Gladiator (2000)

“Are you not entertained?”

To coincide with the release of Gladiator 2 this week, we take a trip back to the year 2000 and revisit Ridley Scott’s original swords and sandals classic.

We talk through the history that inspired the movie, ask how accurate it is and get on to the important topic of Oliver Reed’s booze-fueled pugilistic antics with the crew of HMS Cumberland.

Plus Commodus’ 5 back-to-back World Cups, the real fatality rate of the gladiators and the Nobel Prize for Movie Physics goes to another implausible impaling.

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