November 15, 2024 • 8 mins
Gladiator II
Years after witnessing the death of Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius must enter the Colosseum after the powerful emperors of Rome conquer his home. With rage in his heart and the future of the empire at stake, he looks to the past to find the strength and honor needed to return the glory of Rome to its people.
My Old Ass
An 18th-birthday mushroom trip brings Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. When the older Elliott starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn't do, she realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what's becoming a transformative summer.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at by.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
A little adventure of a lifetime there Coldplay. Of course.
Coldplay kicked off their tour, their Sphears World tour on
Wednesday in Auckland, mack In the first time they've played
in New Zealand since twenty sixteen. That was eight years ago.
They performed again last night. They've got another show tonight.
These three shows have just been hugely popular at Eden Park.
(00:54):
They're playing to over crowds of over fifty seven thousand
every night. Music reviewer Estale Clifford was there last night.
It was her birthday, so she was celebrating. We're going
to find out whether it was the best birthday ever.
But our entertainment cars at this morning. Chris Schultz was
also there last night, and from the look on your face,
something tells me that you, unlike everybody else I've spoken to,
(01:15):
didn't enjoyed Coldplay.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh look, I don't want to rain on everyone's parade.
There's one hundred and sixty odd thousand people going to
these shows. I just found it a little bit like
a Hallmark greeting card come to life, mixed with like
a kid's TV show.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So I've always said Colplay never do a bad gig.
You know, they're so professional, they're so good at what
they do. They've got the fireworks, they've got the screens.
It's so entertaining. But you, I mean, I know that
you go to a lot of concerts. Did you just
feel it that we're going through the motions?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, this is the two hundred and seventieth show I
think on this tour. So yeah, it did feel a
little like it was just so well rehearsed. You know,
every time Chris Martin swoops his arms out, the armbands
change color and they light up or they go off,
and it just felt very rehearsed. Let's just put it
that way.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
There we go. Let's move on to movies, which is
what you're here to do. Let's have a listen to
Gladiator too.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It is an art choosing gladiators. They're usually prisoners of war.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I own you now.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Rome has taken everything from me, but I will have
my vengeance.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, we've been waiting years for this number, haven't we
Twenty four years? It's back and it's I've got a
bit of a mix. I've got mixed thoughts on it.
You tell me what you thought about Ridley Scott's sent
you back into the world of Gladiator.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Ridley Scott is eighty six years old. He does not
have to be doing this, He doesn't need to be
making movies. This ver scirl, this falon. I mean, this
is a violent, uber violent film, right, Like hands and
heads are lopped off, swords are going in places where
they really shouldn't. I kind of enjoyed it. I liked
how they built up the suspense. You know, it's about
(03:07):
these fights, these these Colisseum battles. They have the political
stuff going on in the background, raising the stakes for
each of these fights. It's very much the first film, right,
It's the first film, completely remade with different actors and
a bit of Russell.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Crow and a new generation backstory.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, Paul wasn't Messkill is great. I think he's not
as like solid as Russell Crowe. He's a little more understated.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I have the gravitass as Russell Crowe for me. Yeah, well, look,
I completely agree with you. I thought it was great
production design. I think the decision, the expensive decision to
actually build the Colisseum and not UCGI worked brilliantly. I
thought it, you know, it looked convincing. I thought that
the action was shot brilliantly. It was, you know, hugely entertaining.
(03:55):
There was sort of plenty of camp craziness. But I
was a bit disappointed at how similar the plot was.
And I wasn't one hundred percent sure about Paul And
what about Denzil Washington and those sleeves. He has this
big costume with these massive sleeves and he cannot stop
playing with them, and I was just like, is he
trying to tell the costume designer that the costume isn't
working for him?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
The costumes were awesome. I love the costume. I thought
Denzel Washington was great. You know, in a trailer he
looked really out of place and everyone was complaining about it.
And I think in the movie he actually steals the show.
I haven't seen him playing a role like that where
he's sort of this manipulative ladder climber, right, He's trying
to get to the top, and he's playing everyone off
against each other. I thought he was perfect, and he
uses his words beautifully. He delivers it a little bit
(04:37):
like like Shakespeare. His life very Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It really has fun with it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You know what, I reckon. Ridley Scott had one scene
in mind when he first set out to make this movie,
and you know what, it's the middle scene. It's a
battle in the Colosseum. They filled it with water. They
bring out these two warships and they fight to the
death and there are sharks in the water. It's so
over the top. I don't know how historically accurate that is.
