ITT: Only God-Tier historical movies
historical accuracy BTFO
>based on poem
So horrifically accurate I can't even cry.
>>239645
Nah braveheart is fucking dumb. Their costumes are literally made up
>>239645
Corny plot and historical accuracy be damned, I really liked this movie. God-tier soundtrack too.
>>239662
Samurais were not white
>>239662
It was so fucked-off. The MC was a frog and not murican. Taka is mai waifu and I hold hands with her.
USA USA USA USA USA
>>239645
Kingdom of Heaven Directors Cut is my fav
>>239671
Lalala I can't hear you over the sound of gatling guns and the cherry blossoms going into bloom
>>239645
Hadn't his love interest been dead for a fucking century or so by the time the movie takes place?
>>239685
I'm sure no one did shit to anyone with a hatchet like that man did. What an ogre.
Papillon, about a penal colony in French Guiana, Devil's Island.
>>239662
The worst part is that the rebelling samurai had guns too. But they decided it would more "poetic" for them to go into battle with just swords and shit. That ain't poetic nigga that's stupid.
>>239704
Actually going back and watching it now I am 100% sure this is where they got the tomahawk fighting animations in Assassin's Creed 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-BQi0JjY2w
ITT: Mel Gibson
>>239718
But the rebels where the ones who had guns initially. The Shogun, who was in power before, was being rebelled against by the emperor, who had guns.
>>239645
>>239751
>>239728
Where are the little boys at?
>>239751
Commodus is probably the only person in history who could be shown as a true bad guy, but I still felt like his character was forced.
I don't know why, but I feel like commodus was a tragic hero. He was a lost child...
>>239751
Literally just like it happened in real life
>>239779
What about Caligula? The guy was thoroughly a dick.
Red Cliff
Admiral: Roaring Currents
>>239779
>Personally clubbed amputees and war veterans to death in the arena
>Killed so many animals even the Romans considered it animal cruelty
>Actually charged the city of Rome millions of sesterces to do this, straining the economy
>Pretended he was Hercules
>Tragic hero
The movie underplayed how much of a shit he was. His shenanigans involving economic fuckery and corrupting the praetorian essentially got the ball rolling for the collapse of the empire.
Commodus was the worst thing to happen to Rome.
>>239794
Let me lay out the timeline
>emperor is weak in 1500's
>the samurai war (sengoku) occured, the strongest clan became shogun for 300 years
>the emperor, aka the rebels, start a war against the shogun with their new weapons(firearms)
>they are initially victorious, get much more funding, push on to finish off shogunate before they can get guns themselves
Keep in mind, the people portrayed as rebels in the movie, did use more swords than the imperials (both sides used melee weapons), but before started they were in power, meaning that they where not actually the rebels.
>>239807
>Admiral: Roaring Currents
Pretty bad, it was just a bunch of asspulling and luck, and over the top action sequences. And then the Admirals' lack fucking words that it was all luck.
>Red Cliff
Fucking Kongming.
>>239794
The "Samurai" is meant to be a plural.
No Lawrence?
>>239807
Red Cliff doesn't even follow the Romance, which is only loosely historical in the first place.
Admiral: Roaring Currents is better, but the Korean marines were way better armored and outfitted than they were in real life.
>>239824
The mongols where the worst thing to ever happen by creating overpopulation and many other issues.
DESU there are like 7 reasons rome fell and you could intervene in maybe 2 of them to stop the sack, but the biggest was the mongols creating germanic migrants.
>>239830
Yes I am aware that it is not a remotely historically accurate movie, I was just responding to assertions that the "Last Samurai" indicated Tom Cruise's character.
>>239846
>but the biggest was the mongols creating germanic migrants.
senpai you're only off by about 800-900 years
>>239685
I liked this movie. I think the only reason it got so much shit is because its pro US and it was in vague to hate the US and patriotism
>>239854
>mongols
>huns
Same things, whatever where the ones scaring people around 350-390
>>239846
>Huns drove the Germanics into Roman territory
>the Xiongnu/Huns were ultimately driven out by the Han Chinese
So you're saying that the fall of Rome was a Chinese conspiracy?
