lmao, it's basically actors LARPing as Gladiator cast members

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638900&forum_id=2#48371437)

The only thing that really bothered me was the plot and how everything hinged on crazy coincidences. General who orders Lucius's wife shot just happens to be the dude banging his mom and Lucius just happens to get a good look at him and just happens to fall in with a gladiator games guy who just happens to have a grand revenge/takeover scheme at that moment in time but needs someone with Lucius's exact qualities to pull it off.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638900&forum_id=2#48372576)

Ridley Scott prob thought more of the Baboons than the actors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638900&forum_id=2#48373843)

BASED nativists, motivated by a desire to return to traditional values and Stoicism, kicked out a deep state run by hedonistic woke tyrants and a foreign usurper.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638900&forum_id=2#48372853)

is the son a battle-tested general who knows way more about strategy and one-on-one fighting and naturally able to command men? well, haha, he's maximus's son so just don't worry about that. He's the main character, ofc he knows everything, why nitpick?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638900&forum_id=2#48372880)

SCOTT: Baboons are carnivores, and would have killed them all. A big baboon could be 40, 50 pounds; try wrestling a 20-pound Jack Russell Terrier and you’d lost. A baboon, you’ll lose your arm and your head. Can you hang from a beam by one arm for two hours? No, they can. I was in South Africa doing the pilot for the TV show Raised by Wolves, a and there was a car park for visitors who park with their coffee lattes and all that sh*t. And a little gamboling troop of baboons come across the wall and sits on the wall, staring at the tourists. One idiot goes across to a big baboon and tries to pat it. This thing attacked him, and he’s a big man. The guy dropped his coffee, ran for the car, getting clawed as he struggled to get in the car. I thought that was funny, but I knew every actor had to do the physicality of the movement of defend, kill and or attack, right?

I have to have them fighting something which is formidable. So I cast 12 very small stuntmen. Some of them are not children, but tough teens, quite tiny. And I put them all in black tights and for fun, I painted whiskers on them. And we went to war with stunt men. So it becomes a stunt men brawl of savagery. So then I had all the physicality recorded of the actors. I removed the guy in black tights put in wire frames of baboons where it looks good, the movement looks real. You then put on the flesh and the hair. That’s how you do it. That is a masterwork of digital work right there. You change nothing into a furry baboon.

DEADLINE: Does everyone appreciate what you’ve shot?

SCOTT: No. Some idiot says to me, I’ve never seen a baboon like that before. I said, well, the baboon has alopecia, where you lose all your fucking hair. I copied that from the baboon I saw in the car park, which had alopecia. I thought, who is that? And it was this everything sinew tendon with no fat, like muscular steel. I said, that’s my monster. I said, Paul, you know what would be cool? Turn the tables on the baboon. If you bite the baboon, the baboon will be psychologically in shock. Bite the baboon. When he snarls, you snarl back and the baboon goes, holy sh*t. That’s meant to be funny.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638900&forum_id=2#48373860)

See also: Napoleon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638900&forum_id=2#48377591)

Back in 2000 people were still going to movie openings in droves spoiler-free and it's understandable that some were just expecting a fun epic and instead walked out after a "sad" ending

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638900&forum_id=2#48379718)