic medieval movie with period hippity hop music.

[@LoneWolfFromEast]

It's not a medieval movie. Medieval was centuries after this set up.

[@nemanjastevanov9980]

@@LoneWolfFromEast Joke > your head

[@diggidy5367]

@@donaldmcgillavry1292 it's just a trailer, a teaser at that, Hans Zimmer still produces the movie score. Did you get as worked up for Kid Rock's music being played in one of trailers for the first Gladiator? My guess is no.

[@betrayedcitizen5135]

⁠@@diggidy5367 from the trailer alone this is how I felt. 1. Main character is unknown to me so not a draw card. 2. I find Pedro Pascal mildly annoying. 3. They made Emperor Caracalla look like a pasty faced Ponce and therefore lacks presence. 4. The music ( for the trailer) was jarring. So the trailer didn’t work for me. The actual film may be better and I will reserve overall judgement.

[@sian2337]

@@LoneWolfFromEast- oh wow 😂

[@Astorath_the_Grim]

We need a movie about Aurelian. Thats a man who deserves to be immortalized in film.

[@carterghill]

Please no. I don't want to see what kind of gay fan fiction the hollywood schizo's would conjure up for him

[@Astorath_the_Grim]

@@carterghill a good movie I mean lol

[@bigguy7353]

​@@carterghillSo you would seek out gay fan fiction of other movies...... what, just to see what they make up? That's really niche, maybe just don't look for it. If you don't I guarantee you'll never see it.

[@carterghill]

@@Astorath_the_Grim lol fair enough, his story is an epic one, I'd love to see it played out too if it was done well

[@waterbloom1213]

Galienus carried hard before him

[@henriqueacabral]

"romans didnt discriminate, they hated everyone equally" ahah

[@doubtingflock1073]

Caracalla was a violent brute and looked like one. Famously, they divided the palace in half because they couldn't stand to be around each other. They would not be hanging out at the games.

[@simonsmith1974]

Caracalla, Caligula, Nero. Roman emperors were famous for being nutcases and either psychopathic/sociopathic. The Severan line was one of the worst. But they were all pretty much nutters

[@GamesofFate-id8yi]

They gave him manussy🫣

[@SK-ut6tw]

Thank God they added Jay-Z to transport us right back to ancient rome.

[@OrigMaelstrom]

@@SK-ut6tw would it be better with Kid Rock?

[@SK-ut6tw]

@@OrigMaelstrom I was thinking more like Doja cat.

[@zh2266]

Why play music at all. No historical trailer or full film should feature contemporary music, ever.

[@SK-ut6tw]

@@zh2266 False. Music is meant to transcend time and space. Such as the music of Hans Zimmer. The correct music brings forth a deep human emotion that has no time period but tells the story of humanity. Jay z isn't one of those pieces.

[@kenji444]

Good thing this movie isnt a factual historical accurate movie :)

[@chrisdraper845]

Always hate it when they have to make the bad guys Dr. Evil level in appearance, because hey, these are the bad guys and we need to make it obvious to the audience. Instead of relying on good writing and acting to illustrate the fact naturally. As per Commodus in the first one.

[@deanandsamAO3]

I agree. The best villains are those who seem anything but.

[@KaeYoss]

Good writing and acting is no longer something they want to waste money on in Hollywood.

[@infinitesimotel]

They always must resemble Nartzees, becusae remember who you should unduly hate.

[@Marta-zm8oe]

Yeah! And for some reason male villains have to be "afeminate"? We had that with Disney

[@simonsmith1974]

TBF I clocked Commodus as the villain LONG before he was revealed to be. But that's just because I'm annoyingly hard to surprise with regards to plots in film and occasionally books. To the point I figured out the ending to Ghost Ship five minutes into it.

[@troll_kin9456]

Using pop music genres in the score is a fail-proof way to make a movie that will be forgotten in a month.

[@kennysasinoski1097]

The mob is fickle

[@claudiaxander]

“For those too young to know, one of the first trailers for Gladiator had 'Bawitaba' by Kid Rock as a song.

[@Hathur]

Do keep in mind, in 99% of cases, neither the director or any people who directly made the movie (writer, producers etc) have ANY say whatsoever in the making of the trailer. They almost never even get to see the trailer until the public does. The trailers are ALWAYS made by the studio financing the film, NOT the director / writer or anyone who actually made the movie. The money-men make the trailers... which is why they are often utter garbage.

