I watched Gladiator 2 (spoilers)

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Another fun Gladiator themed movie but I just can't help feel it's just the same as the first one over again, but with a change of cast and different arena fights (a naval battle game instead of chariots, and the undefeated champ rides a rhino this time round) and a different villain to make it feel like a new movie.

Similarities to first:

Start with opening battle.
Protagonist captured by the Romans as slave and sold as a gladiator.
Protagonist doesn't want to fight but does because he has rage for vengeance.
Emperor(s) is an asshole.
Protagonist wins a bunch of arena battles and becomes a crowd pleaser. The people love this guy and detest the emperor(s).
There's a plot to rescue and free the protagonist which fails.
Manipulation scene with the emperor or the "twist villain" in the 2nd movie.
Showdown at the end between protagonist and the movie villain.

The revelation that Lucius' owner would be the villain of movie #2 wasn't that big of a revelation. The emperors were just assholes with mental health issues (similar to Joaquin's Commodus, except he was more composed and controlled) and Denzil's character whatever his name is was introduced as a "good guy" but the hints that he was controlling and manipulative for his own goals came quickly and strongly.

Side note- the dead wife of the guy in movie #2 is ugly and has one of those gross beard tattoos. I'd be more inclined to root for him if he was avenging a hot wife.

edit: and a fun fact. Lior Raz, who plays the tough trainer and escort for the gladiators, was a bodyguard for Arnie Schwz. in real life.
 
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Pointless sequel that banks off people's nostalgia for the first. I knew it would be gg as soon as they namedropped Maximus. Thought it couldn't get lazier until Now We Are Free began playing for the credits lol.
It's a shame we got this half-assed shit instead of that rejected script from Nick Cave, where M gets resurrected and sent to kill Christ whilst going through time portals battling in every world wars or some bullshit. It's 100% retarded yet would've been more entertaining than a copypaste of the first movie but with a beaner
 
It's the same as the first one with a bit more over the top stuff and a different ending. It was fine. It was exactly what I expected. I had fun with it, first one is one of my personal favorites ever, I watch it once a year and I'll probably never watch this one again or maybe like once a decade.

If I hadn't already been broken by a decade of these remakes disguised as sequels I'd probably hate it but it's more inoffensive than the majority of the others in that genre to me, even though it's a follow-up to one I like more than most of the other ones plagued by that.
 
Colosseum battles are always fun. The two Gladiator movies, Spartacus and Pompeii 2014. (Anyone know any others?)

And yes, the OG classics are the ones that will be remembered. Snow White 1939, Ghostbusters 1984 and Gladiator 2000 etc. In the future no one will be talking about Ghostbusters 2016 or that Birds of Poop movie or the Snow White 2025 remake (or should it be called Poo Brown?) unless they wanted to say "remember between 2015-2030* when Hollywood forced unwanted sequels on us and remade and ruined classics with DEI protagonists, ugh glad that's over."

*I'm trying to remain optimistic this era will pass and Hollywood will finally get the hint these movies aren't what the massses want.
 
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