>>239883
Rome was weakened by despotism many times, see nero, and the age of three emperors or whatever. Rome had civil wars for breakfast.
Sure it contributed but being a key factor? No.
>>239893
>Commodus gives out vast amount of favours to the praetorian
>Pertinax removes them once he becomes emperor
>Is assassinated by praetorian
>Year of 5 emperors
>Legacy of nobles literally buying the title of emperor
>Meanwhile the sesterce never recovered after Commodus
He definitely got the ball rolling.
>>239931
this ones better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX5Bi-6jqe4
>>239859
>reproduces a Nazi war crime with the British carrying it out against Americans
>cocks up and/or oversimplifies the historical battles
>"We're not slaves, we work the land as free men."
>heavily downplays French support without which the cause was doomed
>whitewashes Marion (as Martin) and vilifies Tarleton (as Tavington)
I liked the movie too, but for historical content it's absolute garbage.
>>239702
No she's like a 3 year old historically.
>>242168
>Scotsman fucks a 3 year old, claims she was old enough
Who said it's historically inaccurate?
>>239762
More like ''historical'' movies
I liked Braveheart and 300 but I knew very well it's all bullfuck (especially since I was interested in ancient greece at the time) movies can't even get modern warfare right let alone ancient and medieval times. Hollywood is for niggers.
>>241252
>>heavily downplays French support without which the cause was doomed
What? One of the major characters is a French guy
Since we're blowing historical accuracy to the skies anyway, I might as well post this beauty.
>>239779
>Commodus is probably the only person in history who could be shown as a true bad guy
You have to be 18 or over to browse this site.
>>239645
It drags history into a bush and brutally rapes it, but the battle scenes are fucking ace, I enjoyed it and I'm a dirty Sassenach.
>>239645
tb.h no movie is a historically accurate and they should only be used to get yourself interested in that particular part in history.
>>242790
who spends the entire movie saying MY GUYS ARE COMING JUST YOU WAIT, and right at the end he's all SEE I TOLD YOU THEY WOULD COME.
he does nothing.
>>242915
>but the battle scenes are fucking ace
>The battle of Stirling Bridge takes place on a completely empty rolling field.
>>243128
Mel Gibson thought the bridge was "in the way" or something like that. A crewmember replied with something along the lines of "The English thought the same thing."
>>243128
Not only is this disrespectful to history but it's disrespectful to the tactical genius of the Scots. I have no idea why the bridge wasn't included in the film.
>>242842
Is that Kagemusha? Looks like it but it's been ages since i've seen it
>>243231
>Scots happen to catch a small unprepared English force at an obviously advantageous position during peace time.
>tactical genius
Scotland won wars through attrition with the overstretched forces of Roman and later Norman England not through tactical genius.
>>239671
you didn't watch the film did you
>no one posts bridge over the river kwai
its like you faggots don't even whistle colonel bogey's march
>>243339
Actually we just married into the Norman families.
The Romans thought Scotland went on FOREVER, so they just walled it off at Falkirk and went back to abusing the southerners.
>>239645
My British history professor hates the shit out of this movie and had a session one time where they screened it and he literally paused it and ripped it apart piece by piece.
That said, quality movie.
>>243373
No actual Scot, even the scummiest junkie from Glesgae, thinks it's a good movie worth celebrating.
Rob Roy was a good one, the swordfighting in it was really well done.
On a similar note, The Duellists is a glorious example of accurate uniforms and fighting techniques for the historical period.
>>242425
>repeating something everyone knows
kek senpai desu baka
>>243259
Ran.
>>240616
Than Gladiator? Nah. Not even close. It was good, but Ridley Scott is never going to make another good historical movie.
Also come on you guys, pic related was great and pretty historically accurate.
>>243999
I think that the point is that is must not be historically accurate
>historical accuracy BTFO
You know, like Gladiator.
>>239751
That is an overrated shitty movie.
