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Dan Howard
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Posted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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IIRC In El Cid you'll see how not to use a flail on horseback. Watch the battle scenes in slow motion and you'll see Charlton Heston smack his horse's head more than once
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Jean Thibodeau
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Posted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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Dan Howard wrote: | IIRC In El Cid you'll see how not to use a flail on horseback. Watch the battle scenes in slow motion and you'll see Charlton Heston smack his horse's head more than once |
Very tough horse trained to ignore heavy spiky iron balls hitting it from behind.
Want to bet that the horse accidentally/on purpose stepped on Heston's foot after he got of the said horse ? ( Probably not, but it's sort of fun thinking it might have happened ).
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Patrick Kelly
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Posted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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Dan Howard wrote: | IIRC In El Cid you'll see how not to use a flail on horseback. Watch the battle scenes in slow motion and you'll see Charlton Heston smack his horse's head more than once |
He does the same thing in The War Lord so I guess flail tactics weren't Chucks forte!
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Dan Howard
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Posted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Patrick Kelly wrote: | Dan Howard wrote: | IIRC In El Cid you'll see how not to use a flail on horseback. Watch the battle scenes in slow motion and you'll see Charlton Heston smack his horse's head more than once |
He does the same thing in The War Lord so I guess flail tactics weren't Chucks forte! |
Either that or I'm confusing the two movies I haven't seen either one for decades. I think the horse's head in those scenes was fake, so no danger of a real horse getting hurt.
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Hector Mendoza
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Posted: Sun 18 Oct, 2009 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Speaking of Alatriste, does anyone know what kind of knife does the main character use? I thought it was a rather funny looking knife.
As for my favorites, a lot of these have been mentioned but I will mention them nontheless:
Lord of the Rings, all three.
Kingdom of Heaven
Troy(I don't know if it really falls in this category but I like it a lot.)
El Dorado 1988 (Awesome movie, I recommend it. You see some brutal killing done by the Spanish Conquistadors on themselves.)
13th warrior
The Messenger
Gladiator
Timeline
The First Knight with Sean Connery.
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Dan Howard
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Posted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 4:12 am Post subject: |
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I thought Troy was really well done. But not because of the armour or weapons. They were horrible. Same with 13th Warrior.
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David Etienne
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Posted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 9:18 am Post subject: |
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I would say :
Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
Jeanne d'Arc (Luc Besson, 1999)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980)
Cheers,
David
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Michael Eging
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Posted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Hmmmm... I would say my favorite one's are the following:
Gladiator
The Warlord
Excalibur
El Cid
And I am going to have to watch El Cid again for the horse head flailing scene to see if it is there now!
M. Eging
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Eric Hejdström
Location: Visby, Sweden Joined: 13 Mar 2007
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Posted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 11:10 am Post subject: |
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Hmm. Noone mentioned the 1971 Roman Polanski version of Macbeth? Even if it's basically a russian propagandafilm you have to admire the insane amount of extras in Ilya Muromets (The sword and the dragon). Especially when the mongol hordes arrive... And if you want really "nice" armour you can always take a look at Eisensteins Aleksandr Nevskiy! But for the time it's good battle scenes.
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Ken Speed
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Posted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 11:27 am Post subject: |
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I'm a bit surprised that no one has mentioned The Seven Samurai.
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Jean Thibodeau
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Posted: Mon 19 Oct, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Ken Speed wrote: | I'm a bit surprised that no one has mentioned The Seven Samurai. |
Well technically there was little armour in that movie but it is one of my favorites.
Oh, " The Crusades Cecil B. DeMille, 1935:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026249/
A more obscure film Scipione l'africano (1937 ), some of the best set battles ever: Large Roman formations using historically correct tactics as well as a charge of War Elephants.
