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Originally Posted by Zizu

Gladiator was a 9.9 movie .. if only there was a happier ending option ..


Seriously so many movies would benefit from an alternative ending on the dvd just enabling the viewer to choose the ending .. it would probably cost a few thousand quid to film another scene or two ..

Gladiator, for example, is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen but I’ve only watched it once as it was such a sad ending ..


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It wasn't a sad ending, his only reason for living was to avenge his family (which he did) and then he got to go off to the afterlife and be with them again (he walks off across the sunny grass fields, where they're waiting for him).

"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead."

The above is from the opening scene and obvious foreshadowing.