{"title": "Gladiator 2000 is Ridley Scott's turn at mimicking Michael Bay", "timestamp": 1761403561.6001258, "description": "There are quite some differences between the Scott brothers ( Ridley and Tony ) and the Maximus himself [Michael Bay](). You can read [Troler's observations and then my rant in the comments to see why they aren't quite the same](/reviews/man_of_fire_toasts_bad_boys_2). But specifically [Tony Scott]() films sometimes feels almost like Michael Bay movies. Especially early Tony Scott and early Michael Bay, before both of them knew how similar they are and before they started trying to develop each other into opposite directions. Which happened roughly in time with the 21st century. And yet with all this the [Ridley Scott]() epic *Gladiator* which was shot at 20st century and released at 21st, bluntly steals one of the shots Michael Bay is known for.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. 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Michael Bay will end up using this shot in every single one of his movies\r\n\r\nOf course he does, that shot is just so cool. Extreme example was in Bad Boys 2 in the shootout scene, where the camera spun between two rooms. \r\n\r\n> You have to have a background moving real fast, to make the impact\r\n\r\nAs you said it, I noticed it. Woah.\r\n\r\n> You can read [Troler's observations](https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/man_of_fire_toasts_bad_boys_2)\r\n> what Tony Scott will end up doing on [Man on Fire](https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/man_on_fire_2004_is_tony_scott_s_leon:_the_professional).\r\n\r\nIn the same article there are 2 links to different reviews of the same movie.  \r\n\r\n\r\nSomehow after watching an animatic of the Utapau Chase, I ended up Denshi's site, that lead to another site. Where was I? \r\n\r\n> The lead of the movie was the same Bruce Willis. The same Bruce Willis that was in Luc Besson's film The Fifth Element\r\n\r\nHow is Besson in almost every review you write!\r\n", "username": "Troler", "id": 0}]}, "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["Gladiator", "RidleyScott", "film", "review", "movies", "cinemastodon"], "not_ai_proof": "", "tab": "reviews", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/gladiator_2000_is_ridley_scott_s_turn_at_mimicking_michael_bay"}