Gladiator is Still A Great Guy Flick! - Talking About Tapes (#236)

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. Do you think it's overrated? Why do Why? If you don't like it, let me know why you don't like it? But you know you like it. And if you want to see more Frank Volpi, you can follow

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