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Summary: Horrible movie, good DVD!
Review: Gladitar is my most hated movie. Especially the fact that it is over 3 hours long. The DVD features are good the movie isnt and even with the features it isnt worth the money avoid this one!
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Summary: Wonderful movie, my favorite by far
Review: This film is wonderful, my favorite movie, and it is not just a guy kind of film. Such a story of Maximus and Rome appeals to all, and is a CD anone should buy. Russell Crowe proves to be a strong and powerful actor and in fact writer. Buy this film!
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Summary: Gladiator-an Academy Award Potential
Review: "Gladiator" is the best film for 2000. Expect it garnish a slew of awards next March at the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Special Effects, Best Music, Best Sound and Best Cinematography. It contains many Shakespearean elements like betrayal, tragedy, love, and revenge. Look for it on Oscar night. It contains some of the best epic fight scenes in cinematic history. It is a throwback to the classic "sword and sandal" epics of the 1950's and 60's. Well done, Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe!
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Summary: Staggering, flawed film
Review: Respect Ridley Scott for what he has done with Gladiator. In revisiting an ancient civilisation, he has essentially regenerated the 'sword and sandals' epics of the 50s (Ben Hur, Spartacus in the 60s). Gladiator is astounding. The first ten minutes of the film are possibly the most awe-inspiring in any film (barring Star Wars), and this stream of adrenaline pumping action continues throughout the film. And the Tigers rock. And that's the good bit of the film. The flawed aspect is the story itself, for although the idea of a vengeful Roman General fighting through gladiator 'school' and into the Colloseum is effective, and very cool, although not entirely original, it is when we are given this sub-plot of a secret Roman political conspiracy, and Maximus' role in disolving this conspiracy, that the film starts to slip a bit.The 'politics'of the screenplay detract from what we all want to see more of in this film-people getting chopped to bits. And that is what I think of the film. When it's good, it's the best action 'done in the old style' film in a long time, but when it starts to believe it has a well crafted, engaging story, it just becomes rather too Hollywood.
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Summary: BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR..........FOR SURE!
Review: Gladiator is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen in a very long time. It is the kind of movie you don't expect it to be soossoso good, but when you finally are watching it you experience every emotion there is for you to experience in a movie(tension, sadness, happiness and fear). Although it does contain some bloody and intense scenes of war, it gives a message of life that is too special to miss it. How love can conquer all and remain in ones mind forever. Gladiator is a movie that, especially in my experience, the viewer feels like it's living the story. Russell Crowe does a fanstastic job in this movie and well deserves the Best Actor Oscar. I hope Gladiator wins the Best Movie!!! HIGHLY recommended
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Summary: Absolutely Astonishing
Review: With the exception of "Braveheart", "Saving Private Ryan", and "Dances With Wolves" there isn't a better epic motion picture. The battle scene at the beginning of the film is so impressive and realistic it will give you chills. From watching how the Roman soldiers are assembled on the battlefield to how they devastate their enemy, every sequence is done with historical accuracy. It gives you a true sense of what made the Roman Empire so powerful. The film is extremely graphic in its battle sequences, but how else is a director supposed to give the viewer a true sense of what it must have really been like to live in such a savage age. The story is tremendously gripping and sucks you into Maximus' (the main character) life in such a way that you feel vindicated at the movie's climax. "Gladiator" is one of my all time favorite movies and I honestly can't wait to own this 2 disk collection.
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Summary: Brilliant epic with top-notch performances.
Review: Much has been made of the scale of the picture and of Russell Crowe's towering star turn. The kudos are well deserved. It's Ridley Scott's best film, as well as Crowe's most impressive performance.But what really sold the film for me was the star-making turn by Joaquin Phoenix, River's little brother. Taking what could have easily been a one-note, one-dimensional "villain", Phoenix absorbs the emperor in true pathos and mortality. His performance gives the film its emotional core, even though many would argue that that feat goes to Crowe. I believe that Scott's film is just as much about the emperor as it is the Gladiator. Props to an excellent production crew. Gladiator is, like Saving Private Ryan, a wonderfully renderred historical epic.
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Summary: one of the year's best screen gems
Review: i was enthralled by the production value, and also the tremendous acting of the stars russell crowe and others who i feel truly made me feel like i was part of the early roman empire.
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Summary: this COULD have been a good movie...
Review: but they blew it. I must say I'm surprised at all the 5-star reviews. The dramatic scenes are awful, starting with the confrontation between the emperor and his son. You can see everything coming a mile away, and the scenes are long and drawn out, filmed with the subtlety of a 'Jerry Springer' episode. You might as well have a narrator carefully explain to the audience exactly what they're supposed to feel, instead of allowing them to derive their experience from the acting and context. The character development of Commodus is appallingly simplistic and one-dimensional. I liked the general plot, and the scene where we first enter the great Coliseum is fantastic, but the scripting and directing are second-rate. Its as if they said.. "good enough, with our huge marketing campaign this'll make us a ton of money, why put in the effort to make it really good?" The climax was a joke. The set-up totally fails to suspend my disbelief, and you see the ending from two miles away, lending it the impact of a mouse fart. Braveheart is a similar movie carefully (and well) made. I might rate it three stars for what good scenes it has, but it deserves to have one yanked for blowing the opportunity to make a truly good film.
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Summary: Are you ready?
Review: From the moment the preview slammed the television sets and the movie theaters with 'Bawitdaba' by Kid Rock, I knew this was going to be a hit...and not just a small one. I guess in Ancient Rome, they didn't do anything small, and in this example of the Gladiator games that took place during those times, they really DIDN'T do anything small. Director Ripley Scott has a classic on his hands and he knows it. The story follows Maximus (Russell Crowe, who is not exactly known for his action credentials) a Roman general who is deemed a traitor and made into a participant in one of the most brutal contests of all time. Joaquin Phoenix's performance almost makes you want to reach out and smack the living daylights out of him (which means he did a great job in his role). Ridley Scott's masterful work behind the camera is evident from the opening scene, eerily foreshadowing the rest of the movie. What this means I leave to you to find out. Worth the money for DVD? Without a doubt. The surround sound will make you shiver with anticipation as the roar of the crowd at the Roman Coliseum is enough to almost make a man wet his pants...both in the movie and out of. Just one thing to keep in mind, this movie is NOT for the faint of heart. Be ready for a wham-bam, sense-slamming experience that isn't without it's portion of beheadings (and with two swords!). Enjoy!
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