[@OrigMaelstrom]

@troll_kin9456 I know, right? I mean there was this film that came out about 20 years ago about some dude fighting in the forest, then some bad king dude, like tried to kill him and he ended up doing some old time MMA shit, and finally ended up in the bad dudes face and ... well crap, it's because of that stupid song in the trailer that I can't remember the name.. Glastonator? DecimaTor? Well shit, whatever it was, it had to suck, cause, ya know, Kid Rock and all that

[@TreyeParker]

Judge the movie not the trailer. ... Just wait for a review... It's that easy

[@asliaydinlar]

I like listening people who are knowledgable and talk about a topic they are passionate about with enthusiasm.

[@bsaneil]

In the scene at 4.14 you got to love the way the circular Temple of Hercules Victor (to the left, middle distance next to the Colloseum) has moved half a mile from its actual location, and already by 210 AD has lost its frieze and acquired its mediaeval tiled roof!

[@gabreritzglaser]

The emperors are looking like a Saint Seiya Gold Knights

[@emmanuelogunlana877]

Athena wouldn't be pleased.

[@aselliofacchio]

They look like both Commodus+Elagabalus. Ridley scotch has no respect for history and hasn't made a good movie for more than 20 years.

[@NewYasmine-nl9jq]

Pegasus Maximus 😂

[@Jaris84R]

The movie no one wanted

[@unitron2005]

That's every movie of the last 5-10 years.

[@jakubolszewski8284]

What? Why no one? At least some years ago many people wanted.

[@bigguy7353]

​@nicholas4727 Ooh, you're sure about that when reboot after sequel after historical revisioning fails at the box office? May want to research recent history.

[@bigguy7353]

​@@unitron2005Not quite, but all the ones with woke and dei ham fisted in certainly have, which I concede is most these days.

[@FigmentHF]

@@unitron2005I just watched Anatomy of a fall, followed by The zone of interest, then I checked out Furiousa and Challengers. It’s been a damn exceptional week for cinema for me lol. I’d try to adjust some internal thing. If all cinema for a decade or more, has been lacklustre and disappointing for you.. well, you’re probably the problem, as opposed to the universe being wrong. Good lock bro! I hope you find some happiness and entertainment before you pass on, but you’ll have to learn to collaborate with reality, rather than fighting it in order to feel superior to it 🙏🏻💙🙏🏻

[@symmetricasymmetric9154]

I saw the trailer an hour ago and thought "this is going to make a good Metatron video".

[@Aelwyn666]

Gladiator 2: Ridley's Shameless Cash Grab.

[@missdeadite9696]

as a xenomorph I can assure you our blood is acidic. It's like lemon juice though, so if it gets into an open wound it's gonna sting like hell.

[@almorad981]

Dear Metatron, actually Denzel Washington is once again not plausible in this movie because he is cast as Macrinus, who was a praetorian prefect under Caracalla, and then emperor himself for one year. And he , like Hannibal, was a north african, born in the coastal city of Iol-Caesarea, so he could not be ...black ! Here we go with Hollywood bullshit once again ! The funny thing is that they had done something good for just a small detail, that he wore a ring in his ear, which is historically established.

[@rafaelyamano2661]

the casting of Caracalla and Geta is also wrong. They were a mix of Gaul, North African and Syrian. All Severans were mixed (Septimus was Lybian-Roman, Caracalla Lybian-Gaulish-Syrian, Heliogabalus was part Arab, and so on)

[@LenaFerrari]

It's sad that he could actually fit in this movie, but they had to give him a character that wouldn't fit him

[@umetcalf]

Denzel is probably mixed

[@TheRomanTribune]

​@@umetcalfhe's black.. period.

[@TheRomanTribune]

Exactly I said this in my comment too

[@robfromjersey7899]

Not even 20 seconds in and we get a Khorne reference. I love this channel.

[@petrusjnaude7279]

I choked on my drink laughing.

[@stax6092]

Same Fam.

[@simonsmith1974]

I wonder if there'll be Orks involved in the film?? 😂😂😂 Knowledge is power, guard it well

[@tylerdordon99]

"Rome ain't got shit on me!"

[@arielquelme]

"My Nubian"

[@samueladorno478]

Right on !

[@samueladorno478]

​@@arielquelmeI know they couldn't conquer Nubia, they got turned back.

