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Gladiator II
Directed by Ridley Scott
Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people. From TMDB
252 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 2, 2026 · How this works
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| TMDB reviews * | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 9 |
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Gladiator II is a 2024 action adventure drama film, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal.
- 208 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Jul 9, 2024 to Nov 2, 2026
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60 of 252 · most liked firstGladiator II might be the most dogshit movie I’ve seen in my entire life. I am actively angry after seeing that complete slop.
negative · AI labelView post →Everyone got SO MAD when I started singing Gravity during the movie! Like I’m sorry but I PAID to be here. It’s not my fault Wicked was sold out and I had to see Gladiator II.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also Gladiator II is VERY MUCH a Denzel movie. Way more than what the trailers or reviews give credit for. That is a Denzel Washington movie.
positive · AI labelView post →say what you will about Gladiator II as a film but Ridley Scott let Denzel stomp around for 150 minutes as a cackling demon who was drunk on wine and power and that kind of thing will always be cinema to me
positive · AI labelView post →My review of Gladiator II (2024) is now up at @foreignpolicy.com ! I confess I didn't much like the film. As history, its nonsense, but we knew it would be. But its also weak as a movie, reenacting its better predecessor rather than telling a new story. foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/26/g...
negative · AI labelView post →i believe our true souls are revealed by our in-flight movie selections. i chose F1 and Gladiator II, revealing to you all that i am actually a 50-something white dad
neutral · AI labelView post →To see the fiercest warriors on film today, skip Gladiator II. Instead, watch The Librarians, a new documentary that debuted at Sundance, where the librarians who appeared in the film received a standing ovation from the festival's Salt Lake City audience pen.org/the-libraria...
negative · AI labelView post →@ifycomedy.com had the BEST take of the year at the beginning of the High and Mighty 2024 Power Hour podcast...and I quote: "Oh, I saw G2 (Gladiator II). As soon as I saw Denzel Washington buy a white slave I'm like 'movie of the year.'" ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok I’m at Gladiator II waiting for the movie to start. Will be able to Render Final Judgement soon
neutral · AI labelView post →Gladiator II is such a perfect boy movie. It has all the things boys love. Bare knuckle boxing, swords, Paul Mescal, leather, sharks, shirtless Paul Mescal, villainous twinks, dilfs, sweaty Paul Mescal, sharks, the Roman Empire, war, Paul Mescal reciting poetry, rhinos, Denzel Washington, and Paul-
positive · AI labelView post →The African American Film Critics Association’s top 10 films of the year ✨ 1. Nickel Boys 2. Sing Sing 3. The Piano Lesson 4. Gladiator II 5. Wicked 6. Emilia Pérez 7. Albany Road 8. The Fire Inside 9. Exhibiting Forgiveness 10. Dahomey #AAFCAAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →This week on the blog, Gladiator II nitpicking! There was so much to grouse about that wouldn't fit into a review, so this week we're looking at dates, equipment and battles (next week is Rome, gladiators and emperors). acoup.blog/2024/12/06/c...
negative · AI labelView post →Watched Gladiator II, so I’m giving y’all this one:
neutral · AI labelView post →Gladiator II is a movie about how you need to keep your eyes on 'comrades' who come from money because they will abandon the cause as soon as they get an inheritance.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw Gladiator II. Very violent and graphically bloody (more so than original film, less so than real Roman Empire). Less heart than original. Pedro Pascal and Denzel predictably gripping. Paul Mescal (meh cf Crowe but blimey!) and Joseph Quinn mesmerising.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gladiator II was far better than I expected it to be, even if Denzel did not seem to be in the same movie as everyone else.
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatching GLADIATOR and it's insane how tremendously superior it is to GLADIATOR II. Visually, structurally, in terms of craft on every level, just in a completely different league. And at heart it's kind of a dumb movie!
negative · AI labelView post →Your dad’s favorite movie finally gets its sequel with “Gladiator II,” @shirklesxp.bsky.social writes, and it’s even more excessive:
neutral · AI labelView post →If you watched the movie, don't know your secutor from your scutum, but still want to know what the film took from history (and which bits it changed,) then here's my guide to sifting the facts from the fictions in Gladiator II. Spoiler free!!
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉 NEW ARTICLE! 🎉 http://www.workingcl... Dr. Christina Hotalen (drchristinah.bsky.social) was not best pleased with Gladiator II. In this article she takes a look at the flaws, foibles, and faux pas in the film, examining its potential as an ideologically-driven story that panders to the right.
neutral · AI labelView post →People who have spoken to me about GLADIATOR II and WICKED looking like shit are not film critics, but regular filmgoers with standards; this stuff isn't just a little concern of some niche cinephile clique, but it is actually a problem for film. Well, for a certain type of studio film.
negative · AI labelView post →Movie distributors said 'Wicked' had the biggest opening weekend for a film based on a Broadway musical, while 'Gladiator II' brought in $55.5 million in US and Canadian theaters reut.rs/4fYqWuo
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t care if I was in a crowded movie theater, I couldn’t help but belting out Defying Gravity! And if the other patrons at my screening of Gladiator II didn’t like it, that’s their problem!
neutral · AI labelView post →Moments from Ridley Scott’s films—a slimy creature bursting out of an astronaut’s chest in “Alien,” Thelma and Louise zooming off a cliff—are lodged firmly in the popular imagination. Revisit @michaelschulman.bsky.social’s Profile of the “Gladiator II” filmmaker.