>>239671
>he thinks that Tom Cruise's character is the titular 'last samurai'
>not Ken Wanatabe
>laughinggeishas.jpg
>>243999
Trips for Kubrick.
Barry Lyndon is essential viewing.
>>244387
100% agree.
>>243339
Your assessment of the English forces belies the truth. The Scots were outnumbered 2:1 (4:1 in cavalry) and fighting against a far larger and better funded nation. The Scots held the English heavy cavalry in a geographically advantageous position, using the English knights' weaknesses against them. Stirling bridge was obviously a victory down to tactical intelligence.
>>244387
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOZEiHLuVU
>>239807
>Red Cliff
I couldn't even put myself through half an hour of the first part.
>>239645
>>239645
The Great Escape.
Barry Lyndon is my all time favorite movie.
The obviously great part of it is how endlessly beautiful it is, but I also really love how in bringing life to the historical settings it doesn't try to make things feel necessary immediate or accessible, it admits "yea, people in the 18th century were full of understandable human emotion and desires, but they were also fucking weird."
Andrei Rublev is my runner up history movie.
>>244479
Those are my girlfriend's two favorite films. She's all arty and into Shakespeare and Dostoevsky.
She hates Orwell though, because she's a pretentious edgetard. She said that Animal Farm "is not witty just because it has animals. It is the worst allegory to ever gain notoriety."
>>244479
I think I'll never forget the last lines of the movie.
"It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarrelled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now."
>>244499
Orwell is good, but brits overhype him because "muh straightforward working man's prose"
>>244499
Great blog post. Upvoted and subscribed.
This was pretty good depiction of post war suburban life for soldiers returning from europe. Went through a wide range of emotions and scenarios, pretty much most of them get the short end of the stick and have a hard time adjusting, the only bad thing was the ending cause everyone ended up happy which wasn't realistic.
>>244479
>HAS LORD BULLINGDON RECEIVED SATISFACTION?
i fucking love 18th century anglo culture
I find it odd that as a historian historical accuracy does not bother me in films and TV. Yet Scientific inaccuracy bothers me horribly.
I do enjoy fictitious stories with a historical setting.
>>240616
This is one of the most cringeworthy movies I ever saw.
>>243482
Bullshit nigga, The Romans ventured to the tip of Scotland and mapped it out, they didn't build Hadrian's Wall because it was the end of the known world. They built it because they felt that the land beyond that point was not worth annexing into the Empire.
>>244657
never said hadrian's m8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall
>>244657
It wasn't that it wasn't worth annexing, as a matter of fact half the point of Hadrians wall was to control trade with the Picts.
It was more so that they decided the empire was stretched too thin to sustain more forts in Caledonia.
Apocalypto was based.
We need more stories about mesoamerica even if historically innacurate
>>239645
the romans took baths everyday
the scotts didnt even know what soap is
who you think had bigger edvantage
smelly goatfukers or cool and neat romans
>>244721
There should be more precolumbean movies in general. I love seeing sets and costumes based on design sensibilities with no basis in European styles.
>>239645
>>244780
Romans are a meme people. Manlet boy fuckers.
>>244810
Is this some kind of joke poster made to spoof Trainspotting?
>>239645
>>239662
>>239685
>>239751
>>240616
>>243501
"Historical" flicks (but I like em.
>>243999
historical fiction that I like
Anyways I like pic related.
>>244823
Watch it yo
>>242367
What is the sith lord up to these days?
>>244858
What is pic related?
>>244901
andrei rublev
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060107/
>>239662
Jesus Christ, that movie is fucking hilarious.
Waterloo and Master and Commander are both GOAT
>>239831
>>239840
Good movie visually and the ships and uniforms were really accurate and well made, but they showed the Koreans closing up and fighting the Japanese by hand, when actually the Japanese advantage was boarding and hand-to-hand, and the Korean advantage was was archery and cannons, so they avoided letting the Japanese close in at all costs.
>>245532
I still don't understand why Koreans thought it was a good idea to go fight against the Japanese virtually unarmored.
IIRC the archers only had a funky hat.