[@fabricliver]

Original ancient Roman music according to Karl Marx kzbin.infoP9gN1JFTgss

[@tylerdordon99]

@@fabricliver facts

[@YouTubalcaine]

Casting Denzel as Macrinus makes about as much sense as casting Rainn Wilson as Shaka Zulu.

[@wambokodavid7109]

Stop being alarmists over crap shit ..was maricaun or whatever the only person with that name??hes just a slaver in the movie nothing has been said about him being murican or whatever 🙄

[@Maatization]

Europeans have created a history that is completely white and its a lie. Roman and Greece got everything they knew from Egypt/Kemit...there were all types of people in Italy. That was before the man-made concept of White people and racism was invented.

[@kharldojo7137]

Metatron disagrees with you 😅

[@dickenscider4082]

Just like Max Von Sydow, Robert Powell, Willem Dafoe, Jeremy Sisto, Jim Caviezel, or any white man playing Jesus.

[@josefmoucka9584]

It's 2024, so I wasn't surprised, that they did blackwash with Macrinus, but that they did whitewash too with Caracalla and Geta (in the sense that they are played by Irish like looking guys instead of guys with typical southern mediterenean look), that really surprised me.

[@IbnRushd-mv3fp]

They always get celts to play romans

[@josefmoucka9584]

@@IbnRushd-mv3fp really always? Could you please give examples? Technical detail, this is not ironic question, I genuine curious, because I had to miss it.

[@willfakaroni5808]

They would have been darker then southern Italians, there father was a very swarthy Punic man and there mother was an Arab

[@josefmoucka9584]

@@willfakaroni5808 well, when I said southern mediterenean look, I meant coast of northern africa. I consider Italians as people with northern mediterenean look.

[@willfakaroni5808]

@@josefmoucka9584 yeah fair enough

[@AbbysinianReaction]

You know Metaron Denzel is a great actor, but I would love him to do a West African like King Sundiata Keita or Ose TuTu instead of a Roman would be 100% badass. But Hollywood just knows how to disappoint us all, no matter the color of one's skin now!

[@DzinkyDzink]

Him behaving less like Detective Alonzo would also help quite a bit.

[@defectiveindustries]

He's regarded as a great actor, yet another YT comment said he was overrated. Got me thinking about all his roles, and it's kind of true; Denzel does seem to play all his characters the same, or at least with many of the same traits

[@HPLovesCraftsCat]

diversity hire

[@ahmorgan]

Lmao

[@GG-ou7it]

@ch-yq5yn Denzel has made no effort to change his accent or demeanor in this trailer atleast. The character will just be Denzel lmao

[@Augusto9588]

Rap music doesn't belong in a "historical" movie.

[@miastupid7911]

"No church in the wild". The lyrics and the music video of that song, let's just say are fitting to the current times. And this I say even though that video was directed by Romain Gavras. In 2012!!! There is a reson for all of this "messaging".

[@ahmorgan]

It’s not in the movie technically

[@HPLovesCraftsCat]

that really took me out of it, not that it looked great anyways but why the hell was there rap music covering a rome era movie??

[@bigguy7353]

​@@miastupid7911All the wild is a church. I'm not religious but philosophically it's all God's creation therefore a monument to His work.

[@jamesrowsell9346]

all the music in every film made is modern music you dumb dumbs

[@DJ.Michelle]

Lmfao!!! Tell me why metatron listing all the types of bronze immediately made me think of bubba of bubba gump shrimp on Forrest gump?!?!?! "...shrimp scampi, shrimp gumbo, shrimp sandwiches, shrimp etouffe, butterfly shrimp..." etc 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DJWeapon8]

LOL Now I'm imagining Metatron listing all the dishes you can make with *_pasta._*

[@atimidbirb]

I misheard painted and I was squinting in absolute confusion at the screen thinking you said "I have a problem with the statues not being naked"

[@robryan2079]

25:15 “the Romans didn’t discriminate and they hated everyone equally” I found that completely hilarious 😂😂😂

[@ComposedSage75]

Could’ve just created a new thing instead of trying to bring back older movies. Hollyweird is definitely creatively bankrupt.

[@affinityxs]

Hollywood is certainly hollyweird

[@ziopera9601]

Sometimes is Hollyweird, sometimes is Unholywood, sometimes is Loliwould, sometimes is Hollwewuz, but it's always Oyllyveyd

[@bigguy7353]

​@@ziopera9601Sometimes? And hide your religious hatred better.

