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Probably my favourite series of all time. I watch it once a year whether I need to or not.

Still loving it. One more episode to go. (Right?) This last episode tried pulling off a lot. It didn't blow my mind but it was good. One the one hand the Tuskegee Airmen is obviously enough for it's own show. So do you include it here? Does that mean that story ONLY appears where it's front and center? Or is it here because these men's stories intersected IRL?
 
I'm sure I'll have to go read the book.

I have a long flight to Australia coming up just after the final episode airs, so I'm saving it for that.
 
Though now that I think about it, Masters of the Air might not be the best show to watch on a plane... 🤔 

Tintin is wonderful!

THE MUMMY is a fantastic flick. Better, and certainly more fun, than the last two Indiana Jones movies.

THE MUMMY is a fantastic flick. Better, and certainly more fun, than the last two Indiana Jones movies.

THE MUMMY is a fantastic flick. Better, and certainly more fun, than the last two Indiana Jones movies.

Classic!
I don't even love the movie but I bought it nonetheless to support magnificent restorations, like the Arrow is one (unlike the latest Cameron 4Ks which seem to be awful!)

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is dark, magnificent, gripping stuff.
Denny Zeitling's score is brilliant.

It feels uninspired and unnecessary. Some films beg for a sequel, Gladiator is not one of them. Russel Crowe and Maximus is Gladiator. There's no Gladiator without Russel Crowe and Maximus.
 
 
 

Top 5 worst ideas in the history of the world:
 
5. New Coke
4. Themed Restaurants
3. Hooked on Classics
2. Filling the Hindenburg With Hydrogen
 
 
1. A Gladiator sequel.
 
 
 
 
 

This is actually (no pun intended) an excellent way of describing it. 
 
I get Thor's point about world-building...even if I do think that story, and especially character, are more important. And there are movies that lend themselves to continuing to explore the "world" they inhabit. The MCU, imperfect as it is, is a good example of that.  But I just don't think Gladiator is that kind of beast, and I think trying to make it be so is a little ham-fisted.

Nothing wrong with Gladiator's CGI.

All these worlds are yours to explore, Thor.
 
Except Middle-Earth. Attempt no landing there.

It feels uninspired and unnecessary. Some films beg for a sequel, Gladiator is not one of them. Russel Crowe and Maximus is Gladiator. There's no Gladiator without Russel Crowe and Maximus.
 
 
 

I don't think it's "anger" At least in my case. For me the idea of Gladiator sequel is more...
 

 
 
 
Exactly. If Scott were merely making another Roman epic history/swords and sandals film set in a different era, I'd be over the moon (though with expectations tempered after Napoleon). It's the fact that it's a Gladiator sequel that grates a bit. And if his comments on the project are anything to go by, his rationale for making the film is primarily commercial, not artistic. 

Top 5 worst ideas in the history of the world:
 
5. New Coke
4. Themed Restaurants
3. Hooked on Classics
2. Filling the Hindenburg With Hydrogen
 
 
1. A Gladiator sequel.
 
 
 
 
 

One morning I came home after being out all night...a friend had opened up a new Italian restaurant in London near Covent Garden and we closed the place down, then helped ourselves to his wine cellar.  When I got home I collapsed on the couch but didn't feel like sleeping (or so I thought) so I popped in the Gladiator DVD.  Fell asleep like 5 minutes later, of course.  Eventually, the film played through and the DVD switched back to the menu screen, which looped the main theme every 60 seconds as the menu reset.
 
Over. And over. And over. For 12 hours. Having drank all night, I was constantly in that half awake/asleep dream state where time and space have no meaning and I couldn't figure out why I kept hearing the same piece of music again and again, and how long was this movie anyway?  Didn't even have the energy or presence of mind to reach for the remote and turn it off. That thing turned into an earworm that stayed with me until it was mercifully replaced by Hedwig's Theme.
 
Not that there's anything wrong w/the Gladiator score, but after that, I didn't want to hear anything from Zimmer and pretty much ignored everything he did until Interstellar.
 
Some nights though, I wake up in a cold sweat and can still hear it...the screaming of the Hans.

One morning I came home after being out all night...a friend had opened up a new Italian restaurant in London near Covent Garden and we closed the place down, then helped ourselves to his wine cellar.  When I got home I collapsed on the couch but didn't feel like sleeping (or so I thought) so I popped in the Gladiator DVD.  Fell asleep like 5 minutes later, of course.  Eventually, the film played through and the DVD switched back to the menu screen, which looped the main theme every 60 seconds as the menu reset.
 
Over. And over. And over. For 12 hours. Having drank all night, I was constantly in that half awake/asleep dream state where time and space have no meaning and I couldn't figure out why I kept hearing the same piece of music again and again, and how long was this movie anyway?  Didn't even have the energy or presence of mind to reach for the remote and turn it off. That thing turned into an earworm that stayed with me until it was mercifully replaced by Hedwig's Theme.
 
Not that there's anything wrong w/the Gladiator score, but after that, I didn't want to hear anything from Zimmer and pretty much ignored everything he did until Interstellar.
 
Some nights though, I wake up in a cold sweat and can still hear it...the screaming of the Hans.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"