>>245602
They knew that if the Japanese boarded them, they were pretty much done for, so they didn't bother to weight themselves down with anything that would remove their advantage in firing farther and faster. Their cannons were great and they even had an anti-ship missile of sorts. The Japanese on the other hand had pretty much no naval tactic except GET CLOSE AND KENDO.
>>246085
Yes but also in land battles the Korean archers wore no armor.
Wouldn't armor help them fighting the Japanese in melee or was there another reason the nips were good at that.
Director's cut of course.
>>246115
You overestimate how ready the Korean military was ready for the Japanese invasion. Apart from pirate and jurchen incursions the vast majority of Joseon Korea had been more or less at peace for generations.
>>239645
Braveheart was about as historically accurate as 2+2 = 5
>>246125
So they didn't have any melee training either?
Did Koreans win many land battles or sieges? And what about Chinese involvement.
>>246128
Given that OP said
>historical accuracy BTFO
I'm pretty sure he doesn't give a shit about it being accurate.
>>244419
Kinda like saying James McAvoy is the last king of Scotland
Nice movie and Amin too
>>246141
>So they didn't have any melee training either?
They didn't have much of an Army. At the start the only real military force they had was the Navy (which mainly handled petty piracy) and the border cavalry, which fought the Jurchens. After said border cavalry was annihilated morale was incredibly low. Korean forces generally dreaded melee combat and fled in the face of it, though there are cases of them standing their ground and succeeding.
The main Chinese contribution to the war was bringing Regulars armed with firearms and heavy artillery at a time when the Koreans had no muskets (they had rejected these prior to the war on account of their low rate of fire) and virtually no regular army remaining. The Chinese leadership flittered between gross overconfidence (the first battle of Pyongyang, Byeokjegwan) and overcaution (refusing to push into Seoul after Byeokjegwan), though they could fight effectively as well (Second battle of Pyeongyang). There is a LOT of bias depending on the country's records (the two main sources are Korean minister Ryu Seung Ryong and Chinese minister Song Yingchang), and Chinese intervention is portrayed either as hamfisted and harmful or as generally professional and well-received.
>>246237
What was the deal with Idi Amin? Why did he call himself the king of Scotland?
>>246243
What happened to the cavalry? And how good were Chinese troops compared to Korean and Japanese ones?
>>246264
There were a lot of them, well-organized, and very well equipped with gunpowder weapons. This war is so relatively unknown outside of Korea, but it's really a fascinating conflict, seeing the Ming Dynasty Chinese at their technological peak versus a huge Samurai army of 200,000 from almost every major clan in Japan, applying everything they had learned and developed in the Sengoku period fighting each other to invading a foreign country, as well as the Koreans and their excellent navy being a huge part of it. I dearly wish they made a game about it but everyone in all 3 countries would get too butthurt for it to get realeased.
>>246264
What happened to the cavalry?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chungju
The Korean cavalry were experienced fighting against the Jurchens, but they and their horses had never witnessed gunpowder weapons, and the Korean commander deliberately put his men's backs to the wall to convince them to fight. It didn't work.
>And how good were Chinese troops compared to Korean and Japanese ones?
It's hard to tell. Their performance was mixed against the Japanese, and they were unable to repel the Japanese outright, but they played a major role in halting the Korean retreat, and formed the bulk of the Joseon-Ming alliance's regular forces (the Korean righteous armies and the forces at Jeolla notwithstanding). That said, their performance was often marred by politics (in one battle the Chinese guarding a city straight up fled because their commander was worried a defeat would show up on his record--he was justifiably executed for this), and they often exacted a heavy price on the local korean populace (there was a saying that the Japanese were a coarse sieve and the Chinese were a fine sieve).
>>246341
>and formed the bulk of the Joseon-Ming alliance's regular forces (the Korean righteous armies and the forces at Jeolla notwithstanding).
up to the first ceasefire, I forgot to say, when Hideyoshi and the Ming agreed to negotiations. The main benefit of the Chinese at the time was that they were a professional, trained force trained in dealing with gunpowder troops at a time when the Korean regulars were in tatters and were still spooked by Japanese muskets.
