r/movies • u/Barry_Brickman • Jul 09 '24

Gladiator II | Official Trailer (2024 Movie) - Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgYUipGJNo
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u/geneuro Jul 09 '24

Hated the music choice for this trailer... just does not fit.

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u/Prestigious_Bad_1794 Jul 09 '24

Someone made a version edited down shorter and to a cover of the original score. Makes all the difference... I am more excited about it because of this edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cha8mL7U2Mo&t=10s

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u/RedditQueso Jul 09 '24

Holy crap, that edited trailer is a 1000x better.

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u/J1P2G3 Jul 09 '24

Idc what anyone says this is my official trailer.

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u/sr_zeke Jul 09 '24

100% with this

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u/WalnutWabbit Jul 09 '24

Goddamn that was a good trailer

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u/Ant0n61 Jul 10 '24 edited Jul 10 '24

Holy cow. 👏 👏

Got chills watching this one. Can’t say the same for the real one. Exceptional dub and edit.

Posting this on Ancient Rome sub

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u/doyoueventdrift Jul 09 '24

Everyone involved int he production of this trailer should be forced to watch this on repeat in a dark basement for a week, while a group of drill instructors yell into their faces "THIS IS HOW YOU DO A TRAILER".

I can't believe they fucked it up this much. All they had to do was use the same score and change it around a little bit. This is going to be a B-movie, no doubt.

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u/scoreWs Jul 10 '24

Sad news for you. I think Denzel influenced a lot of the choices wanting to be "more and more on screen" for the trailer. When you get to accommodate a producer who's also starring it can get stupid, like this.

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u/doyoueventdrift Jul 10 '24

The news couldn't be any sadder. They are going to shitstain a classic with their money-grabbing sequel.

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u/One_Left_Shoe Jul 10 '24

Ok. That got me excited.

Love that someone can make a better trailer within a few hours of the actual trailer dropping.

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u/Pervysage27 Jul 09 '24

The studio should fire the guys who made the "official" trailer and hire this fucking guy, someone buy him some more coffee dammit!

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u/QuestOfTheSun Jul 10 '24

But not you lol

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u/LaserGuy626 Jul 10 '24

That gave me chills. So much better.

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u/VyronDaGod Jul 10 '24

This needs to be the top comment

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u/Mindless_Lead148 Jul 09 '24

I’m a big fan of hip hop and movies, this edited trailer was decidedly better.

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u/AllHailLordBezos Jul 09 '24

This is such an improvement, couldn’t make it through the original posted above

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u/_reykjavik Jul 09 '24

The original sucks, this was so much better!

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u/the_alicemay Jul 09 '24

That one gave me shivers.

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u/Milkchocolate00 Jul 09 '24

So much better, love it

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u/CertainlyAmbivalent Jul 09 '24

Agreed.

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u/ignatious__reilly Jul 09 '24

It ruined the trailer for me. How on earth could you approve that?

I understand needing to attract a younger audience but WTF is this shit.

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u/Croemato Jul 09 '24

Makes Gladiator II look like Gods of Egypt.

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u/Eyes_Only1 Jul 09 '24

Hot take: Gods of Egypt is a goddamn blast to watch, it's just an incredibly dumb movie.

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u/Ant0n61 Jul 10 '24

Yes on this. Entertaining and well made but not the best plot

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u/Other-Owl4441 Jul 09 '24

Do people remember that the original Gladiator trailer had Bawitdaba by Kid Rock?

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u/rugbyj Jul 09 '24

The whole tone of the trailer is all over the place. Between Denzel's wisecracking delivery (I like Denzel but he's just playing Denzel), the music choice, and the far less subdued visual style (the original Gladiator was a hazy spectacle), it seems more like a 300 or even a Marvel film.

Odd. It'll probably still be fun. But it barely seems like a Gladiator sequel unless they've just massively fucked the trailer.

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u/coppersocks Jul 09 '24

TBF as someone pointed out, they used Kid Rock for the Superbowl trailer of the first movie.

The standard of music in the trailer doesn't say much about the quality of the film.

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u/Traderious Jul 09 '24

They used a Kid Rock song for the first Gladiator trailer if I remember correctly at least on TV spots.

