Spartacus or Gladiator?

"Are you not entertained?!"

My vote goes to "Gladiator"

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Spartacus is good but I think Gladiator is more fun.

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Spartacus is a good movie but I think Gladiator is much better but I am biased as I sometimes find older movie dated despite the script is great. Besides that I absolutely love the music in Gladiator. Really makes me "feel" the movie and not just watch it.

Gladiator is better. The writing, acting, overall visual of the movie. It's better in every way.

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''If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?''

Where's the both films are exceedingly average option?

Yes, I am entertained.

I will say that Laurence Olivier was outstanding in Spartacus. He had some great lines.

"Great, merciful, bloodstained gods! Your pardon. I always address heaven in moments of triumph."

"Sulla? To the infamy of his name! To the utter damnation of his line!"

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spartacus is a very good movie, but gladiator climbs my personal favorites list with each additional viewing. so its gladiator

Spartacus is better, and for me, it's not close.

Gladiator's one of the most overrated films in cinematic history.

But I'd take El Cid over both, which to me is the most underrated epic.

I'm all about Ben-Hur.

I've never been that keen on Spartacus and I don't think I've even seen it all the way through. For sheer enjoyment of a good film I'm going with Gladiator.

Oliver Reed was great in it. There was a documentary about him recently in the UK and they showed the clip of him doing the dialogue about the sound of the crowd in the Colosseum. I like the bit where he says "it rises up like…[he begins to mouth "th" as in thunder]…like…like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself". Quality acting – he's probably an extremely underrated actor to this day. I loved him in the Musketeers films and he might as well have been a Python in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. He was so on the money.

My sibs and I loved it as kids but now, Gladiator.

Tought choice. I loved Spartacus as a kid. Now? Kinda loved Gladiator. Going to maaaaybe have to go with Gladiator. But Jean Simmons.....



She was my favourite part of Spartacus. Sooooo beautiful.... it's hard to vote against her. So I won't vote. It's tied.

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I'm more of a Connie Nielsen man. What was it Ridley Scott said? "She can be my empress anytime" .

I prefer Spatacus to Ben Hur, but Ben Hur is better than Gladiator.

She's hot, sure. But Jean Simmons had an inherent sadness in her face that nobody could out-do. And I never see her mnetioned. I SHOULD put her in the female beauty we appreciate, but I've left that thread for a while.

Yeah I would say so to. Plus it's always funny to see Welshman Hugh Griffith playing an arab.

gladiator of ridley scott is one of the best ancient times movies i ve ever seen if not the best, russel crow and joaquin pheonix are on top of their game here, loved every bit of the film and in the end i bet that everyone had tears in their eyes with ending scene with that sublime hans zimmer score, a classic film

Yes I know what you mean.

Maybe it's that some of her characters can be hard to like? Estella in Great Expectations for example. I've just noticed that she was in Star Trek: The Next Generation actually – quite a villainous character there from memory. The Robe's a good film as well.

You should. I hope we didn't put you off .

It was a very good story to my mind. I would rather they didn't do the proposed sequel.