What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: Evenbob

Independence Day 2 without Will Smith
for comedic relief? I don't think so.

Like I said, I don't think so. It's
bombing big time.

Quote: Evenbob

Like I said, I don't think so. It's bombing big time.

I think movies like that become profitable on the foreign box office. So far it's not doing so well, but I think enough people have seen it around the world that it will pay back.


Jeff Goldblum is possibly the luckiest character actor alive. From his first film he ends up in a classic film, and then three years later makes one of the best horror flicks of all time. Within a decade he gets in two massive blockbusters which give him sequels.

Most of the time he is just a Woody Allen obsessive type without the funny.

Domestic Box Office
9/30/83 The Big Chill Col. $56,399,659
8/15/86 The Fly Fox $40,456,565
6/11/93 Jurassic Park Uni. $402,453,882
7/3/96 Independence Day Fox $306,169,268
5/23/97 The Lost World: Jurassic Park Uni. $229,086,679
6/24/16 Independence Day: Resurgence Fox $53,394,274

Goldblum is a movie star but has done far
more TV than movies. Big Chill is what I
remember him most in, other than the
blockbusters, his other movies were
yawners. TV has kept him employed for
30 years. He's in the new Thor movie,
that might do well.

Quote: Evenbob

He's in the new Thor movie, that might do well.

That is an understatement.
MARVEL Cinematic UNIVERSE is in now for 13 movies, and the only one that broke even was the incredible Hulk. They are about the closest thing to a sure thing in movie making history.

Worldwide Boxoffice
$1,520 Marvel's The Avengers
$1,405 Avengers: Age of Ultron
$1,215 Iron Man 3
$1,148 Captain America: Civil War
$773 Guardians of the Galaxy
$714 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
$645 Thor: The Dark World
$624 Iron Man 2
$585 Iron Man
$519 Ant-Man
$449 Thor
$371 Captain America: The First Avenger
$263 The Incredible Hulk
$10,233

Next 13 MCU movies
Doctor Strange BV 11/4/16
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 BV 5/5/17
Spider-Man: Homecoming Sony 7/7/17
Thor: Ragnarok BV 11/3/17
Black Panther BV 2/16/18
Avengers: Infinity War Part I BV 5/4/18
Ant-Man and the Wasp BV 7/6/18
Captain Marvel BV 3/8/19
Avengers: Infinity War Part II BV 5/3/19
Untitled Marvel Movie (May 2020) BV 5/1/20
Untitled Marvel Movie (July 2020) BV 7/10/20
Untitled Marvel Movie (November 2020) BV 11/6/20
Inhumans BV TBD

Gladiator [2000] ... a "do-not-see" ...

oh, maybe you'd want to watch the first part of the movie and make up your own ending. It starts out with a fairly engaging battle scene [it might bother some that it has inaccuracies]. The movie degenerates more and more the longer it goes on.

Quote: odiousgambit

Gladiator [2000] ... a "do-not-see" ...

oh, maybe you'd want to watch the first part of the movie and make up your own ending. It starts out with a fairly engaging battle scene [it might bother some that it has inaccuracies]. The movie degenerates more and more the longer it goes on.

Do not watch the ending unless you like silly endings(spoiler warning)

The emperor gets into the ring to fight the hero. Really? That is so stupid that, well, words fail me. I think I would have rather seen a UFO come down and blow up all of Rome or something. And, no, that our hero was deviously disabled a bit does not make it acceptable

I loved Gladiator. Great movie
As to Emperors getting in the arena themselves

Emperor Commodus 180 to 192 AD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus
Commodus the gladiator[edit]

Commodus also had a passion for gladiatorial combat, which he took so far as to take to the arena himself, dressed as a gladiator. The Romans found Commodus' naked gladiatorial combats to be scandalous and disgraceful.[21] It was rumoured that he was actually the son, not of Marcus Aurelius, but of a gladiator whom his mother Faustina had taken as a lover at the coastal resort of Caieta.[22]

In the arena, Commodus always won since his opponents always submitted to the emperor. Thus, these public fights would not end in death. Privately, it was his custom to slay his practice opponents.[23] For each appearance in the arena, he charged the city of Rome a million sesterces, straining the Roman economy.

Commodus raised the ire of many military officials in Rome for his Hercules persona in the arena. Often, wounded soldiers and amputees would be placed in the arena for Commodus to slay with a sword. Citizens of Rome missing their feet through accident or illness were taken to the arena, where they were tethered together for Commodus to club to death while pretending they were giants.[24] These acts may have contributed to his assassination.

Commodus was also known for fighting exotic animals in the arena, often to the horror of the Roman people. According to Gibbon, Commodus once killed 100 lions in a single day.[25] Later, he decapitated a running ostrich with a specially designed dart[26] and afterwards carried the bleeding head of the dead bird and his sword over to the section where the Senators sat and gesticulated as though they were next.[27] Dio notes that the targeted senators actually found this more ridiculous than frightening, and chewed on laurel leaves to conceal their laughter.[28] On another occasion, Commodus killed three elephants on the floor of the arena by himself.[29] Finally, Commodus killed a giraffe, which was considered to be a strange and helpless beast.[30]

Quote: odiousgambit

Gladiator [2000] ... a "do-not-see" ...

Gladiator won Best Picture Oscar that year, as well as Best Actor for Russell Crowe and Best Director for Ridley Scott.

Quote: terapined

Commodus also had a passion for gladiatorial combat, which he took so far as to take to the arena himself, dressed as a gladiator

[abandoning spoiler concern] OK, well, that takes the supremely ridiculous aspect away from it I guess. It doesn't make me feel too different, since I still think it is absurd that Maximus was shown to have the ability to really fight; impaired ability, but even such an ability would never be allowed.

Burned again for not checking up on every aspect before posting! I refreshed myself on the history of the big picture but did not look up this bit about Commudus. Maximus did not exist btw, but was possibly based on someone who never directly tangled with Commodus. Marcus Aurelius picked Commudus as his successor, and attempting to restore the Republic to rule is not mentioned as on his agenda in the Wikipedia article.

I seem to have a penchant for taking on Academy Awards winners, and stepping on someone's toes here, sorry. I still maintain the second half of the movie is awful. OK, some aspects are well done.

PS: note that Commodus was regarded as a coward

Quote: wikipedia

Dio Cassius, a first-hand witness, describes him as "not naturally wicked but, on the contrary, as guileless as any man that ever lived. His great simplicity, however, together with his cowardice, made him the slave of his companions, and it was through them that he at first, out of ignorance, missed the better life and then was led on into lustful and cruel habits, which soon became second nature."

I don't think you should have to worry about spoiling a movie that came out more than 15 years ago....

If someone was going to see it, they'd have seen it by now.

Quote: ams288

I don't think you should have to worry about spoiling a movie that came out more than 15 years ago....

If someone was going to see it, they'd have seen it by now.

Oh, can we talk about what "Rosebud" meant? ;)