[@gappleofdiscord9752]

@@bigguy7353 wha-

[@IbnRushd-mv3fp]

It's because most of the people who run hollywood are too busy creating fantastical stories about their own race 😂

[@AxeGaijin]

"Unless he comes back as a zombie." Nah they'll do that for Gladiator III, The Revenging. 😋

[@nikbear]

They already thought of that, an early storyline was written by Nick Cave! 😮 in which Maximus fought an army of the dead legionary soldiers in Hades! Needless to say, this was quickly dropped 😂

[@MegaKnight2012]

At this point, Maximus fighting through the underworld would be so bonkers and feel so out of place with the first movie's tone, it would better as a sequel because it would be easier to ignore as canon

[@baronvonboomboom4349]

Sits back and grabs popcorn.

[@Ptaaruonn]

I brought beer, we are going to need it.

[@purefoldnz3070]

15:48 Caracalla hated his brother and wouldnt be in the same room with him let alone enjoy the games together.

[@kittehgo]

If I am not totally mistaken, gladiator fights had rules and a point system. What I do know for sure is that gladiators had great healthcare, and they were not just thrown away.

[@kakarotwolf]

The rap music is what killed all hope for me.

[@tadficuscactus]

Of course, they have to N it up as much as possible. Thanks Jew.

[@kakarotwolf]

@@tadficuscactus I'm not a Jew? That's random as hell dude.

[@dorugoramon0518]

@@kakarotwolf He was speaking rhetorically, as the demographics of hollywood are not representative of actual americans, but rather certain groups which are a minority of the general population are ovverepresentated.

[@GrippyClips]

@@tadficuscactus do you sit around sulking all day thinking everyone else is the problem? if you don't have anything important to say don't say it.

[@jimjambananaslam3596]

The problem is that it's modern music, not that it's rap. You specified rap music because YOU don't like it, and now you've attracted the hillbilly who doesn't like black people because his cousin-wife left him for one.

[@TetsuShima]

it's pretty sad how this movie will surely treat the Severan dinasty, which, until now, was completely forgotten by Hollywood despite being completely fascinating the reigns of Septimius the tyrant, Caracalla the barbaric, Elagabalus the libertine and Alexander the tragic. At least we have the 1911 film "L'orgie romaine", about Elagabalus' crazy reign

[@bigguy7353]

Forgotten by Hollywood? Like they were ever curators or purveyors of accurate history? It's forgotten by many *historians* , and 99.99% of the general population have no clue it existed.

[@gypsylee333]

The transes are always trying to claim Elagabalus as one of the 1st transwomen 🤣

[@vgamedude12]

​@@gypsylee333LMAO

[@swordguy1243]

The original movie was so elegant in it's simplicity and grittiness . This one seems too opulent and over the top even though I guess by this period Rome was on it's peak

[@septimiusseverus343]

One of my favourite dynasties, as you can obviously see. The Severans ought to have remained untouched and unsullied by Shoddywood. Septimius Severus as the Punic Sulla, Caracalla as the Common Enemy of Mankind, Elagabalus as the Bacchus of Rome, Alexander as the Last Princeps. Not to mention the Julias Domna, Maesa, Soemias and Mamaea. This film will make them into a laughing stock.

[@HPLovesCraftsCat]

here we go..rip Gladiator legacy

[@arielquelme]

Now its rest in Piss

[@PhthaloGreenskin]

Great username and pfp XD

[@tadficuscactus]

He shouldn't denigrate the swastika like that.

[@NoRemorse1992]

​@tadficuscactus I agree.

[@etherealdragon207]

Pedro Pascal is a poor man's Antonio Banderas.

[@heldinahtmlhell]

Most of today's actors seem like poor imitations. Who are the good actors and movie stars now? There don't seem to be many around. I haven't even heard of any of these people, aside from Denzel.

[@MyUserTubeAccount]

he was great in Narcos, but yea

[@mymealias]

Antonio was way better

[@Daurio4747]

I agree 💯 percent.

[@lozpopo]

A much better actor than Banderas ever was imo

[@NapoleonCalland]

Mental image of xenomorphs sitting down with space marines discussing inaccuracies in Alien 👾

[@CatotheE]

It feels like Pedro is in everything these days.

[@deusvult6900]

Unpopular opinion, but it's too much..

[@beardedlonewolf7695]

@@deusvult6900 it's not unpopular, I see a lot of comments about this all the time lol and we all know why he's everywhere.

