# "Do you like gladiator movies?" Huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2013, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368 "2013-01-16T09:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/81 "2013-01-18T21:54:32Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Also, please remember that it’s a _joke_. The film is a comedy. Don’t take it all so seriously… Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop surfing the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/82 "2013-01-19T00:35:50Z")
Looks like i picked the wrong week to stop doping the Surf. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/83 "2013-01-19T01:35:22Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Surely that one line wouldn’t bump it up two entire ratings from PG to X. Even the tits bouncing around in the panic scene didn’t even bump it up to R. Don’t call me Shirley! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/84 "2013-01-19T04:16:08Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Roger, Over. Wait. What’s your vector, Victor? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/85 "2013-01-19T04:42:11Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I’ve got a copy somewhere around here. A little light reading? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/86 "2013-01-19T06:36:38Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Wait these movies were mostly guys wrestling?:dubious: I think of something like the 82 Conan movie when I hear sword and sandal. I misunderstood your question. Long before Conan there were a slew of movies about Hercules and other heroes of the ancient world called [peplum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_and_Sandal), made in Italy but with American audiences as well as Italian audiences in mind. They cast American actors like Steve Reeves in the lead (Peter Lupus of Mission Impossible, who starred in one, had to change his name because the producers said his real name was “too Italian.” They wanted an AMERICAN lead!) but the productions were typically all Italian. These are the movies Captain Ouever was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/87 "2013-01-19T06:59:54Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Yea I know, but I hear it quoted a lot but no one can ever really articulate what they mean by it, or what it meant in the original movie. I’m leaning toward the Captain is a pedo myself:) I think that the people who quote it, yet, cannot articulate what is meant, haven’t seen the movie. If you’re leaning to the Cap being a pedo, lean a little further. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/88 "2013-01-19T12:51:28Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I misunderstood your question. Long before Conan there were a slew of movies about Hercules and other heroes of the ancient world called [peplum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_and_Sandal), made in Italy but with American audiences as well as Italian audiences in mind. They cast American actors like Steve Reeves in the lead (Peter Lupus of Mission Impossible, who starred in one, had to change his name because the producers said his real name was “too Italian.” They wanted an AMERICAN lead!) but the productions were typically all Italian. > > These are the movies Captain Ouever was talking about. One of them was later turned into the Australian movie _Hercules Returns_, which is hilarious but may not translate well for anyone outside this part of the world. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/89 "2013-01-19T15:26:18Z")
I don’t see Oveur as being pedo, and feel that those that do are reading too much into it - they’re simply jokes. I haven’t seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert. ---
**Author:** ![Kasper1014](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@Kasper1014](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kasper1014)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/90 "2013-01-19T17:14:33Z")
I always chalked it up to the captain being inappropriate. To me, Gladiator movies are violent, blood and guts, etc. And for the captain to be asking a child if he watches Gladiator movies, seen a grown man naked, etc…that. Just being inappropriate. But I also came up with that conclusion being a 12 year old girl then…so take it for what it’s worth. Lol. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/91 "2013-01-19T18:23:47Z")
> **[INT: David Zucker](https://www.joblo.com/interview-david-zucker/)** > > If Hollywood really respected comedy, David Zucker would be mentioned in the same breath as legendary auteurs like Martin Scorsese,... This is too long to post without violating copyright rules, but if you look at the writer’s quote, you’ll see that while the joke was indeed about pedophilia, the intent wasn’t just to make a pedophile joke-it was to have those kinds of comments coming out of the mouth of a squeaky clean person, the pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/92 "2013-01-19T18:26:52Z")
> **[Airplane at 30! The ride of their lives](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/22/airplane-at-30-zucker-abrahams-interview)** > > Is Airplane! the funniest film ever? John Patterson talks to the three nobodies from Milwaukee whose movie sparked a comedy revolution Another one, short enough to quote: > [@](#): > > “Graves took one look at the script,” says David, “and just about threw it in the trash. Well, can you blame him? He’s playing a paedophile and every line he has is horrifying.” Jerry adds: “I know – and the defining line of his very varied career will be, ‘Billy, have you ever seen a grown man naked?’” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368/93 "2013-01-19T18:52:42Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > I’ve always assumed that _Airplane!_, which came out in the early 80’s, was referencing the ugly but then-common meme about regular homosexuals grooming young boys to become future homosexuals. [Boys Beware!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECilAeLLATc) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-gladiator-movies-huh/647368.md?page=4)