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This is basically a hackneyed gladiator movie with a volcano at the end.

What Anderson delivers this one time is a genuine spectacle, a gladiator movie with a volcano in the middle of it.

I think the thing that Scott missed out on was the sense of fun and camp that gladiator movies can bring.

The next reason that people might go to a gladiator movie is to admire Russell Crowe (and I don't mean his acting style).

The battle scenes in the coliseums, the bread - and - butter of any gladiator movie, are just awful.

The first thing anyone wants to see in a gladiator movie is most likely the battle scenes.

In all honesty, I liked Gladiator AD much better, it had a much more mature and darker feel to it, not to also mention it was more realistic and brought back a nostalgic Gladiator movie feel to it.

Not exact matches

«If performance management were a movie, it will become less Gladiator, and more Moneyball,» Hoffman writes.

Simular to Joaquin Phoenix of the cast of the movie Gladiator.

I think Gladiator is my favourite movie of all time though.

He wrote the score for Gladiator, which is still one of my favorite movies of all time.

The main player for the turn selects three cards from his hand and lays them down, describing his character — for example, for a male character: «war weapons collector, spends his holidays in Kazakhstan, likes movies about gladiators.»

Movies: gladiator, fight club, braveheart, anchorman!

The movie, which officially opens on February 21, is about a slave turned gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator.

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In the opening scenes we see him leading his forces into battle against the barbarous Germans, who deserve everything they get for cutting off the head of the luckless Roman cavalryman despatched to issue a surrender ultimatum (like most mainstream movies, Gladiator is strong on audience emotion cues to nudge us in the right direction.

If the movie scores at the box office, it will be for reasons that are both disquieting and understandable: Gladiator is pitched to an audience that wants, more and more, to be spoon - fed (it's movies like this that help create that audience), but it accomplishes the task with pace, visual grit, and a roster of appealing actors.

It takes an awful lot of material to fill three discs, especially when, in the case of Ridley Scott's Oscar - winning Gladiator, the movie has already been packaged twice (a theatrical cut and a «Director's Signature» cut).

After first 30 minutes I was going to give this movie 5 mark - average mix of The Gladiator and 300.

Maximus» incognito return to Rome to fight in the Colosseum (in front of the new emperor, Commodus), his quick rise to fame as the town's winningest warrior, and his big showdown with his old adversary fill the last act of Gladiator — as do a dazzling display of old - time Roman crowd scenes and stadium acts conjured with computerized magic that would have slayed old sandal - movie showmen like William Wyler and Cecil B. DeMille.

What the **** does Amy Winehouse, Alvin and the Chipmunks, American Gladiators, Miley Cyrus, Jessica Simpson, and countless other horribly spoofed figures and movies have to do with the disaster genre?

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus details the larger - than - life exploits of Kirk Douglas» title character - with the movie charting Spartacus» journey from a slave / gladiator to the leader of a full - blown revolution.

Gladiator has its creaky moments, but it delivers a particular kind of visceral historical spectacle that movie audiences haven't seen in decades.

If it were possible to combine «Gladiator» and «Braveheart» into a single film and then surgically extract virtually everything that made those Best Picture winners pure movie magic, what you'd wind up with would be a lifeless, longwinded, anti-epic very much along the lines of Ridley Scott's latest.

«Gladiator,» starring Chow Yun - fat Picture pretty much the same movie — about a Roman general who's named Imperial Regent when Marcus Aurelius decides his own son isn't fit to become Emperor.

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul W.S. Anderson, the king of «schlock» cinema that you'll find it somewhat enjoyable.

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you want to see one of the most impressive set pieces ever built (the ark), plus some pretty cool fallen angels made of stones, a ferocious flood and a few trademark «Gladiator» glares courtesy of Russell Crowe.

I know a lot of people are looking forward to this as it reteams Ridley Scott with Russell Crowe in an action movie setting reminiscent of Gladiator.

Tai Freligh interviews Connie Nielsen... Connie Nielsen is a Danish actress who first gained fame for her portrayal of Princess Lucilla in Gladiator with Russell Crowe back in 2000 and has done extensive movie and television work since then, most recently as Queen Hippolyta in Wonder Woman and as Claire Seth in The Confessions, in -LSB-...]

Some movies are completely spoiled by a bad ending; Gladiator manages to stand squarely on its genuine merits despite the blow at the end.