[@howareyoualiveifyoudonteatbeef]

is it cos his brother is trans or cos Pedro is an 'eternal bachelor'? 😂​@@beardedlonewolf7695

[@MandalorV7]

The Mandalorian made him popular and now he's in everything.

[@CatotheE]

@@beardedlonewolf7695 Why? Because he’s seen as non-white by some people?

[@Mario-us7ds]

"Kingus Kongus ain't got shit on me" - Alonsius Harrius

[@cp1cupcake]

I remember the first Gladiator having boob armor, but I also remember it being for gladiatorixes and figured it was supposed to in line with the whole 'gladiators were entertainers' motif that they forgot about.

[@vrannotbran4745]

I shall proceed with pretending that Scott stopped making movies decades ago.. purely for my own sanity...

[@ulfdanielsen6009]

Maximus Decimus Meridius coming back as a Zombie bringing with him the entire Armies Of The North and the Felix Legions Under The Roman Empire thus heralding the advent of the Zombie Apocalypse would be a movie I would pay good money to watch.

[@kraz007]

Blood for the blood god, money for the money gods 🎉

[@firingallcylinders2949]

The best part about movies and shows set in antiquity is that the narrative is usually: Rome bad, but in pop culture Rome is almost always still universally liked and rooted for lol

[@Taicho116]

I have seen much of the world, it is brutal and cruel and dark ROME IS THE LIGHT.

[@umetcalf]

Pop culture is delusional

[@IbnRushd-mv3fp]

And funny enough when they need to make virtue signals apparent they'll use poor christians (while being ant religious af) as a stand in for oppressed minorities.

[@firingallcylinders2949]

@@Taicho116 Rome stands for stability in a different time. It's easy to look in our modern world and say Rome was archaic but it was law and order in a brutal time period.

[@aselliofacchio]

​@@firingallcylinders2949exactly, people really downplay and ignore the law and order that Roma brought to the conquered people, and not only that. Life of Brain genius sketch with the free front of Judea activists explains it very well.

[@killianmiller6107]

Metatron saying what sounds Like “twelve eleven” confused me when talking about the two emperors, had to check, I guess he means 211 AD

[@elizabethlyons1066]

Same here

[@YandreYak]

mb he meant 12, 11th year of 3rd century :)) not sure, but also got confused

[@GholaTleilaxu]

He is becoming Murikan.

[@debrickashaw9387]

5:30 Even HBO Rome did this correctly. They had full colors on their statues and buildings. This "white marble myth" should be retired already

[@DataBeingCollected]

The popular post-2018 zeitgeist of “white marble didn’t exist” is also an inaccuracy. More on the actual evidence after a bit of relatively recent 21st century history. The actual science behind Polychromy is excellent because color did exist on statuary. Unfortunately, this topic is a personal pet peeve of mine because the science was hijacked by 21st century identity politics around 2016-2022 by certain people in the art community, (and probably encouraged by Vinzenz Brinkmann himself, the original leading archeologist on polychromy who has softened his more political views on the subject recently.) The movement subtly pushed a narrative of “White Marble = Myth. Western Art was actually gaudy, colorful, and degenerate!”. I don’t blame them entirely, as there had been a long running Mussolini era “white marble supremacy” myth that has lingered since the early 1900’s. Reaction against this was a driving factor for Brinkmann’s research in the first place. There where many in the art community who liked this specific social-political narrative, and they were quick to adopt and assume Brinkmann’s original interpretations of polychromy as an archeologist (he was never an artist) such as his 2004 Augustus Caesar as 100% accurate and true to reality. It you recall, it was famously described as ‘a cross-dresser trying to hail a taxi’ by an art historian, (and I personally feel Brinkmann created it in the same spirit of Arthur Evan’s famously inaccurate Minoan Frescos.) Luckily, research on accurate polychromy seems like it has taken the driver’s seat, and the identity politics along with the original bad art interpretations have taken a back seat to the science and data. Modern politics, whether I personally agree or disagree with it should never be a factor in understanding the past. Back to the evidence. Just because one reality (only white marble, no color!) is definitively wrong, does not means (only color! No white marble!) is now the correct answer. You see examples of this from the frescos in Pompeii and even old preserved villas outside of Rome such as the Villa of Livia. One example, just search “Statue of Mars, Pompeii Garden Fresco”. The reality is much more sophisticated, I will forever argue this point, not because I care about white marble or colored marble, but because both statements are just blanket hand waves that don’t reflect reality. We have to remember, we are dealing with thousands of years of poorly recorded Greco-Roman art tradition. Pigments were not stable in the past. We, the people of the post-renaissance world, are not the first people to experience greco-Roman statuary with missing paint. This is a Roman era fresco where the Roman era artist depicted a statue in a garden. It is clearly painted as a white marble statue, with the only elements of color remaining in the statue’s hair, and cloak. (Painted in such a way to appear faded and worn, probably to highlight the antiquity and age of the statue in this fantasy garden scene on the wall.) An almost 2,000 year old example that the Romans probably had their own debates on the merits of polychromy vs white marble far removed from 20th century identity politics. Let’s not dumb down, belittle, and put into a box, the sophistication of people belonging to a cosmopolitan, continent spanning Greco-Roman culture from the past with thousands of years of history, to include art history.

