Mentions (6)
"So perhaps these sanitized anti-imperialist historical action dramas were the very thing holding society together, as a sort of benevolent propaganda."
"I love action movies and like survival and combat centric media, especially historical or post-apocalyptic settings. I'm absolutely not a cinephile and I have never claimed to have good taste, but stuff like The Northman, Top Gun, Die Hard, Gladiator, and the first few seasons of TWD are totally up "
"Anyone else get the occasional hankering for big sword and sandal type movies? They don't seem to make them much anymore. Gladiator and Troy were formative for me."
"Mid-2000s movie with manly but empathetic protagonist that has anachronistic modern liberal values to be more relatable to modern audiences."
"stuff like The Northman, Top Gun, Die Hard, Gladiator, and the first few seasons of TWD are totally up my alley"
"Gladiator and Troy were formative for me."