Hi, everyone, Tony from Hack the Movies here and today we're gonna talk
about Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Does it still hold up? Is it still one
of like the best action movies and period pieces? Ever? Let's find out
before they've ruined it with a pointless sequel talking about tapes. And today I'm
here with uh, what what is your name? Sir? My mom is
Francesco Rocco Vincent Volpi Jr. Co Host on an Awesome Show, actor on
Fantastic Movies. Hey, Tony, how you doing it? Frank? Because
I'm not here to get my revenge, I guess I will get my awards,
So Frank, how are you? I'm fantastic Tony, long time to
see. Yeah, that's beautiful hair you have. Sorry, I had to
fix the yea. That helmet really just yeah, I'm really debated if I
keep this thing on the whole time. It's kidding, all right? Right
before we did this, we I've never taken this out of the bag.
It smelt so strong. He's lying. He wears it all the time.
It stick. I will once it's broken in. I will be wearing this
all the time because I feel pretty awesome right now that was that legit what
they wore back in the day or is that the spirit Halloween? That's probably
spirit. Yes, this movie is not the most accurate, which I will
touch on not too much because I don't really care about the accuracies. I
will mention it at the end because that's a movie. I do want to
see the real life story. But yes, Gladiator to bring it back,
dude, let's not go to We'll talk about that. Yeah, talk about
that. Don't just start us on a high and then bring it straight down.
No one's really good though, with all these pointless sequels that they've been
doing, I do knows some of them might be good. Okay, not
all of them are, some of them might be good. I've been doing
episodes where I go back to the originals, like like Indiana Jones. The
New Indiana Jones awful, worst Indiana Jones movie was a joke of a movie.
Yeah, a complete garbage check it out. But then I rewatched the
first three for the show, and I'm like, wow, you know what,
I probably wouldn't came back to these if they didn't make that new piece
of shit. Yeah, and I did, so really it's a good thing.
Yeah, the same thing with a with a Wonka. You see that
horrible Wonka prequel? Did see the trailer? Yes, with a few grant
yes. Because Peter Dankliche has put so many little people out of work,
they must have paid him a lot of money. Yeah. I went back
and I shot a review for Willy Wonka the original. I'm like, well,
I really liked this movie. And that's what we're doing here today,
revisiting glad Eater, just like how we did the Batman movies, and then
we went to watch the Flash and we were like, it's just still great.
This is great. Yes, it's Gladiator now, not the Gladiator starring
Cuba Good and Junior and James from Twin Peaks. There's probably someone right now
going finally someone's talking about Gladiator with Cuba Good and Junior. Cuba, I
apologize, it's the other Gladiator. That's how. That's what people call beater
one, isn't it. But now when this came out, people called it
that, oh, that other Gladiator. Yeah, it's not the right tape.
I don't even know the other Gladiator. No, I know, it's
it's okay. It's an okay movie. I think it's about it's about boxing.
Do I look like a young Russell Crowe? You look like a young
Russell Crowe? Yes, you have more hair than a young Russell crow shave
my beard to look just like does Russell Crowe look like a Spaniard? Doesn't
have an accent for it? I okay, okay. So you went to
Italy recently? Yes? Yes, sir? How was it so? I
didn't go to the Kyle Sam. I went down south. You've been there
before, though, been there before. I've been to the Call Sam before.
My friend who medicine sicily did stop by the Kyle Sam the other week,
and he did learn from one of the dressed up They have a lot
of dressed up guys around the Kyle Sam. Uh, like you know,
old school Sam warrior Roman warriors. Uh. And he said that there where
they used to, you know, do the kill or live thumb. Yeah,
it was actually they never did that. That didn't exist. It would
be the sheathing of the sword, yeah, which meant which meant like,
you know, like pulling it out, yeah, or it was the something
else, but sheathing of the sword and coming across meant like death. Yeah.
And I remember someone said it was like sideways they're there. Yeah,
there's whatever's in the movie isn't the right way. But that was like a
big thing an old glad eater movies. It was for modern audiences would understand
it more. Yeah, I mean, which a lot of this movie is.
Yeah, so I mean, nothing like the college Sam existed. The
certain you know people, historical figures from you know, from history existed,
but all of you know, it's funny, none of it really. I
used to have this on DVD, one of my earliest DVDs. Someone stole
it from me in college. Might have been the girl I was dating things
did it all right? Off? One of the many girls I was dating
in college that things didn't end well there and convenience Like, she used to
borrow that movie from me, and then I realized I never got it back,
so I think that was a casualty. And then I have this tape
here. Oh. The point I brought up the DVD is because I listened
to the commentary years ago. I love Ridley Scott commentary tracks, and he
was bringing up all the inaccuracies in his own movie. But then basically kind
of like putting a button on it, being like who cares whatever, it's
really what this movie is. It's you know, it's for your own entertainment.
I mean what we were saying where they were planning on going with the
second one. Yeah, like there's a very heaven and earth, very otherworldly
feel with this one to begin with, but that would be a strong step.
And then my tape here, this was my grandfather's safe. I'm like,
well, at least I have it on VHS. Years ago, someone
took a bunch of tapes off the store to do some weird art project thing,
and I noticed that the tapes were a Gladiator, Pocahontas and I think
Black Beauty. And then I looked at my glad Ea tape and pokeon and
so I'm like, oh, all the tapes are missing. I'm like,
I think they took the tapes to make these things without asking who the tapes
belonged to. So inside that is something called party mania because I just had
to fill out the box. I just saw that, but I was going
to keep that a secret. Total what party mania is? You know?
You blew your own cover, dude. I wasn't even gonna say literally,
I found a tape on the set that was not mine that didn't have a
cover, and I just threw it in there because I still wanted then set
Yes a Gladiator. Yeah. When I first watched this movie, uh,
it just came out on VHS. I was I was what maybe eight nine
nine years old. I remember watching on the couch with my dad and it
was a first R rated movie I was ever allowed to see. Really,
Ye you started late? Ye started late, buddy, Still, Well,
I mean like allowed to see there was there was those channels late at night
the skimmed through, you know, stuff like watching WWF and the Puppies and
all that, which I wasn't allowed to watch either when I was younger.
My mom came down, I was flicking that all but watching on the couch
with my dad. Uh and uh yeah, I have like a memory instilled
in my head of us watching this film on the old T small a VHS
player and then Northeast Philly. Okay, so I and I know, you
assholes are gonna make an airplane joke. I used to watch movies with clad
eators as a kid, and I really liked movies with clad eats. Everybody
did cut to the airplane joke. You like movies about gladiators? So yeah,
my grandfather used to watch like a lot of old movies, and when
I would watch these gladiator movies and I'm like, wow, these are all
cool, but they were like all old, like the sword and sandal genre
kind of disappeared. Yeah, it really did. Like nothing ever fully disappears,
but they kind of went away, like because they were like a big
part, kind of like how Westerns were, Like Western's never really went away,
but they're they were definitely more back then. Yeah, definitely. Uh
So this was like, this is like a hundred million dollar movie on a
risky genre, which I mean today would probably be a lot. I mean
it's probably a lot for the time. Yeah, and then turned out making
four one hundred and thirty seven million while still I saw that the one I
saw it was like five hundred. I don't know if that's adjusted for inflation
or anything, but did very bit, did very well. And three of
those tickets were from me, my mom, and my grandmother. I begged
my mom to go see this movie. I see you went, yeah here
there. My parents. My parents did not care about ratings. Frank when
when I was watching this, I was like to see this in imax,
like if they shot it on Imax. Well it definitely wasn't Imax. Those
weren't very ill. But I was like, you know, just watching and
thinking, I love this. When I'm at I watched it in HD.
I realized I haven't watched this in HD much because I always had the DVD
it whatnot. I was just watching on HD today and I'm like, I
gotta get this baby in four k I'm like, man, I need this.
This is good. But then you'll really see Alva Reid's facing that one
scene move all around. Yeah, that's another thing. I was looking out
for it. But I was like, I guess I missed it. I
do want to see that unless like you really like I mean, for the
time for two thousands, it was done very well. Yeah, yeah,
we'll get so. Yeah. I saw this in theaters and I loved it.
I was like, this is awesome, Like this is freaking awesome.
I know some people think it's boring. There's a kind of a lull in
one part. I get. I get why people might think that. I
personally don't think it is. I feel like every scene is, you know,
keeps on moving on to the next. I mean, there's really no
fat to this and as like a young boy like I was into, like,
you know, the Arnold Conan stuff, like all these Warriors stuff.
So I'm like, this is like, this is like the manly one of
the manliest movies ever. Yeah. So yeah, this movie really changed my
life now here agreed. Uh, you might be asking who's starring in this
movie. It stars Superman's dad, Wonder Woman's mom, the Other Cone In,
the Barbarian, and the Joker. I can't take you in. What
a DC universe? Baby? Yeah? Say that for him? Is that
the snow reverse to kissing all that except for the Joker Snider verse? Who
cares about that anymore? It's dead, Jamie Gunny, I'm so jealous that
which we'll call it. All these actors got to act with Joaquin Phoenix.
Did you imagine acting with Joaquin Phoenix? I could imagine walking down the street
and rubbing elbows with him. I freck it will never not be funny to
me, Telly. There's no proof out there except on the editors table where
it was left. You're gonna break into water floors. I'm sorry, the
floor where it was left. I would love to see that footage. Thank
you. Wait, I love that movies are at it a digitally now,
but they still made a point to take your scene and put it on a
disk and throw it on the floor, on the floor. You know what.
I shaved my beard for that role. I would shave my beard for
nobody. Directed by Ridley Scott, one of my favorite directors. Hasn't impressed
me in many years, but still at the time really into him. This
brilliant. I'm sorry, I gotta take it off. I gotta take it.
I can't take you. Seriously. I tried, guys, I tried.
This hard piece of rubber here is digging into my skull this one.
No, I'm gonna put that there. Yes, Ridley Scott still on fire
at this point. Yeah, huh was killing it? Killing killing it?
Well, fantastic. His next movie after this, people didn't think killed it.
I like it and I reviewed it with your sister and Johanna. That
is Hannibal, the sequel to Silence of the Lambs. That was his next
one. That was just follow up to Gladia. Yeah, with the same
cinematographer too. He's done a lot of work with the cinematographer John Matthias and
who has also done a couple of the X Men movies that he did,
First Class in Logan and a few more Ridley Scott movies. Cinematography on this
was fantastic also, to like a point to where it's like, did they
shoot with two I mean this might sound really dumb, whether they shot with
you know, two different cameras at certain times, like just the looks that
it kind of like there was a dark the very dark, gritty look and
like these shots were like I would have beautiful I mean obviously different lenses.
