i still dont know why she hasnt reacted to the movie 300

I felt so much anger and hatred towards him! it was unbearable at the end, very well acted on his part

LiivReacts Precious Liiv, could you give your adoring fans a PO Box or some such where you’d be comfortable receiving Amazon and other assorted gifts to support your cause?

Commodus is definitely on my top 3 list of hateable movie characters, along with Percy Wetmore from the Green Mile & Count Mondego from The Count of Monte Cristo ('02)

Which means Joaquin Phoenix did his job in a masterful way. I love this movie, and the more times I watch it, the more I realize how incredible he is in this movie.

Calm down there, Cato

amazing performance from him! was he nominated?

@@liivreacts he was ... didn't win. For Best Supporting actor. Crowe won for actor. It took until like ... Game of Thrones to hate a character more ... that's how good he was lol

@@big2033 i was literally comparing him to Joffrey in my head as i was watching!

Give us a PO Box or somewhere you’d be comfortable receiving Amazon and a jersey size (I’m guessing Men’s Jersey size, so S or M, I might imagine.). I’d like, if you don’t mind to send you something.

Agreed awesome film . Your right commodious is evil, but more than you know, in deleted scenes they explain he is paying for all these games with the people's food money. ( poor people on social welfare) about a million people would eventually starve. Probably in less than a year

Shane Nolan That’s historically a bit dubious. The basic policy of emperors to the people was well-established: ‘Panem et Circensis.’ It means ‘Bread and Circuses’ and refers to the formula for keeping the mob quiet. If the people were fed and entertained they’d, historically, go along with anything the emperor wanted to do. We have historical accounts from when the empire’s primary city moved east to Constantinople and the city was withstanding an extended siege that the emperor chose to distract the people by continuing the gladiatorial games. The people were so hungry that they called out to the emperor and crew putting on the games “How much for that meat? We’ll buy that!” over the bodies of slain gladiators. Now, that’s in a time of obvious crisis. No emperor would, especially one so eager to curry the favor of the people, be so stupid as to cut the people’s rations. Emperors would cut funding to roads or public works or, literally, anything else rather than either food or entertainment.

Thumbs up = LIVE . Thumbs down = KILL.

globextradingsystems LLC At best, maybe. We have no more than one or two actual descriptions of gladiator matches specifically. The best account says nothing more than the crowd “indicates their desire and the editor of the games, usually the emperor, then makes the final decision known with a hand gesture,” and that’s all we have. It could have been a finger or thumb to the sky to say “send him to the gods” or a thumb or finger pointed earthward, meaning “keep him here!” We just don’t know. This movie makes a mistake when Maximus fights the group battle just before his identity is revealed. Did you catch it? Maximus’ group wins, his identity is revealed, then Commodus gives him the thumbs up for “live.” What for? Maximus’ group won, no judgement on them is called for. The only judgement required in this situation is the fate of any of the survivors of the losing side. This and virtually every gladiator picture omits an incredibly important character. At every gladiatorial combat an imposing figure in black robes and death mask hovered wielding, most commonly, a long-handled hammer. Virtually every gladiator film has the winning gladiator delivering the coup de grace at the behest of the editor of the games but this isn’t at all accurate. Once the defeated gladiator’s fate was up to the editor, the victorious gladiator’s job was done. The life/death signal wasn’t delivered to the winning gladiator, but to the looming figure that was the embodiment of death itself. If the editor signaled ‘death,’ the defeated’s skull was smashed by the hammer-wielding ‘death’ figure. This prevented a gladiator from appearing to kill his opponent but actually sparing him by delivering only a bloody flesh wound, rather than a true killing stroke. A smashed skull couldn’t be faked.

The Romans had the predictable problem of all empires: no clear, reliable, peaceful means of succession. For long swaths of Roman History, the death of an emperor automatically meant the opening bell of a civil war/war of succession. Over time it weakened the empire. Turning power back over to the Senate, though, bought you nothing. All it’d do was swap the problems of a single corrupt leader with the problems of rule by a group of corrupt leaders. At least with one corrupt leader, you’d gain the possible, occasional advantage of unity of command. One guy in charge, one vision for dealing with problems. Turning power to the Senate doesn’t guarantee ‘better’ actions but it does guarantee endless debates and frequent settling for actions that benefit this or that bloc of Senators that day, month or year with no guarantee the decisions finally decided upon won’t be countermanded and all for naught the next tine the Senate met. What saved Rome and allowed it to survive as long as it did was the professional bureaucrat offices that grew to support the emperors’ orders.

