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    cant help it but i REALLY like that "the last legion" one...
    total crap in historical terms but nice movie still
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    Although quite silly, but I also have to admit The last Legion's story has some appeal to me.
    An old legion from the high empire emerges out of thin air in the last days of empire to save Rome from destruction, or even restore her to former glory, what a dream.

    Maybe one day I will try to play a mod set in late empire like IB or IB II, but unfortunately they don't give me a Roman anti-reform to convert those poor soldiers back into the legions of Trajan...

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    Quote Originally Posted by plutoboyz View Post
    don't expect Hollywood to make accurate movie. they just making profit, not historically accurate
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    Quote Originally Posted by Julianus View Post
    Although quite silly, but I also have to admit The last Legion's story has some appeal to me.
    An old legion from the high empire emerges out of thin air in the last days of empire to save Rome from destruction, or even restore her to former glory, what a dream.
    Yeah, it's building on the "Lost Army reappearing" trope. Certainly has a sort of romantic appeal.




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    I don't know if 1066 has been mentioned but its battle sequences stroke me as depicted quite accurately.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wumpus View Post
    My sentiments exactly! Hawooh.
    If they produced historically accurate films for every movie set in the past then everybody would be complaining that they were nothing but six hour snorefests that only about a half dozen anal retentive types would actually enjoy.

    I think the main problem with hollywood though is that they believe the film going public is stupid,which is not the case,or that many studios do not want to put out the money to do historically accurate "niche" movies for little or no return on their investment

    The bottom line is that people go to the theater to be entertained and to escape for a couple hours,not to be given history lessons.

    The best case is when people go to see a movie like Gladiator,or The Patriot,or 300 that the movie actually gets them interested enough in the subject to learn more about it.

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    to be fair if the movies where entirelly historical accurate they would be named documentaries ... altough alot of errors do piss me off like the wrong type of swords being used (there just aren´t enough kontos in the herculean 50´s films)

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    Here is my take on this issue.

    I think trying to define historical accuracy of any period is problematic for several reasons. The biggest reason, and the most applicable one to this debate, is that films are in and of themselves historical sources. Films made today, or yesterday, or 10 years ago, or even 10 years from now all come out of a social, cultural, and historical context. In this regard, the films, whether they depict events in the past, present, or future, are really depicting mentalities and values that people like today.

    There are of course going to be a few that will stand out in various ways, and that do depict things in differing views. Combine with this the challenges in knowing anything, "exactly" from any time period as many historians are limited to a few documents, by a few people, or a few archaeological sites, in a few places. Out of this, one cannot gain "perfect" truth, so as far as I watch films, I see them as interpretations of events through the lens of the present.

    With that perspective all films become historically accurate, but not necessarily to the time period presented.

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    When me and my dad saw Saving Private Ryan he said that the D-Day landing was the most realisic depiction of combat he ever saw and this was coming from someone who saw combat in 1968..or almost a quarter century latter.

    So take from that what you will.

    The most interseting part,at least from my perspective,was after they broke out of the beach and were moving up through a trench and dudes were getting dropped and everyone else was moving past them like nothing happened even if they got shot right in front of them..He said thats what they were trained to do and i thought it was heartless and he said i wouldnd't understand but you don't stop until you take your objective no matter what even if it was your best bud hit in front of you.

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    Yeah, the soldier's is a tough life...
    My great grandpa used to say that the people who think just for a sec die...
    It's all about training and the instinct it develops...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tenebrous View Post
    Kingdom of Heaven is actually quite accurate. The character Balien actually did exist, but was born in Holy Land, but this is likely due to Ridley Scott making a character so sympathetic, he wouldn't get in trouble for a "pro-crusader" movie, which is kind of a touchy subject these days. For the most part, the directors cut it otherwise pretty close to what happened, minus all the Muslim/Christians getting along thing. Reynald of Chatillion was very well portrayed and
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    His death is generally excepted to have happened exactly like that, due to the Muslim tradition that you cannot kill a captive you have offered hospitality


    The only other glaring flaw is King Guy was more of a bumbling goof who wanted everyone to like him, then a villainous jerk. Also
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    Saladin didn't just let the people of Jerusalem leave.