I would have to see what they did ye film iyes like I have to
look up the cameras. It's actually fun. I think we mentioned in the
episode when he got the call to do Hannibal. Yeah, you know,
he had just got done Gladiator. It's like, hey, do you want
to do Hannibal? And he thought he meant like the Roman emperor Hannibal,
and he's like, hey, I just did a Roman thing. I can't.
I think his quote was like I really don't want to film elephants in
the mountains right now, because that's the emperor who like did all that ship
And they're like no, no, no, Hannibal Lecter He's like, oh
okay, oh yeah, I could eat people and know another good movie where
he eats people. Yeah, everyone, I just made a mistake. I
just said Hannibal was another Roman emperor. That was wrong. He was a
general from Carthage. Yes, he was a Carthaginian general that actually fought against
Rome, I believe. And this correction comes from James V on Patreon.
How was he able to correct the episode when it's currently airing. That's because
I've been putting episodes up early on Patreon. Yes, and for YouTube channel
members as well, two dollars tier. For two dollars, you can watch
episodes early and let me know if I got anything wrong so I can fix
it like I am now, Okay, back to the episode. Amazing score
by Hans Zimmer with vocals by Lisa Girardi. So it's no, it's funny.
This is the second highest grossing film in the year behind Mission Impossible too,
and I think Hans Zimmer did the music to both those movies, so
that was a good year for Hans Zimmer won an award for it as well.
Yeah, this won a couple awards, right almost was nominated for and
it won five, Yes, which is that's why it's my favorite movie.
Of all time. Did I mention that it's it's your favorite movie of all
time? Ye? I mean just story wise and just character wise, Like
I mean, it's just it's in my mind it's so well done. Yeah.
Plus you know, I just love that old Roman. You know,
feel the Kyle Sam glad he's got to see you know. I actually have
never been to Italy, so it's not as big as this. So the
Kyle of Sam in this movie. They've even mentioned it that it's like in
like interviews, they like he kind of like doubled the size of it from
the inside. I mean when you go, it's still huge. It's it's
massive, it's beautiful, but yeah, it's they kind of made it to
feel a little bit larger than life. I would love to see it,
but unfortunately I can't go to Italy. Why not there's too many Italians there.
No, no, no, No, that's fine. They're fine,
they're good. Like I know, I'm like super Italian everything, but I
don't want to around other Italian. We're Italian American to yes, was different.
You want to be around real Italian. I was just there. I
kept on telling everybody every Italian I met, I was like Hey, chowmushit.
That is a call back to the Flash episode. They loved it,
and they're like, what the fuck they really I looked it up. I
think he's Argentinian or they were like freaking Americans. I would go there like
my job. I would wear the Rocky four jobs time, having a tony.
He was murdered in Italy. I told him not to go. I
feel bad making Italian jokes after the you know, the wonderful world leader uh
Berlisconi died, Remember that Italian politician. I'm super corrupted. He died recently,
did he Yeah, first couple of months. Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, he's he went off to that beautiful Bunga bunga party in the
sky fight. That's why I don't touch certain topics within Like he was like
a real corrup politician, but like he didn't hide it. That was the
funny thing about him, Like, wow's out there. I knew that.
I forgot that. He just died while we I was actually insitially while we
were in Sicily. That's why you went to celebrate him, because you agreed
with everything technically. I guess that's when my sister's wedding was for you gotta
ask my sister Tricia, go ahead, ask her leave for your sister's wedding.
I got other things. But there's a there was a journalist killed in
the town that I was in in ninety two, going against like the mafia
and all that, and they killed him and like blew up the bus or
something. But now there's a big sign on his house that's still up in
the hills in Sicily that says no Mafiah, which is kind of cool.
Now, speaking of Witch, me and Tricia need to get through Godfather too
at some point coming up year Anniverse's in Sicily fifty year anniversary coming up.
So it wasn't it wasn't where we were, but they did. They kind
of, you know, sell a lot of Godfather stuff, you know,
make money off of it. Well, there's a sequel book called The Sicilians,
which they made into a movie, but they had to cut out all
the Godfather reference. So like Michael crowleone is in the book, but he's
not a movie that we'll get to that at another time. You're glad he
in Hannibal. We're gonna go back two thousand years. So Glad Glaire written
by David Friendzoni who did Amistad before this, John Logan, who before this
wrote Any Given Sunday and Bats, that movie about the killer mutant Bats Any
Given Sunday shows but Bats. What if Friendly Scott watched Bats and was like,
Yeah, this guy gets he's guy. Uh. And he's since gone
on to do a mix of okay movies and a garbage uh. And William
Nicholson who did uh shadow Lands directed by Richard Attenborough and nell I think that
was the Jodie Foster movie and the movie First Night, which I think I
had Richard gearin it. Uh. So, yeah, that dream team got
together and wrote this and yeah, let's get right into this movie here,
let's do it. So it's one eighty eight D. Following your lead,
Marcus Aurelius is it's about to conquer Germania to Huh, I thought it was
one eighty eight. I looked at the thing. I think it said,
go on, I have no idea. He's about to conquer like the rest
of Germania, he's about to get the Barbarian Horde under order. He conquers
most of the globe. Ye Maximus is a treatment of a field. He
just wants to work in a field, just wants to be a farmer,
just wants to go back to his wife and kid and be able to instead
he's a warrior. First shot of this of Russell Crowe and this Maximus is
and he's been Russell crow has been talking about this. Uh, let me
get a little closer to the mic, so I don't Yes, yes,
we've we've saw Frank. Frank is very soft spoken, but he has seen
the comments. My apologies about the flash episode and I will boost you get
closer. He got it, but he just recently went on Howard Stern I
think talking about that scene. It was like the first shot that him and
Ridley did together. And Ridley turned to him and said, you know,
act like there's a you know, a bird on the on the tree that
kind of catches your eye and then you know, and you know, kind
of fade away for a minute, but then focus back on the battlefield and
if you watch it now, after him like you know, kind of saying
that he you know how Ridley Scott was right there directing him through the looks
and all that, but he said that he brings it back to the battlefield
and he said Ridley turned to him and said me and you were gonna do
fucking great together. But he said he did such a great job at it
that really really trusted him, and you know, kind of just ran through
there. How was the rest of that Howard Stern interview was Howard weird?
He's just like he's not who he. I love his interviews. I love
love Howards. So my friends who do who are these podcasts? Occasionally they'll
play Howard's because we all loved Howard. Certain Carl was on the show.
We covered his movie Private Parts. But Howard's interviewing style these days is awful.
Yeah, to retire, well, I mean like, I'm not gonna
say that from one radio host to another. Now, he'd get so mad
at that. He'd be like radios what No, He's interviews that he did
one with Kiss recently and they're talking about how happy they are. It's like,
yeah, but when you were a kid, were you sad that this
happened there? What about your father? Yeah? You keep freaking up like
Daddy's like, were you suicide? And they're like, no, Howard,
I I was. Did you father make you sad? It's sad seeing like
my hero being such a fucking weirdo. But anyway, he's dreaming of the
field the barbarians. They're not sure if the barbarians will fight, because they
send a messenger out. The messenger comes back with no head. Gave him
the response that was pretty brutal, like to start the movie off, because
as a kid, I didn't like get it right away because you see the
horse come out and he's like they said, no, he's just riding back.
Yeah, And I'm like, oh, what's he talking about, Like,
oh, my comic guy doesn't have ahead and the German guy comes out
screaming, throwing the dudes. This, I mean, this whole scene is
just really hits you hard. And whenever you like a lot of times that
I watch is now will be on TV. So I really always forget that
this opening is is like so brutal and so yeah it so watching it again
from the beginning, it is just yeah, they prepare for the whole the
whole fighting. I like a Maximus's speech that he does. I love.
He's like, if you wake up and find yourself here, you're an elysium
and you're already dead. But he goes this movie is great of like macho
manly, like almost philosophical quotes, and Russell doesn't have like a lot of
like long drawn out speeches. He just has those like you know, couple
settings, just like strong quicks to go with it and you know what we
do in life that goes into that's a that's a great fucking line. And
they tried to they tried to one up this in the movie Troy with Brad
Pitt. Remember that that's kind of around the same time this because of this
movie and other things the sandals and yep, yep, skirts and skirts and
sandal. No, there's swords and sorcery and then there's swords and sand don't
chop off the head of the mess. Yeah, well a lot of things
came from this. I was gonna say the opening fight is awesome, fantastic.
It's like the fireballs the arrow like when like the cg arrows that actually
look good because they're not a million cg arrows. So that whole forest scene
they were that the town. I think they shot this outside of England.
I want to say this one. They were actually going to demolish that forest.
I guess like use the trees or oh that's or something else. Ridley
went in and said, Hey, you know, if you're going to tear
it down anyway, let me burn it down with my movie. Yeah,
so they went down and shot this whole That's cool whatever, because it looks
great. It looks like if they did this now, it would look like
a nightmare. It's so bad. But it looks really great. But yeah,
the fighting, it's actually funny. The fighting is not super accurate.
Do you ever watched the show Rome? A couple episodes here? Rome was
really good. Actually, it's in the first episode they showed how like in
real life, like the Romans, when they fought, they would like only
fight for like a few seconds. And they showed in the first episode where
like they whistle and then the people fighting run to the back, and then
the less tired people come to fight the people who are retired from fighting.
I'm like, that's actually a pretty good idea. And make no wondering.
They took over most of the world, but that's not in here. Here,
it's like your classic movie battles people on horses chopping everyone up. Felt
like an old school h God Tom Hanks movie on the Beach, d Day,
Oh Savate Ryan, but like an old school saving private like just like
bloody and Yeah, how however, I hate two thousands choppy slow motion.
So this isn't the only movie I did. It shocked to see it in
this film A little bit, yeah, a little bit too much. It's
in Hannibal, we did, we did Peter Jackson's King Kong. I even
think there was some choppy slow mo in the Lord of the Rings movies.
Uh. Yeah, I don't know why that was such a trend back then,
because you really don't need it, especially if it's practical effects. Yeah.
I just wanted to be more like, well you should have shot it
in slow motion. Yeah, because this forced choppy slow motion just doesn't work.
It's never worked. Other than that great scene awesome battle really gets you
pumped up in the beginning movie. It is like saying, by Ryan,
how that scene I mean that in that version, it doesn't really get you
pumped up. You're like, holy shit worth scary. This movie gets pumped
up like this guy's a badass and he's gonna kill everyone more wise, but
yes, so the emperor's children are on the way and his senators and comedists
played by Joaquin Phoenix. He's the one that's like, I think Dad's dying.