>>246251
Briefly reading about him, the only real answer I'm able to see is that he was just actually fucking crazy.
If he wasn't insane to some degree, I don't see how he could have run his country into the ground that badly without having done some of it on purpose.
>>246374
>Did the Japanese have anything else besides their guns and armor?
This might get a little weeaboo/turnbull, but the fact was that everyone who landed in Busan were trained, disciplined soldiers who lived in a period of constant war. The Japanese had perfected pike and shot, whereas Korea was just relearning how to fight in close quarters. Given the success of Pike and Shot in Europe, you can kind of see why the Korean cavalry performed so poorly. Here again, the value of the Ming expeditionary forces, outnumbered as they were, was that they were trained in similar tactics.
I really don't know about the comparison between Chinese, Japanese and Korean armor in the period in effectiveness, though.
Are there any actual historically accurate films? I want something to appease my autism
>>246449
Master and Commander is one most well-known for its accuracy.
>>246449
Blackadder
>>239662
So is tom cruise the world's first weaboo?
Anyone know where to find the Polish movie "With fire and sword" In english?
>>246530
Is that a serious question?
>>246251
He started life as a full fledged african tribesman, and was wracked by numerous sexual diseases. Imagine if some illiterate nomad from the Steppes became president of Russia.
>>246544
Yes. I am very computer illiterate.
>>246494
Japan's war wasn't lost on land, it was lost at Sea. The Chinese blocked the Japanese advance, the Korean insurgents nipped at the Japanese' heels and the Korean Navy cut off their resupply, and the Japanese simply starved.
>>246551
>Imagine if some illiterate nomad from the Steppes became president of Russia.
That's what they have don't they?
>>246564
But you still managed to reach 4chan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvr6X054xLY
>>246590
Yeah, this place isn't exactly a well kept secret. I came here like 5 years ago
>>246611
And you don't know what a torrent is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyXrGUDR6UQ
>>239734
>>239830
You're missinforming here even when the movie is, in fact, pretty much fantasy. Tom Cruise's and his samurai friend are not fighting in the conflict between shogun and emperor, but in a later rebellion that happened when Meiji had already been established as sole ruler of Japan and the shoguned finished years ago. A glorified redneck uprising. The leader of the uprising was a former member of Meiji's government and was ok with the shogunate being dead and buried, his agenda was more related to the direction taken by the new empire (like his Hollywood counterpart already more or less claims in the movie).
>>246620
>And you don't know what a torrent is?
I'd rather stream it, I don't like downloading things my computer is too shit
>>246243
Must be pretty terrifying to see a samurai charge at you with a katana while you're trying to shoot him with a bow while wearing a pyjama.
>>245222
>nodofapproval.gif
>>239671
The Japanese are honerary Aryan's
It's 2015
get over it
>>239671
There was a britbong samurai. William Adams.
Battle of the Bulge.
Almost single handedly propagated the myth that the Germans feared Patton, when the reality was that most Germans didn't even know his name.
>>239662
Had the most accurate portrayal of a sergeant training foreign troops ever filmed, so there's that.
>RIGHT! You little BASTARDS! IF ya dinnae FORM in LINE, I well pairsonnullee shit-kick e'rry Far Eastern buttock that appears before my EYES! Do Ah make myself CLEAR?!
>>243501
I fuckin LOVE Rob Roy. One of the best sword fights ever filmed, I think.
>>239645
While not necessarily a movie, though it has been made into one, the musical version of The Scarlet Pimpernel is a grand show.
Plus, best crowd song, or BEST crowd song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVo0hJhnK4#t=155
>>239840
>>243116
Did you miss the part where he trained Mel Gibson's miltiia?
>>239658
Weirdest English armor ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVBPGZEVRH0
DIVE DIVE DIVE!
>>247678
This is the correct answer.
>>243437
DOO DOO! DA DA DA DA DEET DEET DOO! DOO DOO! DA DA DA DEET DEET DA!
