Yes, they have one of my fav films on, Gladiator.

[DTCwordfan]

Yep......love it.

What more can one say?

Brilliant story, acting, sets, and all the rest...violent yes but in context.

Music - fannnntastic.

Russell C at his best (his other being the Mathmetician).

[excelsior-1]

agreed.

at the time ridley scott took a big gamble in his decision to re-invent the roman epic genre.

fortunately for us all -- it paid off.

[DTCwordfan]

agree.....one of the great classics in time....

[tiggerblue10]

My favourite film of all time. Apart from my fave childhood film, The Wizard of Oz, which was on the other day!

[andy-hughes]

It is a great film.

I love the first scene, where the barbarian chief is having a word across the valley, having signalled his intentions by sending the Roman messenger back with a bit missing.

It doesn't matter if you don't speak High German, Low German, or whatever Germanic dialiect he is using - it's pretty clear in any language that the message is - "Come on if you think you're hard enough ....!"

[chaptazbru]

And I love the end scene where he goes back to his wife and son in the elysian fields after all his torment - blub, blub, blub !

[andy-hughes]

It is a fabulously evocative film on so many levels - everyone is very well cast, which is the essential in any film.

Talking of which - trying to get my head around Tom Cruise as my literary hero Jack Reacher - RC would have been far better, and Liam Neeson would have been ideal.

[chaptazbru]

Liam Neeson for me - definitely ....

[islasmum]

I didn't realise that Gladiator was on until the first hour of it had passed, but watched the rest of it, I thought that it's a great film but I didn't like the cruelty in it, and had forgotten than Russell Crowe was quite fanciable then! I thought that he was very good in Beautiful Mind.

[DTCwordfan]

Have you seen Rob Roy then with Liam Neeson - brilliant movie and far, far better than Mel Gibson's load of waffle, Braveheart.

[B00]

sort of on the same vein, if none of you have seen Spartacus:Blood and Sand, I can't recommend it enough, it's fantastic, though don't watch it with children around.

Also, the lead actor (who's since sadly passed away) was the ultimate eye candy.

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[andy-hughes]

islasmum - it's nigh on impossible to deal with the concept of gladiatorial combat without including the cruelty.

That said, the notion that every gladiator stood an excellent chance of dying on Day One is a Hollywood falsehood - many gladiators were spared even if they lost fights, and eventually became rich and famous, and won their freedom.

[humbersloop]

Gladiator's a good watch - Oliver Reed turned in a great performance too, just the right side of ham.

Aside from the fact I'd watch Liam Neeson read the phone book, what absolute plank thought casting the Weird Short One as Jack Reacher is a good idea? That's a bleedin' franchise too far, that is.

[chaptazbru]

I haven't seen Rob Roy - don't fancy it. I prefer Liam Neeson in modern thrillers, such as Taken.

Oi DT Cesser de preconiser la fusillade de lapins !!!