Yeah, why else would he call us all here? I'm gonna be
ever soon? What am I gonna say? What am I gonna do?
I can't wait. He's gonna be fantastic. He's a little ahead of himself.
I love. I love when he first gets there, he rides into
battle. Yeah, and did I miss it? Yeah? Miss He's like
you missed the Wars. It's like, oh, dude, yeah, he
Ever says that, like he's disappointed. I'm like, well, was he
allowed to fight? I mean, think about it. He's what I think
Wikim was twenty five when they shot this. But I mean, like,
you think he Ever would want to keep his son in Rome to like in
case he dies? Yeah, I guess you really understood. Yeah, I
don't know if he would be allowed because he knows how to fight. They
show him fighting. Maximus is his favorite son, so like, if he
was Communists, I'd be going to war for that. Love dude, Yes,
Maximus wants to go home, but I forgot to mention communists a little
too into his sister a little Oh we're gonna touch on that now. Yeah,
it's it's pretty early. It's like you watch this movie and you're like,
huh, a little, a little friendlier with this sister than I am
with my Maybe that's just what it's like over there. But then towards the
end of the movie, you're like, oh, this is like Tony Montana
levels of being two into your sister. They're the Lanisters before the Lanisters were
the Lanister. Oh god, o creepy, but yeah. Maximus has a
meeting with the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Dumbledore Dumbledore first two, the first Dumbledore for
people who watch children's movies. She's kind of cool. He's a He's just
like, yeah, I want to go home. I live on this great
farm. It's awesome. And Marcus Arelli he's just like that sounds nice.
Fuck you your emperor. Now. It's like what but he I mean,
it's all about the character, you know. He denies it and he's like,
well, that's that's why you should ye. Marcus is like full of
regret. Yeah, he's like, man, room really should have been to
the people. This whole emperor thing has to stop. He spent twenty years
at war. Yeah yeah, and he's just like he's like mat, He's
like, Maximus, why do you fight for a Rome it's like, oh,
it's all great. It's like you've never even been there. Yeah,
And so he's like he's a noble guy. It was very loyal when he's
like, this is the person that the people could look up to, not
my son. I'm a terrible father. My son's a psycho. Mean,
like it also is he wants to be remembered properly. So like if his
son takes over next after he just did twenty years of war and he knows
his son's a freaking psycho, then people are gonna be like fuck him as
well. Sorry for oh yeah, no, no, no, no,
it's fine. But if you have Osimus there, then they're like okay,
like you know, he fought the war for Maximus to reign, and like,
I mean, even tyrants have sons that embarrass them. Saddam Hussein,
his son was an Uday Hussein. Everyone hated that guy. He was the
oldest son. And I think Saddam was like, you're not taking over for
me, because that's how much even Saddam hated him. But like he couldn't
do anything technically. Listen, Tony, I'm here to talk movies, not
politics. I'm just saying there's in a story. This happens in history.
Nephew is gonna be knocking at my door, like, what did you and
Tony say about me? No, this the thing that happens in history where
even like some emperors like, oh my god, if this guy replaces me,
everyone's gonna blame me. I can't do that. What happened? So
yeah, he's like, you're gonna be the new emperor. Maximus is like,
well, I got a lot to think about. I don't want that.
Can I think about it? Even he wasn't Marcus's first choice because he
looks at his daughter and goes, if only you were a man, you
would have been a great season, which really shows how they treated women back.
Yeah. Yeah, and he wanted her to larite lead Rome and I
screamed, woke at the screen, Frank, you know, I screamed,
walk glad here to two's on the way. Tony, you never know,
Oh no, he could be empressed, dude, Oh no, I gotta
stop Gladdie here too. But so Maximus even turns to his servant once he
sees him next right, and he says, you know, like the Tommy
Flanning in character, that we might not be going home just yet, Yeah,
because he's actually contemplating, like maybe he will become emperor. Yeah,
you can see that a little bit. So even Connie Nielsen meets with her,
meets with him next right, and she's like, you know, what
did my father have to say to you? And he kind of lies a
little bit. He doesn't want to stir the pot at all. Yeah.
So and she's like, I know, you've always been a bad liar,
and he was like, yeah, it's it's established that they had a thing.
Yeah, yeah, but he ended he ended it with her, I
guess, or never started it with her, and then they went and married
other people. Her husband's dead, his family stole alive. Yeah, yeah,
whose kid is it? No? Because it's like around the same age.
I know it's and it's like said through history that they're she did well.
That point didn't look Spanish. A can't keep in mind Baxibus is a
Spaniard in this and he's speaking with the most Australian acts. I mean,
definitely the whole movie should be in Latin. Then right then they speak last,
all right, how do you feel about Okay, don't we watched these
Roman movies or even the show room they all have the British accents. I'm
like, look, they don't have to speak. Could you give him like
Italian accents? Why is it always British? I've known many Italians from Italy.
If you're gonna have an accent anyway, yeah, if you're gonna have
an acted, you at least have him to do. I think that entire
show Rome. I think there was one character I remember who had an Italian
accent. Everyone was like, oh, Cheerio Prome and I'm like, that's
what if they all had Jersey and Italian accents. I would prefer that.
Yo trying to run a fucking up by over, Yo, the war's over.
Grab the cabacoul in the mozo shit, all right, and we're done
by Anthony goes to Egypt, Cleopatra, mom Amidia on so anyway, be
the uh the spaniard from the outback? Good he uh, yeah, he's
incorruptible. What this was why he's picked? So Comedists goes to talk to
his dad. He's like, hey, dad, what's up. Can't wait
to be emperor one day? And and his dad is like, his dad
really should have had a really should have had a guard in the room.
Should have had something. You should have had a guard in the room for
this one. It's like, hey, my son might not take this.
Son's a psycho like that. I mean you would think, yeah, like
hey, he's probably gonna try and kill yeah. And he's like, hey,
I just want you to know son. Uh. First off, great
to see you. You're not gonna be emperor. Yeah, And he's just
like he tries to at first. He's like upset and it's like, well,
I guess one of the senators or one of these people will replace me.
Someone he's been with for a while. And he's like, yeah,
the general of my army. And he's like, I'm sorry, dad,
what the guy you hate most? Yeah, it's like, oh, that
guy that I'm extremely envious off. Again, Marcus really shouldn't knew how this
was gonna go. Should have known how it was gonna go. I mean,
especially you don't get on your knees in front of a Yeah, because
he has regrets as a father, and he's like, hey, you're a
shitty person because I was a bad dad. And he's like, oh,
hug me. Also, I like Comtist's virtues. He's like, none of
my virtues were on there and it's like ambition is a virtue and I'm like,
yes, it is. Communists, I learned always be ambitious. What
do you say, courage bravery? Yeah, and he said you could have
bravery and other aspects of life and this and that. But yeah, not
dude, I wouldn't a niel. I don't like that these movies try to
make ambition look bad. You know, like whenever I watch The Lion King,
I always root for scar because he just much like Simba, he can't
wait to be king. He has a few obstacles in this way and he
has to take care of him. Yeah. Same thing with comtists. I'm
like, well, he just really wants to be emperor. I guess there's
a lion king field of this movie. Yeah, I can, I can.
I can meet you halfway there? Am I watching movies? Rug prag?
Yeah, it kills his dad. Yeah, it kills his dad with
a bear hug and nobody, nobody, you know, does anything about it.
They just let it happen. Which is however Maximus knows, because this
is Maximus is like one chance. Yeah, so I get out of this,
Like he's very aware what happened and what's it called it Commonists is like,
yeah, will you take my hand? I'm offering this to you,
And that was like, hey, I know, you know, but play
ball with me, buddy, yeah, which he I mean the whole this
whole movie is about honor and respect. Yeah, I mean strength and honor.
But you know, the whole film is about respect. I think that's
why I really like it so much. Is just you know, like knowing,
knowing your your your values and you know, respecting other people and you
know, just going through life like that. But I mean, the second
he walks in and sees Marcus Aurelius on the on his deathbed, he knows
right away and he gets right up, and then Lakin stops him right there
and he's like, all right, you got one you got one chance here
to do the right thing. And he was like nope, nope. And
even like Lucilla, Lucilla, she slaps her brother because she knows what he
did, but then she gives him a kiss, like, I guess I
gotta play ball you're gonna do. She doesn't want her kid dead too,
Yeah, which is wild. He plays that so well, dude, But
Keen is like, yeah, he is so hateable in this dude, I
know, and like they try to, Like I think they attempted to make
him sympathetic, but it just makes him more pathetic. Like all he's like
crying and stuff. He just seems he seems like a child. I mean
there's even moments through the through this movie where he kind of acts like Lucius
does, like at the at the fights and stuff. The first you know
Gladie or fights and get to him later. But I mean he's kind of
acting the way that Lucius is, Like he's still just a child man,
very naive. Yeah, it never grew up, and now he's the leader
of the world. I want to stop his feet and tell people what to
do. It's like okay, dude, oh yeah, so he orders Maximus
to die. Yeah, they arrest him and it's like, oh man,
well man, you're gonna kill me. That sucks. Can you tell my
wife? Or like, oh no, we're killing them too. It's like,
Okay, I don't think you need to do that. Your family will
meet you when they afterlife. I don't think you really need to do that.
They'll meet you there. He was like, oh shit. Plus,
they you know, they ride him. I guess they wrote him a good
hour out right. Well yeah, because like that army was very loyal to
him, and those soldiers I think we're like for the emperor, not his
soldiers that he had been fighting with. Yeah, so they would not have
stood for them killing their general because they shows that even the emperor is like
Maximus is like, they cheer for you. It's like, yeah, they're
cheering for you, buddy. I guess you're right, the whole entire army,
not the guys that were going that were to kill him. Yeah.
So if you kill him there, yeah, because even later in the movie,
yeah, they're waiting on him. Yeah, they say they're like but
they have other commanders, but they're like, they're not loyal. So yeah,
he sends him out there to get killed. He kills his executioners.
Ye, well he said he said, what give me a soldier's death or
but it was just a position the guy in a way he knew he could
kill him. Love that. I like for the one guy who he has
to let the guy know what's happening. He's like the frost sometimes makes the
sword sec I'm like, wow, that's a very nice scientific lesson. He's
like, now I'm gonna kill you. It's a great line, dude,
Like just it really shows like just how calm Maximus is. They're just like
ready to go to battle. Although I think he was playing fire there with
the one on the horse. Yeah, and you could that guy was drinking.