The emperor decides to build a road or aqueduct or go to war, it was the bureaucracy that gathered the money and supplies and men to carry out the task. Emperors came and went but the bureaucracy usually carried on no matter whose face was on the money or name was on the public work completed by their efforts.

That’s not to say the bureaucracy wasn’t prone to corruption, as well. When the Roman Empire moved its power center and headquarters to the east, to Constantinople (Modern day Istanbul) the bureaucracy was predominantly staffed by eunuchs, people who couldn’t leave behind sons to inherit their offices but that still doesn’t prevent sacks of gold changing hands to steer governmental business, contracts, etc to or away from different people as it directly benefited the highest ranking eunuch.

Before the emperors, while Rome was still a Republic (Run by the Senate) the Romans themselves, due to their History, had a pathological fear of a single man taking all the power, yet still recognized the need to have the unity of command I mentioned above. Their solution was a rather clunky scheme where two men were chosen by the Senate each year to occupy the office of Consul. Essentially, co-Presidents or co-PMs with executive powers to build, name governors, wage war and more. The two men, raised from the Senatorial ranks had equal power and, during war, would, literally, alternate days as the commander of the Army in the field. Because you’re such a smarty-pants, precious Liiv, I already hear the question formulating in your super sharp brain: “Hang on a minute, what if the two guys hated each other? What if one of them wanted to fight an enemy and the other thought it better to wait? What if the two Consuls disagreed on an issue or so loathed one another they’d actively work against each other at every turn?”…..

Look at you go, dearest Liiv!!!! Look at the super sharp brain that produced such an insightful question! Well done, ma’am! Yep, that happened a lot. All the way to the point that Consul A would March the army all day toward an enemy only to have the Army retrace their exact steps the next day when Consul B took over. Rinse and repeat. The Senators that assassinated Julius Caesar did so not because of his successes but because, from their point of view, he wasn’t observing even the forms of the long-established Roman norms of sharing power. They stabbed him to death on the floor of the Senate but the norm was then broken for all time and that ushered in series of Emperors that only for brief periods of time considered sharing power with, at most, one or two other emperors with clear geographic borders between them (“These territories are mine, those yours.”) but never with any body of men to include the Senate. The irony is that the logo of the Romans, ‘SPQR,’ though visible everywhere through the reigns of all the emperors was the closest the Senate would ever get to political power. It stands for ‘Senatus Populus Quod Romana,’ the Senate and People Are Rome.’ The logo and sentiment lasted from the beginning to the end but absent any real political power. The emperors had to talk up the Senate, publicly, then go about their rule merrily ignoring them and doing precisely what they liked.

Thanks for the info Duke :)

@@liivreacts no problem

thanks bumble, love you too!!!

so deserved!

music is chefs kiss

Bish you would…lol

Thank you for the feedback Geo, a couple of people have mentioned audio and maybe putting on subtitles to also help! Will make sure to look at this for my next recording

tusen takk aioth! thanks for recommending :)

@@liivreacts bare hyggelig. so happy you loved it

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I moved countries! I am settled and back for good now

She'll probably assume Braveheart is historical because it portrays itself as if its historical, but its based on an Anglophobic Scottish poem written 400 years after the actual events. The truth is both England and Scotland has done terrible things to each other, but we're friends now

thank you for the recommendation

@@liivreacts here's some movies for you to react to The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Enter The Dragon (1973) From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Pulp Fiction (1994) Police Story(1985) Snatch(2000) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) Scream(1996) The Mask Of Zorro (1998) Pan's Labyrinth (2006) No Country For Old Men(2007) Mission Impossible (1996) Fist Of Legend (1994) RoboCop (1987) The Lost Boys (1987) Face/Off(1997) Air Force One (1997) Tremors(1990) Scarface(1983) The Untouchables (1987) Minority Report (2002) Appaloosa (2008) Open Range (2003) The Mask Of Zorro (1998) The Crow(1994) Hellboy (2004) Hellboy 2 The Golden Army (2008) The Quick & The Dead(1995) Quigley Down Under (1990) The Goonies(1985) Coming To America (1988) Ace Ventura Pet Detective (1994) The Lost Boys (1987) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) Sleepy Hollow (1999) Batman(1989) Batman Returns (1992) Sin City (2005) 300(2006) V For Vendetta (2006) Blade(1998) Blade 2(2002) Blade Trinity (2004) Equilibrium (2002) Memento(2000) Candyman(1992) The Howling(1981) Lethal Weapon (1987) Escape From New York (1981) The Thing(1982) Big Trouble In Little China(1986) Oops lol I got a little carried away 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