NOKW - Gladiator

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Gladiator

Basic Plot:  Maximus and his slave buddies fight to the death in the Coliseum for the enjoyment of others, kind of like football, but with less pads.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that their are numerous historical inaccuracies in this movie, such as Commodus not only not killing his father, Marcus Aurelius, but also ruling Rome for 12 years and not just a few short months, also he was murdered in his bathtub, not in the Coliseum.  The fact that all of the gladiators looked like they worked all day every day despite being locked up in a cage when not fighting.  The fact that Russell Crowe's character was Spanish, yet didn't look remotely Spanish (however, Sean Connery's character in The Highlander was also Spanish, but still talked with a Scottish accent, so that portrayal was way worse).

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that all of Rome finds out that Maximus is not only alive, but a slave being forced to fight as a gladiator and he is not freed immediately.  Hell, people even start calling him general and still do nothing about the fact that he is a slave.  Sure, after a couple more close calls with death and really cool fight scenes later, someone finally gets around to trying to get him away from the city, but shouldn't he have been free as soon as it was known he was enslaved.  He is Rome's top general and still the current leader of their army, so if he was enslaved against his will, you would think he could simply walk out of the Coliseum, get his army, and murder the hell out of pre-crazy Joaquin Phoenix.  You could argue that Commodus was doing everything he could to make sure Maximus didn't go free and was killed during the games, but everyone hated that guy, so why didn't Maximus have more allies?  I am not okay with this.

"Why yes, we are quite entertained, thank you for asking."