Did that ever happened? I don't know, but it looks incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, no, no, I don't think we should be looking
for historical accuracy, but you should definitely go and see
it on the big screen. It is worth it. And
let's have her listen to my old ass. I thought
i'd be happier at forty. You are happy. You don't
look happy. I feel like you're having a midlife crisis. Well,
I feel like you're high on mushrooms. So you don't
(05:24):
know too, Elliott, No, not the whole lag.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
May you experience a new level of consciousness to make
Oh my god, are you guys tripping?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I love an edgy coming of age story, and this
one is screening on Prime video and I'll watch anything
with Aubrey Plaza in it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Oh, she's almost like a genre into herself, right, I'm
the last three Aubrey Plaza films I've seen are like
an awkward crime caper, an awkward Indie rom comm and
then like a Jason Statham action movie. But everything sort
of like bends towards her and those I haven't seen
that yet friends get no.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But that's a category all of its all.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I think she's great, She's actually not in this that much.
So this is a film about an eighteen year old
she's leaving her parents Cranberry farm. She's she's leaving her
small town life, and she's going off to university and
then she meets a boy. But in the meantime, she
goes into the woods, she takes mushrooms with her friends,
and her thirty nine year old older self shows up.
And so it's sort of that question of how much
(06:24):
do you want to know about what's coming and would
you change anything along the way. This actually got me
a little bit at It's very emotional. I it caught
me in a bit of a low moment in the day.
And look, I'm not going to confirm or deny whether
it was raining on my face, but it may have been.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
As a parent of a teenager who was about to
leave home and you're trying to sort of you got
this moment where you're trying to sort of impress some
I don't know, just some life knowledge or wisdom on
them before they head off on their own. And they
really just in the car they've sat on the horse
near galloping off.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It kind of did speak to me a little bit.
I love the way they did this. I just thought
this was really quirky and a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Mazy Stella, the lead actor is the camera loves her.
She's going to be a big Stara. I think she's
so good on us, and it's a real good platform
for her just to show off her talent.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I thought, I know that name, and I used to
watch that show Nashville, you know, the Country's Singing. She
was one of the kids. She's like this crazy talented kid,
you know, singer. She's a singer and a songwriter as
well as an actor. And she was one of the
kids in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, okay, there we go.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay, all right, then brilliant two recommendations. They're Gladiator two,
which go to the cinemas and just watch it. It
is great entertainment and my old ass which you will
find on Prime Video. Hey, we were talking about the
rugby before and I meant to mention that, of course,
being the home of sport, the game will be live
here on News Talks. He'd be tomorrow morning at nine
(07:51):
ten a m. The All Blacks will be wearing white,
but Elliott Smith will have that live commentary for you
Sunday session. Won't be with you unfortunately tomorrow, but can't
wait to see how the rugby goes.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to News Talks at b from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at by.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
A little adventure of a lifetime there Coldplay. Of course.
Coldplay kicked off their tour, their Sphears World tour on
Wednesday in Auckland, mack In the first time they've played
in New Zealand since twenty sixteen. That was eight years ago.
They performed again last night. They've got another show tonight.
These three shows have just been hugely popular at Eden Park.
(00:54):
They're playing to over crowds of over fifty seven thousand
every night. Music reviewer Estale Clifford was there last night.
It was her birthday, so she was celebrating. We're going
to find out whether it was the best birthday ever.
But our entertainment cars at this morning. Chris Schultz was
also there last night, and from the look on your face,
something tells me that you, unlike everybody else I've spoken to,
(01:15):
didn't enjoyed Coldplay.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh look, I don't want to rain on everyone's parade.
There's one hundred and sixty odd thousand people going to
these shows. I just found it a little bit like
a Hallmark greeting card come to life, mixed with like
a kid's TV show.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So I've always said Colplay never do a bad gig.
You know, they're so professional, they're so good at what
they do. They've got the fireworks, they've got the screens.
It's so entertaining. But you, I mean, I know that
you go to a lot of concerts. Did you just
feel it that we're going through the motions?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, this is the two hundred and seventieth show I
think on this tour. So yeah, it did feel a
little like it was just so well rehearsed. You know,
every time Chris Martin swoops his arms out, the armbands
change color and they light up or they go off,
and it just felt very rehearsed. Let's just put it
that way.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
There we go. Let's move on to movies, which is
what you're here to do. Let's have a listen to
Gladiator too.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It is an art choosing gladiators. They're usually prisoners of war.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I own you now.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Rome has taken everything from me, but I will have
my vengeance.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, we've been waiting years for this number, haven't we
Twenty four years? It's back and it's I've got a
bit of a mix. I've got mixed thoughts on it.
