Why is this one of the only good historrical movies out there?
Why are historical movies so hard to get right?
Also, what happened to historical movies? We had Roman Empire movies fucking everywhere in Golden Age Hollywood.
>>68750570
Because those times were too good for our degenerate mindsets. We have media that reflects what we want. I'd recommend Barry Lyndon if your asking though
>>68750638
Yeah. I've subscribed to him after hearing he had a review of the movie. Glad he liked it as much as I do.
Is there hope to revitalize historical epics? I can only watch Lawrence of Arabia and Waterloo so many times.
Holy shit Waterloo. That movie is awesome.
Was a huge flop, though. All those cannons, horses and extras don't come cheap.
>>68750570
Fuck I loved Bill & Ted's excellent adventure
>>68750699
I meant Barry Lyndon the film you tool and no I don't think their is any hope unless they go back to the sword and shield fantasy format from the 80's. Nothing new will ever come out of Hollywood so anything is a matter of time
>TFW no epic three-part movie saga about the invasion of normandy
>historical epics
>actually reflecting history
nice joke op
>>68750781
>To recreate the battlefield authentically, the Russians bulldozed away two hills, laid five miles of roads, transplanted 5,000 trees, sowed fields of rye, barley and wildflowers and reconstructed four historic buildings. To create the mud, more than six miles of underground irrigation piping was specially laid. Most of the battle scenes were filmed using five Panavision cameras simultaneously—from ground level, from 100 foot towers, from a helicopter, and from an overhead railway built right across the location.
Motherfucker
>>68750944
Why? No one gives a shit about it after the actual landings
I'd prefer a full French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars series
>>68750570
>ywn drive a Leclerq tank into battle in the name of based Napoleon to win the war and make Europe a better place
feels bad man
>>68750570
Related.
![solomon_hamilton_otu[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/boeCFuO.jpg "solomon_hamilton_otu[1].jpg")
>tfw a broadway rap musical is better at history than actual movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZwEaYHSpc
>tfw no movie about The Great Northern War
>tfw Carolinians will never be on the big screen
>>68751263
FAR BEYOND THEIR NATION'S BORDERS
>>68751235
also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBmTdJ4XTfs
If you haven't seen pic fucking related you're not a man
>>68751327
AHEAD
FACING THE LEAD
AN ARMY OF SWEDES
PREFORMING GOD'S DEEDS
SHOWING NO FEAR
THEIR JUDGEMENT IS NEAR
MAKING THEIR SACRIFICE
>>68751414
>that sing-off scene
fucking christ was that wonderful to watch.
>>68750781
>Soviet Union soaking up all that Dino de Laurentis cash
>>68751422
SEE THE WHITE IN THEIR EYES, THE CAROLEANS ARE MARCHING ON
PUT THEIR LIVES IN GOD'S HANDS FOR THEIR KINGDOM AND FATHERLAND
>>68751172
Damn...
>>68750570
>/tv/ wants more historical movies
>shits all over Fury
>wonders why no more historical movies happen
>>68752118
>/tv/
>shitting over Fury
we're not /pol/
we loved Fury
>tfw you will never kill nazi motherfuckers with your husbando
;_;
Cromwell
Lawrence of Arabia
The Man Who Would Be King
that roughly grouped generation had some good, underrated epics.
>>68752298
(Lawrence of Arabia definitely not calling underrated before somebody shitposts)
>>68752298
Lawrence of Arabia was great but I still cringe when I see the Turks use M1919 .30 cal American machine guns.
>>68752118
Fury, was mediocre. The battle at the end was really fucking stupid where the Germans run at the tank like lemmings off a cliff.
>>68750570
>there will never be a movie about the Eastern Roman Empire
There are so much shit they could adapt, like Belisarius' campaigns, Heraclius defensive war against the Persians turning into a great offensive and even the Fall of Constantinople.
>>68752507
Fall of Constantinople would be GOAT, but the Byzantines would obviously be portrayed as the bad guys.
>>68752293
last part fell apart mate.
