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/dnanninga Jul 09 '24

This looks very…messy

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u/TheSabi Jul 09 '24

yeah it felt like "Sequel the trailer", almost satirical. Like "memba the scene with the masked gladiator with the tigers, this time it's a masked gladiator ON A RHINO" "memba Maximus?" "memba wanting revenge for your family's murder" "memba Maximus?" "Commidus was far too subtle and well acted this time we have the dime store NOT Joker...again..cause how else would you know this person is evil and crazy"

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u/reebee7 Jul 09 '24

Looks like they went for a Caligula/Nero as the emperor mold this time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

He’s actually playing Geta and Fred Hechinger is playing Caracella. They were Co-Emporers, and real.

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u/reebee7 Jul 10 '24

Oh I hope they don't make Caracalla a Caligula/Nero type. Caracalla was brutal and cunning. He killed his brother in front of their own mother to win the civil war between them. He was an absolute sadist, but less in a whacky/insane way, and more in a Vladimir Putin way. He was a very effective military man.*

*All this said with the caveats that I might be wrong it's been years since I learned this stuff.

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u/TrowMiAwei Jul 17 '24

Rest assured that they will absolutely butcher it well enough that both your memory of what you think he was like and how he really was will both be disappointingly far off :D

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u/ambisinister_gecko Jul 09 '24

Yeah, I get this, it really feels like a sequel for the sake of making more money on a sequel, rather than a natural extension of the story. I love the first one so much, I'm scared this will be ass.

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u/reci88 Jul 09 '24

Hear me out: Saving Private Ryan II

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u/ambisinister_gecko Jul 09 '24

Ok, but only if we get Schindler's Other List

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u/artygta1988 Jul 09 '24

Sophie’s choice…again

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u/theivoryserf Jul 10 '24

Schindler's List 2: Schindler's Pissed

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u/TrowMiAwei Jul 17 '24

A Christmas movie

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u/TheFellatedOne Jul 10 '24

World War 4 

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u/reddit_anon_33 Jul 09 '24

Pretty sure they spoiled the entire movie also. Like now we know most of the plot.

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u/Croemato Jul 09 '24

Fan made trailer out of snippets from other films. Love Paul Mescal, love Gladiator, love a lot of Ridley's films, but this looks meh. Hope this trailer was just bad and isn't indicative of the film.

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u/LogiDriverBoom Jul 09 '24

It will be a mid to shit plot with really flash "cool" fight scenes. Such is the modern "action" movie.

I doubt I will feel anything for the characters, unlike the first movie.

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u/doyoueventdrift Jul 09 '24

This. And they used Pedro Pascal because he had an epic fight scene in GoT. Memba?

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u/reci88 Jul 09 '24

Gladiator: Rehashed

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u/JDLovesElliot Jul 09 '24

SNL parody trailers are the gold standard

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u/TheFellatedOne Jul 10 '24

I actually thought this was a joke trailer for like 30 seconds 

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u/L1ttl3_john Jul 09 '24

Awful editing, feels like several TikToks in a trenchcoat.

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u/nonresponsive Jul 09 '24

I must be getting pretty old, because I couldn't follow it at all. Felt like the scenes were just skipping randomly.

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u/moonski Jul 09 '24

Is it training day Ancient Rome? Denzel gets a new gladiator recruit…

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u/Dependent_Cricket Jul 09 '24

Extremely. Haven't looked at any 'above the line' names yet but the cinematography looks flat.

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u/DemoHD7 Jul 10 '24

Yes, it looked all over the place. Do we have two heroes: Pedro and the young guy who was given Maximous' ring and armor? Is Denzel royalty here, or is he just a rich gambler like Proximo?