10 Upcoming Movies That Will Either Be AWESOME Or TERRIBLE

10. Gladiator II

Eyebrows were understandably raised when a sequel to Gladiator was first announced. 

After all, the Best Picture-winning 2000 original didn't exactly leave much runway for a follow-up, and coming almost an entire quarter-century after the fact, it was easy to immediately scoff at Gladiator II as yet another IP-driven cash-in.

But it wasn't quite so easy to dismiss the involvement of returning director Ridley Scott, nor the stupendously stacked cast including Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, a returning Connie Nielsen, and many more.

The jury's basically still out after the first trailer, which certainly sold the lavish, mega-budget spectacle of the affair, though paid little attention to plot or character.

Given that Scott is a filmmaker whose quality is all over the map and almost always determined by the robustness of the scripts he's working from, this one will go either way. 

It could be an Oscar-winning mega-hit worthy of the original, or an absolute clunker that evaporates from the collective consciousness within a few months of its release.