[@samueladorno478]

Now that I think of it, this film should be called "And Another Emperor Bites The Dust".

[@baronvonboomboom4349]

I think it would be interesting to see like a top 10 list of historically accurate movies that you've seen or have interest in. I'd watch that.

[@thomasbuchovecky171]

Gettysburg is a pretty good historically accurate movie

[@fransbuijs808]

Zulu Dawn with Burt Lancaster and Peter O'Toole is another good one.

[@zh2266]

We don't do that here. We nitpick historical fiction to sound smart

[@V-X-Z-N]

You can use comma and full-stop when the video is paused to frame skip :) (if you didn't know)

[@metatronyt]

I didn't know that! Thanks!

[@DYT2]

The real MVP right here.

[@oliverwoodcock5307]

Genuine brilliant comment 🫡

[@Imperial_Legacy]

I know Kingdom of Heaven is an old movie but I would love to see you make a dedicated video on that movie

[@thefilmeffect6089]

The studio really messed that movie up for its theatrical release. I love the director’s cut though. That was before Ridley Scott was washed up.

[@RealmOfDawn]

One of me and my fathers favourite movies! We've watched it over and over. Saw Shad react to it and hated how he didnt appreciate it.

[@RohatSinci]

+1

[@aselliofacchio]

​​@@RealmOfDawnalmost everything shown on screen in that movie is wrong and even the plot and characters per se are terrible.

[@MegaKnight2012]

That movie is best remembered for how historically inaccurate it. Real Crusades History did a podcast bringing on multiple crusader historians to discuss how inaccurate it was.

[@dannyf5339]

historian: "there is no ...." Ridley scott : "Excuse me, mate, were you there? No?"

[@radianman]

Denzel Washington is playing an arms dealer and Gladiator owner named Macrinus; I suspect his character may be intended to be Marcus Opellius Macrinus, the Equestrian Berber from Mauretania Caesariensis in North Africa, who became Roman Emperor in 217 AD, but I guess we shall see.

[@S4BRETOOTH]

The trailer is like a South Park or Simpsons satire from a hypothetical Gladiator sequel, the problem is, the trailer is a real! You can't make this shit up.

[@MegaKnight2012]

"From the people who claim 300 is based on historical events... 1776! It ain't accurate, but it will blow your ****ing mind!" -Robot Chicken

[@riddickraymond7067]

They didn't put colour in because colour TV wasn't invented yet 😂😂

[@geammanDW]

The 0 sugar claim on the cereal box is misleading Metraton, because all digestible carbohydrates become glucoze (aka blood sugar).

[@yuka-youtube]

as a keto, you are correct. it’s sugar overall

[@EM-tx3ly]

We are $&@ked

[@Azmania3000]

Well at least they're not putting complex sugars in.

[@howareyoualiveifyoudonteatbeef]

I think he's referring to the general term of 'sugar'... which is usually the added white, refined sugar that most people are familiar with... and not the scientific knowledge of the word 'sugar'.

[@brendanjoyce1934]

Had to scroll a long way to find this comment. Misleading

[@bones_bn]

As soon as I saw the gladiator riding a rhino I knew this was basically a fantasy movie and should be treated as one.