>>68752386
>nothing is written
speaking of machine guns The Wild Bunch was on the other night. that's a GOAT movie, and it's sorta historical in terms of setting
really accurate ones are hard to come by
apparently that Mongol movie that came out in China about Genghis Khan was pretty good
Ironclad was fun but dragged on a little
>>68750570
I haven't watched The Stanford Prison Experiment, but I've heard it is almost word-to-word what actually happened, if you don't mind non-military history...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XN2X72jrFk
>>68752507
Honestly Byzantine Empire is just too fucking obscure for American audiences
half of the people wont even know its a historical empire and will think its a fantasy
>>68752532
ugh. yeah.
Now Siege of fucking Malta starring Jeremy Irons as Valette, Tom Hardy as Oliver Starkey, and Ben Kingsley as Dragut. Picture that shit, and if you don't know about that moment in history thank me after you hit the wiki (or if you really commit, read the Ernle Bradford history)
I wrote a part of a screenplay and a screenplay treatment for it but my production company decided to purchase a kids movie treatment off me instead
>>68752669
>half of the people wont even know its a historical empire and will think its a fantasy
>The army had literally religious icons on their banners
No way americans will think it's fantasy. I think it would be eye-opening for them to begin to fathom how little they know about history.
>>68752692
based
>>68752692
>sharpe
>history
>>68752692
Entertaining, but incaccurate, especially compared to Napoleon.
Also, what about some other napoleonic kino?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVC_9V8K5Y
>>68750570
funfact: all the guys in the background are wearing paper smocks printed to roughly look like the pattern of the uniforms. saved them a bundle on costumery.
>>68750699
The fusilier companies never get enough love.
>>68752720
>Implying other countries are any better
yeah no Europeans, in my experience, in general tend to have lesser grasp on general world history than Americans desu
>>68751086
Waterloo is basically a reenactment tho rather than a historical drama
>>68750699
Barry lyndon is a movie you dumb cracker
>>68752768
those horses got fucked up
wonder how many ended up getting put down
russians are fucking insane
>>68752532
Pretty sure that's how they were portrayed in the Turkish 1453 movie.
>>68752785
it only really worked because Army guys in CHEEKI BREEKI UKRAINA were basically paid fucking pennies
>>68752846
>Waterloo is basically a reenactment tho rather than a historical drama
I think you meant Gettysburg, damn that movie is slow, but great to watch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xW0s6XFJyw
>>68752893
shit yeah. i just wish they'd had Duvall instead of Sheen the way they did for Gods and Generals
he felt more like Lee
>>68752815
Americans literally have the conspiracy theorist's version of world history because of the cold war, and I say this as a person who believes that P2 is the most important revelation of the last century.
>>68752931
I don't care
>>68752985
Why did you reply then?
How come nobody ever mentions this movie in this threads? It even portrays muslims in a bad light.
>>68752742
>>68752768
It's real to me damnit!
>>68752890
extras did it for free
>>68751414
A classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csr0dxalpI
>>68752931
Pretty much this. The whole thing with cultural marxism and the persecution complex of the religious right comes from cold war traumas. Not to mention they have zero idea of the extent of the worker's movement in america in the XIX century, or that the real reason Teddy Roosvelt was so beloved was because of the bloodless resolution of a coal strike that menaced to froze half the country. I would pay to watch a movie about that...
>>68752931
>P2 is the most important revelation of the last century
the rachel nichols vehicle?
>>68752815
americans are by and large terribly ignorant when it comes to history and geography
>>68753130
Panama Papers
>>68752931
what is p 2?
>>68753020
I actually liked it, especially liked the complete turn around in relationship the main character had with jews when he was a normal peasant in England (which was dubious at best) and his almost complete acceptance when he pretended to be a jew.
Its a nice critique on sub cultures.
>>68752507
>>68752669
Nah, if you just put in some sort of intro word scroll that's all like
>after the fall of the roman empire, her territories were split in two by the east and the west
>when the western empire fell, all that remained was the east.
>this is the story of the death of the eastern empire; of byzantium
>this is...
>The Fall of Constantinople(title)
>>68753723
I always found it fascinating to think about how the Byzantine Empire lasted nearly 1000 years longer after Rome itself fell. They called themselves the Roman Empire until the day they were defeated; It's only history that records them as Byzantine.
So in many ways, Rome lasted all the way up to only 39 years before the discovery of the Americas.
>>68751203
This.
The problem is the only people who could do it right (the French) don't have the money and don't speak English.
