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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Jun 16, 2019 19:33:57 GMT
Just incase you didn't get enough from Braveheart it's back. It's interesting that they actually used Angus MacFadyen to play Robert The Bruce as he did in the first Braveheart. Time will tell if the movie is any good.
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Post by MOK on Jun 16, 2019 19:45:53 GMT
Well... at least they're not all wearing kilts! It already does one thing better than the first one!
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Post by nordmann on Jun 16, 2019 20:43:35 GMT
Angus MacFadyen has trained/gone on a diet. He looked rather pudgy and slow in Turn. Also the history books have to be rewritten. The produces of the show have apparently found evidence of a British empire 400 years before before there was a British nation. Still no yellow, the main colour of the Scottish kingdom.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Jun 16, 2019 20:57:03 GMT
So I guess Angus MacFadyen is more than just playing the part of Robert The Bruce. It doesn't appear to be a big budget movie like Braveheart was but we've all seen some really bad high budget movies and some real good low budget movies.
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Post by LG Martial Arts on Jun 17, 2019 15:41:04 GMT
LemuelTheLemur’s Printed Armoury guards and pommels available through the LG Martial Arts website/store will be on several of the “hero” swords in this movie. Michael Bergstrom, the main armorer for the movie used several Printed Armoury fittings for the swords. He’s mentioned he’ll be making a tutorial soon for making screen accurate versions of several of the swords.
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Post by Cosmoline on Jun 17, 2019 17:04:03 GMT
Angus MacFadyen has trained/gone on a diet. He looked rather pudgy and slow in Turn. Also the history books have to be rewritten. The produces of the show have apparently found evidence of a British empire 400 years before before there was a British nation. Still no yellow, the main colour of the Scottish kingdom. Yeah the lack of color in the clothing and the over-reliance on draped furs bodes poorly. The armor looks wonky too. Bracers? I will give them leeway when it comes to the apparent use of mini-skirt tunics by the highlander menfolk that left NOTHING to the imagination, but they should bring some bling into the picture. Highlanders and Scots in general loved bright saffron and other colors. They didn't roll around in the mud every morning.
On the plus side, the acting talent is top tier.
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Jun 17, 2019 17:56:02 GMT
Mel Gibson is a human-shaped syphilitic chancre, and this movie aspires to associate itself with the self-indulgent, ahistorical abomination that was Braveheart. Uwe Boll should buy the rights to Braveheart, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Kingdom of Heaven, 300, The Last Samurai, and Alexander, and create a nonsensical Avengers-style team up movie (without even addressing how these assorted characters could all be alive at the same time).
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Post by Cosmoline on Jun 17, 2019 18:50:09 GMT
That's excessive. Anachronistic nonsense is STANDARD for 99% of all Hollywood epics. So there's nothing unusual about Gibson's nonsense. And nonsense aside, there were some really good bits in Braveheart esp. with McGoohan.
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Post by MOK on Jun 17, 2019 19:25:36 GMT
Oh, there's plenty unusual about Gibson's particular nonsense. It goes well above and beyond the plain not caring about history that you really do have to expect from mainstream cinema.
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Post by nordmann on Jun 17, 2019 20:16:21 GMT
Gibson has a blood and gore fetish, he thinks suffering and blood is the only messure heroics and strength.
What could have been a good movie(hacksaw ridge) was ruined with so over the top cartoon violence it became more a brain dead type movie than a serious war drama)
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Post by Cosmoline on Jun 17, 2019 20:48:44 GMT
Oh, there's plenty unusual about Gibson's particular nonsense. It goes well above and beyond the plain not caring about history that you really do have to expect from mainstream cinema. Compare it with, for example, The Thirteenth Warrior--a film many of us love. Gibson's epic at least gets the basic facts correct and doesn't use armor from future time travelers. It just throws in fantasy armor and revamps Wallace's story based on a nationalistic poem. Plus the changes in Braveheart helped make the story's narrative better and less confusing than an accurate version would have been. Instead of a confusing foray into convoluted medieval Scottish politics you get a very well-crafted drama about a fictional hero.
A film striving for accuracy would end up having to present WW as a murdering, ruthless war criminal in many respects. Since he was in many respects. And you'd end up with a much messier account. That would be interesting, but not compelling.
Braveheart is a film many people have decided they need to hate. It's the whipping boy for Hollywood's anachronistic abuses. But if you do a rundown of the elements that make films good, it still scores very high. Top-notch supporting actors, a clearly drawn main character, a very clear conflict and a tragic resolution. McGoohan's Longshanks remains one of the best portrayals of royalty since Peter O'Toole's in "A Lion in Winter"--a film full of inaccuracies as well.
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Post by Curtis_Louis on Jun 17, 2019 20:59:47 GMT
LemuelTheLemur ’s Printed Armoury guards and pommels available through the LG Martial Arts website/store will be on several of the “hero” swords in this movie. Michael Bergstrom, the main armorer for the movie used several Printed Armoury fittings for the swords. He’s mentioned he’ll be making a tutorial soon for making screen accurate versions of several of the swords. Very cool!
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Post by LG Martial Arts on Jun 18, 2019 13:53:00 GMT
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