That is what I was thinking Trublu and fashionicon! Ah Gladiator, the movie that made me wish I had an incestuous brother *cough* (it's ok, I'm an only child
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I disagree with you ChinaLove in that it was a mess. I think it is THE best done blockbuster of all time and I can watch it endlessly. I spent so many formative years at school wandering round in piles of fabric and ribbon trying to be Lucilla! The music was perfect, the actors were perfect and the plot was perfect Roman soap opera. And lets not forget that most of the old Hollywood Roman epics like Ben-Hur etc etc are magnificently soapy too. That does not a bad film make, though I do think Ridley Scott can produce some fine clangers -Black Hawk Down anyone? GI Jane?
However the idea of a sequal is just horrible to me, especially with a film I love. I mean Kapur is doing Elizabeth II and that was another over blown, period film that I loved (as a film! I remember my history teachers getting so cross over it and I was like, 'err it is entertainment, not a history lesson?") and I am not sure I am going to go see it. Even so, knowing there is a sequal would ruin a movie for me. I never particularly loved the Matrix and I never saw the sequels but knowing that they existed really ruins the endurance of a film. If they do go ahead with this, Gladiator won't go down as a great early turn of the century epic, it will go down as a franchise of varying quality films. Not quite the same thing.
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