"Caesar, pirates are attacking the grain ships from Egypt!"
"That's not important right now, we need to send out the ships to capture more sharks for the Colosseum!"
The need for revenge unjustified, women in battle is a big no no and should be at home making dem sandwiches, and finally Pedro Pasquel's character crapping on masculinity.
It should be at least better than Napoleon.
Are most of the *ahem* usual (pansy) viewers getting upset at white YT's opinions again?
shareyou're all over the place. not sure which side you're on. anyways,
"women in battle is a big no no and should be at home making dem sandwiches"
why did you phrase it with a sarcastic tone as if this wasnt true? are women somehow warriors today?
They allude to it. Saying women should be kept far away from battle and the men are supposed to do the dirty work. What is a woman to do then but wait at home, do nothing? They'd be making dem sandwiches and patching the hubby up after giving the ravishing smecks he rightly thinks he deserves after a hard fought battle.
shareIf too many women die how do you repopulate? There's a reason women are kept out of battle, JFC.
shareWhat is a "dem" sandwich? Just curious because I'm not familiar with that lunchmeat.
shareWas critical drinker one of them
shareI found the response from YouTube’s White male reviewers profoundly disappointing. Their criticisms barely scratched the surface, and their lukewarm verdict — that the movie was merely mediocre — was a pathetic cop-out.
Where was the outrage over the woke nonsense crammed into this film? Female warriors, Black New Yorkers absurdly cast as Macrinus — roles they have no business playing — these choices aren’t just laughable; they’re insulting. And then there’s the glaring absence of strong, memorable White male leads.
Equity — the insidious 'E' in DEI — is the reason for this erasure. Strong White male characters have been systematically 'de-centered,' forced to share the spotlight with minorities or, worse, overshadowed entirely. In some cases, they’re excluded altogether. The fact that these reviewers failed to call out this blatant pandering with the anger it deserves is disappointing.
I don't what the "white male reviewers" say but yeah, Macrinus wouldn't have been black, but he would've been dark-skinned and North African.
Someone like the guy playing Ravi might've fit better in that particular aspect - but Hollywood isn't a institute of historians doing the most accurate depictions for our education. Denzel Washington has a major pull factor it's not like you could just swap around top tier celebrities like that and get someone else.
I don't know about the "female warrior". It was only one woman, in a land where she and her husband already were foreigners. It's not like she had much of a fate without him.
BOTH protagonists were literally strong white men. Acasius was a disgruntled general not content with men's lives being wasted in conquest. Lucius was a warrior, gladiator, and rebel commander who constantly participated in battles and in the end, led his own legion towards a revolution. The movie also mythologizes Maximus a lot too.