Last emperor is god-tier, and accurate as well
>>239645
>Historical movie
>Historical accuracy BTFO
>>246473
oh you!
>>246505
Gomenasai, my name is Tom-Sama.
I’m a 40 year old American Otaku (Anime fan for you gaijins). I draw Anime and Manga on my tablet, and spend my days perfecting my art and playing superior Japanese games. (Disgaea, Final Fantasy, Persona series)
I train with my Katana every day, this superior weapon can cut clean through steel because it is folded over a thousand times, and is vastly superior to any other weapon on earth. I earned my sword license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day.
I speak Japanese fluently, both Kanji and the Osaka dialect, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about Japanese history and their bushido code, which I follow 100%
When I get my Japanese visa, I am moving to Tokyo to attend a prestigious High School to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become an animator for Studio Ghibli or a game designer!
I own several kimonos, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to Japan, so I can fit in easier. I bow to my elders and seniors and speak Japanese as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond.
Wish me luck in Japan!
>>248098
What I want to know is how does Tom cruise of all people look cooler in this weeb gear than any real Nip samurai
>>248107
Scientology
As someone with a Master's in history I will literally go full REEEEEEEEEE if anyone doesn't like a movie because it isn't historically accurate
I mean, who gives a shit. If it's not a documentary and it doesn't stretch your suspension if disbelief too hard then who fucking cares
The one exception being Agora, which is just terrible
>>248175
Was he born like that or did something happen to him? I imagine if he did get brain damage later in life it was before exporting all the Indians
>>246338
>I dearly wish they made a game about it but everyone in all 3 countries would get too butthurt for it to get realeased.
America and the west in general isn't going to make one because it's so obscure and probably won't sell well. Japan won't for obvious reasons. You'd think Korea would jump on that but they never make anything that isn't MMO stuffed with microtransactions.
There is the Medieval 2 Total War mod, that said.
If we're talking about accuracy being thrown in the trash this is a good example.
>>239824
You forgot the part where he went batshit after an illness and started renaming everything in the empire after himself.
EVERYTHING.
Not to mention the fucker had 12 names, most of which he had given to himself.
>>248271
>Shogun
Mah nigga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOBCGwMpeo
It's really quite amazing what Russia did to survive the Germans.
>>249187
Okay you are not wrong about what you said but all that shit that happened to vasily never fucking happened oh sure he went to stalingrad and shot a few Krauts but it was nothing special there was no fucking however long day battle with a German sniper ace I mean ya sniper battles happened but when he killed the guy he went to the body and it was just a normal guy in some shit situation probably some stupid name like Einstaz or some bullshit
You what I hate? fucking learning shit and being smart! I can't watch a single fucking movie anymore with going "ahh fuck that! That's wrong!" It's fucking bullshit and I can't enjoy a fucking movie anymore because of my raging autism to want everything to be historically accurate but that'll never fucking happen and all you fuckers know that very well too either way I'm just trying to to be fucking dumb again so I can enjoy something for once in my fucking life
>>239645
Sophie Marceau is a qt
>>242425
300 is a bad movie. It's so bad it's good, but it's still bad.
>>243501
>No actual Scot,
>LITERAL No True Scotsman
I love 4chan
>>244499
>Shakespeare
>Arty
ayy
>>244813
this tbqh
>>249407
I enjoy it because I can point out all the wrong stuff and feel smart.
>>249475
Nero dindu nuffin he just needed a good music program
>>250349
Don't do that. No one likes the guy who does that. People who don't know that shit will just get mad at you for disturbing them when all they wanna do is watch a movie, and people who do know that shit will just get mad at you for the same reason, but also because you're doing it by acting like your smart for knowing basic shit.
>>250375
I only do it in my head unless people express an interest.
>>248335
Thin Red Line is much better.
>>247153
He's dutch you fuckwit.
>>239645
>Braveheart
>historical accuracy.
Please, even the kilts he wore were not of the same time period.