[@simonsmith1974]

You mean there WEREN'T Ork Nobs in ancient Rome? How dare you suggest such a thing! Khorne is most displeased

[@nuudelz3711]

Tons of statues in the Vatican museum you can still make out the pigments and they’ve restored a number of them though they were from the renaissance. There’s one garden you walk through during the tour that’s sort of a frozen in time it’s wild to see how colourful it “would” have been. And the amphitheater in pompeii is worth checking out too. It had an era aura there, and even pink Floyd had a concert there because the acoustics were insane 😂

[@ark1567]

The bloodcrushers reference was gold.😂

[@thegermaniccoenus2525]

26:06 *"It should be no surprise then, that from the deepest shadows of Khorne's great Kingdom ride a most ferocious pack of beasts, part demon, part machine, steered by only the most devoted of warriors of the Lord of Slaughter. These are the Skullcrushers. They ride to War with one singular purpose: Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne."*

[@ark1567]

I thought to bloodcrushers first: suppose I played too much 40k 😅

[@MegaKnight2012]

Some movie/show about Khorne followers and Orcs fighting Custodes in the Custodes war games would be preferable to a Gladiator sequel.

[@simonsmith1974]

​@@MegaKnight2012I thought that's what Ridley was shooting for here, some kind of Custodes/Ork/Space Marine combo

[@viktorgabriel2554]

I had the same reaction when i saw the Rhino rider

[@ark1567]

I was waiting for worldeaters berzerkers to make an epic entrance at the end 😂

[@simonsmith1974]

​@@ark1567or perhaps a group of Ork Stornboyz Nobs

[@SheyD78]

Thinking about protagonists wearing helmets (when they're expensive actors) you could either have them lose the helmet during the fight, or have them start out holding it, give a rousing speech or something, then put it on when actually engaging. Both are pretty epic yet show that even commanders wear helmets because they're not idiots.

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

Fun fact: Apparently Ridley wanted the rhino rider in the first movie even! Guess he has enough power to get what he wants this time!

[@beardedlonewolf7695]

Hans Zimmer: This is not how you sell a movie about Gladiators in 200 BC.

[@helikos1]

Well it's set in 211 *AD* anyway

[@Miaholmes4952]

The movie no one wanted.

[@AngryNegativeHistoryProject]

You want it!

[@djbillybopdjbillybop2817]

I did and you are on the Bandwagon.

[@aselliofacchio]

The movie no mentally sane person wanted* ​@@djbillybopdjbillybop2817

[@ToastieBRRRN]

Isn't Caracalla and Geta suppose to be Libyan-Arab? Since Severus was born in Leptis-magna and his wife from Syria?

[@lonelystrategos]

Yes, but you see: White people bad.

[@googlespyingonme]

ofc they cant have brown ppl to be the bad guys.. they have found the whitest guys possible to play the villains..

[@samuraichicken2315]

Ridley Scott: If it happened in my mind then it is history. Rhinos were a legit mount.

[@staroceans8677]

I ❤ ancient Rome and I agree with many of your assessments, especially as an expert. I also heard that in some point of the movie, may be in the beginning when the games are opened, it's performed by Emperor Vespasian and that's inaccurate as well, because he died long before the Roman Colosseum or the Flavian Amphitheater was even completed. It was his son, I believe Titus that started the opening games and completed its construction.

[@mymealias]

Next they'll do a sequel for Titanic

[@simonsmith1974]

They're actually considering building a Titanic 2 (or were at one point)

[@AB-fr2ei]

It always make me laugh how americans think that north africans simply dont exist and that everyone in africa is black I love Denzel but he shouldnt play Macrinus, they should have made a proper role for him The funniest thing is that ridley scott made an algerian and a moroccan play french generals in Napoleon, this doesnt make any sense

[@Thor-Orion]

Macrinus was a real light skinned Mediterranean Berber, we have his bust. We know how the Berbers were depicted in that time period.

[@CommanderRedEXE]

It isn't even most Americans who think this and it's also in Europe too. It's Afrocentrists specifically looking to claim all.histoty originated from Africa in some capacity.

[@firingallcylinders2949]

We need someone who is like Moroccan/Egyptan/North African looking to portray Hannibal. Not sure what actors hail from that region or look similar to that they could find.

[@jamesleyda365]

No we all f***ing don't!!!🤘🏴‍☠️

[@dhimankalita1690]

​no he wasn'tlight skinned @@Thor-Orion

[@necro5129]

I believe they filmed both Gladiator films in Malta at one of the old forts to the south. Surprising how many movies are shot there. Sad there aren't many movies about Malta, very interesting history. Guess sieges aren't 'epic' enough for movies.

[@Tylerthephantom]

Any examples. Would love to look some up.

