It is plausible.
Caesar. Is. Home.

but at the very least it has to be plausible.

It's a movie, it doesn't have to be 100% historical accurate to be entertaining. Get your head out of your ass.
Caesar. Is. Home.

Listen, I am a history buff. I enjoy reading history and I know for a fact that if Gladiator had been real life, all the Emperor had to do is order his guards to kill Maximus or whatever his name is, on his cell at night. Then the word would be out the next day that he died of some disease. Seriously the plot is nonsensical. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it doesn't mean it doesn't have to make sense.

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what has been roundly refuted?

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The whole movie is implausible for the reasons I've already stated.

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All of that crumbles to dust with one of the greatest plotholes and nonsensical plots of all time.

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You played yourself

Stick to chick flicks then.

You're clearly talking straight out of your cornhole.

Something like that..

bullsht, the people knew nothing.

Not in this case. By that time the people knew Commodus and Maximus were enemies. So if Maximus had an accident they would know he was murdered by Commodus.

Bullsht, anyone could be killed in the middle of the night.

Commodus couldn't do that, Maximus was a Roman hero so he had to kill him in public in what would at least
appear
to be a fair fight.
It seems to me that you don't fully understand the finer points of story telling, maybe you should stick to more basic fare.

Ebert also liked The Happening.
Caesar. Is. Home.

The story is linear
Is there meant to be something wrong with that?
Even the action could be a lot better
The action sequences are superb.
It's not very thought provoking
Sooooo thought provoking soooo incredibly thought provoking. In fact while I was watching I was begging them to stop being so thought provoking, because my thoughts literally couldn't take any more provocation.
Don't get me wrong, I still think the movie has its qualities
WOW that's big of you Mr Kubrick, I'm sure you could make a masterpiece if only
I see you gave Scarface and Apocalypse Now only 6/10 each.
You think Don Jon is better than Apocalypse Now and Scarface
I rest my case.

Get off your high horse please. The fact that you think this is the height of cinema is laughable. The story is linear and the characters doesn't have much depth. Even the action could be a lot better, something which this film should EXCELL at. It's not very thought provoking. Don't get me wrong, I still think the movie has its qualities, but you're making it out to be something it's far, far from.

As a film connoisseur,what do you think is the greatest film of all time.

I AM a connoisseur of film, you know sht, otherwise you wouldn't be obsessed over this garbage.

I agree with what you said about Titanic but Gladiator was superb from beginning to end, and of you can't see that then you're definitely not a connoisseur.