Nick1Ø66

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"
 

See, to me "worlds" exist to stage stories in, rather than stories existing to "showcase" worlds.

I think a story - as told in a film or in a series of films - has to have a certain dramatic shape.
 
Gladiator's dramatic shape is complete. To make a sequel would mean to take the bow that had been wrapped over this most wonderful present, and unravel it anew.
 
I find those kinds of films - we're getting many of them nowadays - depressing.

It has Lucila, Gracchus and an older Lucius...
 
Its not a standalone vignette of Roman history. Its a sequel.

Finally you guys feel what I felt when they announced a Blade Runner sequel.
 
 
It hurts, doesn't it?
 
 
Hehehehehehe ...

I might go as far as to say someone who is set to make a Gladiator sequel probably kinda misses the point of Gladiator.
 
The same is applicable to other movies. Ahem...
 

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.
 
 
 
 
 

And knowing Ridley Scott, it very well may.

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.
 
 
 
 
 

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.
 
 
 
 
 

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