[@defectiveindustries]

It's fun to watch enough films and spot the same places used in heaps of films, even completely different genres. Like all the English period films that use the same manor house from different angles, that one valley in Arizona or Utah that's in every single film set in the Middle East

[@necro5129]

@@Tylerthephantom Two good films set in Malta are Luzzu and Simshar. Unfortunately no war/action movies I can think of unless you are into WW2 in which case there are several british movies and documentaries about the 2nd siege of malta. You might be able to find some cool docos on youtube if you search Great Siege of Malta. Big ottoman invasion attempt vs a handful of knights and a local militia, fascinating subject

[@necro5129]

@@Tylerthephantom Simshar and Luzzu are both good movies set in Malta. I can't think of any historical/period action movies unfortunately. You can find several cool docos on warfare in Malta on youtube if you search 'Great Siege of Malta'.

[@necro5129]

@@defectiveindustries I know what you mean, its heaps of fun. One day I'd like to visit those kinds of places and see what they look like without the set dressing

[@shadowninja1275]

A rap song in ancient Rome? It's like the hood in ancient Rome lol🤣🤣🤣

[@Marveryn]

out of all the animals in the world i never heard of anyone that manage to turn a rhino into a horse

[@Christian_Bagger]

They’re only able to destroy. One thing that I really liked about Gladiator was; they weren’t trying milk it.

[@Tiverus88]

Pedro always has that bloody mustache in every role he plays. Didnt Roman soldiers be clean shaven all the time?

[@Harib_Al-Saq]

They race swapped Caracella? I'm pretty sure he would've been fairly swarthy. If I'm not mistaken he's half Syrian, quarter Libyan, and a quarter Italian. Why is he Nordic in appearance‽

[@JP-vj7fp]

Because the villain must be white.

[@IbnRushd-mv3fp]

Nobody seems to call out the fact that overly germanic features is off putting on a mediterranean man.

[@willfakaroni5808]

Because that’s what people think Nero looked like and the Caracalla is meant to be an effete Nero/caligula kickoff instead of like the actual Caracalla

[@NewYasmine-nl9jq]

They were berbers originally from North Africa. But it's only a scandal if you race swap from white to non-white 😂. That actor looks like Nero to me

[@justinterry8894]

A lot of Americans basicly lump most Europeans together as just white me included. I couldn't really tell you the difference between Nordic and Mediterranean except like hair color and some facial features especially since America has a lot of intermingling between the different Europeans making it harder to tell as compared to the more distinct features Africans Latinos and Asians have in comparison.

[@mohammadsattar5488]

When you think your Quentin Tarantino and you can throw some hippity hoppity music in there and it will resonate wih the "YOUTH" because you yourself are hip too

[@Ironication]

"Blood for the blood god" - laughed way too hard at this

[@Torfin2001]

Hope you will also talk about the upcoming "Those About to Die" show. I bet that thing made by Roland Emmerich is gonna have a TON of sh*t worth talking about 😂😂😂

[@Jackasaurus]

Was waiting for Denzel to say My Man for the whole trailer. I left sorely disappointed

[@Alongebaby]

😅😅😅😅

[@chriswerth918]

My initial thaughts about the rhino: ... you know, you cannot tame a zebra. To ride it. Millenia... no, millions of years of natural selection, in the unforgiinh savannahs of Africa par only the toughest of their species survive. So they have a really brutal charakter. A zebra would fight to the death and trample anyone to the ground, who tries to tame it. And now just imagine what a very nearsighted, 7k lbs tank with a giant broad sword in the middle of it's face do to anyone who would dare to come too close.

[@huldu]

Maybe in gladiator 3 we'll get someone riding a great white shark in the arena. They could attach a ballista on its head. I'm giving them ideas.

[@willfakaroni5808]

@@hulduif you look in the water scene you can see sharks so you’re not far off

[@willfakaroni5808]

That was actually something Ridley wanted to put if the first movie but he didn’t have the budget for

[@willfakaroni5808]

What about the sharks you can see in the naval scene

[@CartoonMandates]

The rhino rider just hit a wall? Even without throwing sand up he must have known perspective. There’s a wall behind that slave. Let’s go full throttle! And let’s say we hit the slave - we still gonna hit the wall!

[@michelebinkley3356]

I cracked up laughing with the reference to Warhammer as my husband and son both are building the armies and playing the game

[@simonsmith1974]

Knowledge is power guard it well. (Your husband hopefully will get the reference). FOR THE EMPEROR