Gladiator
After leaving the movie theater last Saturday night, I was plagued with a vague and slightly uncomfortable feeling. It took me a few minutes to identify it, but soon enough it dawned on me—guilt. A fitting emotion, as Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is nothing if not a classic case of the guilty pleasure action movie. The special effects were dismal, the plot rather predictable, and the acting was not stellar. All this I realized in retrospect. Yet, there was something immensely enjoyable about this film that prevented me from realizing its faults during the two and a half-hours I was in my seat.
The movie opened up with a bloody battle. The Romans, led by their skilled and popular general Maximus, portrayed by Russell Crowe,
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