Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Yummy
Probably the best thing about this film is that it turn you on yourself. Once you get into the movie and the fight scenes and start rooting for Maximus you realize that we haven't evolved all that much since Roman times. Yeah we don't get to chop each other up in public but we're still all turned on by the same things. And the politics of the Roman empire have an erie resemblance to the politics of the US. With WWF/WCW and professional sports so popular these days you can see how we're not far off. So on one hand the film is entertaining. On the other hand by buying this film you're endorsing the downfall of Rome, which in some twisted way will be a similar to our own fate. History is yummy like that, it has a tendency to repeat itself.