There are many who don't think the movie deserved to take home Best Picture that year, and now they can revel in the jokes made at the movie's expense in the Gladiator Honest Trailer after the jump.

Sub-par movies already force out many of the best films at Oscar time (example: «Gladiator»).

Although best known for his roles in such films as «Gladiator,» «L.A. Confidential» and «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,» Crowe is of course no stranger to superhero movies: He played Superman's father Jor - El in 2013's «Man of Steel.»

Unlike Gladiator or Kingdom Of Heaven or GI Jane, it's a war movie without any pretension of any kind of larger meaning.

Cast: Chris Pratt («The Lego Movie,» TV's «Parks and Recreation») as Peter Quill, Zoe Saldana («Avatar,» «Star Trek») as Gamora, Dave Bautista («Riddick,» «The Man with the Iron Fists») as Drax, Vin Diesel («Fast and the Furious» series, «Riddick») as Groot, Bradley Cooper («American Hustle,» «Silver Linings Playbook») as Rocket, Lee Pace («The Hobbit» series, «Lincoln») as Ronan, Michael Rooker (TV's «The Walking Dead») as Yondu Udonta, Karen Gillan («Oculus,» TV's «Doctor Who») as Nebula, Djimon Hounsou («How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Gladiator») as Korath, John C. Reilly («Wreck - It Ralph,» «Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby») as Corpsman Dey, Glenn Close (TV's «Damages,» «Tarzan») as Nova Prime and Benicio Del Toro («Traffic,» «The Usual Suspects») as The Collector.

From «Gladiator» to «Kingdom of Heaven», he has proved that he's fearless when creating a massive - scale movie.

His varied career has also included Thelma and Louise, Gladiator, The Martian, and that movie where Russell Crowe weathers his midlife crisis making wine in Provence.

Russell Crowe, «Gladiator» - Overrated movie and performance in many aspects, but for me, Russell's best performances are «L.A. Confidential» and «The Insider» 6.

Ridley Scott, the director of Blade Runner and Gladiator, Cormac McCarthy, the author of Blood Meridian, and Michael Fassbender, Hollywood's man of the moment, have pooled their talents to make a caper movie about a million - dollar drug deal gone wrong.

Gladiator's Connie Nielsen is a pretty great choice for Hippolyta in your Wonder Woman movie.

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Among the unlucky «tribesmen» is the movie's putative romantic lead (Kit Harrington), a champion gladiator known for much of the movie only as «the Celt.»

Everyone is based on something in Marvel lore, be it iconic comic book storylines or films and TV; Charlie Cox's Daredevil from the Netflix series is a playable character, as are Vulture, Killmonger, Hela, and «Gladiator» Hulk and Thor from movies like Spider - Man: Homecoming, Black Panther, and Thor: Ragnarok.

After Russell Crowe's one - two punch of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind (both very standard, Oscar - friendly choices), the Academy chose a cynical musical (Chicago), a fantasy epic (Return of the King), a tiny, short story boxing fable with a pro-euthanasia message (Million Dollar Baby), a wild ensemble film about racism (Crash), a dark crime epic (The Departed), another dark crime epic with an inconclusive ending no less (No Country for Old Men), and a movie about modern India (Slumdog Millionaire).

I actually stopped documenting the movie's deluge of references after about 30 minutes, but here's a shortlist of some of the stuff that the Friedberg and Seltzer send up: 10,000 B.C., American Gladiators, Amy Winehouse, Facebook, Flava Flav, My Super Sweet 16, Dr. Phil, No Country For Old Men, Superbad / McLovin, Angelina Jolie in Wanted, WWE Divas, Juno, High School Musical, Kanye West, the Jonas Brothers, the «Souljah Boy» dance, Justin Timberlake, Hannah Montana, Hancock, Sex and the City, Jumper, Step Up 2: The Streets, Twister (notice - the first actual disaster movie of the bunch), Hellboy, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Cloverfield.

The movie shows its Gladiator influences heavily, though it doesn't succeed to the same degree.

And so Pompeii is a cynical stew of Gladiator and Titanic — words to make dollar signs dance in movie executives» heads but that should give pause to discriminating filmgoers being served cinematic leftovers that are all empty calories.

In others, with recent events being what they have been, it just seems right that the movie version, directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), with a screenplay by William Nicholson (Shadowlands, Gladiator), is hitting screens now.