Unnecessarily Prolonged, disappointment...

Rating: 1/10 (20 May 2000)

First 1/3 of the film is great, I watched with my jaw opened. Then came the boredom. Boredom from prolonged dialogues and Joaquin Phoenix's acting.
Last week I read Paul Newman quit acting after all these years. The reason he explained "I am sick of all these sex and violence in today's movies"
I couldn't agree more, why on earth do we HAVE TO watch more and more queer, incest and other sick scenes in today's movies? I exclude films like Flawless or As Good As It Gets from these as they are meant to be made from different perspectives of the life. The story is OPEN. If you hate drag queens don't watch Flawless, simple as that. There's no cheating here. But putting disturbing scenes into an ACTION movie like Gladiator is something else...
I think film industry should be based on one major fact: entertainment. It doesn't have to resemble to REAL LIFE. Everything can happen in real life and we do not want to remember every DETAIL of it.
Let's face it do we enjoy watching a pervert Emperor who's trying to screw his sister? or a dialogue like "What do you want Maximus, a girl? a boy?" I hope most of you people do not reply "yes" to those questions!