Kid, you could have stuck up on that guy. I don't know
why you're like practorian. I mean I love that he's screamed towards him though,
I mean it just adds like a badass. Yeah, and I like
this is one of my favorite tropes where two people run out each other with
swords and you wait for one of them to die. Switch asides hits him
and he gets up and then dude falls off the horse. Yeah, I
kind of. I mean it might even slowed him down a little bit,
even the ride out to for an hour is would I guess put him behind
because he just missed his wife and kid. Right well, yeah, so
I guess they're in Spain, but they like ordered them at the Wait wait,
wait, so so he's from Spain, but does his family live there
because that's a long fucking horse trip. I mean, I could just be
somewhere in Italy though, Right well, they're in Germany, they're yeah,
yeah, either way. He gets either way, he said, because he
said, what in fifteen days, I will be home when they when they
fast him. So it's around a two week ride to get back home,
right right, And he gets there. By the way, not only do
they kill his family, they've murdered the ship out of that like they've run
over that boy with like the horse. Dude, when they like that,
that whole shot they must have had like a doll or something there when the
yeah, I don't know the making of that scene, yeah, being like,
oh my god, whoa they just kidd did you rarely see like kids
killed in movies, especially that violently. I mean it's twenty three years ago.
Man, they were still still going down with it. But yeah,
he gets he gets home and he's too late. Everything's on fire and they're
crucified. They're not it's not even enough to be killed. They're like straight
up crucified. Rape. I I still like gag everything he gets all snotty
like on her feet, I know, but dude, I like I love
that. Dude. No, no, I get it. I get motion
that came. You think you think those are actually an actress's feet or you
think like right, and he just like went right up to him and just
put his mouth. It was just call it just legs hanging right. Yeah,
you don't really see them. Could just be like, I don't know.
I don't know a lot of us behind the scenes on this film.
I just well, second I watched the behind the scenes steal my dvd.
I would have listened to the commentary again, Frank, but my DVD was
stolen. I just don't want the magic ruin in my mind. This is
still real stuff. They had cameras back then and filmed their ship. I
love it. I gotta, I gotta. I got a boot tattooed onto
my leg that says my last name, Vulpi. For the record, i'd
show it, but I guess I'm not wearing any pants here. I said,
whoh oh, there you go. See. I was gonna get a
tattoo, but oh my god, we're gonna get this. Sorry god.
I was gonna get a tattoo of Italy, but again, just too many
Italians there? Wait, was Sicily on there? Yes? Is it?
Well that's an accurate because we all know Sicily is not Italy, don't.
Okay, that's a running gag because your Your sister brought it up to me,
And that's some Sicilians don't don't want to accept that they're Italian. They're
Sicilians. They're two different races. Whatever Joe is on the show. I'm
like, yeah, we got two Italians and a Sicilian. Here makes sense
there, You you did something res So yeah, he's too late. He
wanders and gets picked up by some slavers. Like he buries him first,
right, buries him, And I mean technically he it looks like he just
fell asleep at their burial site, right, so like people came on to
his farm and just picked him up. Yeah, I guess they just picked
him up right from his farm. And I like that whole dream sequence where
he's just like hovering, which they call back to later on. I love
this imagery, right, Yeah, they hover and it's like all crazy we
hear lines from the future but not yet. Uh yes, but not yet.
I mean in this it's like in his mind he's dead. Yeah,
So I mean that's why I see them reusing the same you know imagery again
later on of him floating, but now he's just you know, you see
him, you see him dead and enclosed in like a cage. Yeah,
and he's and it's like he's floating by. But and then you know,
he wakes up to his buddy Juba Juman Hansu Numidian. He's a Numidian played
by Jaman Hanzu. Yeah, who's in a lot of movies. Uh,
he's good at this. Just watched them in Shazam too. He is,
Yes, he isn't he Also what we said, Amistad one of the writers
did this, and he was an Amistad previously, and he was also in
Stargate. He was either a Nubis or Horace in Stargate. I don't know.
Stargate's awesome. It was in Blood Diamond as well, and he was
in Blood Diamond that was after this. Yeah. But yeah, they end
up becoming like really good friends throughout the film. I wish there were a
couple more scenes of them just hanging out because their chemistry was really really good.
It comes down to like just respect for each other. I mean,
like, you know, you really they had great chemistry throughout it. Yeah,
and then you know, it just really shows a different side. It
helps show a different side of Maximus, that soft side of like his family
and caring and wanting to do right, and then we get introduced to Oliver
Reid's character Antonius Proxim Proximo, but my phone went proximity, So Oliver.
People talk about his death as if it's like a cool thing. Have you
did you hear how he died? Yes? Yeah, So he promised Ridley
Sky he would not drink because he had a bad drinking problem. He was
very unhealthy, but he wanted to be in the movie. He promised,
Yeah, legendary actor. And then a bunch of sailors was in Ireland or
something when there was like a break of production. They like forced him to
drink with them, and he drank way too much and then he died in
the bar. I didn't hear all that. I thought it was a heart
attack, going, well, he had a heart attack after drinking like crazy,
after not drinking for a long time. Yeah, and as she's getting
that far into shooting, they shot from Yeah, I think they said January
to May and he died May second. Yeah, So that was the thing.
People people will always share the story. They're like, what a legend.
I'm like, no, that's actually kind of sad. Guys like he
he was like, it's cool if you think he did it all the time,
and it's like, no, he was trying to stop and then he
relapsed and then they kind of screwed over this production. They had to film
around him, which I think works. Like you said, there is like
a weird scene, but I didn't pick up on it. It's dark and
there's enough body doubles and whatnot. Watching it now, I do notice there
are some awkward cutaways to him, and I'm like, Oh, it's probably
because they didn't just have enough of his reaction. Yeah, you could tell
that they reuse stuff from certain moments and yeah and all that. That's what
I'm thinking now. Yeah, but he's the man. He's good in this.
I love he's fighting with the guy because he's like, you sold me.
Queer giraffes they just sit there and they don't do anything. They don't
So the guy that sells Maximus is also, isn't he also like within like
the year before, the same guy who sold the Mummy. Yeah. I
didn't want to assume, but it looks like the guy from the Mummy,
the same guy that sold Brendan Fraser in the Mummy. So he was and
I think it was the same set too, Like same cages like, dude,
I'm telling you, dude, it looks pretty legit. But I think
I remember a story back in the day, like they were filming this,
like next to like U five seven one, the movie about the Submarine.
I feel like both those movies like shot back to back, and I think
I remember a story like the U five seven one set was like, yeah,
we would hear them like fighting and stuff in the Gladiator. On the
Gladiator sound stage, they must have walked over the money and grabbed this guys
still in costume and said all right, come over to us and worked with
us for Yeah, hey, you'll be on our show. So yeah,
he's like, hey, I'll sell you these recent slaves I got. And
he's like, some are good for fighting, some are good for dying.
You benefit from both. So it's kind of like Proximo knows who will die
and kind of bet on a money man at the end of the day.
Yes, and one of the glad Eaters, as I mentioned before, he's
played by Ralph Mueller, the Big Tough. He is one of Arnold Schwartzenager's
friends. There's another one in this movie, more famous Arnold Schwartzenager friend.
He comes later but yeah, Ralph Muller, he was in the Cone of
the Barbarian TV show that happened around this time. He played Conan. I
watched the entire series last year after I covered the first movie. I'm like,
oh, Chuby has the entire show. Yes, Mickey from The Little
Guy, Mickey from Seinfeld's in it. He's like one of the main characters.
I've never seen him. Now he does the I think he does have
the accent, but he tries to do the Arnold accent. He's playing it
up, does it well. So the bad guy in the show is this
like wizard called his azul and this actor trying to say that with the thick
guy. The whole episole shows like, oh no, he's al and I
would just watch the show and I would crack up every time. But he's
I'm sold, sold sold, So great show. Great show. It's one
of those shows that King the Hill was the same thing. Way. We're
like, there's there's a couple of shows that have a final episode, but
then they clearly had an episode in the can, like a missing one that
they just released later. It's one of those like I'm like, oh uh
wait, the story's done, but there's just this random episode, like with
all these characters who left midway through at least it. Yeah, yeah,
I gotta do it. That's the weird thing with King the Hill. King
the Hill had such a good final episode, and then there's a random episode
about the neighbor that came out afterwards, like Okay, can you like reorganize
this anyway? Uh, he's there to train the gladiators. Maximis doesn't want
to fight, and even his friend is like, hey man, you gotta
fight, buddy, Nah, because he's ready to die. Yeah, Like
what you think of the maggots cleaning his cut? Is that what that was?
Yeah? That he put that he not what he put took out of
his mouth and put in there, right, that was like he puts stuff
in there, like for the maggots, like cleaning that that was gross.
Yeah, I didn't know what it was. I just I thought that he
was just, yeah, helping him. So now so they get ready for
the first fight. Yeah, the guy peeing was pretty funny. We're like
the guy's peeing and Maximus like takes a step back because you want to step
in the guy's peak. Jesus, even in the theater sorry, I was
lost there about what what I thought I missed? Yeah, the guy in
front himself. I was cracking up even as a kid watching the theater,
the guy with the weird spiky hair. I'm like, that guy's dead.
That guy is dead, and you're enough they opened up the door that you're
just nails him in the face making I mean, imagine imagine being thrown in.
You're like a farmer, you've never fought before in your life, and
you're and he's also I think he was also chained to the Big Dude.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because the Big Dude. At one point
that guy died or another guy died. The guy was chained to someone else.
But when that guy Big Dude just cuts his arm, cut his arm
clean off, Juba Maximus are tied together. Yeah, but yeah, him
and I didn't write Ralph Mueller's name down. What was his character's named,
the big guy Dude? I don't even home Ralph. All three of them
survived, they killed the other ones. I mean, they all had like
training through through their lives. Even said asked, like later on in the
film, once he gets to the cone. Yeah, yeah, so there
are some like yeah, because actually when he goes to buy them. Yeah.
Uh, Proximo. When he buys them, he asked, like what
that guy did. He's like, yeah, I'm a warrior. And then
the slave owners like, no, I got Hi from a solid mine.
It's like, yeah, well before that he was a warrior. I love
I love that Proximos like such an nihilis. He's like, well, you're
all gonna die. Yeah, and it's gonna be great and I'm gonna make
a lot of money off you, like like a revolt here. Yeah,
I mean, what are they gonna do? I mean, I mean this
whole first fight scene really just oh man, it's so it's good. It's
a it's an intense fight, and I like that it's in the smaller coliseum.
Yeah, just like a local one that they have because they were what
they were saying because Marcus shut down. I guess the calls ham for f
Yeah, we're getting to that part when they give us that lesson. Because
meanwhile in Rome, Commedists shows back up and the digital city here and the
miniatures that they use all still really look good. So at the end of
the sorry Maximus, in this whole fight, right, they're all just like
covered in blood and the you know, and the crowd starts cheering for them.