You tell me what you thought about Ridley Scott's sent
you back into the world of Gladiator.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Ridley Scott is eighty six years old. He does not
have to be doing this, He doesn't need to be
making movies. This ver scirl, this falon. I mean, this
is a violent, uber violent film, right, Like hands and
heads are lopped off, swords are going in places where
they really shouldn't. I kind of enjoyed it. I liked
how they built up the suspense. You know, it's about
(03:07):
these fights, these these Colisseum battles. They have the political
stuff going on in the background, raising the stakes for
each of these fights. It's very much the first film, right,
It's the first film, completely remade with different actors and
a bit of Russell.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Crow and a new generation backstory.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, Paul wasn't Messkill is great. I think he's not
as like solid as Russell Crowe. He's a little more understated.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I have the gravitass as Russell Crowe for me. Yeah, well, look,
I completely agree with you. I thought it was great
production design. I think the decision, the expensive decision to
actually build the Colisseum and not UCGI worked brilliantly. I
thought it, you know, it looked convincing. I thought that
the action was shot brilliantly. It was, you know, hugely entertaining.
(03:55):
There was sort of plenty of camp craziness. But I
was a bit disappointed at how similar the plot was.
And I wasn't one hundred percent sure about Paul And
what about Denzil Washington and those sleeves. He has this
big costume with these massive sleeves and he cannot stop
playing with them, and I was just like, is he
trying to tell the costume designer that the costume isn't
working for him?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
The costumes were awesome. I love the costume. I thought
Denzel Washington was great. You know, in a trailer he
looked really out of place and everyone was complaining about it.
And I think in the movie he actually steals the show.
I haven't seen him playing a role like that where
he's sort of this manipulative ladder climber, right, He's trying
to get to the top, and he's playing everyone off
against each other. I thought he was perfect, and he
uses his words beautifully. He delivers it a little bit
(04:37):
like like Shakespeare. His life very Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It really has fun with it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You know what, I reckon. Ridley Scott had one scene
in mind when he first set out to make this movie,
and you know what, it's the middle scene. It's a
battle in the Colosseum. They filled it with water. They
bring out these two warships and they fight to the
death and there are sharks in the water. It's so
over the top. I don't know how historically accurate that is.
Did that ever happened? I don't know, but it looks incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, no, no, I don't think we should be looking
for historical accuracy, but you should definitely go and see
it on the big screen. It is worth it. And
let's have her listen to my old ass. I thought
i'd be happier at forty. You are happy. You don't
look happy. I feel like you're having a midlife crisis. Well,
I feel like you're high on mushrooms. So you don't
(05:24):
know too, Elliott, No, not the whole lag.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
May you experience a new level of consciousness to make
Oh my god, are you guys tripping?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I love an edgy coming of age story, and this
one is screening on Prime video and I'll watch anything
with Aubrey Plaza in it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Oh, she's almost like a genre into herself, right, I'm
the last three Aubrey Plaza films I've seen are like
an awkward crime caper, an awkward Indie rom comm and
then like a Jason Statham action movie. But everything sort
of like bends towards her and those I haven't seen
that yet friends get no.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But that's a category all of its all.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I think she's great, She's actually not in this that much.
So this is a film about an eighteen year old
she's leaving her parents Cranberry farm. She's she's leaving her
small town life, and she's going off to university and
then she meets a boy. But in the meantime, she
goes into the woods, she takes mushrooms with her friends,
and her thirty nine year old older self shows up.
And so it's sort of that question of how much
(06:24):
do you want to know about what's coming and would
you change anything along the way. This actually got me
a little bit at It's very emotional. I it caught
me in a bit of a low moment in the day.
And look, I'm not going to confirm or deny whether
it was raining on my face, but it may have been.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
As a parent of a teenager who was about to
leave home and you're trying to sort of you got
this moment where you're trying to sort of impress some
I don't know, just some life knowledge or wisdom on
them before they head off on their own. And they
really just in the car they've sat on the horse
near galloping off.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It kind of did speak to me a little bit.
I love the way they did this. I just thought
this was really quirky and a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Mazy Stella, the lead actor is the camera loves her.
She's going to be a big Stara. I think she's
so good on us, and it's a real good platform
for her just to show off her talent.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I thought, I know that name, and I used to
watch that show Nashville, you know, the Country's Singing. She
was one of the kids. She's like this crazy talented kid,
you know, singer. She's a singer and a songwriter as
well as an actor. And she was one of the
kids in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, okay, there we go.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay, all right, then brilliant two recommendations. They're Gladiator two,
which go to the cinemas and just watch it. It
is great entertainment and my old ass which you will
find on Prime Video. Hey, we were talking about the
rugby before and I meant to mention that, of course,
being the home of sport, the game will be live
here on News Talks. He'd be tomorrow morning at nine
(07:51):
ten a m. The All Blacks will be wearing white,
but Elliott Smith will have that live commentary for you
Sunday session. Won't be with you unfortunately tomorrow, but can't
wait to see how the rugby goes.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to News Talks at b from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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