about "Gladiator," the movie with Russel Crowe

[Bertha Venation]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Bertha...

I loved it...Russell Crowe is always worth watching...

:hi:

[kentauros]

14. Then, have you ever seen "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

?

Another great Crowe movie, worth crowing about :D
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My dear kentauros!

Oh, yes!

We LOVED it!

Full of great lines, action and acting!

Say what you like about Crowe himself......but the man can act.

:D

[BreweryYardRat]

35. The novels by Patrick O'Brien that the movie was based on are also very good.

Have you read those?

[krispos42]

36. I just looked it up on Wikipedia.

Looks like a winner... I'll have to see if the local library has them.

Thanks!

:hi:



(The movie was great, too)

[MissDeeds]

24. OMG

That is my favorite movie of all time. Crowe is wonderful, and Weir's direction is spot on. It's almost like being transported back in time. And damn, does The Commander look fine in that Royal Navy uniform, blond hair, ruffled shirt, and all.

:silly:

[kentauros]

29. I've only seen it once, on hulu

so it's about time for another viewing :)

Yeah, it's an amazing film. What'd you think of the brain surgery part? ;)

[MissDeeds]

32. The brain surgery was pretty cringe-worthy

But the doctor operating on himself was what really got to me. I blathered on so much about the movie that I got four(!) copies for Christmas that year! I regret not getting to see it on the big screen. It really wasn't advertised much here, so I missed out. Hope they do another one. :P

[hedgehog]

17. Two words:

Robin



Hood


http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/robinhood/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Oh yes.

Yum.

:9

[TZ]

2. Very good movie. Loved it.

And thats not generally my type of movie....

[Captain Hilts]

4. Same here. nt

[old mark]

3. LOVED IT and I'm not a great movie fan...really fine cast all around, but

Joaqin Phoenix as the evil emperor was just great - you can really hate and fear him. I'm recommending it, BV.


mark

[Bertha Venation]

22. I think I'll see it.

I recorded it off of TCM the other night. I know it's violent, but if I steel myself I can handle that.

I have loved Russell Crowe ever since I saw "The Sum Of Us." Then I saw "L.A. Confidential" and loved him more.

:hi: mark :*

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. One of the stupidest movies I've ever seen.

Christ it was bad.

[LeftinOH]

6. I like 'Spartacus' better -n/t

[Zomby Woof]

7. Do you like movies about gladiators?

[TZ]

12. LOL

I always think of that line when I hear Gladiator too...:rofl:

[Mojambo]

8. Fair movie. Spectacularly overrated. n/t

[dugaresa]

9. Entertaining but historically inaccurate

[Alexander]

10. I loathed and despised this movie.

Most people I know loved it, but I found the acting uninspired (except Richard Harris at the beginning), the plot nonexistent, the characters weak - Joaquin Phoenix's Commodus was especially whiny and stupid - and it was overall a very shallow and predictable movie.

Then again, I also didn't like Avatar, and a lot of people have given me grief for that.

EDIT: Oh yeah, it's also not historically accurate in the slightest. But that's the least of my complaints.

[MicaelS]

11. One of my favorite soundtracks, and that says a lot. n/t

[bigwillq]

13. Didn't care for it.

I am not a Crowe fan.

[hedgehog]

16. It may well be historically inaccurate, but it does get you

thinking about the meaning of patriotism. What do you do when your native land has a totally corrupt government?

[dysfunctional press]

19. the foley guys REALLY overdid it with some of the chariot crashes...

a couple of them sounded almost like a nascar pile-up.

[lunatica]

20. Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix are cool

It's the movie that made Joaquin Phoenix a star. Before that he had been a character actor since childhood.

[Throd]

21. Limp.

[applegrove]

23. Turned it off after the first war scene because it was only going to get gorier.

[dancingme]

25. The Insider

the best Russell Crowe performance.

[jdp349]

26. I enjoyed it

thoroughly entertaining film in my opinion.

[MrScorpio]

27. It was a nice remake of "FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE"

With the added gladiatorial stuff

[Robeson]

31. Yes, it was a complete rip-off of that movie....

...actually I preferred that mess of a movie over Gladiator.

[tishaLA]

28. DVR'd it from TCM the other day. I thought it was good

But a best picture? Not really. It's a great looking film, though.

[Robeson]

30. One of the most overrated movies ever?...

...I was bored to tears before it was over.

And p.s., I consider myself a amateur Roman historian.

[travelingtypist]

33. Everybody was going goo-gaa over Russell Crowe at the time.

I was like what's the big deal? Then I saw the movie.

Oh.

[GermanDem]

34. One of my all time favorites!

Crowe is sooo sexy, and Joaquin Phoenix is fantastic as the evil, troubled emperor, who is yearning to be loved. It's a dark, very intense movie, but well worth watching!