Yeah. Uh. And then it cuts to a keen phoenix I'm sorry
commedists coming in and they're covered in red roses. Yeah. So it's like
and then one of the someone from the Senate has a line there that says
something about, you know, they're gonna they're gonna love them for it.
Oh yeah, that's coming up. So communists hates the Senate, but he's
stuck with them. He stuck with them for now yea. And it doesn't
want to be uh, and you know, there's like no more war happening.
So they're like, how do I get like Rome to be on my
side? Blah blah blah. And he's like, you know, I'm gonna
do these games. I'm gonna open up the Gladiator games again. And I
like that that like shot over the coliseum where like you don't know what's happening,
you see, there's so much of murder happening inside. Yeah, I
mean, do you like the city? I mean, for two thousands,
Yeah, I think it still holds up. Looks like, I mean,
I think he still because they back then you couldn't zoom through the city and
whatnot. I know, George Lucas was trying and it looked like shit.
Uh but yeah, they were like more smart about it back then, and
we've had good digital cities since then. But late Lee, lately there's been
a sharp drop and like I was, I was looking at some of the
clips from like Flash and I'm just like, oh, that's a rough city.
What did I watch recently? Oh? God, bird Box Barcelona.
I didn't even see it, don't bother with it. But I was like
looking at him, like that building's fake. That's fake, even the last
john Wick and I love the john Wick. Maybe he's the last one.
Maybe it was like a COVID thing. Maybe they were a film indoor and
then they were just I could tell, like he wasn't actually in Paris and
all that. I think they were a little bit duh, a little bit,
but like there were so I was there. I went to the final
fight scene, the steps that he that he did. I went up those
steps and I mean, like they had to a film. Have you seen
it? I literally watched it right before I went to pack. Yeah,
I don't know, man, I was sitting in the theater. I'm like,
none of this looks real really but yeah, so going back to this
back when there was like a healthy balance and whatnot, I thought, this
still really holds up. So yeah, he opens up the Gladiator because the
policy and he does the games. The other senators were like, oh man,
he's smart, and he says he'll bring them death and they'll love him
for it, which they know, like, you know, he's smart for
them to you know, bring them all in. But also, you know
everyone else that once peace now is like why are we about to do one
hundred and fifty days? Yeah? Why are we celebrating all this violence when
we just like achieved piece. Also, he had a line in there where
you know, it's kind of hypocritical where they're honoring Marcus, you know with
with bloodshed. Yeah, and that's shut down the Collie Sam Yeah, which
got Proximo later on. It's like, yeah, they're doing these games,
which is ironic. Father shut them down. I keep jumping like two three
scenes ahead? Is that why they shout it down? Well? I remember
like one of the reasons, like Rome Fell is like they kind of bankrupt
with themselves by like doing all that shit, like yeah, let's pay a
bunch of money to get an elephant here. It's like, can elephants survive
that travel? We'll find out. It's like, let's just get wild.
Well, we just wasted a lot of money bringing elephants here, please the
people. Yeah, but yeah, all these like all these scenes right here
where they're bouncing back and forth before Maximus comes to to the College Sam.
It's really like mirroring uh Commodus's and Maximus is like journeys. Yeah, Like
it's it's kind of cool where uh you know, like I said, where
Maximus wins that College Sam fight and they're you know, and the crowd's cheering
for him for bringing the bloodshed, but then uh, Commedist is coming into
into Rome and everyone's cheering for him. Yeah, like you know, they're
two opposite journeys ones, Like, yeah, they're gonna meet back up,
they're gonna meet back up. But you're right, that fight where Maximus goes
in and just kills all those guys fantastic. It's awesome. But you could
tell he doesn't he doesn't like doing this. No, he s at the
end, he like throws the sword at the people running in and are you
not entertained? Are you not entertained, Like he's not, You're not entertained.
Yeah, he's not about it's just not why you are here, dude.
He's kind of pointing out, like this is kind of fucked guys,
Like murdering and killing is like an awful thing and sometimes in the set necessity,
but like we can't do it, like this is weird. He's over
it. Yeah he doesn't. He doesn't. Also, my fake dad told
me it was wrong and I could be emperor right now. We can only
do it for Rome to take over the whole world, but but do it
for sport? What are you nuts? Also, rest in peace, pig
guy, he got it the worst. You think that someone like he was
also kind of a slave and they would just like throw this on your head
and you're fighting with him. I'm sure they were all kind of slaves.
Was like, oh, I'm gonna look badass with this one with my pig
shoe. Yeah, and then he gets killed. Oh my god, could
you imagine like wearing all that armor back and then that would suck? No
way when you look at knights and something like they couldn't even see they're probably
like I think there's like stories of like you know, a lot of times
they would like kill each other because they just like couldn't see it even like
even Max misses like, I get it looks badass, Yeah, but like
I just I would not. I guess, you know, you want to
protect a head, but doesn't really protect your head against swords like that.
Yeah. But yeah, Proximo is really excited to go back to the coliseum.
Yeah, because he we've learned that Marcus Aurelius gave him his freedom,
he gave him the Wooden Sword and let him go free. And he's about
to make a whole lot more money. Yeah, because he apparently he made
money. And then he's like, he's like, well for five years,
I've been dicking around here for scraps. He's like, now I'm back in
business. Uh. And then Drew Ba Maximus, they bond over having families.
They do the whole like I will see them again, but not yet,
not yet. Yeah. I think Drew Ba he at least he believes
his family is still alive. Yeah. Where he just hasn't seen him in
years. Yeah yeah where Yeah, Maximus, he knows it there, they're
done, he's seen them recently. Uh. And then I have in my
notes here more incest cry baby stuff because Commonists is just such a yeah.
I mean he really uh yeah, he really wants his sister really big.
Yeah, and he also wants to get rid of the fucking Senate. Like
he's really trying to get rid of the Senate. I like the I like
the imagery of him again. He's like a child sitting there spinning his sword
while the Senate is talking and and just not paying attention. And he's like,
the people are gonna love me. And then the one guy calls him
and he's like, yeah, have you ever held him in dying? And
he's just like might He's like he's like, yeah, I might. He
wants to hold them. He wants to he wants to show them love,
hold them to his bosom. Yeah. He is his friend, his realm's
father, and they're his children and he will embrace them. You ever embraced
the man dying of the plague? He's like saying that again, and you
will. Fucker are you not entertained? So I love the dude in the
wig with the big eyebrows. Yeah, that guy's awesome. Yeah. Yeah.
But so what they're doing is they're bringing in the gladiators they assume they're
all gonna die because the other the ones in the coliseum are more well armed,
and they're like, we're doing the ancient battle of this and the good
guys are gonna be here and these guys are gonna be there. What they're
doing is pretty much the first battle we see on screen, right the Barbarians.
No, no, I think it's like an older battle. I think
it's an older battle. But they're like, yeah, this will be like
the famous battle here put them. Maximus is like, they don't play on
Maximus like getting everyone together. I mean even Proximus was like, you know,
you wait, you're gonna make my guys the losing side, Like,
like, my guys are supposed to lose now. So he was like,
oh great, now all my slaves are about to die until they get out
there. Yeah, until they get out out Uh. This is this is
what in the wrestling business they would call a shoot, not a work.
A work is what it's like when it's planned. A shoot is when someone
goes off script and Maximus and the boys they do a shoot on the gladiators
and they murder all of them. This battle is this battle is Han Zimmer's
music is like insane. He's good. It's good, all of it's I
mean, it's like just that whole the Chariot's coming out. And then and
then you start to see them work together, which is fantastic. But then
you start to notice, you know, the Maximus is is shown. You
know, he's a general and then he can do this, and he's you
know, he's he's I mean, he's the best to ever do it.
So now he starts taking over. Yeah, he's the Emperor's kind of like
enjoying it, loving it. But then he's like, wait a minute,
what the fun. Yeah, he's like, oh, I like a surprise.
The guy organized it, and it's like that wasn't supposed to happen.
Maximus winning over the crowd. Baby, I always felt bad for that chick
that looks good too. She like falls and then she gets up and it's
like this big spike. I love, I just I love that Maximus has
to win the crowd on all. Yes, he has. He has a
path now on on on how to get to the emperor and and take his
vengeance. Yes, and I think he has. He's met Lucius at this
point, right, uh so Lucious, Yes, right before this, and
then he realized who Lucia says. He's like, oh shit, yea,
so we forgot. So Maximus has his own plan because when Proxima was telling
him, it's like, yeah, I won all these battles and I was
granted my freedom. Like the Emperor came up to me and touched me on
the shoulder. Maximus is like, oh, I'm gonna get real close to
that Aurelius. Yeah, but he's just like, I said, my shoulder,
but I like, he's like, I want will you want? I
also want to get close to the emperor, but for many different reasons.
And Proximus still like doesn't know at that point. He doesn't tell him who
he is or why, but he's like, yes, when when the crowd
and you win your freedom, yea. So and then when he meets Lucius,
he's kind of like, you know, he's looking around, like wait,
where's your He's like, I don't want to spoil it. That's why
he like picks up the mask and it's like I should probably put a helmet
on up the coolest one around. So yeah, the Emperor goes out to
meet him and he's like, oh, hey, Gladi, what's your name.
He's like, my name is Gladdie or and then he turns his back
on him. Yeah, you will not tell me your name. Yeah,
my name is Maxrus, Maximus Demus medius. My name is Maximus des blah
blah blah blah blah. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered
wife, and in this life for the next alf vengeance, Yes, vengeance.
Yeah, he picked up like an arrow. He was like ready to
kill him then and there, but I think because the kid was there,
he didn't kid was there, and yeah, just kind of started to plot
out his Yeah. I like that. He's like, oh, man,
I better not kill this man in front of this child. It's like,
I think he killed ten thousand people in front of a million people just a
second ago. I think there were some kids in the audience there, buddy.
