Gladiator II (2024)

[El_Fez]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

I don’t think s Director has fallen so much than Sir Ridley.

Oh, I can think of a couple. John Carpenter went from Halloween to Ghosts of Mars to smoking weed and playing X-Box.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by El_Fez

Oh, I can think of a couple. John Carpenter went from Halloween to Ghosts of Mars to smoking weed and playing X-Box.

And making some awesome music! Dude is touring with his son and having fun and playing X Box and smoking the weed! He is living his best life!

[kylor]

Expectation:

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Do not fail me, Ridley.

[Poya]

Originally Posted by El_Fez

Oh, I can think of a couple. John Carpenter went from Halloween to Ghosts of Mars to smoking weed and playing X-Box.

Craven, Romero, Hooper, and Hitchcock ended their careers weak, too.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by The Debts

Hey, All The Money In The World was aces. And The Martian was charming too.

AMW was... fine. Good. Solid. Great performances, especially Plummer. But Scott was on autopilot.

Martian rocks though.

[Jimllfaxit]

Maybe there could be a role for Nicolas Cage somewhere in this

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Poya

Craven, Romero, Hooper, and Hitchcock ended their careers weak, too.

It's usual quite rare for directors to get better as they get older. But I'd watch anything Sir Ridley puts out.

[Poya]

Originally Posted by chip75

It's usual quite rare for directors to get better as they get older. But I'd watch anything Sir Ridley puts out.

I think the only directors that are consistently good are Kubrick, Scorsese, Kurosawa, and PTA.

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by Poya

I think the only directors that are consistently good are Kubrick, Scorsese, Kurosawa, and PTA.

The Coen Brothers!

[PeterG]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Ridley should just combine projects and do an Alien movie set in Ancient Rome

That would be great!

[Poya]

Originally Posted by rodneyfaile

The Coen Brothers!

They did make Intolerable Cruelty. The rest, I liked, even Ladykillers, which is underrated.

[yeslek]

couldnt we get the kids story in a comic or book instead?

be nice to find out what happened next but this is certainly one movie that does NOT need a sequel, or spin off or whatever.

[jayman3]

Finally.

We'll get some new source material for a "Glad He Ate Her" sequel

[Himmel]

Noice.

[erixon20]

He's 80 years old-be 81 this month...

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by erixon20

He's 80 years old-be 81 this month...

With the disposition and vitality of a newcomer.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

I love Gladiator, but it didn't need a sequel then when he was talking about it, and it definitely doesn't need one now.

Ridley has reached that stage of his career where his films arent as successful, so he keeps trying to go back to his hits. It's Stallone syndrome.

Martian says hello!

[NARMAK]

Why is it that Hollywood can't make original content or at least an attempt on something seemingly original and a little 'fresh' with nee franchises. All we get are lazy prequels, sequels and remakes. That or very weak 'new' movies.

Budgets are being inflated so astronomically high, that quality original movies are suffering imo. Anybody think Netflix, Prime etc. are trying to sort this out with original programming?

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

Why is it that Hollywood can't make original content or at least an attempt on something seemingly original and a little 'fresh' with nee franchises. All we get are lazy prequels, sequels and remakes. That or very weak 'new' movies.

Budgets are being inflated so astronomically high, that quality original movies are suffering imo. Anybody think Netflix, Prime etc. are trying to sort this out with original programming?

Why? The audience that’s why. The mainstream. They have just ensured that Venom and The Meg have made great numbers. All the while, Annihilation and BladeRunner 2049 flopped. Need I say more?

[kwisatzhaderach]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

There are only three of his films I can't possibly defend, and G.I. Jane is the most recent one of them. I see people saying his recent movies are bad and I'm like, "what the hell are you talking about?"


As for his in-development projects, in my dream world he'd be focusing on The Cartel, Alien, and Wraiths of the Broken Land.

Same here, I just don't understand what the Ridley haters are smoking. He and Michael Mann are just about the last of the great visualist auteur studio directors left. And they won't be around much longer.

With you on Cartel, Alien and Wraiths - hell, you never know, we may yet see all of them, he still churns out a picture every 2 years, sometimes even faster.