Entertainment and Fun, all the way

Rating: Null/10 (25 February 2001)

I avoid looking the movies in a technical way. For me, watching a movie is entertainment, I'm part of the public. There's no such thing as say at the end of the movie - "gosh, that was fun".
Of course, many movies can be fun, and fun can be enough. Romantic Comedy is a perfect example. It's always fun watching some of this movies. But some of them still stays in our memories, forever. What's the difference of Pretty Woman and Notting Hill? Can you tell? Both of them are very entertainment.
When I first watch Gladiator, I felt adrenaline, emotions, I hear messages and got conclusions about a lot of things. Gladiator was very fun, and I got out of the movies with a very good feeling. It's entertainment, I guess. Fun in the most pure form of it.
If I end this comment here, some people would hate me for comparing Pretty Woman with Gladiator. I don't see why I can't do it... Gladiator is fun, so is Pretty Woman. Both of 'em will remain in our memories. But anyone can tell that this two movies are REALLY different. People can say that Gladiator is better, and believe me, they will, some of them will hate me for putting these two movies together in one comment.
I'll repeat: Gladiator is fun. Pretty Woman is fun. Both of 'em made rich too many people, in not too distant proportions, but still people will kill themselves to find a difference.
Gladiator is a an achievement of the movies' industry, with billions of special effects, direction and acting, mixed up in a form that won't disappear soon. Even the script is amazing. Gladiator is filled with the top of movies' resources, and the result is: an epic. But still, Gladiator is as fun as Pretty Woman.
I'll keep saying this until you all understand that Gladiator is entertainment. It's fun to read X-Men Comics, it's fun to eat Doritos, it's so much fun telling jokes and anecdotes, and it's fun to watch Gladiator. This movie is fun, entertaining, oh yeah, it is. VERY fun, VERY entertaining, EVERYBODY will remember of Russel Crowe with sand in his hands before a fight, EVERYBODY will remember the epic General-Slave-Gladiator-Hero line, because it is fun! Think again of Gladiator, and you'll see that you already knew the end about half of the movie. You'll see that Gladiator is a linear story, without any form of surprising and clever message. Gladiator is an epic, because it showed the most important thing of movies - what the public want to see. I won't say that Gladiator is a bad movie, I think of Gladiator as one of the best movies ever, because it brought me fun.
I wouldn't risk myself saying that Gladiator is a piece of art, but I risk myself saying that Gladiator is as fun as Pretty Woman. Gladiator is public, Gladiator is commercial, Gladiator is Hollywood. Ridley Scott & crew turned a linear and very predictable story into an epic, that will get the Best Movie awards.
Why movies like Hamilton, Talented Mr Ripley and Eyes Wide Shut don't get the spotlights, even when they're acclaimed by the critics as "pieces of art"? Because they don't bring what people expect - the pure entertainment. To find fun in movies like Magnolia (one movie that I love most) you have to think, think again, and then cross culture barriers that you WON'T FIND in movies like Gladiator.
Gladiator will bring you fun, and TOO MUCH fun, in a VERY FAST way. You'll get it, without any form of barrier that you'll have to cross. Like a chocolate bar or Doritos will bring you fun.
Gladiator is fun. And fun is more than enough.