But I mean then he starts to realize, you know, that he
that he could possibly hurt this kid as well. And I think it's also
like, Okay, he was blinded by the vengeance part. He's like,
wait, but if I just die here after killing him, nothing really gets
fixed. We gotta like figure out how to fix rome. But yeah,
I like how like Communists was not expecting it to be him, and he
was like, oh shit shit himself. Yeah, he's like because then he
says, you know that even his men went back, which I guess there
was still someone alive when they when he ordered Maximus to be killed. But
oh yeah, he's like light to me. In Germania, they were like,
yeah, yeah, I said that he was dead, so yeah yeah
nope, dude. Ye. So Communists is about to have him killed there
because of all that, but the crowd loves him surrounds his men. They're
like, live live, live live. You won the crowd. H you
won, the crowd won the crowd. I love there's like through this through
even like this first battle in the cow Sham and then also when all this
is happening, Yeah, you get shots of Proximo up top and he's like
smiling and he's enjoying all of it. He's like, yeah, he's winning
the fucking crowd, baby, yeah. And Commedist is like, I can't
kill him, make a martyr out of him. Yeah. Then here afterwards,
Maximus is approached by Lucilla, who think he thinks he's an assassin,
but his best assassins. I love that line. Yeah, yeah, but
I love that. She's like, hey, other people hate commedists too,
and we can like arrange like a thing. He's like, get out of
here. I hate yo, No, get out of my face. Yeah.
Then there's another battle between Maximus and Titus of Gullah, who has the
coolest armor ever, with that weird phase. Coolest armor. But how do
you fight in that? I know, how do you fight? Apparently not
well? But he was an undefeated gladiator. Yeah, they say like an
undefeated champion, although I thought Proxima was. Maybe he wasn't a CHAMPI I
heard that as well, but yeah, yeah, I guess it's different.
But yeah. He is played by svennel Thorsen, who is was Arnold's stunt
double, I believe, but also in a bunch of Arnold Schwartzenegger movies he
was. He was one of the Barbarian dudes that Conan fights, was one
of the bad guys henchmen and code in the Barbarian Uh, in a ton
of movies. He's in that movie right behind you a braxis with Jesse Ventura.
Oh and uh, that is a I mean he's both of them are
friends with Arnold and that is the biggest Terminator rip off ever. If I
was Arnold, I would be like, hey, buddy, why did you
do that? He was like, all right, buddy, go ahead.
The only reason I bring that up is I think I might be the only
person who has ever cosplayed as that character. My friend mister Lobo. My
friend mister Lobo played a Practis on his show, and he wanted me to
be. His name is Secundus in that movie. You wanted me to besa
So I bought the red flannel and that that gray vest I was wearing all
winter along. I don't know if you saw me wearing that, it was
because I bought it for that. I ended up really liking that best.
So yeah, so I dressed just like that. I'm sitting there, I'm
like, I don't think anyone's ever costplayed this guype before, but he did?
Anyone know who you? Well? I didn't everyone in the studio because
if I did it in public, people be like, what the are you
kidding? So that fight is awesome, but like, I like how the
Emperor's like, yeah, he won't live. I arranged it. Fucking tigers
coming out. Yeah, and again this is another one. If they did
this now, be all digital tigers and it would look but yeah, which
they used real tigers, and then they also had a stuffed animal tigers.
They had stuff animals, and they did use some digital stuff like when it
falls on top of Kurt Russell or the sorry Russell Crow, when it follows
the top of Russell Crow, it's or a stunt man. It might be
a real tiger, but they show like the sword digitally going through it.
You could tell it's a digital sword. Yea. So it was a mixture
all of them. But yeah, it's a fun. Like I love that
one shot where like the tiger swipes and it almost gets him, almost gets
him, dude. Oh yeah, this whole fight scene is fantastic. I
said the last fight scene was the best, but this one might be depending.
Yea, this one was awesome. I love when he like stabs him
in the foot and then the blood comes out of that creepy mass looks like
he looks like a Roman Michael Myers and that I can see that. Yeah,
he spits up the blood and yeah he he wins, and then you
know the Emperor does be inaccurate. Yeah this and then uh Maximist spares him.
Yeah he defies the emperor. He defies him, and then someone screams
out back sims the merciful and then they're like, wait, he kills people
and sometimes he lets him live. This guy fucking pasts man. What is
happening right now? How do you love this man? Jesus, I'm killing
you all like I killed my father. Yeah. Communist talks to Maximists and
he brings up his kids. Yeah, don't talk about his kids. Yeah,
messed up up. It's like, dude, you're tempting here, buddy
to fade here. His wife moaned like a yeah, or when they ravaged
her and his kids squilled like a pig. Yeah, she's he really got
in his face on that. Dude. She had enough to get killed the
guy's wife and kid, you don't have to frag he's coming in his neck
right there. Also, he wasn't there. He doesn't know, he doesn't
know. Can they happen? Maximus and Juba they bond some more. Yeah.
I think this is when he has the fagures and he's like praying to
them. Well, he meets his uh right after this fight is where he
meets his servant Maximus. Yeah, the character he's like Hey, what's up.
It's like your soldiers are fat and board, they have new superiors and
they're just kind of waiting around something to do for him. They would go
to war with Rome, which is pretty wild to me. What do you
say, five thousand men or five hundred? Yeah, but like to go
to war with Rome just because of your general dance Again this there's honor and
respect in history. There's been plenty of coups where generals have taken and like
soldiers and like, we're overthrowing the government today by strength and honor though,
love it. And then he sent him over to Kanye Nielsen for him to
be like, yeah, excuse me, miss. He's tried to you know,
be like, you know, quiet about it, like I knew your
father. I knew your father. And she was like, nah, it's
cool. I still serve Maximus. Yeah, this guy should have listened to
him. Yeah, come on, come on. And that actor has those
actual scars, yeah right, some people don't know that, but yeah,
because I remember watching a couple of movies with this guy, like he was
an only versus predator and a few other ones, and people are like,
what's up with the scars? Like now he just has them, right?
Is he also the dude from He's not still the same dude from Sons of
Anarchy? Right? I think he wasn't right Sons of Anarchy right? Same?
Yeah? I love that show. And then also with Kim with the
with his with his lip in this Yeah, that's like it also like you
know, maybe he got you know, you can play it as like maybe
he got stabbed as a child, cut as a child or something, but
he just looks so good in that role. Or maybe he he fell into
a train car with a lion and then went to whip the lion but then
cut himself. Oh you know. That was his brother in Indiana Jones and
The Last Crusade, which I reviewed on this channel. I'll go check it
out now. To River Phoenix was his older mother. I know, har
I peak, I'm too soon help a family though talented family, yeah,
which the rest of my family was a talented Just kidding. They are better
be careful. It was a joke as a joke. Real quick channel update.
I did a compilation video of my Blair Witch reviews. I'm gonna start
doing something. I have plenty of playlists, but I don't think you guys
see them. So I'm doing compilation videos where like a franchise of movies I'm
gonna put together. And yeah, the first one I did was Blair Witch,
and I saw a lot of bring back Tricia. We want more Tricia.
You can watch that right now and watch my sister and then watch me
back to back. What a family, what a talented family. They all
want Tricia back. And I'm like, I don't know if Frank will get
like jealous. No, we'll get you. We should have invited her to
this one. We should have. I didn't realize she was gonna be back
so soon. Yeah. Yeah, she texts me, She's like, I'm
back in America. I'm like, oh fuck, I probably should have invited
her to Gladiator, but it's too late. Now. She doesn't even watch
his she likes. She only watches real Italian stuff. This is this is
fake history. Well I got her to do the other Ridley Scott Italy movie,
Annibal. She did not like. She did not like exactly. So
yes, uh, Maximus is now conspiring with the Senator what's his name of
scratch scratch Brad. He looks like a bread Yeah, they conspire with him.
It's like Okay, we're gonna buy your freedom. We're gonna get you
out of here. You will then reunite with your army who is loyal to
you and are willing to do all this stuff with you. Technically, is
it's still buying his freedom or sneaking him out. It's either way, right,
same thing. Maybe not a literal buying, but you know, sneaking
them out. So yeah, we're gonna do that. You're gonna come back.
We're overthrowing rome. Yeah, so that's the plan. He was like,
if you know I'm relying on you, I'm trusting you right now because
if you can't do it, I'm fucking dead as well. Yep. So,
which is a lot to put out there. Yeah, busy bees and
then uh commodists. He gets suspicious of Lucilla again, and then he gets
incesty again. He's like, will you lay with me? Yeah? Will
you lay with me? He's laying on her chest exactly, yeah, and
he tells her to like stay in his room then night and open her mouth.
And again it's like twenty Montana. It's like you have everything, but
you want the one thing you know you're not allowed to have. You could
be surrounded by all the women in the world, but you want your sister.
And if that's the second time I brought up twenty Montana. If you
were wondering, I do have a scarface review. I have a scarface review.
Check it out. If Alpaccino did such a good Cuban accent, I
reviewed that with my cuban, Fred Wild. The episode is literally called how
Cuban is Scarface? Would you rather Russell Crowe in the world? Yes,
she realizes like, oh, we better beat up this plan. This plan
needs to be sped up. I mean he also starts to I think get
an idea there that chess up to something. Yeah, well, ye,
Lucius fucks it all up playing he's playing gladiator with those servants. Uh,
and he slips and goes, I'm maximist, the Savior of Rome. I'm
sorry, what was like? What did you do? Where did you hear
that? And what a fucking rat Lucius is? What a fucking rat?
Rats out his own This kid right gets a little bit older. What Twenty
years later he was in a wonderful show Animal Kingdom on TNT, which had
a lot of fun with them. Watched the movie, but the show is
really good, But he is a possible rat in that show as well.
So the kid's just always been a rat. But he does a really great
job. I really love the show. And he was he was Barren Zimo's
son and Agents of Shields, you know, that really popular villain from the
comics that they had dy in five seconds and then too well, they had
his son have a whole storyline and the Vengers two time, and then some
lady crushed his head with telekinesis the kid yeah what yeah, but he was
also an unbreakable and Glass I think brought him back for Glass. He didn't
die. Baron Zemo did not die. For the record, Baron Zimo did
die. Yeah, they brought him back for the show Falcon I win a
shoulder. Do you watch it? No, I'm sorry, not Baron Zemo.
Oh shit, uh oh my god. There was a guy with like
a monocle. He's like a very famous hydra bag. Oh I'm blanking on
his name. You're right, it's not Baron Zemo. Just cut all that
out. No, he still mentioned it the Bad Guys too, where everyone
was like, that's a big bad guy. And then he died off screen.
His son had a whole plot line, Oh I forget zuvi, don't
whatever. He turns into the computer screen. No different, different guy,
all right? Uh yeah, so Lucius fucks it all up. He's he
like has given his uncle a little too much information. Yeah, and I
like he's like reading the story to the kid and looking at the mom basically
like, I you know what you did? I know what you're playing.
I mean as soon as she walked in, didn't saw that or son wasn't
there, so he was with the uncle And then great acting, by the
way, by by both of them, I mean from from Kinnie Nielsen and
Wikim Phoenix right being just a down straight up still dude, her crying there?
