Critical Drinker on Gladiator 2

[iamwhatiseem]

I like Critical Drinker, probably agree with him at least 90% of the time. One of only 2 or 3 I pay any attention to.
What he says about Gladiator 2 is the same reason I didn't go out to the theater and see it.
It is - YET ANOTHER - Hollywood borrowing past movie successes and retreading them to hopefully get enough fans of the original to go see it. And it isn't going to work - AGAIN.
Empty plot, too many characters, meandering storyline with unnecessary throwbacks.
A waste of time.

I may watch it, maybe, when it appears somewhere for free.

 

[rightwinger]

Rotten Tomatoes gave it 72 percent critics and 84 percent audience

Not bad

Mindless entertainment but entertaining.
I will pay to see it on the big screen

 

[Cellblock2429]

I like Critical Drinker, probably agree with him at least 90% of the time. One of only 2 or 3 I pay any attention to.
What he says about Gladiator 2 is the same reason I didn't go out to the theater and see it.
It is - YET ANOTHER - Hollywood borrowing past movie successes and retreading them to hopefully get enough fans of the original to go see it. And it isn't going to work - AGAIN.
Empty plot, too many characters, meandering storyline with unnecessary throwbacks.
A waste of time.

I may watch it, maybe, when it appears somewhere for free.

/----/ I toured Italy and walked inside the Collseum last month. I was anxious to see the movie. Thanks for the warning. I'll wait till it's $2.99 or free on Netflix.

 

[Mac-7]

Rotten Tomatoes gave it 72 percent critics and 84 percent audience

Not bad

Mindless entertainment but entertaining.
I will pay to see it on the big screen

Whats so special about Rotten Tomatoes?

Did someone die and make them the gatekeepers of our culture?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Rotten Tomatoes gave it 72 percent critics and 84 percent audience

Not bad

Mindless entertainment but entertaining.
I will pay to see it on the big screen

Yes - and RT also gave Alien Romulus I think it was 74% before it fell to 65% by the end of the 1st week of release.
And I foolishly went to a theater and paid the tickets, and was sorely disappointed.
In another month - it won't have that 72%

 

[PCB]

The Critical Drinker is my favorite movie reviewer. He is always right on. If he says a movie sucks then he is usually correct. If he says it is good then it usually is.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

The Critical Drinker is my favorite movie reviewer. He is always right on. If he says a movie sucks then he is usually correct. If he says it is good then it usually is.

I have disagreed with him once, I don't even remember what movie it was.
He has a bias, and it is the same bias I have - he hates woke messaging, product rebranding and egregious gender reversals.

 

[JoeB131]

I like Critical Drinker, probably agree with him at least 90% of the time. One of only 2 or 3 I pay any attention to.
What he says about Gladiator 2 is the same reason I didn't go out to the theater and see it.
It is - YET ANOTHER - Hollywood borrowing past movie successes and retreading them to hopefully get enough fans of the original to go see it. And it isn't going to work - AGAIN.
Empty plot, too many characters, meandering storyline with unnecessary throwbacks.
A waste of time.

I may watch it, maybe, when it appears somewhere for free.

I stopped following the Critical Drinker some time ago.

First, his whole schtick is a ripoff of Red Letter Media's Mr. Plinket character, except less funny.

Secondly, the guy is pretty open in his misogyny. You put a female lead in any movie or franchise, and he'll completely lose his shit.

My problem with the original Gladiator is that it was bad history. It had characters alive at the end of the movie who were dead at that point historically, Commodus wasn't killed in a Gladiator fight, he was strangled to death in his bathtub after the poison his wife gave him didn't work fast enough. His sister was executed at the beginning of his reign, and her son, Lucius Verus, died before Commodus ascended to the Purple. (This is important because both of these characters are apparently back in this movie.) Oh, yeah, and they all talked about how they were going to restore the Republic at the end of the movie. (In fact, the country immediately descended into Civil War, with a disgusting episode of the Praetorian Guard auctioning off the position of Emperor. )

I guess this movie is going to be a bit more accurate in that it will take place 20 years later when Caracalla and Geta are joint Emperors, followed by Caracalla murdering Geta and being overthrown by Macrinus later. That's awesome and all, but in history, that was a process that happened over six years.