Gladiator 2: The Domination
G2: Rise of the Gladiator
You know, it's like the word Gladiator has lost all meaning.
Who died and made you Elvis?
Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
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JohnSweden - Jul 13, 2005 7:00:14 am PDT #5597 of 10002
I can't even.
Fred Pete - Jul 13, 2005 7:06:46 am PDT #5598 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Beyond the Valley of the Gladiators
Gladiator and the Chamber of Secrets
Frankenbuddha - Jul 13, 2005 7:09:24 am PDT #5599 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Gladiator 2: The Quickening
runs away
Maysa - Jul 13, 2005 7:12:47 am PDT #5600 of 10002
Every time I hear the word Gladiator, I think of Elizabeth Taylor, drunk out of her mind, announcing the winner of best drama at the 2001 Golden Globes. "And the winner is......GLAAAD-IA-TOR!"
Nutty - Jul 13, 2005 8:01:25 am PDT #5601 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think a backstory would weaken the character.
Let's be honest, here. The Usual Suspects varnished over a steaming pile of incoherence with a lot of style. It's excellently done, but the problem with steaming piles of incoherence is that they don't take well to further investigation.
Literally speaking, 70-80% of the shown scenes in that movie are flashbacks by an unreliable narrator. That's a lot of gaps that could be filled with waltzing clowns, or squirrel-duels, or lemon merengue pie.
Mr. Broom - Jul 13, 2005 8:12:54 am PDT #5602 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
The unreliable narrator angle is one of my favorite angles. Making another film threatens to fill in the unreliable bits with reliability, which will make it do in spades what so many sequels do, which is destroy the integrity of the original. We need to not know the real history of Keyser Soze, which parts really happened and which were embellished in the telling, either by Verbal Kint or by other characters talking about Soze in the film.
My rallying cry, growing fainter as the Dark Side grows stronger: SOME FILMS CANNOT HAVE SEQUELS. YOU ONLY GET TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE ONE.
Nutty - Jul 13, 2005 8:14:28 am PDT #5603 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So, the waltzing clowns are a no??
Damn.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 13, 2005 8:15:03 am PDT #5604 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
My rallying cry, growing fainter as the Dark Side grows stronger: SOME FILMS CANNOT HAVE SEQUELS. YOU ONLY GET TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE ONE.
There can be...only one.
DavidS - Jul 13, 2005 8:19:10 am PDT #5605 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So, the waltzing clowns are a no??
That is so 1998. Squirrel-duels, though? Yeah, I wanna see that.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2005 8:20:20 am PDT #5606 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Squirrel-duels, though? Yeah, I wanna see that.
Do they have little swords?
Or maybe LASERS!