What was it? Uh? So good? What am I? Writing
classes in college? I remember the professor like professor brought this scene in on
like how to like build like tension using like you know, without outright saying
stuff. And it's like that's a really well done scene. Yeah, just
telling us, Yeah, yeah, I'm telling us how like the story can
reflect what's happening. And then he's telling him to get a point. Kids
starts to kind of realize it a little bit and he's like, did I
fuck up? I think I fucked up. I fuck up, mom.
Little Bee told to him everything. So yeah, they they know they're coming
for the gladiators. Uh, Proximo buys them all time. He releases all
of them and he so this is where Proximo was. There was digital Yeah,
okay in the like exchanging of the keys and talking by the gate right
there and uh, you know, uh Maximus saying, you know, are
you in danger of becoming a good man? He's scoffed. I love the
scoff and he's like, oh, walks off. He's likes shit. But
it's cool. It's cool to know that, you know, like because this
was all supposed to happen in the shadows and he was supposed to get away
and Proximo was like totally fine with it and this and that. But to
you know, have the guards right at his door and him knowing like,
no, I will choose to be a good man today whether I fucking die
or not. Yeah, really killed it and he gets killed. He gets
killed in it, sadly, but yeah, the other gladiators kind of buy
Maximus time. Juba survives, but the big guy doesn't. He doesn't,
which is wild. I mean, they just like resting piece other cone in
the Barbarian wouldn't you think that they would like try and kill them all for
rebelling or were they just like, you know, all right fine, like
you know everybody did, Like did they just stop fighting at one point and
they were like fine, you got me a yeah? Or maybe some of
them didn't, because he does say like if you want no part of let's
go back to yourselves. So yeah, And you think Proxima left that his
armor and his and his sword down there for him to coming, Well,
I think that was the plant because the plan was for him to escape out
the back and then meet up with that guy, So I think he knew.
I think they might have put it there for him. I just think
it's cool to have you know, uh Proxima die and then him come down
and be like, oh man, I really left is for me. It
also feels like a video game, like oh I got the armor. Yeah.
As of this record, I've been playing Residueble for and it's one of
those things where like the game takes away all your items and you have to
find all your items in like another room and you don't have all your I'm
like that reminding events like I have lost for this mission. I have to
do it without my weapons, but I get him at the end of the
level, or let me grab these and then go see if my friend knows
that, you know, this is all we're all getting sucked the're not because
I mean, at that point, with Maximus running out, you'd think that
he'd kind of stay away from his buddy because he knows that, you know,
they're they're deal is shot right there, but yeah, yeah, not
dude. But now he gets out there, the guy tries to warn him
and then he gets hung and then shot with arrows like yeah, no,
dude, and then just straight up on right there, hold on s s
okay, yeah, okay, wait, okay, we're good. Sorry.
I just wanted to make sure I didn't is it? Is it wring this
scene? Don't they like kill people that are sleeping in a bed with a
snake? Isn't that? Doesn't that happen during the scene? So yes,
And I guess it's one of the senators. Yeah, so you would think
that because right before this they go they arrest the other one, arrest Brady,
but they arrest him and then I guess the other senators. Yeah,
but I mean I get because I guess we saw three or four of them,
but there was one senator who was like kind on yeah communists aside,
But yeah, I guess I remember they like put like a snake inside the
bed inside the other guys. But but I mean there's the one senator that's
really on his side and with him trying to you know, conduct it all.
But and then yeah, I mean, but wouldn't you just kill the
main the senator that was helping you know, Maximus right off the bat,
like you just you know, chop his head off. But maybe they didn't
know. Yeah, maybe they wanted to make sure it was known that he
was a trainer before they killed him. Also, also Connie Nielsen told the
commedists everything like you think that she was. Yeah, she did kind of
like not even like she really spilled the beans. You gotta do what on
which we call it Princess Leia did in Star Wars. Yeah, when they're
like where's the rebel bass and she names some other planet she thinks spare and
they blown up like you know, you're lying, it's definitely not there.
You gotta give him like you're like, okay, they're actually here. I'm
like, oh, I guess they changed the plan. They're not here or
they you know, give him enough time to get away or say like,
oh it in the morning, they're gonna do this or something not tonight at
midnight. But yeah, yeah, Maximus fell into the trap and now he's
gonna fight the Emperor. Really loved this scene where he's chained up. Yeah,
really love that. I love the emperors out. The costume design is
really good, even if it's not the most accurate. So I love like
the white suit that he has. They want an oscar for yes, so
costume sound. Russell Crowe won Best Film, I think as well something else.
But yeah, no, this whole scene where he's you know, coming
at him and he's like, you know, good Man, good Man once
told me U when you die blah blah blah blah blah, and he's like,
who said that. He's like, is it true? He's like,
I don't know. I'm talking about your dad. You were there. I'm
like, oh, you're getting under his skin. No, it's your father.
Yeah, Like it's because I think Maximus might know he's fucked. He's
like, if I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna remind this fucking cry baby.
Yeah, that his dad didn't love well, I mean, like he
I guess he wouldn't think that he was gonna just stab him right then.
I assume I would assume in that case, I'm like, there's no way
this guy's gonna let me do a fair fight. So yeah, he does
stab him, more like he mortally wounds. But I love when he's like
embraced me as a brother and then he goes in and just stabs the shit
at him and he's like right in the long dude. Yeah, he's like
and he's like, can seal the moon? Get him out there. If
I was Maximus, I would have just killed over because then the people would
have been like, oh they ever cheated. I would have been like,
I've been stabbed there. I mean you can you can see because I feel
like even the sister kind of notices when they first come out that he's like,
you know, holding his arm down and he's limping a little bit,
like you know that he you know, fucked with him a little bit before
the fight. Yeah, but even even a half dead Maximus could beat the
shit out of confidence. He's so over confident. But I like the commedist
goes to cheat again. Then suddenly his guards who've been on his side,
they're just like, yeah, you're gonna respect soul, give me a soul,
and he's like shield, just san. He's got a really great voice
for that. By the way, that came out weird, But yeah,
I love it. But this whole, this whole fight, this whole like
you know, hand to hand combat. I mean, all the fights in
this movie are fantastic, That's why I love it, but the hand this
is not the most like entertaining, but it's most satisfying because like, he
really has a coming and I like that. He's just not that good of
a fighter. He's okay, but clearly he's never been in an actual fight
where his life was on the line. The only other time you see him
fighting is in the very beginning of the movie when he has like eight guys
around practice. It's all his own men, and he's like, oh,
look at me fending off these eight guys. But yeah, but that's all
practice. Show pretty much, you've never been in danger before in your life,
and now you're gonna go up against the best general of all time.
You're gonna go up against a general that became a slave a slave that became
a gladiator, a gladiator that the i'd an emperor. Yeah, that's who
you're gonna go up against because you're gonna lose. It's a lot like every
damn time. It's like a lot like Cone of the Barbarian, you know,
he was a slave gladiator and then King. Also kind of like that
movie The Northman that we reviewed and No One Way, kind of like that.
Just add adding some acid and you're good. I do like all the
rose Pedals coming down here because I remember one of the things I remember from
the commentary track. It's like, well, they're like, tell us about
the rose Pedals. He's like, well, I tried to do it in
the movie Legend and it didn't look that good, so I decided to do
it again here to get it right this time. I mean, I do
love Legend, but the Roses are you know, really you know, kind
of adds to the to the bloodshed and they love and it's like, you
know, Maximus is the last time he saw Roses was when the Emperor was
coming into town. And now a new emperor is about to be born.
Yeah again, baby, he kills commence Wait what? Yeah, he likes
stazzled like in The Throne too. It's pretty brutal, like that late outfit
gets so dude, love this, love the you know, they have that
that close encounter moment for a second of staring each other in the eyes and
Comma is knowing, knowing that you know, this is it and how could
he have fucked this up? He stabbed him in the lungs before the fight
and he's still gonna win. And then he goes to stab him into the
throat and he actually stabs him six inches to the left and just goes,
you know through, and then you can kind of see that he didn't stab
it all and it comes right back out. Every time I watch this film,
did I see it? Because Russell Crowe grabs him by like the side
of the neck and he and he stabs him with it, but then there's
like and they're trying to hide it with his shoulder and like just see what
Keen's face and this and then like going in and out of the blood.
But the way that he's stabbing and the way that he's joking is like it's
going in there. Yeah. But then there's a shot right at the end
when he goes to pull it out where you see he's literally just sliding it
with his hand all the way out next to his trash movie. No,
I know, I'm just saying back all the oscars, five oscars, give
him back now. Now we didn't just bother, so we didn't really bring
up the true story. Did you know a movie can be historically inaccurate and
still be fine. No, yeah, no, no, no, this
all happened. There was a big controversy with the movie based on the true
story there h However, in real life, Yeah, this emperor was actually
killed by someone. Yeah, not a gladiator. He was killed by a
wrestler, which I used to do in high school. And he was killed
while taking a bath. Was how imagine if the end of this movie was
Joaquin Phoenix just naked in the bath and then just like another naked guy came
in and strangles Russell Crowe. It was just naked, thick slopping. He's
just strangling the guy in of it, just how the movie ended. I
mean, if this whole thing was based on real events, then you really
wouldn't have a good movie. So, yeah, you're a very different movie.
Russell Crowe coming in with like a one of the Mexican wrestler suits in
he's a real Spaniard. Oh but yeah, that is in real life the
Communists. He was killed by a wrestler in while taking a bath. Again,
this movie is just using history to tell its own story, which has
been done since Shakespeare's time. People have been taking true stories and you know,
manipulating them, changing them to whole thing. I mean it's a great
film. Yeah, yeah, like that's that's Sometimes I do have problems with
like biopics or like historical picks. Usually when it's this far back, I
tend not to care. Yeah, I mean the recent like Elvis one,
I wasn't like thrilled about because I liked Elvis. It was good, but
like you have like fifty years of his life and you kind of have to
pick the stuff, and it's like, I'd rather you just give me like
these five solid years than to try and fit the fifty. But then there's
movies like Cocaine Bear. Yeah, it's like that happened where it's like,
as well, no, no, no, Cocaine Bear, here's what happened.
Okay. I actually have the whole review of it on movie Dumb,
so I reviewed it. I wore I dressed up in a bear with cocaine.
Here's the true story of Cocaine Bear. A guy was flying, he
emptied a bunch of cocaine out of his plane. He parachuted it and died.
Days later, they found a bunch of cocaine, and then they found
a bear who died of a heart attack. That's it. That's it.
And the bear doesn't even die in the movie, so that part didn't even
know. Dude, spoilers due the whole movies. Bullshit, there was no
bear rampant. If what happened in the movie happened in real life, dude,
it would be the most talked about thing of all time. It's impossible.
