Every time it came up
A movie quote identified during business meeting reference conversation
Kyle · unverified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“I will not be disrespected. Are you doing Gladiator right now?”
Kyle and Taylor want to rewatch this film
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I need to re-watch that. Yeah, I haven't seen it in a long, long time. I think I've only seen it once or twice, but it's great.”
Discussion of Russell Crowe's performance and Ridley Scott's planned sequel
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“he was like one of the best parts of Gladiator and You Were Never Really There.”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified● neutral
“Ridley Scott is making a fucking sequel to Gladiator, actually. The next movie he's making is Gladiator 2. I'm down.”
Kyle mentions the decision-making power of Commodus character in context of a hypothetical scenario
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“he should decide and he should be able to decide just like Commodus and Gladiator he just comes out and he's like oh really? Yep! No! No! Joaquin Phoenix”
Comparison of original 2000 film to Gladiator 2; discussion of movie quality in early 2000s era
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“That was just a high point for movies. Not just because when we consume them all, right? No, it's definitely not hindsight being 2020 and you know all that stuff. It's it's that movies were better. They were better thoug”
Taylor · unverified▼ negative
“They made Gladiator 2 like a year or two ago and it was just bad. So bad.”
Discussion of historical film and dramatic performances
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“we love Gladiator of course he took plenty of dramatic license with that make this evil hair look incestuous monster”
Kyle and Woody discuss Ridley Scott's Gladiator as an excellent historical film
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I've seen a gladiator and um black I think he did Black Hawk Down um and I'm spacing out on some of the other stuff he those two are good enough those are excellent movies I love those movies”
Kyle's enthusiasm for the film and desire to recreate a gladiator arena with people fighting
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“I've always thought we need to get people back into an arena like that fighting to the death and I want them in Period specific attire”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“when uh Gladiator came out back in the day I was super into it I thought it was the greatest film that ever been made”
Josh recalls watching Gladiator and being impressed by Joaquin Phoenix's speech about his father
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“i remember like that was the first movie i can remember watching joaquin phoenix's was gladiator and like when he gave that speech to his father being like all these traits you admire you know valor honor i have ambition”
Hosts discuss the opening battle scene and historical accuracy with praise from a Roman legion expert
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“that scene in the beginning where they're fighting like some germanic tribe and they're using that's one of the best scenes of the whole movie”
Woody · unverified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“it is really”
Sword choreography analysis of Joaquin Phoenix fight scenes
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“he did the Gladiator when it's walking Phoenix facing um um um the um Kurt Russell Crow and uh and then a couple others it was interesting”
Discussion about wanting to rewatch the film and famous monologue
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“I need to I need to rewatch that. Yeah, I haven't seen it in a long long time”