Oliver Stone wasn’t a giant fan of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, calling the sequel “empty energy” in comparison with the primary movie.
I’m all the time curious to listen to what filmmakers consider the work of their friends, and Oliver Stone lately chimed in with a number of ideas on Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II.
“It’s definitely watchable. It’s good, properly made, normal tight Ridley movie, however I didn’t care concerning the folks. I wasn’t invested,” Stone mentioned on the PBD Podcast. “The primary one was a basic. The second is empty energy, like a industrial product.” Whereas Scott might not have gained Stone over, he does have a fan in Christopher Nolan, who lately expressed his love for the Gladiator sequel.
One movie which Stone did like this yr was Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. “On a visible scale, it’s one gorgeous scene after one other – past his Apocalypse, or his unique One from the Coronary heart,” Stone mentioned. “As a story, many have knocked the movie, and I can not say I adopted it fully, however sufficient to wish to see it once more, as a result of I imagine Francis was honest in his exploration of a future, which is past what our society nonetheless doesn’t perceive — that we will have a humanitarian society.“
“From legendary director Ridley Scott, Gladiator II continues the epic saga of energy, intrigue, and vengeance set in Historic Rome,” reads the official Gladiator II synopsis. “Years after witnessing the demise of the revered hero Maximus by the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is pressured to enter the Colosseum after his house is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his coronary heart and the way forward for the Empire at stake, Lucius should look to his previous to search out energy and honor to return the glory of Rome to its folks.”
Our personal Chris Bumbray lately reviewed Gladiator II, and whereas he admits that it isn’t the moment basic the unique was, “it’s nonetheless a extremely entertaining, trustworthy sequel, jam-packed with motion and spectacle. There hasn’t been a lavish, action-driven historic drama carried out on this scale in a while, with Scott, regardless of his advancing age, as energetic and kinetic a director as ever.” You may try the remainder of Bumbray’s overview proper right here.
