What’s Aged the Best?
Opening dialogue, background arena brutality, Joaquin Phoenix’s improvised outburst and performance, memorable lines, post–Game of Thrones incest jokes, and the sword-and-sandal fights make up the aged-best field.
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- The gladiator combine’s casual background violence is praised as vivid world-building.
- Commodus’s “am I not merciful?” outburst is praised and reported as improvised.
- “It vexes me” is praised.
- Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is called flawless.
- “Tell the men their general lives” is praised and connected to a personal comeback joke.
- Suggestions of incest are jokingly said to have aged better after Game of Thrones.
- The film’s sword-and-sandal fight scenes are called the best one host has seen.