    Oh and
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    Although perhaps the cheesiest part of the film, the real Balien really did knight about 50 men at arms during the siege of Jerusalem, although I'm sure in a slightly less dramatic fashion, although likely for the same reasons



    Ridley Scott seems to at least due his research, and I prefer a researched film maker making my movies to a scholar making movies, which would end up being 7 hours long getting in every little thing that happened, and go way over budget making everything perfectly authentic.

    Did no one else find Gladiator accurate, minus the actual storyline? I mean Commedus really was nuts, and did fight in the arena. Once again you can pick apart things, but for the most part he seems to have done a decent job representing Rome at the time.

    On the other hand, Robin Hood was not only totally historically innacurate, but also innacurate to the Robin Hood story. D-Day naval invasions of Britain, the defense against which is led by some peasant and a woman, and King Richard was just killed? totally innacurate on every end of the spectrum.
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    Saladin didn't just let the people of Jerusalem leave.
    Correct, at first he said he would repay the Crusaders the same way as they'd done in in 1099. Then Balian gave his monologue about how they'd burn the Dome of the Rock to the ground and kill every man, woman and child and all the Saracen captives (5,000 in total). At that point, Saladin discussed with his advisors, and he gave the Christians free passage if every man would pay 10 dinars, every woman 5 and every child (of both sexes) 2 dinars. If they would not pay (and not leave), they'd be sold into slavery. Balian proceeded to ransom all the poor for a total amount of 30,000 dinars, to which Saladin complied.

    It has to be said though, that after the Bishop of Jerusalem had left with all the treasure, and some people were unable to leave the city, Saladin, his brother, and his brother in-law paid for the free passage of those people out of their own treasury.
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    just watched two more eastern and not really EB timeframe movies: "Red Cliff" and "Legend of goemon"

    first was actually quite nice tho it reminded me a lot of the illias with the company of heroes/lords/generals and the camera tracks where ... "exotic" maybe that's just my western opinion. for a layman the armor and equipment looked ok although I doubt the battle really worked the way shown in the movie.

    second one actually beat 300 in anachronisms and well pretty much every other field there is. I was actually only slightly annoyed(chinese uniforms, egytian style pandoras box, untill Nobunaga showed up in a red full plate armor and a double bladed double sided sword, funnily he later stood infront of a gothic window. by then I could ignore the gatling cannons and stromtrooper samurai and ...
    not to mention the extreme jumpyness we often see in japanese media which(combined with the sword cult) surpassed Star wars in every way. I really wonder why they added a guardrail to the "bottomless pit".

    has anyone else seen the two?
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    Red Cliff was pretty ridiculous in a totally awesome way. Doesn't really even follow the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that well either.
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    Kingdom of Heaven was terrible in terms of historical accuracy (Ottoman renaissance armoury, saber wielding Saracens...), as was Gladiator and Robin Hood (Cate Blanchett is wearing a Sallet!)
    @representation of Rome in Gladiator: Too clean and white. HBO's Rome is more accurate, painted temples, mud and graffitti.

    Thing thats sucks about 90% of historical war movies is the unrealistic representation of armour. Yeah they spent a fortune to wear heavy armour that gets piercing by everything like its made of paper...


    My list of accurate Films:
    Flesh+Blood (About Landsknechts)
    Alatriste (Most accurate depiction of warfare, weaponry, armour and clothing of such an early time since Cromwell)
    Cromwell
    Master and Commander (Unbelievable, an expansive hollywood movie thats accurate even in tiny details!)
    Barry Lyndon



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    what exactly do you mean with ridiculous? the story which was really quite far off history at least from what the wiki article states or the equipment? I'm a total noob on Chinese non treasure fleet navy so I don't have a clue about the accuracy of the ships whereas the armor looked at least somewhat plausible(unlike goemon). The tactics did not at all look very accurate but I'm no expert on chinese military.

    mhhh more movies to check, YAY!
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    I think a main problem with modern "Crusade" movies are that they are made for todays audience.

    They fall into the same trap as my high school history teacher did teaching about the colonization of the Americas when she said it was based upon the 3 G's..Gold,Glory and God.

    They use the most current socially acceptable and politically correct "interpration" of history.

    Instead of looking at events in the context of history they look at them from the context of today.

    Just my two cents.

