What is your fav MEDIEVIAL WAR MOVIE ?

**Martok** · 05-23-2006, 00:08

For me, it's probably a toss-up between Braveheart and Henry V. Braveheart really gets my blood pumping and provides a good feeling of immersion, historically inaccurate though it was. On the other hand, I'm a pretty huge Kenneth Brannaugh fan.

**Napoleon Blownapart** · 05-23-2006, 01:53

Erm, Monty Python and the Holy Grail...

Yeah, I haven't seen that many movies. I''ve got to rent Braveheart one of these days...

**sacredband3** · 05-23-2006, 02:14

yea, monty python is funny, braveheart is good, and kingdom of heaven was pretty good.

**El Diablo** · 05-23-2006, 03:01

Excalibur was pretty good. Not a huge amount of fight scenes but still entertaining.

Braveheart was fantastic. Sure it was grossy historically inaccurate, but if you want to wait for Hollywood to let fact get in the way of a good story you would never end up going to the cinema.

For example: List your least accurate Hollywood war flicks....

1. Braveheart
2. The Patriot
3. U561 (or whatever that U boat movie was)

All entertaining - none historically accurate.

I have not seen Alexander but I would wager that is not the best...

**AwesomeArcher** · 05-23-2006, 03:55

Yes, Troy is alright, Braveheart is good, havent seen kindgom of heaven or alexander yet. I may rent Kingdom of Heaven.

P.S. to EL Diablo- The patriot and the u boat movie arent really from the medieval times. Alhougth the patriot is quite good. I like Mel Gibson. He apparently likes to kill the british. Sorry if that was off topic, i think you may have missed the whole medieval war movie that was in all caps for the thread name.

**AwesomeArcher** · 05-23-2006, 03:58

JEEZ, i am really sorry el diablo. I didnt read your post all the way through. I just looked at the movies you listed and assumed that is what your fav movies were. sorry for the mix up and sorry if i offended you.

**El Diablo** · 05-23-2006, 04:10

Ha ha not offended at all. I was just mentioning the lack of historical accuracy in about 99.9% of Hollywood movies. Especially as many here (in the .org) take historical accuracy very very seriously.

I have this image of some of the more serious players doning chainamail armour and sharpening a battle axe before booting up their computer.

Mind you that would be dangerous for me. If the computer crashed - well having an axe so handy could be the end for the computer...