Funny realization occured...

[tapanojum]

I hate it when the hero gets captured instead of getting killed strait away.

I hate it when in movies the hero is about to get killed...but for some reason the bad guy talks for 15 minutes and takes another 20 to thrust the sword or pull the trigger...which by this time..the entire town is there to stop him/her.

[Pharnakes]

I hate hiow people always boast, good and bad.

And then it aways goes wrong. WHat do you expect if you take half an hour to tell your enemy your secrets?

Morons. Imbeciles. Guilble idiots.

[J.Alco]

IMO the only film that comes close to representing realistic historic combat is Alexander (not a great film, I know, but the battle scenes are masterpieces).

And I agree, with Narnia, the kid (what was his name?) in charge of the army could have done it SO much better. For god's sake man! You've got rocky terrain behind you and a cliff at your back! You wanna neutralize superior numbers look no further you douchebag!

Sorry, had to get that out of my system.

Now I had been in charge, there woulda been some changes in that army I can tell ya!

[tapanojum]

IMO the only film that comes close to representing realistic historic combat is Alexander (not a great film, I know, but the battle scenes are masterpieces).

And I agree, with Narnia, the kid (what was his name?) in charge of the army could have done it SO much better. For god's sake man! You've got rocky terrain behind you and a cliff at your back! You wanna neutralize superior numbers look no further you douchebag!

Sorry, had to get that out of my system.

Now I had been in charge, there woulda been some changes in that army I can tell ya!

He had Gryphon's carrying freaking boulders and dropping them on the army....pinpoint and mobile siege . Imagine if he fought inside the valley where the enemy is funneled into, and massed together and THEN dropping those boulders..

...stupid lil kid

[Vasiliyi]

Lol, I got the same problem but its not really movies, its more my brother... He's a horrible tactition! Absoliutly horrible.. And he prefers to play rtw bi! Wow, ok here's an example of his "ignorance" he is fighting about 6 units of limitasae, and he has about 15 units of levy spearmen, and the rest extremely good horse archers! (His battle difficulty was on easy) the limitasae routed about 1000 of his troops, before he was able to rout them! Ignorance. Trust me guys, it would have been an extrmely easy battle to win. Any others suffer siblilng stupidity?

[Moosemanmoo]

Any others suffer siblilng stupidity?

More of sibling non interest, my brother couln't care less and my sister plays the sims, which actually I would count as stupidity


seriously guys, whats the point of a non violent computer game

[Hooahguy]

...to satisfly their simple minds......
what other reason is there?

[Tellos Athenaios]

More of sibling non interest, my brother couln't care less and my sister plays the sims, which actually I would count as stupidity


seriously guys, whats the point of a non violent computer game

As with any game: to enjoy. I suppose. My sister plays the Sims as well, and the only urge I feel when I see her is to say: "that's not even close to being realistic". I mean ever noticed those 'models'?

Actually my sister did play EB 0.74. for a while as Baktria... she was always a bit nervous about the battles with the AS, though.

[tapanojum]

More of sibling non interest, my brother couln't care less and my sister plays the sims, which actually I would count as stupidity


seriously guys, whats the point of a non violent computer game

The Sims is a strange game to play..you are living out other peoples lives because your own is too boring or pathetic? I never understood the whole point of living other peoples lives..

[gosam]

I hate hiow people always boast, good and bad.

And then it aways goes wrong. WHat do you expect if you take half an hour to tell your enemy your secrets?

Morons. Imbeciles. Guilble idiots.

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[Spotted Pig]

http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

I second!
A must for every dictator!

What's really annoying is battles where they only fire one or two volleys of arrows before the infantry charge. But I guess they don't want to waste every arrow they have in fear of not having any at all the next battle. But in major battles where it's a win or loose scenario I can't see why they wouldn't use all their arrows, I'd rather use them all in order to crush the enemy and have none (or just a few) for a later, minor battle.

And one ending I hated from the start is the one in 300. Sure, it's the only way for Xerxes to beat them but I mean, the SPORTSMANSHIP! Bah!

[Maeran]

And one ending I hated from the start is the one in 300. Sure, it's the only way for Xerxes to beat them but I mean, the SPORTSMANSHIP! Bah!

Absolutely!

Xerxes should have offered to switch ends so that the Spartans could have a go attacking.

[J.Alco]

Well, as many people here have been complaining (or commenting) about how the Brits are represented in (hollywood) film, I might as well contribute to how the Spanish are represented in historical film in laughable stereotypes most of the time:

Spaniards in hollywood epics have, 90% of the time: Black hair, sharp faces, men have beards, women often have long hair, and in most cases we're blustering, arrogant, war-mongering religious fanatics (just look at Elizabeth: The Golden Age).

One movie, though, that was a refreshing change from that was Goya's Ghosts. Unfortunately, the movie wasn't great.

Don't get me wrong though, I don't really care how we're represented in movies, and in Elizabeth, I actually got a kick out of seeing the most famous Spanish monarch (Phillip II) being turned into a creepy villain
The film sadly neglected to mention that the reason he was invading England was because he'd been married to Bloody Mary I and was, according to himself, asserting his right (i.e that island belonged to my late wife, so now it belongs to me).

