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Speaker 1: Great the flick with ben o'she you know, I like

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to leave the house for this one.

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Speaker 2: Pack of lunch because it goes for two and a

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Speaker 2: half hours. That's my advice.

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Speaker 1: One of the comfortable ones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Gladiated too. I would definitely recommend going to one

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Speaker 2: of those, you know, gold class premium experiences. Reclined the

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Speaker 2: seat back, a couple of wines delivered. Maybe maybe one

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Speaker 2: of the cinema staff could feed you grapes like you're

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Speaker 2: a Roman emperor. Don't hold your breath. That's probably not

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Speaker 2: going to happen. But so the original movie came out

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Speaker 2: in the year two thousand, of course, starring Russell Crowe

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Speaker 2: as Maximus the Gladiator.

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Speaker 1: Was sublime.

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Speaker 2: He was fantastic, fantastic, and he won the Oscar for

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Speaker 2: Best Actor that year. The film won Best Picture from

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Speaker 2: Lizzie Yep Ridley Scott. You know that was that was

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Speaker 2: one of his signature films in a career where he's

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Speaker 2: made many signature films. And it also starred Connie Nielsen

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Speaker 2: and wa in Phoenix A very young and he was

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Speaker 2: fantastic too, and it was just such a good movie.

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Speaker 2: It was inspirational and even to this day, I would

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Speaker 2: say pretty much everybody who saw it back then would

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Speaker 2: be able to rattle off a couple of quotes, you know,

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Speaker 2: whether it's you know, what we do in life that

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Speaker 2: goes in eternity, strength and honor, you know, I in

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Speaker 2: this life or the next. Liam Neeson wasn't there was Russell.

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Speaker 2: You heard that Maximus rob Roy was in rob Roy.

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Speaker 2: It was also anyway. So when Ridley Scott made that movie,

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Speaker 2: he had lots of he had lots of ideas of

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Speaker 2: what he wanted to do in terms of the battles

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Speaker 2: in the coliseum because they were you know, they were

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Speaker 2: huge back back then. The spectacle in Ancient Rome was incredible.

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Speaker 2: But he didn't have the technology, the filmmaking technology to

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Speaker 2: bring it to life. So that had been bubbling away

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Speaker 2: in the back of his head for twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: And so now he's had the chance to make a

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Speaker 2: second movie. The studio said how much money do you want, Ridley,

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Speaker 2: and he's like, oh, I don't know, four hundred million

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Speaker 2: and so book. So they've recreated the coliseum sort of

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Speaker 2: painstakingly brick by brick in Malta. They filmed some of

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Speaker 2: this in this movie in Morocco as well, to recreate

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Speaker 2: some sort of the outer regions of the Roman Empire.

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Speaker 2: But Russell Crowe, he's not involved. I think he was

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Speaker 2: a bit but hurt about it. Yeah, he came out

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Speaker 2: they were making a sequel and also, let's be honest,

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Speaker 2: Russell Crowe in a toger, no one wants to see

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Speaker 2: that anymore. Not not anymore. And so anyway, so that

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Speaker 2: they needed a new cast, so they cast Paul mescal

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Speaker 2: irish actor who's got a lot of buzz in Hollywood

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Speaker 2: at home or he was in that Netflix series Normal People,

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Speaker 2: which everybody loved and obsessed with that and then indie

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Speaker 2: films like After Sun and All of Us Strangers. He

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Speaker 2: then you've also got Pedro Pascal, who's also so hot

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Speaker 2: right now from an unbearable weight of massive talent, like

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Speaker 2: he has been where he first exploded. Yeah, all yeah,

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Speaker 2: And Connie Nielsen is back in the character of Lysillas.

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Speaker 2: So basically this film follows the footsteps of the first one.

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Speaker 2: You've got Little the little boy Lucius, who was Lucilla's

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Speaker 2: He's Paul Mescal. He's been exiled for the past sixteen

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Speaker 2: He is now finds himself captured, becomes a slave, becomes

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Speaker 2: a gladiator a lot like Russell Crowe's character, and is

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Speaker 2: owned by this gladiator owner, Macronus, played by Denzel Washington,

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Speaker 2: who looks like he is having the time of his life.

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Speaker 2: Denzel is so good in this movie. Then, of course,

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Speaker 2: similar to the first movie, winds up in the Colosseum

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Speaker 2: in Rome, has to fight for his life, and Lucius

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Speaker 2: wants revenge just like Maximus did, and the object of

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Speaker 2: played by Pedro pretty much everybody he ever loved played

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Speaker 2: by Pedro pascal As and so so that's basically what

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Speaker 2: it's about. And Denzel Washington's character, Macronus, says to Lucius,

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Speaker 2: you up Acasius's head on a plate. Oh okay, And

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot going on, a lot of palace

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Speaker 2: little twist. You get this from the you get this

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Speaker 2: enemy arch enemy Acasius. It's now married to his mum, Lucilla.

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Speaker 2: you know, real Shakespearean tragedy. The problem with this movie

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Speaker 2: is it probably tries too hard to remind you that

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Speaker 2: it's a follow on from the original. Like there's flashbacks,

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Speaker 2: there's they replace scenes but completely redo them, so you

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Speaker 2: in that scene? And so that probably takes away from

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Speaker 1: The togas and leather straps probably tell us enough. You

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Speaker 1: probably gonna it's implied and so and so, and.

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Speaker 2: They try and pigeonhole Paul Mescal into being another Russell Crowe,

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Speaker 2: which is just bad. He has a lot of a

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Speaker 2: lot of skills and talents as an actor on his

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Speaker 2: own merits. Don't make him do the inspirational conversations. And

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Speaker 2: rattle off the quotes from the original movie. So I've

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Speaker 2: now seen Gladiada two twice. Yes, I cannot tell you

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Speaker 2: one single line that Paul Mescal says. And there are

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Speaker 2: moments where he gives the big speech like and he

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Speaker 2: I've now seen him do it four or five times.

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Speaker 2: Couldn't even tell you what the line was. A particularly

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Speaker 2: blood thirsty. Oh yeah, there's a lot of blood. And

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Speaker 2: the spectacle is incredible. So even though some of the

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Speaker 2: dialogue is actually really pretty average, the specticle is amazing.

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Speaker 2: Like he does Paul Mescal's Lucius fights killer babboons, which

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Speaker 2: is the Yeas shave the.

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Speaker 1: Lions able.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember feed the Christians to the based on

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Speaker 2: these baboons. It would work different, very scary. Are they

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Speaker 2: fight a rhino as a rhino?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 2: And they flood the Colosseum, which apparently did happen back

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Speaker 2: the shop. It's a bit er does a roll up. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so I think. I think there's probably a few moments

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Speaker 2: was that budget.

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Speaker 1: How many here we go of waking Phoenix's actual thumbs?

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Speaker 1: Are you giving it?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to give it. I don't have enough

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give it three thumbs up to borrow

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Speaker 2: one of yours. So it's solid, not spectacular. It is

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Speaker 2: a spectacle, though, Take your popcorn, get a previous cinema. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you know you won't hate it. Good afternoon, Maybe not

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Speaker 2: the one. They're going to make another one. Can you

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Speaker 2: believe he really really wants to make a third one?

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Speaker 2: And so that's part of the problem as well.

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Speaker 1: Right billion I don't want to, you know, try and

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Speaker 1: being distracted by setting things up the next one

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Speaker 2: Going to say how many baboons bottoms then but anyway,

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Speaker 2: then the event