Classical decor and color schemes:

The palette looks pretty much the same as 1985. Which is to say, tacky.

OK, please don’t take this as racist, but I honestly thought he looked Italian or Catalonian. I’m third generation Portuguese from the Azores and my grandparents, my mom, aunts and uncles are as dark as he is.(I’m super white thanks to my dad) Many Mediterranean peoples are that dark.

I think there was also that cavalier spirit among the wealthy, that they were the bravest and most valorous and most fit to lead. They thought it would lead to glory on top of their wealth and power. I think the Civil War put the lie to that idea. Were any Vanderbilts, Stanfords or Rockefellers great military heroes?

Ha, northerners wish this was true. Hell, just in the Twitter replies posted Gottlieb is from Wisconsin and Molyneux is freaking Canadian.

thank you for this. I chuckle when people lose their minds at other fans talking or farting or sitting during the national anthem, even though that is an exact right represented by the anthem and flag.

When a Venn diagram becomes a circle.

Also....knocked out by Black Adam.

My torts professor in law school was the original Vince Vance. He modeled himself after the professor in Paper Chase and finding old pictures of him on stage did a lot to remove some of our fears.

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son, son
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one, no

(Andrew John Franichevich Jr.).

@Tipop: It's not that you can't have an opinion on something, it's just that your opinion might not be worth anything if you don't have a degree of knowledge.

The color? Always something tacky.

@David L Reinke: Zing!

@Occula: Quite so — good point. The errors he made in depicting the Roman Army were both obvious and deliberate.

@8x10: Remind me to wear a hazmat suit when I visit.

@subterfunk: Not necessarily. The entire visual for 'Gladiator' was based on 19th century Romantic and Realist paintings, especially 'Pollice Verso' by Gerome - which is the painting that Ridley Scott showed the producers in order to explain what the look of the film would be. The entire visual language for…

@Rumtum: Having been around a lot of horses, tracking in horseapple bits would not bother me as much as human leftovers.

@picrad: I would go as far to say it looks like a faaaaaabulous place to walk around.

This is fantastic. Ancient Greece must have been a wonderful place to walk around in.