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Plus, the movie forgot to mention that Phillip II wasn't spanish at all, but was actually German/Portugese (just look up his lineage on Wikipeida)

[V.T. Marvin]

Yesterday a funny realization occured as we were watching Alexander for the fist time and were discussing the battle scene of Gaugamela:
Me - "Hmmm, nice..."
Kari - "Hmmm, I miss the unit banners..."

And when Alex started his pre-battle speech:
Alex - "Today..."
Me+Kari unisono - "...is a good day to die! But better still..."
(you know the rest... )

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

We are such nerds...

[cmacq]

The film sadly neglected to mention that the reason he was invading England was because he'd been married to Bloody Mary I and was, according to himself, asserting his right (i.e that island belonged to my late wife, so now it belongs to me).

Right...

God breathed, and the enemy was scattered.

[NeoSpartan]

Funny realization occured... my PC broke and my bro's PC can't handle EB

[Reno Melitensis]

One movie that show good tactical sense and realism is the old Spartacus movie staring Kirk Douglas. In the last battle Spartacus deployed his army on top of a hill, while Crasus army marched up hill, every cohort quite visible. The battle begins with the Romans sending their scouts uphill, the Atesigniani, while the rebels throw fired hey balls down hill. Then while the legions go uphill in an ordinary faction the rebels charge downhill ( they had no other choice, they where already domed ), smashing in the legions, and a chaotic hand to hand erupts, qiute a battle the gladiators are taught to win, but in the end superior number on the roman side wins the day.

Braveheart is the worst, both battles are wrong depicted, the Scots infantry is wrongly depicted. Arthur too is wrongly done , but the best one is that of the Sarmation firing his arrow at a target he is not seeing, hiding in a tree and score a perfect hit, but at least the Saxons knew what a shieldwall was.

Cheers

[JeffBag]

One movie that show good tactical sense and realism is the old Spartacus movie staring Kirk Douglas.

That Spartacus movie was incredible indeed; no retarded kungfu nonsense or whatever, the gladiators actually using tactics, and rolling logs down a hill to disrupt the legions, and no stereotypical character portrayal.

Another great movie was The Longest Day, about the D-Day. The German army was well portrayed, the firefights were realistic, ranging from the minor nighttime skirmishes of the US and British airborne and glider units, to the near suicidal ranger attack at Pont du Hoc, and finally to the beach landings and the attacks into the cities and towns near the end of the movie.

Oh, and the portrayal of the Russians in Enemy at the Gates was a little too extreme; true that deserters were shot, but the Red Army was never sent on blatant suicide rushes like that by the time of Stalingrad; Red Army tactics and doctrines was probably the best in Europe had Stalin not purged his army so terribly. Also, the depiction of the neatly uniformed soldiers given sharing one rifle between two, is grossly inaccurate too. The Mosin-Nagant was produced since 1891 and they had huge stocks of it in the armory. They probably had more rifles than uniforms, since the uniform was a much more recent change I believe. Also, the fighting in Stalingrad in the movie was ludicrous, I mean, there are dancing Russians at night? Just like both sides agreed to a ceasefire every night it would seem, and the buildings around them were all so empty. In reality, fighting was round the clock and very confused; buildings everywhere were occupied since being anywhere else was blatant suicide, and it was also not uncommon to have Germans on one floor, and the Russians on another, right in the same building, fighting for days.

[MiniMe]

JeffBag, you're completely wrong.
We, Ruskies are cowardly savage drunken barbarian horde, nothing more. This pretty explains everything, methinks. And if we on occasion have some ammo, we prefer to distribute all of it between NKVD machinegunners and go fight enemy barehanded. That is our wicked logic. That is how we win. Er, well, not exactly. The only reason we win is because of the weather. If we win during the winter, it is because of the harsh winter conditions. If we win during the summer, it is because of the hot summer.
Almost forgot to mention: afterwards if we, Ruskies, are lucky to survive, we go and copulate with bears.

One more thing: all, who oppose us, were tragic heroes, god bless them. Unfortunately, this way or that way, they were unlucky. This, and the weather conditions, and our russian savageness explain it all for me.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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[Moosemanmoo]

JeffBag, you're completely wrong.
We, Ruskies are cowardly savage drunken barbarian horde, nothing more. This pretty explains everything, methinks. And if we on occasion have some ammo, we prefer to distribute all of it between NKVD machinegunners and go fight enemy barehanded. That is our wicked logic. That is how we win. Er, well, not exactly. The only reason we win is because of the weather. If we win during the winter, it is because of the harsh winter conditions. If we win during the summer, it is because of the hot summer.
Almost forgot to mention: afterwards if we, Ruskies, are lucky to survive, we go and copulate with bears.

One more thing: all, who oppose us, were tragic heroes, god bless them. Unfortunately, this way or that way, they were unlucky. This, and the weather conditions, and our russian savageness explain it all for me.

Oh no you didn't!

[Danest]

And here I was, about to say "how come nobody ever criticizes spartacus's inaccuracies?" I thought spartacus was almost nothing but propaganda to try to make the poor (as if spartacus represented the poor) look heroic, while making capitalists look evil. I thought Crassus was a popularis, anyway, but I'm not quite sure. *shrug* And since when did the slaves have access to more flame-based weapons and makeshift onagers than the Romans? Gibson isn't the only propagandist, just the one who gets bashed for it.