Action-Adventure Gladiator Sequel | Paramount

[Filmfreak]

I think you're overreacting as a fan of Blade Runner 2049. Saying he would have cut it down isn't really a controversial statement or anything. He's just saying he thought it needed trimmed down. He can have an opinion and voice it. Same as anybody. You don't have to agree with him. Also, it isn't like he made a press conference to say "I just want it on the record that it was long and boring." He was asked a question and he answered it. I think this is classic mountain out of a mole hill

Not really, I'm an even bigger fan of the original and what I'm saying is not just regarding that movie, I mentioned several examples of why I think he seems like he's always whining about something and they are certainly not the only ones.

We don't have to agree on it and it's not a hill I'm going to die on, it's just how I view him, you can view things your way. But it's not being based on just one instance. To me he generally comes off as an old man yelling at cloud, what can I say?

 

[Spider-Fan]

Not really, I'm an even bigger fan of the original and what I'm saying is not just regarding that movie, I mentioned several examples of why I think he seems like he's always whining about something and they are certainly not the only ones.

We don't have to agree on it and it's not a hill I'm going to die on, it's just how I view him, you can view things your way. But it's not being based on just one instance. To me he generally comes off as an old man yelling at cloud, what can I say?

Dude is in his 80s though, lol!

 

[kguillou]

The ONLY part of Bladerunner 2049 that I think Scott would have improved upon Villaneuve is the score. I think BR 2049's a masterpiece but Zimmer's score wasn't quite it. I think Ridley would have worked with a composer to give it that classic synthy, melodic Vangelis sound again.

 

[Filmfreak]

The ONLY part of Bladerunner 2049 that I think Scott would have improved upon Villaneuve is the score. I think BR 2049's a masterpiece but Zimmer's score wasn't quite it. I think Ridley would have worked with a composer to give it that classic synthy, melodic Vangelis sound again.

I think Zimmer did an excellent work emulating Vangelis music, but remember he wasn't the first choice to do the score. Not only he had to do Dunkirk that year but he was more of a last minute replacement of Johan Johansson.

 

[kguillou]

I think Zimmer did an excellent work emulating Vangelis music, but remember he wasn't the first choice to do the score. Not only he had to do Dunkirk that year but he was more of a last minute replacement of Johan Johansson.

Yeah thats right, RIP. Johan I think would have done fantastic work on BR 2049.

Zimmer's work in of itself wasnt bad but it didnt feel like Vangelis to me. It felt a lot more booming and brooding.

 

[Filmfreak]

Yeah thats right, RIP. Johan I think would have done fantastic work on BR 2049.

Zimmer's work in of itself wasnt bad but it didnt feel like Vangelis to me. It felt a lot more booming and brooding.

Fair enough, but I remember reading that Johan was replaced because his score strayed too far away of the original movie and Denis wanted something closer to the first film's sound.

 

[Breogan]

I didn’t notice that at all. Good catch.

I do hope Lucius isn’t retconned as Maximus’s illegitimate son but I assume that’s their emotional hook for this one. Especially wearing his armor.

That might be one of the things Crowe mentioned that he heard which he doesn’t agree with (Maximus being disloyal to his wife).

Agree, that's likely what Crowe was referencing in that interview. The implication seems to betray the character, who was all about being loyal, to the core of his being.

If true, only way I can see them skewing it is, while it was inferred that Maximus and Lucilla were in fact past lovers, keeping it clear this was well before he had his family, that Lucius is somewhat older than his own son was (though there might be a line in the original that complicates that), maintaining that was before his wife, and that he likely didn't even know about Lucius.

Though I would prefer he's not retconned to be his son.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[DarkKnight88]

Good on them for resisting a subtitle and just keeping to a Roman numeral which I guess is fitting.

 

[Arachnerd]

Trailer is out tomorrow too.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Trailer is out tomorrow too.

Yep. They're probably sharing this soon so that a certain blue hedghog can be featured at SDCC.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Breogan]

Trailer is out tomorrow too.

Let's hope the bloated CG spectacle of supposed armored rhinos, arena naval battles, sharks, and war monkeys, don't detract to much from an actual story and characters.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Not funny.

 

[:eek:]

 

[Kane52630]

Playing No Church in the Wild is ... literally wild.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

So......are we not entertained?

 

[blue scholar]

Imagine all the people

 

[Filmfan93]

Looks good, but that Kanye music killed the trailer for me.

Also, it looks like every modern blockbuster with an abundance of CGI and fake backgrounds.

Call me crazy, but the first Gladiator from 24 years ago had better blended CGI environments and overall look.

Also, Joseph Quinn is going places between Stranger Things, A Quiet Place: Day One, Gladiator 2 and recently being cast as Johnny Storm in Fantastic 4.

 

[blue scholar]

1. Denzel in Roman times is definitely a choice

2. This looks like its going to a glorious bloated mess but I'll take it

 

[Breogan]

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Let's hope the bloated CG spectacle of supposed armored rhinos, arena naval battles, sharks, and war monkeys, don't detract to much from an actual story and characters.

Wow! And there it is, not surprising looks like a cash-grab derivative bloated mess, horrible anachronistic music too.

 

[Arachnerd]

It looks... questionable. Also I have myriad of questions regarding Lucius' backstory as presented here which doesn't make a lick of sense?

Whoever decided that song placement was a good idea should never have input on editing a trailer ever again.

 

[samsnee]

Yeah this looks bad for me. Denzel playing it too modern. Storyline basically the exact same as the first with how Rome should be free. And then a stupid modern song over the trailer.

 

[Filmfan93]

For a moment i thought Denzel would say "Proximo ain't got sh*t on me"

@samsnee - Small world indeed