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Re: More Thoughts on the Oscar Nominations
Posted By: Dave, on host 208.164.234.234
Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 13:08:15
In Reply To: Re: More Thoughts on the Oscar Nominations posted by Sam on Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 12:47:18:

> Gladiator had absolutely terrible special
>effects. The colliseum was bad, but the tigers
>were what I thought of to pick on.

I heard this beef with the movie a lot when it was out, and never really understood it. Some of the long shots of Rome were clearly bad special effects, but I can't for the life of me understand what was so bad about the Colliseum scenes. I saw the movie twice, and neither time did they strike me as especially bad. Sometimes they clearly looked like SFX, but never like *bad* SFX.

>Unlike Gladiator, which I pretty much hated in
>all aspects.

Gladiator was a 90 minute movie in the body of a 3 hour epic. I think it was good enough to justify 90 minutes of fighting and angst. 3 hours of fighting and angst are what made it so bad.

-- Dave

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