It wouldn't it wouldn't be real. I still hear about that elephant in
the nineties in that one country. It went on a rampage and just killed
a bunch. I still hear about that. I've never heard of the Cocaine
Bear because it's all bullshit. Dumbo, right, Yeah, it's dumbbo.
Tim Burton's Dumb's what I thought. That's what I thought. So, yeah,
he kills the emperor. Yeah, he gives out his final wishes because
he's technically emperor. Now for five second, my men, there was a
dream there that was Rome, give Rome back to the people. Obviously he
was not the last emperor. Reelius had a dream that dream. I looked
up the last emperor of Rome, and I forgot to write his name down.
But there were emperors after this. They like lift him up, they
take him out. And then afterwards Juba, who is now free. I
guess he escaped or well they maybe they freedom. Maybe he just escaped or
in that whole thing. Uh, yeah, I don't. I mean they
freed because he said free my men, and then all of his men came
running up to help him out. Also, you get that you know shot
again of him soldiers, but yeah, I guess it could have been the
gladiators too. You also get that shot of him, you know, hovering
them now heat now yeah, and he meets his family and was fantastic.
I mean, I love the music with that with him, you know,
hold holding his hand out rubbing against the long grass and the fields. And
then you get the whole shot of his of his house and his farm.
It's just it's so beautiful, dude. It really is. The dark sky's
coming overhead. The lightning bowl and then I know, and it's it's hard
to recreate. It's hard to create moments like this with like the cool imagery
and the Hans Zimmer music. I mean, Zack Snyder tried, and he
embarrassed himself and failed horribly in Man of Steel. At the end of this
movie. I always cry at the end of this movie because when he sees
his wife and kid again, dude, and the kid finally sees that,
you know, he's homes it's the same exact thing. She's like, you
know, hey, go run to your dad. The same thing that you
don't happened in the way beginning when the kid was run over by a horse,
But this time he really embraces his dad and sees his dad and then
oh god, it cry every time. But Connie Nielsen is all like,
go to them. And then that door that you see is actually the door
that in Gladiator too he comes back out of and he starts time traveling and
doing all this crazy, you know, just the kind of movie. Juba
berries the figures in the coliseum, Yeah, did you did you find those
figures? Are they still there? So they are encased in glass? Did
you go there and there she signed by the real Maximus. Oh, the
real it might not have even been a real person, not Russell Crowe,
autographed wrestler, greasy wrestler in bathtub beside Maximus, Decimus Meridius vengeance. He
goes, I'll see you, I'll see you soon, but not yet.
And then now we are free song plays, so not yet. They're making
a contes sequel to this. Now you looked up with because I heard what
the original sequel is going to be, and you looked it up. What
was Gladiator two or what will Gladiator two actually end up each? So I
don't know what this second one will be, but we both have ideas of
what it was supposed to be years ago. And I read a script that
was a time traveling Maximus that was jumping around all different points of time in
all different battles and historical eras, so that he's not just you know,
in the Gladiator era. He's all over the place and fighting all different kinds
of bat because he's an awesome general. Yeah, I heard one thing.
I remember hearing one that might have had a little time travel, but like
he was like fighting like the Roman gods, almost like a god of war
sort of thing. But but like, you know, Italian not Greek.
So I heard that they're not Sicilian at all. Yeah, but I heard
that. I was just like, that sounds awful. I mean, if
you're good to a sequel, I guess, get creative with it instead of
just being like I am a different gladiator. But also, what what do
you do with Russell Krowe? Like? I guess you did? So.
I know that Padre Pascal is signed on. That's all I know. If
you know more out there, let us know. But I haven't left.
I'm sorry, I'm out too much. You don't. I want to see
the movie he did with Nicholas Cage, but it's just too much awesome.
So just I mean, he just kind of, you know, like hit
all the sweet spots at the right time. You know, people liked him
and started kissing him, and then Laureans sucks the last of us though,
dude, list I didn't bother. I have played the game. I didn't
play the game. Still watch its awesome. It's really well done. Dude,
too much Peter Piscale. People think he's better than It's fine, it's
fine, He's okay. One day you're gonna be like too much. Frank
Foolby's everywhere right now. I will never say that. Neither were people in
the comments hopefully not. They're like not not enough Frank. But he does
need to get closer to the mic because because I'm about to be everywhere soon,
baby, coming to you soon my my goal. I'm counting down the
days to where, like, you make it big and then you have to
disavow me. That's what I'm really looking forward to. No, I,
when I make it big, I'm only coming back here for interviews, only
coming to hack the movies for interviews. That is it. So if you
want to interview me, you gotta hire him to come out and talk to
yeahs in my contract, you're Gladiator three, you better not disavowling because if
you're in any movie, somebody like this would sucks. Would have been better.
Frank wasn't in it, or even when I am in it, you're
like this, Frank, this kind of sucks. Man, Gladiator three going
through the multiverse, I don't know. Yeah, I look, I never
saw Exodus Gods and Kings. I have a copy of it. It was
all right. I was kind of excited for it. But yeah, the
last Ridley scrap. Thing I liked was the Martian so supposed to be with
this Gladiator script as well, when they before they started shooting it, Ridley
and Russell sat down, Did you just say supposedly? Are you not allowed
to say supposed No, I think it's supposedly. But someone comments someone in
the comments? When did they just say supposedly? And I'm like, fuck,
did I or Franks say that? But the fact that you just said
it. I don't tell Chris because she says everything. I'll never hear the
end of it. Keep going. But supposedly they sat down together and they
chopped up this script to where they only had twenty two p so right before
they like started shooting, they supposedly were writing. They started writing the script
as they went and uh yeah, kind of like they they supposedly laugh when
they I'm gonna stop saying that. Damn. Where when they won all these
oscars they kind of laughed at each other and they were like, how the
fuck did we do this? They were like, what the hell? Just
hell. I've seen like some of the stuff they've worked on since, and
some of it's like, okay, I think one guy wrote like a couple
of the Daniel Craig Bond movies. I know one of them did Alien Covenant,
but yeah, that's the thing. Ridley Scott hasn't wowed me in like
ten years. Really he's shooting or a producer. I think he directed one
episode of a TV show that was just recently shooting in Philly a couple of
months ago. I did pa work behind the scenes on it and Ridley was
on set, but I didn't see him. I was very upset because I
wanted to meet him and tell him I would still want to meet him.
I wanted to meet him and how Gladiator is my favorite film of all time,
So you know I'm probably gonna get ragged on that. I don't know
all the facts of this movie, but it's my favorite of all Italian dude,
you think I've said that to him, glad He's like, oh great,
another Italian? Yeah great, you love it. You love the Kyl
Sam kid. You're like, I love that one. And my second favorite
movie is the Christopher Columbus movie you did, because that was about another Italian.
If I ever met him, I'd be like, hey, Hannibal is
underrating. I'm sorry, Hannibal is like really good and people need to get
over eight. It's really good. Yeah, but yeah, glad Eater too.
Look, i'll see it. I'll probably do one of our live wrap
up episodes on it. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to dedicate a
full episode to it, to be honest, I mean it really just unless
this episode does really well, it really depends on you know what the story
is about. If it's if you can take this and use it as like
even Lucius or Maximus has a son. Maybe Lucius turns out to be Maximus's
son. He's played by Pedro Piscal And now it's thirty they spring back that
actor Patro Miiscale is like way older than that actor that was. Maybe Patro
Piscal is Maximus's brother, Okay, and they're saying that he's the new gladiator
Maximo. But it goes backwards. It goes to an emperor who became a
gladiator and became a slave and then became a general. Is that work?
Is that copy? Baby? Maybe I'm not excited for it either way.
I'll give it a shot, alright, I mean give it a shot.
But I probably should have watched some more Ridley Scott movies. Maybe I missed
a good one here or there, but he was just kind of disappointing me.
I mean, yeah, and uh that is Gladiator. It's a good
story. I was gonna say simple. It's a simple like you know,
the guy loses everything is to get everything back. It's a nice revenge story.
Good. It's kind of like a like, you know, Punisher would
be a modern day of this. Yeah, you got you got a hero
that you could root for. You got a villain that you can hate,
great villain black and white there, you got your your gang of merry men
that are behind the side, characters that you can We got you the multicultural
side, characters that are going to help them. You got the really big
dude, you got the foreign guy, and you got the main guy,
the one always see Like, I think one reason some people, well,
there's some people don't like this movie because the inaccuracy. Some people think it's
overrated because the story is kind of like a simple revenge thing. I do
see some people say there are parts of me that are boring. I do
think maybe the political espionage, but it's so I'm not bored. I'm not
bored by but I can see how people might be like, all right,
kind of lulls for a little bit where it's just people talking. It's kind
of like a Roman princess broad. Yeah, you got the foreign guy,
you got the main guy, and you got the big guy, and they
all come together and they all hang out and they go through there. There
they're fun together. But no, I mean, I either I give this
movie a ten out of ten because there's there's no fat to me that you
need to trim off every scene. And they trimmed the fat because I mentioned
those deleted. I should check out the extended cut to see, like what's
in there. There's still two hours and thirty minutes. Is that what it
is? Two thirty five? It's like around there. Yeah, still a
long movie. But I mean, I don't know. I just I've always
loved it. I always love it too. The soundtracks, right, I
usually just put the soundtrack on when I'm going on one of my many nature
walks that I do lately. Thanks to viewers like you rub your hand on
the tall grass as you walk, I do, and then bugs bite me
and I'm like, oh, then I started sneezing from allergies. Thanks to
viewers like you who keep the show going. Yeah, I get to make
my own hours sometimes, and Frank, there are some days where I'm just
like, I'm ahead on work and we go to the park. We're gonna
go to the park being get him getting healthier. We're go to the park
after this as it's too late to go to the park. I was gonna
get it. They have a window now they know when it's nine time.
I was gonna get my sword and sandal and we were gonna, you know,
go out. Right at the time of this recording, I dropped a
bunch of wait, you look good, and this time you can't tell them
where in the ship. And this time I'll keep it off. Frank,
I'll probably game it all back. I usually do. But yes, thank
you all for watching. Let us know what you think of that aator.
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let me know why you don't like it? But you know you like
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me on Instagram at Frank Underscore Volpi Underscore. I got a brand new movie
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kind of cool, and after the lead character, which is nice. It
very nice action film out of fight scenes, as fun as you go.
And then I have a brand new movie that's coming out and to be soon
depending on when. It's traps as well. It's called I Love Juliet.
Jamal Woollard, the guy who played Biggie Smalls and Notorious is in it,
and I play one of the leads. That's kind of nuts and wild.
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