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#11
09-24-2005, 02:12 PM
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Re: Gladiator: OOT Decides
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[ QUOTE ] I say four...and if Braveheart hadn't beaten it by a couple years maybe five. I still think Braveheart is the greatest epic of our generation. [/ QUOTE ] When I saw Gladiator I thought I liked it much better when it was called Braveheart. Same damn movie, but not half as good. Still decent though. But gets worse with repeated viewing. [/ QUOTE ] wtf? I can't think of any major similarity between these movies? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] 
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09-24-2005, 02:34 PM
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Re: Gladiator: OOT Decides
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I say four...and if Braveheart hadn't beaten it by a couple years maybe five. I still think Braveheart is the greatest epic of our generation. [/ QUOTE ] When I saw Gladiator I thought I liked it much better when it was called Braveheart. Same damn movie, but not half as good. Still decent though. But gets worse with repeated viewing. [/ QUOTE ] wtf? I can't think of any major similarity between these movies? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] they both stared aussies? i don't know. this has to be one of the dumbest comparisons ever.
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09-24-2005, 02:40 PM
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Re: Gladiator: OOT Decides
What?!? Identical. Big (single) ancient battle scene, but moved to the beginning of the front; the hero just wants to be with his family which in Gladiator, unlike BH, we don't really see enough of; hero is a loner turned rebel when wife is killed; the hero ends up with the enemy princess, etc.
Ridiculous computer generated Oliver Reed at the end. They could have just cut his later scenes out after he drank himself to death on the set. Instead he looks like some kind of Star Wars cartoon. What we do in life echoes in eternity. Or, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take away our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM! Phoenix was good but the end duel stunk. The supporting gladiator cast was weak. I didn't give a damn about them compared to Hamish (ahem), the Irish guy, and Robert the Bruce. The Commodus character, other than the ridiculous incest connotation, is hopelessly one dimensional despite Phoenix's acting. And on and on. It wants to be Braveheart, apes it well, but ultimately fails.
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09-24-2005, 02:45 PM
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Actually, I hadn't thought about the dead families/revenge comparison. I'll give you that. I don't think the fact that both used that one fairly well-worn storyline makes one a copy of the other though.
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09-24-2005, 02:48 PM
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Joaquin Phoenix is so cool. Good in that role. I thought the script was kinda thin. I could have written in a couple really good love scenes with my boy Russel that would have pushed it up to 5 stars. People just don't know how to make movies right.
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09-24-2005, 03:26 PM
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Re: Gladiator: OOT Decides
it seems like a good film at the time, but upon close inspection it falls apart pretty quickly. one of the worst best picture winners ever made. (but not as bad as "shakespeare in love", obviously)
some of the performances are pretty good, though.
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09-24-2005, 04:23 PM
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Re: Gladiator: OOT Decides
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I say four...and if Braveheart hadn't beaten it by a couple years maybe five. I still think Braveheart is the greatest epic of our generation. [/ QUOTE ] When I saw Gladiator I thought I liked it much better when it was called Braveheart. Same damn movie, but not half as good. Still decent though. But gets worse with repeated viewing. [/ QUOTE ] wtf? I can't think of any major similarity between these movies? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] they both stared aussies? i don't know. this has to be one of the dumbest comparisons ever. [/ QUOTE ] I only compared them because they were both huge epic films from "our" time. They are the two movies (IMHO) that stand up, while so many others - troy & the other garbage - stink up the screen. The reply to my post compared them much closer than I did...I just think that Braveheart was a better film from that genre.
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