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Russell Crowe Criticizes ‘Gladiator 2’: ‘A Really Unfortunate Example’ of the Creative Team ‘Not Understanding What Made the First One Special’ Discussion (variety.com)
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[–] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Great director, terrible writer. Whenever he's given more creative control is when he does his worst work.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    This checks out with what Russell Crowe was saying in the interview. He doesn't name Scott, but he was saying there were forces pushing for inserting smexy time. He rightly had things to say about that, "So you’re saying at the same time he had this relationship with his wife, he was fucking this other girl? What are you talking about? It’s crazy.”

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I heard they didn't really have a script for the first Gladiator and it turned out great.

    But I think it's a thing where if you have some actors that can contribute a lot, that kind of thing can work out. When you don't, you get Gladiator 2. Denzel was pretty entertaining in it though, the rest of it was pretty meh. Seeing the ship battle in the Coliseum was cool, but I don't remember what it added to the plot. In the first one the fights all added to the plot and characters.

    Not that it's the actors' fault they aren't supposed to be writers. But maybe the first one just worked because of dumb luck, who knows?

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