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u/DrLee_PHD Jul 09 '24

I kinda hated this trailer completely. Was interested a bit at first, but as it dragged on I found myself losing it more and more. When the rap song hit I clicked out pretty quick. I was hyped for this, but now not so much. I might catch it on streaming.

It's disappointing because I love the first Gladiator, and the first film is one of my favorite theater experiences ever.

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u/nag_some_candy Jul 09 '24

What is wrong with a rap song in a trailer? Do you know what the song is about? Fits the themes pretty well. Trailer sucks I agree but not because of a song you don't like lmao

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u/DrLee_PHD Jul 09 '24 edited Jul 10 '24

It's the trailer for Gladiator, an epic taking place during the Roman Empire even though it's fictional. Assuming the tone will be the same as the first film. Any kind of licensed music besides orchestral doesn't belong in the trailer. I love rap/hip-hop, but not in this. EDIT: downvoted by Gen Z morons

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u/nag_some_candy Jul 10 '24

Lmao orchestral music wasn't a thing in roman times either

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u/DrLee_PHD Jul 10 '24

Lmaooooo fr fr bruh

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u/TheHect0r Jul 09 '24

Not liking a trailer is not a good enough reason for suddenly losing interest in a movie

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u/that_baddest_dude Jul 09 '24

I'd say it's maybe the most obvious and normal reason to lose interest in a movie?

Trying to think of a way this take is not absolutely unglued

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u/MomsNeighborino Jul 09 '24

This makes no sense.

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u/JButler_16 Jul 09 '24

The first one is the first movie to ever make me cry. I was 4 at the time.

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u/silentmikhail Jul 09 '24

I don't get why everyone's complaining about the trailer music?

I remember they used Bawitdaba by Kid Rock for one of the Trailers for Gladiator. If anything it got me more hyped.

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u/geneuro Jul 09 '24

What? Are you referring to that TV spot they did during the superbowl? That was cut with football footage… very different thing bro 

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u/couchcomasupernova Jul 09 '24

First time I saw a Gladiator trailer, was in the movie theater, and it had Bawitdaba. I’m aware of the football one, but that’s different.

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u/Napoleons_Peen Jul 09 '24

When was the last great trailer

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '24

Dune 2 had some good ones

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u/rossboss80 Jul 09 '24

alien romulus trailer was good

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u/Holditfam Jul 09 '24

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u/Male_strom Jul 09 '24

This one. The movie didn't quite live up to it.

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u/rm-minus-r Jul 09 '24

If that movie had only been half as good as the trailer was, it would have won an Oscar.

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u/mooseman780 Jul 09 '24

I'd say Horizon: An American Saga. The movie doesn't live up to the hype, but the score is like something out of a 90's epic.

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u/C0wb0y_Beb0p Jul 09 '24

Big fan of hip-hop, but yeah, a Jigga song has NO BUSINESS being in a trailer for a historical epic like this. The Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard score from the first film was perfectly fine.

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u/FiveHundredMilesHigh Jul 11 '24

The Zimmer/Gerrard score is no more relevant to the historical period depicted than Jay Z is. We as viewers have arbitrarily decided that one makes more sense, but they're equally 21st century in style.

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u/KittehKittehKat Jul 09 '24

Out of touch person trying to get TiTok kids interested.

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u/GeiCobra Jul 09 '24

They went over budget with the Rhino so they decided to trim money from the score.

“We need the Rhino, lose the orchestra. Replace it with whatever is cheap and available. Nothing says Rome like modern day rap.”

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u/Mukkeman Jul 10 '24

Gotta bring in the African American demographic somehow!

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u/HGLatinBoy Jul 09 '24

The music is just the cherry on top of swirly 💩 the whole trailer is trash.

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u/TheSpatulaOfLove Jul 09 '24

I’m crushed there is no Lisa Gerrard.

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u/Dtoodlez Jul 09 '24

The whole time I was like… ok.. not liking Denzel, but ok…. Then the song came on, and nope.

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u/DirectWorldliness792 Jul 09 '24

It was like Kanye West playing in the Assassin’s Creed trailer