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    Story.
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    Quote Originally Posted by antisocialmunky View Post
    Story.
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    no for me ;)
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    reviewed the thread and i can't believe all the praise for saving private ryan.
    ugh
    i'm not going to start typing up all the inaccuracies with that film, but let me just say that they are GLARING and NUMEROUS. right down from typical hollywood fantasy endings with tiger tanks to the mindnumbingly poor tactical choices (why they couldn't just write a better plot defies me) and the general poor performance of hardened german soldiers.... who knows. good flick though, if pretty dated by now. wtf beach were they supposed to be landing at? ugh, so bothersome.

    but anyway.

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    yeah the stormtrooper effect really makes a move take longer but is silly every time ;)

    on the revived thread:

    just watched "timeline" again and igronring all the obvious historical inaccuracies and stuff but wha reall made me laugh was that when the 100years war specialists(4 americans and one frenchman) get caught by the english they claim to be scots (and the french guy admits he's french duh! ) I mean c'mon!
    I'm not an expert on anglo french relations
    nor the 100year war
    nor the 14th and 15th century

    BUT I know that at all possible occasions the french were allied with the scots or at least sided with them against the English so why on earth did they have to claim that?!?!?! sure claiming you're scottish is rather smart confronted a french army but not when captured by the english.
    why could they not simply say they're Welsh, or even english with their burgundian interpreter as burgundy was allied with england(at least it is in AoK :D )

    a silly movie
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    What do you guys think of Joan of Arc movie? I mean the better one with Leelee Sobieski as Joan and Neil Patrick Harris as dauphin. (I hope I don't mention it second time in this thread)



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    Quote Originally Posted by Andronikos View Post
    What do you guys think of Joan of Arc movie? I mean the better one with Leelee Sobieski as Joan and Neil Patrick Harris as dauphin. (I hope I don't mention it second time in this thread)
    I like it several times better than the other one by Milla Jovovich [where, it seems to me, she was portrayed as a psychologically disturbed person] nor the old one with the Swedish actress what's-her-name. Not one of the three appears historically accurate to me, though. Hawooh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prussian to the Iron View Post
    D-Day naval invasions of Britain, the defense against which is led by some peasant and a woman, and King Richard was just killed? totally innacurate on every end of the spectrum.
    This did occur a few times apart from Roman invasions...the battle of portsmouth harbour circa 500Ad was one of the first post Rome

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    and after this the danes were all over us like a bad rash

    Not saying it is accurate but....

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    Saving Private Ryan was good not because of its historical accuracy, but because of the fact that it showed the war in a more dramatic, gory and realistic way than most Hollywood movies do. To be honest, I don't really care about the film itself nor can I remember its plot. I do, however, remember the Omaha beach landing scene pretty well. This is how I think war should be presented in the movies. I don't know about you, but I hate pretentious and "heroic" films with pathetic battle scenes filled with slow motion effects, Spartan-like endurance of the "good" soldiers and idealised behaviour. Sometimes Hollywood can really kill movie themes with great potential. So much boring and unrealistic crap has been produced about Vietnam that nobody is bothered about this topic anymore.

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    Don't know if this one has been mentioned before, The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross . One of the best documentaries I've seen. Historically accurate AFAIK and some good actors, like the one who plays William of Tyre. Constantinople and Alexios Komnenos however look very Persian, don't know if that is too accurate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skullhead View Post
    Don't know if this one has been mentioned before, The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross . One of the best documentaries I've seen. Historically accurate AFAIK and some good actors, like the one who plays William of Tyre. Constantinople and Alexios Komnenos however look very Persian, don't know if that is too accurate.
    it certainly describes the basic events accurately; the equipment and weapons though, especially for the Muslim armies, is inaccurate IIRC.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trve Leveller View Post
    ....Flesh+Blood (About Landsknechts)...
    Nasty grimy renaissance authenticity.

    Quote Originally Posted by Trve Leveller View Post
    ....Alatriste (Most accurate depiction of warfare, weaponry, armour and clothing of such an early time since Cromwell)...
    Absolutely loved it, stylish stylish movie.

    Quote Originally Posted by Trve Leveller View Post
    ....Master and Commander (Unbelievable, an expansive hollywood movie thats accurate even in tiny details!)...
    Wasn't there a bit of lore-rape? Not too bad as entertainment though.

    Quote Originally Posted by Trve Leveller View Post
    ....Barry Lyndon
    Yeah but the comment about snooefest was apposite, this one took ages. great bit of film making for realism and cinematography and it was even true to the book more or less..which was alos a bit boring.

    I like your taste though, I must have a look at Cromwell.
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