Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Great movie, good BD
I agree with many others here that this bad PQ talk is less than accurate. I played (the Netflix) it on my Oppo BDP-83 -> Onkyo 805 -> Sony 52" XBR5 and it looks and sounds better than my DVD copy. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it and have just purchased it from Amazon.So, for all you who like to get into odds&ends; in movies, I replayed The Gladiator, and the movie Zulu soundtrack starts at 00:04:15 (immediately after Crowe says, "Is acceptable, agreed?") and continues on-and-off until 00:06:27. Sounds like the same Zulu soundbite repeated at varying times.Then I replayedZulu (1964]) [Blu-ray]. The part(s) of the Zulu soundtrack used in Gladiator comes from 01:09:45 to 01:10:46 in Zulu. The Zulu are rushing the fort, but only to allow the Chief to count the British rifles. The Zulus smash their spears against their shields and cry, "uSuthu!". Their leader says something like, "BOONG, WATREECE!" and the Zulu rush forward saying something like, "Yah!" or "Yo!", the leader repeats, the Zulu repeat. That's exactly what's on the Gladiator soundtrack....and from Wiki: "The Germanic war chant in the battle scene at the beginning of Ridley Scott's film Gladiator is the Zulu war chant from Zulu. In the video commentary, Scott revealed that Zulu was one of his favourite movies."