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Why GLADDINGTON is the new Barbenheimer: Oppenheimer and Barbie electrified cinema last year. Now, Gladiator II and Paddington 3 are set to make us fall in love with the movies once more...
Where once there was 'Barbenheimer', shorthand for the 2023 films Barbie and Oppenheimer, now there is 'Gladdington'.
Barbie, Greta Gerwig ’s satire about the Mattel fashion doll played by Margot Robbie, with Ryan Gosling as Ken, was the more successful of the pair, comfortably the year’s number one film and a huge global hit. Gladiator II proudly bears Scott’s ‘Excuse me mate, were you there?’ imprint, with one tough guy riding an armoured rhinoceros and killer sharks circling round the flooded Colosseum during the re-creation of a naval battle. Because no matter how convenient it is to watch films at home on those ever-proliferating streaming platforms, nothing can replace the joy of the collective experience: sitting with others in front of a big cinema screen, ideally eating Revels (though I’ll grudgingly accept that some folk have other snacking ideas).
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