Originally in Italian but I remember seeing it translated in French on T.V. a long time ago:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029526/
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3275792128/tt0029526
http://www.allmovie.com/work/scipio-lafricano-124965
Quote from link above:
Quote: | To bring Scipio L'Africano to fruition, director Gallone was afforded the luxury of a 232-day production schedule. According to official files, 32,848 extras, 1,000 horses and 50 elephants (for Hannibal's journey across the Alps) were used in the film. Even so, this heavily propagandistic paean to the glories of the Roman Empire is often shoddily put together, chock full of such anachronisms as telephone wires stretching over the battlefields. The film was not the enormous flop that many people claim, but its lukewarm box-office showing was enough to convince the Italian film industry to concentrate on musicals and "white telephone" comedies for the duration of the Mussolini regime. |
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Ushio Kawana
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 12:33 am Post subject: |
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Hi all ^^
What is the name of this movie?
Thanks ^^
I'm interested in Medieval Arms and Armor.
But... My English is very poor ><;
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Dan Howard
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 4:47 am Post subject: |
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Snow White and the Huntsman
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Raymond Deancona
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 4:50 am Post subject: |
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My favorite is The Warlord with Charlton Heston. Tough to find I think but worth a look.
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Terry Thompson
Location: Suburbs of Wash D.C. Joined: 17 Sep 2010
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 5:20 am Post subject: |
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Any movie with good looking weapons and armor are good.
I really like Mel Gibson's Hamlet for the clothing and armor (Though they are all pretty anachronistic jumbles).
The Seventh Seal (1957) - Max Von Sydow is a knight returning from the crusades to find his homeland ravaged by the plague, intermingled with the game of death personified are the struggles he witnesses of humanity with lust, fear and love. And the ultimate acceptance of the dance of death that all souls must face. The movie is a bit deep and revealing but the subject matter can be over people's heads. The armor in it is minimal but seems to be pretty well centered on the 14th century as is the clothing.
The War Lord (1965) - Charlton Heston as a Norman. You just have to see it for nothing else, just so you can say that you have.
The adventures of Robin Hood - Erol Flynn. Okay. Horrible armour, but my favorite movie of all time.
You really need to see the 7th Seal if you haven't already. The Seventh seal is a Swedish film, with subtitles, but has been available on Youtube for awhile.
-Terry
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Phil D.
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 7:54 am Post subject: |
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The Warlord
Excalibur
El Cid
The Messenger
"A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world." -- Louis Pasteur
"A gentleman should never leave the house without a sharp knife, a good watch, and great hat."
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Tod Glenn
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 8:59 am Post subject: |
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I was surprised that Ironclad didn't make anyone's list.
I am another fan of The Warlord, particular since is was very counter to what was being made in Hollywood at the time. I watch 13th Warrior at least once a year. It's more a heros tale than a fantasy, and it has all the classic elements, is well acted and full of interesting characters.
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Steve Milberger
Location: Colorado Joined: 12 Mar 2010
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 10:19 am Post subject: |
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Tod Glenn wrote: | I was surprised that Ironclad didn't make anyone's list.
I am another fan of The Warlord, particular since is was very counter to what was being made in Hollywood at the time. I watch 13th Warrior at least once a year. It's more a heros tale than a fantasy, and it has all the classic elements, is well acted and full of interesting characters. |
I liked Ironclad.
Not much armor in it, but I also liked Rob Roy with Liam Neeson.
I also liked Black Death with Sean Bean and Season of the Witch with Nicholas Cage.
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Vadim Senicheff
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Posted: Fri 22 Mar, 2013 10:52 am Post subject: |
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I think tis one was not mentioned yet, and I really enjoy this movie:
Il mestiere delle armi (The Profession of Arms (2001)) - I think it's the only one mowie about George Frundsberg and the only one where I saw quite good replica of black sallet and armour of early 1500's.
Also Flesh+Blood (1985) - sometimes good fencing, good costumes indeed, and good plot.
And favorite of all eastern european historical movies With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem (1999)) based on Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel - with crazy massive battles and wery good duels and costumes of the period.
Hope those of you did not watched those movies will do so!
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Sean Flynt
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