>>250527
How do you autists keep failing to notice the "Historical Accuracy BTFO" implication that he's talking about the best NON historically accurate historical film.
>>239698
>The last nigga on earth starring Tom Hanks
I laughed
>>244499
>She said that Animal Farm "is not witty just because it has animals. It is the worst allegory to ever gain notoriety."
She sound like a retard.
>>239779
>I don't know why, but I feel like commodus was a tragic hero. He was a lost child.
So is every actual real life bad guy. No one actually twirls their mustache.
>>248227
A lot of sexually transmitted diseases can have a debilitating effect on the Brain such as Syphilis but its possible he had a severe disorder.
>>239645
I watched Ironclad a few days ago expecting a nice historical movie about the First Barons War but I just couldn't suspend my disbelief. Pagan Danes in the 13th century and they have Latin names, Prince Louis is actually victorious and becomes king of England.
>>239645
An accurate depiction of Catherine The Great's life.
>>242339
Fucking kek
How accurate is this movie?
[spoiler]Originally I thought it was going to be about Big Mac.[/spoiler]
>>239702
The She-Wolf? No she was only a baby by the time of the war.
>>252497
>tfw she historically invades Scotland
Gods of Egypt (soon)
>>252643
WE
>>252643
I started skeptical, but it actually looks like it might be fun
>>252725
It might fail in the current political climate, but I think it looks good.
>>252765
>fail in the current political climate
I highly doubt that the majority of moviegoers are involved in this. It's easy for me to get tunnel vision when I spend a lot of time online talking with these sort of people so I suspect that it will get about the same amount of people upset as any other average blockbuster
best /his/ movie checking in.
>>253208
>DUDE MADNESS LMAO
That said, it's pretty decent. Literally Heart of Darkness in a Conquistador setting.
>>253224
I was mostly just surprised it hadn't been mentioned yet. It'd be hard to pick my favorite historical film. So many great ones to choose from. [i]Passion of Joan[/i] for one. Or pic related.
>>253127
>Cold Mountain
The 2 minute battle sequence was pretty neat but the rest of the film is straight up trash.
>>253301
Markéta Lazarová is pretty much the best historical film in existence.
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>200 posts
>not one mention of 1776
Shameful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3TGbKfkwGA
>>252665
WUZ
>>239840
I read this whole thread and I'm super impressed by all your knowledge. Just wanted to add that some people believe Joseon troops were actually better armored than they are usually depicted in media. For example, here is a Japanese painting of Chilcheollryang where the Japanese navy destroyed the Korean navy, it was made some time after the war.
tinyurl com/pszdw5x (many pictures)
I havent been able to find a good full size image but the painting is called 朝鮮戰役海戰圖.
Other historical art sources also show most Joseon troops to be armored more often than not from what I've seen.
>>239824
>commodus
>a shit
+1 to you.
>>239689
this
>>239697
A good movie and happens to be largely accurate.
>>247639
I hadn't watched it since I was kid, I re watched it last week and I couldn't stop laughing at the disco ball armor.
and while where on the subject of English armor, I’m absolutely certain the "imperial gallic helmets" that where used in Gladiator where just modified English lobster pot helms.
>>248159
>Agora, which is just terrible
Or dear fucking God, yes.
>>253497
>MOLLASSES ANND RUUUMMMM.
>>253550
KINGS
>>246123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOi3ic3LYHM
This movie is god-tier, and a largely accurate story of how viking society was on Iceland, plus they speak Icelandic which sounds cool.
>>247815
>music by ryuichi sakamoto AND david byrne
nice
>>239671
There were a handful of white samurai, even a black one
>220 replies
>Ctrl+F
>Das Boot
>no result
You all deserve to be shot down.
>>245602
It may have something to do with the fact that Japan had been fighting a lot of ground battles and Korea had been relatively peaceful. Korea simply didn't many thousands upon thousands of sets of armor, at it didn't make sense to give what they had to sailors when they should be doing everything in their power to stay away from the Jap ships.
Also, think of it this way. By not giving Korean sailors armor you strongly motivated them to keep out of range of Japanese ships and therefore prevented Korean sailors from foolishly thinking they could handle boarding parties.
