#Glicked

[nkp1981]

Ready For GLICKED?

[spider-quinn]

Glicked ⚔️🧹✨

Happy Glicked Eve to those who celebrate 🎉 🤩🫧

I decided to create a Glicked (Gladiator and Wicked) moodboard in honor of these two movies releasing this week

Hope y’all enjoy it 💛

Please like/reblog if y’all save or just like it

[domquixotedospobresblog]

We have a new #Barbenheimer. 👀

Will you be watching a double feature of #Gladiator2 and #Wicked on November 22nd? ⚔️🪄

[trendfilmsetter]

WICKED and GLADIATOR 2 ‘Glicked Weekend’ earned a combined $169M domestically at the box office and $205M worldwide

[mediaomnivore]

This weekend, I did the whole Glicked thing. It was so fun to participate in a big pop cultural conversation like this. I didn't really get to do it with Barbenheimer last year because I really didn't want to see Oppenheimer, even though I was extremely excited about Barbie.

Here's what I wrote about each on Letterboxd:

Wicked: Part 1 (5★s): I cannot believe how well they nailed it.

Gladiator II (2★s): I did the whole Glicked weekend thing, and I’m afraid I mis-ordered the two films. I should’ve started with this dark slow burn hero story, and then built to the emotional heights of Wicked: Part 1. Unfortunately, having as much fun as I did at Wicked made the contrasting mild entertainment of Gladiator II very clear. 

So too does it suffer in comparison to the original Gladiator, which I rewatched last week. I had thought that the climactic death of the first one would force the storytellers to create something completely novel and only thematically connected, but it actually ends up feeling totally derivative. And I get that it was an impossible act to follow when it comes to the original’s score, but this score was just giving us absolutely nothing.

[thegeekiary]

This past weekend, we got this year’s version of Barbenheimer with the releases of Wicked and Gladiator 2, transforming the weekend into Glicked. Was Glicked the hit that Barbenheimer was?

READ MORE: GLICKED: Barbenheimer Part 2?

[recursive360]

The Fruit of the Hazelnut Tree

or in other words are you f_cking nuts!

[twosimpossible]

someone be honest. are gladiator and wicked actually any good? i haven't made it to the cinema yet

[lizardsfromspace]

It's Glicked! Everyone is talking about how it is Glicked! This weekend the topic of the conversation of the weekend does is Glicked. Will Glicked the Barbenheimer of our modern times??? Find out, at, the movies

[ryanscottwrites]

Was Glicked, the double bill of GLADIATOR II and WICKED, quite as big as Barbenheimer was? No. Was it still a welcome double bill for the industry at large with valuable lessons? Oh yes. My thoughts for Slash Film.

[gaykarstaagforever]

"Glicked," huh? We're really trying to make this a thing, are we?

Somehow it lacks the elegance of Barbenheimer.

[unfabulous-logo-art-tv-design]

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[parttimereporter]

OK it was a GLICKED weekend.. Can we please stop calling it that now

And besides.. it fell below BARBENHEIMER despite the media and large corporate slick advertising that made the media keep talking about it and comparing it to that..

The movies did fine. WICKED scored big, GLADIATOR stayed strong. But just please for the love of all that's holy can we please end the GLICKED phrase..

[cas-readsandwrites]

GLICKED

I somehow managed to coordinate a group of friends into seeing not one but TWO movies today. Gonna blarf my thoughts on both below the cut if you're interested in some storytelling discourse! All the spoilers, beware beware...

GLADIATOR aka "this feels familiar didn't we just have an election about this or something". I think it was an acceptable seasonal blockbuster, it struck a medium between enticing characters that made me go WAIT STOP SLOW DOWN I want to know more! (this is why fanfic exists) and between a plot that felt heavy enough to roll on it's as own as long as you didn't stop and think about it too much. The twin emperors gave me the ICK so I guess they were effective in that way. Denzel's character was probably my favorite. Obviously I am here for Pedro, but fuckin BRICK WALL PAUL ok that was impressive.

