Medieval, Roman etc movies

arknor · 28 Jan 2011 at 14:34

StewartMG said:
Kingdom of Heaven is absolutely dire :/

Rome series is really good, watched them over a couple of weeks as the uni library had them

edit: Centurion is also, sadly, absolute pony.

lol what..

do you watch desperate housewifes? the tudors? vampire diaries? jersey shore? are you a woman?

Stewy · 28 Jan 2011 at 15:04

Kingdom of Heaven is painfully bad, Orlando Bloom is dreadful and the history makes my brain bleed.

Centurion doesn't make any sense and just feels completely pointless, cba going in to the plot but I have never seen such a nonsensical film.

edit: Jersey Shore is amazing

Kosmiche · 28 Jan 2011 at 15:32

can it be a tv series?

"Rome"

Heard its good, havent watched it myself.

Pestilence · 28 Jan 2011 at 16:17

Centurion was highly entertaining, and utterly lacking in pretentiousness. Thus, I liked it quite a bit.

Christopher Smith's Black Death is also a recent keeper.

Tummy · 28 Jan 2011 at 16:35

dante6491 said:
Is the Kingdom of Heaven you saw the directors cut? If not then definitely re-buy it and enjoy nearly fifty extra minutes. Turns it from a good movie into a superb one.

This. Looks really good on Blu Ray as well

Castiel · 28 Jan 2011 at 17:01

StewartMG said:
Kingdom of Heaven is painfully bad, Orlando Bloom is dreadful and the history makes my brain bleed.

Centurion doesn't make any sense and just feels completely pointless, cba going in to the plot but I have never seen such a nonsensical film.

edit: Jersey Shore is amazing

The history of KofH is well off the reality, so I wouldn't worry about that.

It is still an excellent film, one I have watched numerous times.

bledd · 28 Jan 2011 at 17:31

Willow

Cosimo · 28 Jan 2011 at 17:46

bledd. said:
Willow

It’s certainly full of magic/monsters and loosely medieval.

Stewy · 28 Jan 2011 at 19:24

Ah Black Death! May watch that tonight, the one with Boromir?

tom91x91 · 28 Jan 2011 at 20:02

has braveheart not been mentioned!?

Got directors cut of kingdom of heaven here, might watch tonight never seen the film before.

Stewy · 29 Jan 2011 at 11:15

So I watched Black Death... another very average film which was disappointing

Mik3 · 29 Jan 2011 at 13:13

Not a film but Rome the TV series is epic, its one of the best series I've seen.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384766/

Lunatic Dreyfus · 29 Jan 2011 at 14:36

Rome wasn't bad, for many reasons

D) but suffers from 'rushed ending because of imminent cancellation' syndrome.

Kingdom of Heaven at least has Eva Green in it, but could have been better. A simple decapitation of Legolas early in the film would've improved things immensely.

I'll throw in Pathfinder. Where Vikings and American Indians, oh sorry, Native Americans have a bit of a fight. Not one for the ages, but there are worse ways of spending your time.

Efour2 said:
Go epic and watch some of the Bible Epics made in the 60s lol better than those modern ones

Ben Hur, Spartacus, Cleopatra

As we're getting sidetracked by some hugely overblown 60's epics, El Cid needs a mention too. I do like that.

Stewy · 29 Jan 2011 at 15:22

Is Pathfinder the one with Eomer in?