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Alright, you FUCKING VULTURES. Here’s your Gladiator II issue.
Is anybody actually still talking about this movie
Well, I don’t care, I still have things to say about it. What’s funny about Ridley Scott’s long-threatened sequel to his universally adored (by men and others but, let’s be honest, mostly men) Oscar-winning hit Gladiator — well, a lot of things are funny about it, few of them on purpose. But in this case what’s funny is that it’s rare to see people united in distaste these days. It’s rare when that distaste is so universal that seasoned critics and the average moviegoer are spouting the same criticisms. It’s sort of beautiful, or at least it’s beautiful for me, a person who did not pay between $17-30 for my Gladiator II ticket, as I am famously a proud subscriber to the AMC A-List program, which allows me to see three movies…
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