Funny realization occured...

[Good Ship Chuckle]

You sire are a madman!

I'm not mad! It's the rest of the world that's mad. I'm the only normal one.

[The Wandering Scholar]

Narnia Narnia Narnia, what were they thinking when making them battle scenes??

[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).

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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... )

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We are such nerds...

[Mouzafphaerre]

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...

.

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[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.

[Moosemanmoo]

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... )

This reminds me of a period in my Mak campaigns where I suddenly thought

How bored must these veterans be after hearing 3 generations of Argeades saying the same thing?

[machinor]

I remember when I was watching The Two Towers for the first time, I was just telling my mate: "Jeez, whoever designed that castle at Helm's Deep should be crucified for it." I mean, this thing's supposed to be unconquerable, yet it has a quite massive stone bridge up to the main gate and a simple wooden door is all that is supposed to keep enemies out. Come oooooon! Ever heard of things like drawbridges or portcullis?! Those are basic acessories to any medieval castle.

Btw, regarding representation of Renaissance age Spain I recommend the movie "Alatriste" with Viggo Mortensen. The plot is a bit hard to follow sometimes but I find the depiction quite good and there are some cool swordfights and battles. Especially the last battle against the French (the first time I ever saw a quite accurate depiction of Spanish Tercio Infantry in a movie).


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This reminds me of a period in my Mak campaigns where I suddenly thought

How bored must these veterans be after hearing 3 generations of Argeades saying the same thing?

LOL!

[delablake]

keep in mind that he DOES toss a guy out of a window for being overly flattering. Oh, and being gay too)[/QUOTE]

he throws him out because this homo (the King's son's lover) dared addressing the King without being asked for his opinion.

A great war movie I liked was Saving Private Ryan. The battle scenes in that devastated French village were quite cool and accurate. And BLOODY. Another extremely gruesome movie is the Russian "Come and See", about SS-Einsatzgruppen in Belarus fighting against the local guerrilla, i.e. burning peasants in their churches. Stalingrad was quite cool too, and I really liked Enemy at the gates.

Excellent war movies: Gods and Generals, Gettysburg, and Glory, all covering the American Civil War, though the musical score in all three movies makes me wanna puke.

Alexander and Hannibal were nice, Gladiator and Troy were crap.

Then there are all these 60ies movies in which the poor old Brits won WWII over and over again, against dumb Nazis.

Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima are good.

Nice: Zulu and Zulu Dawn, if you like semi-realistic movies about the Limeys kicking some poor African fellas/ the Limeys getting kicked by some poor African fellas.