Going into it, my main question was how they were going to put Lucius and Acacius at odds and how that was going to resolve... DID NOT LOVE that both Acacius and Lucilla had to die but it makes sense harking back to what Acacius said about not wanting to sacrifice another generation of young men to feed Rome... he had to sacrifice himself to make way for change for the next generation. I'm unconvinced about Lucius' dedication to the cause, which I don't think was Paul's fault I think it was just the plot and the writing not giving enough time or opportunities for any complexities. My headcanon is that he feels really resigned and for some reason he wants to live and so he is basically forced to step into this, if he didn't want to live I think he would have figured a way to yeet himself off in one of the first fights and die with honor like his fellow commander guy. (listen the Imax was so big and so loud I was so overwhelmed and I don't know what half the characters names are).

I liked it more than I thought I would, I was thinking it was going to be a pointless blood bath but I did like all the conniving ploys that came together. Some of the symbolism felt a little heavy handed but it was effective, like seeing the differences in "government for the people" portrayed in the arena vs in the senate vs the very end with the two armies with Lucius literally uniting them. And the meta perspective of watching Roman citizens watch a war game in the coliseum... oh right, isn't that what we're doing in this movie theater?

Basically, fanfic writers have at it, because I want a novelization of everything. Denzel did a great job but I want MORE, which is where I think some of it fell flat for me like who is not keeping guard on Lucilla and just letting her walk around and visit her son as a prisoner, and how did Acacius get so jaded with war but still build up basically an entire army loyal to only him, and where did Denzel learn all these skills? The PPCU is the first fandom I've been in where the Reader Insert style is overwhelmingly popular, and I feel like I'm always more comfortable diving in to the in-betweens of established characters, and I'm drawn to the backstory and dynamic between Acacius and Lucilla... so stay tuned, perhaps.

~~ 45 minute intermission where we went for a quick lap around the theater, refilled, and back in for Wicked! Let's see how what the overlap in fandoms is here...

Same as Gladiator, honestly, I thought it was FINE. Wicked was not **my** musical, like so many other theater kids growing up, but I do appreciate it and I've seen it a bunch of times. I hope the theater kids are happy with it, I think it did the stage show justice. I'm not sure how they stretched the first act to fill almost the same timeslot as the entire show without really adding to it? I was a little disappointed they didn't pull in more from the book or add more with Nessa or more universe-building knowledge about magic. Ariana Grande surprised me and I thought she did great, Cynthia I had no doubt would be stellar. J Bail ATE. I am excited for P2 with As Long as You're Mine and No Good Deed. Though, that brings me to two final things: this is PG which from a marketing and numbers perspective I understand, but are we going to lose some of the intensity in P2? Also, HOW did my confused questionably queer self in high school and college COMPLETELY MISS the subtext between Glinda and Elphaba, and props to this movie for managing to sneak some of that in despite that PG rating.

Thank you for tuning in, and I am interested to hear what others think! I think the discussion about storytelling universes and our explorations of what our perceived themes, standouts, etc are is so interesting, being mostly surrounded by various creators on this platform. I think it makes for excellent fanfic fuel!

I am surprisingly pretty exhausted after all that - it was definitely a sensory fest and an emotional ride to experience over 6 hours of major media today!

[trendynewsnow]

The Anticipation of Glicked: A Missed Opportunity for Cinema

The Anticipation of Glicked: A Missed Opportunity Glicked never quite came to fruition, did it? At least not in Europe, where both Gladiator II and Wicked are set to release just a week apart. The aspirations to create a cultural phenomenon surrounding the simultaneous (-ish) launches of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator sequel and Jon M. Chu’s The Wizard of Oz prequel were high, hoping to recapture the…

[latestnews-now]

Two epic movies, one unforgettable double feature! Wicked brings the sparkle and Broadway magic, while Gladiator II delivers intense action and drama. Together, they’re creating Glicked—this year’s answer to Barbenheimer! 🍿🎬 Join the buzz and celebrate the biggest cinematic event of the holiday season."