Just some thoughts.
>>245602
Koreans not using armor might be a modern meme first started by low budget Korean tv shows from the 70s and it took off from there. Practically all artwork depicting the Imjin war from the 17th, 18th centuries show Koreans in armor. It's only modern depictions that have them all without armor. In Korea, when the movie came out, many Koreans complained about the ubiquitous use of armor being historically inaccurate but historians claimed that armor usage was actually accurate.
See >>254181
>>239860
Goths or vidigoths. I forget which.
smhtbqh if you can't tell the difference between a Sarmatian and a Kushan
>>248271
>Shogun
Fuckin' A! Book is great too, but JRD funny as fuck in the series
>>239840
>Red Cliff doesn't even follow the Romance, which is only loosely historical in the first place.
Red Cliff is pretty much the first Chinese film to depict armor and equipment in the Han period accurately.
Of course with some liberties and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Liu Bei cant be imagined in Chinese imagination without their specific weapons as per folklore/the Romance.
>>239662
>portraying Saigo "The Based One" Takamori as a 2honorbu4u kek
>American advisers
>making the Satsuma Rebellion uninteresting
>having a yankee doodle become mastah samurai in weeks
Fucking Hollywood.
>>239697
Bretty gud film, very accurate.
>>252486
How is this film? Always looked interesting.
C'mmon, it's a qt film.
>>248281
Is it (completely) translated already? Or there's still chink letters all over the place?
>>259771
>you will never see that qt summarily gunned down by Bolsheviks
>>239724
and Mel Gibson probably saw Daniel Day Lewis doing it in Last of the Mohicans
post battle scenes f.am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPK5KDCGF7g
9 April, it's a Danish movie about the German invasion. Follows a bicycle infantry company.
my favorite movie
>>260533
>shitty version of Avatar
pls go
>>239893
>Rome had civil wars for breakfast.
The civil wars following Antonius are what sent Rome into a military death spiral. The huge drainage of troops meant that next to none of the legions were able to get to full strength even after their recruitment periods. The constant migration of vexillations in order to fight for whatever flavor of the month commander in the hopes of being the next emperor left the legions even further broken up and spread out. The ridiculous war reparations paid by Macrinus to the Parthians left Rome's already strained treasury in the shitter. At this point citizens were tired of fighting stupid wars for people that only lasted in power for months on average. While the edict of Caracalla (just before Macrinus) granted every freed person in the empire full citizenship, which effectively destroyed the auxiliary system, which was used by non-citizens as a path to citizenship. There's a reason why this period was called the crisis of the third century, this was the point of no return for Rome and it never recovered, its armies were depleted, and the individual legions being scattered everywhere is what eventually led to the military reformations of the late empire, which were unfortunately doomed to fail because it never had the manpower to defend the amount of territory it needed.
How about MCCABE & MRS. MILLER. Western fucking classic little niggers. You have no clue how high I am.
>>253208
amazing movie for sure. one of kinski's best performances.
>>239864
No concrete evidence exists that the Xiongnu were the Huns.
>>247815
I'm going to watch this just for the soundtrack
>>260745
Then explain how they were there in Mulan?
>>253208
Fucking Fitzcarraldo was even better. One of my favorite movies of all time. I loved the fact, how the protagonist never quite understood what was going on. There was such a bigger meaning and logic to the movie that non of the characters understood. The just did what they did.
>>259683
Is that Golgo 13?
It was a fun, mindless medieval action film with lots of sword fighting and gallons of blood thrown around. All the authenticity nazis need to get over themselves and enjoy it.
>>261002
Now the sequel on the other hand is just shit. Exactly the same story (get a bunch of dudes together to defend the castle), but with fraction of the budget and none of the charm.
Nice to see a medieval film where it's the Scots who are the evil cross border raiders though.
>>252431
This nigga made it worth a watch.
>>261027
I mean, "Battle for Blood"? That's the best they could do?
>>239763
Here's your own reply