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, so, I know we are all annoyed at Ridley for Napoleon, but I went to see Gladiator II this eve and as a spectacle of a film it was incredible. I can ignore the historical aspects as I did the first film with planes & tractor marks for some nice little throwbacks. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
positive · AI labelView post →Denzel Washington has speculated that anxiety was behind the decision to cut a same-sex kiss from the film Gladiator II. “I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Gladiator II I just saw it. I maintain Denzel stole the whole damn film! Fight me. 🫣 That is all. p.s. NO SPOILERS!! #FilmSky #MovieSky #Gladiator #DenzelWashington
positive · AI labelView post →Gladiator II: our lack of genuine movie stars under 30 is reaching crisis levels
negative · AI labelView post →after seeing Gladiator II last night, I think there's something like "IP disease" where a movie is forced to follow the tenets of the franchise too closely... we would still recognize and enjoy a new Gladiator movie even if it didn't have the catchphrases and literal same actors as the first
negative · AI labelView post →#Film2024 Favourite film: The Teacher Surprisingly good: Kneecap Most underrated: The Apprentice Most overrated: Gladiator II Most mindless fun: Trap
negative · AI labelView post →"I don't care what anyone else in the audience says. We're going to sing during the movie." "Gumby, this is Gladiator II." "I DON'T CARE"
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw Gladiator II. W movie.
positive · AI labelView post →A friend of mine after seeing “Gladiator II” last night: “It felt like Pedro Pascal and Paul Mescal were acting in one movie, and Denzel and the guy from ‘Stranger Things’ thought they were acting in a completely different movie.” Yeah, that tracks.
neutral · AI labelView post →Egyptian-Palestinian actress May Calamawy being announced in Gladiator II when casting was being announced and then being silently replaced with Israeli actress Yuval Gonen in the finished film. fuck Hollywood. fuck Ridley Scott.
neutral · AI labelView post →Man, "Gladiator II" was a dogshit movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Lewis attends the "Gladiator II" film premier in Los Angeles 🤩🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →Gladiator II review – Paul Mescal slays in Ridley Scott’s gobsmacking reboot www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
neutral · AI labelView post →Softie Sunday at the movie theater urinal. (Gladiator II)
neutral · AI labelView post →SFGATE's @drewmagary.bsky.social says "Gladiator II" is the dad movie that America needs.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gladiator II, so far, is a movie about people chewing
neutral · AI labelView post →Gladiator II is a historical film about a long-ago era when there was a film called Gladiator I.
neutral · AI labelView post →Me watching the non-Denzel parts of Gladiator II
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the movie both GLADIATOR II and CONCLAVE were trying to be, but it doesn't flop back sweatily onto easy answers, so of course audiences preferred them to it.
negative · AI labelView post →Gladiator II (2024) dir. Ridley Scott 🎬 Sequels are always a bit hit and miss. In fact, most are miss. So, what about this one? Was it Sequelus Maximus or were we not entertained? Check out our thoughts in our latest #podcast excerpt vid below #filmsky #moviesky www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrVo...
neutral · AI labelView post →I caught Gladiator II yesterday and while there's a lot of ways you could bemoan and compare to the first film, I think there's three interesting conversations to come out of it. G2: On Acting, Inertia, and Empire. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/116585...
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed Gladiator II and also talked about election anxiety and how hot everyone in the movie is.
neutral · AI labelView post →Recent TV & Film ratings Slow horses ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Penguin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Gladiator II ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sweetpea ⭐️⭐️ The Day of the Jackal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Man City: The Capitulation ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
neutral · AI labelView post →It takes a lot to remove me from the world of a movie. But I was totally unprepared for the absurdity of sharks in the coliseum in Gladiator II. 💀
negative · AI labelView post →GLADIATOR II is interesting because it gets stupider with literally every scene. Like it starts out at your basic epic film sort of level and by the halfway point it's like a three-year-old wrote it
negative · AI labelView post →GLADIATOR II is the best movie ever made to feature this many pronunciations of Marcus Aurelius
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Gladiator II (2024)
neutral · AI labelView post →GLADIATOR II belongs to Denzel Washington. Here’s my review. www.slashfilm.com/1708857/glad...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok, I’m officially live-tweeting Gladiator II. There is a character named Senator Thraex that I’m pretty sure accidentally wandered onto set from a Star Wars movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Gladiator II (2024) dir. Ridley Scott This was never going to top the original movie starring Russell Crowe, but it has enough of its own moments to rate it as a worthy enough sequel. It certainly isn't as bad as some people have made out. Action, spectacle and drama in spades. #filmsky #movies
positive · AI labelView post →SFGATE's @drewmagary.bsky.social says "Gladiator II" is the dad movie that America needs 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →Unsure, but they also sometimes commission outside film reviews, like the time @beijingpalmer.bsky.social forced me at gunpoint to watch Gladiator II and write about it.
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s crazy to me about movies like Gladiator II is that they have all this footage from ancient Rome, but only released the movie now.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last year's dual release of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" created a juggernaut at the box office. This year, "Wicked" and "Gladiator II" try to recapture the magic. But film critic Sean Burns says lighting doesn't strike twice, especially when "the films themselves aren't that great."
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neutral · AI labelView post →I wrote a short review on the liberal ambivalence of living in dying empire in Gladiator II that may or may not relate to recent events in American life. www.williammparis.com/post/dreams-...
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