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[aesthetic--mood]

Gladiator Movie Aesthetic

[imthefailedartist]

Gladiator II: Less the sequel

This movie needed more.

More gladiator stories. More gladiator battles. More battles.

Why did we never hear about the other Gladiators? That's what grounds Gladiator they are part of why Maximus keeps fighting.

Lucius needed more character motivation. He wants to kill Acacius when he should be wanting to kill the Emperors, as they are the reasons the war is being fought.

It needed less Maximus.

This movie tries to ruin Maximus' story. It's never made clear that he's his dad it's hinted at for a reason. Calling him his father outright, knowing that his only goal in the first was to get to his wife and child with honor just sucks the air out of the first one.

It needed more General Acacius. He's a fantastic character who shows what this type of life does to a person and has five minutes of screen time.

The Twins needed more development or screen time. You've got them being sickly and weird, up the stakes, people are afraid of them people are annoyed by them people think they're idiots, yet they follow them. Let's see why and how they hold the throne together.

What is Lucius motivation? The no mercy scene and him saying he doesn't want to fight that one guy were pointless. Do you want to be with your wife or not.

Macrinus was in the right. If Lucius had more development, he'd see that. Lucius didn't want to be in or a part of Rome, and he didn't want to be prince or king. So why do you all of a sudden care that Macrinus wants the throne.

If it ended with Macrinus on the throne and Lucius leaving Rome I could see that or with him seeing that Macrinus is going to be just as unfit for the throne as the rest I'd like it more.

As a matter of fact, this movie needed a time jump. If Lucius spent years being the unkillable gladiator and seeing how Rome could be from the stories of other Gladiators or being the prized gladiator so he gets perks of being wined and dined and pampered by the royals and what it used to be. If you gone be a sequel be a sequel.

Maybe all of this was in the May Calamawy scenes. Maybe you don't get to have a well developed movie when you cut out characters for being pro Palestine and anti-genocide. Maybe your movie gets to suck when your movie is about people fighting against their enslavers and imperialism and for a free Rome but you cut out an actress who wishes for the same thing a nation and its people actively being wiped out actively being erased from history.

[ao0o0]

Hey guys, So... I've gotten the idea, recently, that I'd write a fanfiction about emperor Geta x reader, where the reader gets..basically teleported to the past. Because why not. This Is tumblr afterall. Should I?

Yeah, let's go! New fanfic allert!

Nah, girl you craaaaaazy

Voting ended onMar 21, 2025

[cpahlow]

[daily-spanish-word]

sand la arena

The word ‘arena’ is derived from the Latin ‘harena’: a particularly smooth sand used to absorb blood in ancient arenas like the Colosseum in Rome.

Competing clowns get into a real fight in the circus arena. After throwing their (big) shoes at each other, and not finding anything else, they start hurling sand.

We made a sand castle. Hicimos un castillo de arena.

[plantiyst]

Rome in two images, 18.01.22 ⛲️☀️

[covenawhite66]

Ancient Drains Under The Colosseum Reveal The Bones of an Unlikely Gladiator

Packs of sausage dogs might have been made to fight larger animals like bears or perform acrobatics in the Colosseum in ancient Rome, archae

"Venatio" was a type of entertainment in ancient Rome involving various animals being pitted against each other in fights or being trained to perform tricks.

The dogs would have been ancestors of sausage dogs rather than true dachshunds, the paper noted.

[pawelhryniewicz]

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