Braveheart

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: alexjohnson16
What are good movies then?

From a previous post:

Magnolia
goodfellas
full metal jacket
there will be blood
2001

You know they can win every year...how about focusing on Braveheart's year?


You one of those guys that think to themselves you'd have beaten the whole opposing army or gotten up at the quartering and kicked everyone's ass with those 3 years of Fred Villari lessons your mom signed you up for?

 

[Whisper]

While I enjoyed both Gladiator and Braveheart, the latter definitely had more more emotionally-invested. Gladiator was good, don't get me wrong, but for whatever reason, it just wasn't as engrossing. Still an excellent movie nonetheless.

As for Goodfellas...eh, it was entertaining as well, but not better than Braveheart.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Locut0s
I just finished watching it for the first time. Yes I know I fail for waiting 14 years to see it. I remember at the time looking at the trailers and reading a bit about the movie and wondering what the heck all the fuss was about. Now that I've seen it I can only say WHAT THE FUCK WAS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT!?!?! How the hell does a movie like that walk away with 5 Oscars!? Let alone best director and best picture? I mean it was okay in places, I suppose as a period piece it replicates the feel of the time well enough, the scenery was beautiful and you can tell a lot of $$$ went into it but that's about where my praise ends and even that's stretching things.

Double up on your psycho meds did ya?

I've seen Braveheart several times. Very well made, for the most part, well scripted and well acted. Is it "The best movie of all time?" No, but it's enjoyable to watch some of Scotland's history being re-enacted and wondering where the hell my ancestors were during this...and what part they may have played.

The history in that movie is atrociously inaccurate.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I just don't understand some people and apparently you two are 'some people'.

indeed. The director's cut however is the must see version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7C8avvdzR4

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Braveheart is one of my all time favorites. It's a great story of courage and honor. The acting is superb, Patrick McGoohan (Longshanks), Angus Macfadyen (Robert the Bruce), both gave powerful performances one as an evil man and one who is saved from losing his humanity (from becoming evil) by meeting William Wallace. I love the scene where he and Wallace are arguing and Wallace offers him his hand to unite the clans and fight against the English.

And let us not forget the direction, the cinematography. Braveheart is glorious, beautiful to look at. The slow motion pictures of horses preparing to charge armed combatants, the entire landscape of Scotland that Mel Gibson captures with the camera. The soundtrack is also fantastic. Yes there is violence in this film but that violence does serve a point...that freedom isn't free and sometimes it takes death, gruesome and horrible, to let ones people taste what it is like to be free.

Also, to anyone who hasn't seen Goodfellas. Watch it, you won't be disappointed. It is one of the all time great gangster flicks.

i agree with what you said.

it's funny, i've watched braveheart well over 10 times, and when I got the bluray I picked up on something i never EVER noticed, and I'm kind of embarassed to mention it heh.

the scene they are in the woods right before they meet the irishman, they are discussing their battle plan, then wallace looks up. it then has this cool, almost fish eye view, of the trees rising up high into the air, and at that point he talks about making wooden spears, and that he got the idea from looking up at the trees.

dunno how i never caught that ever heh.

such an awesome movie, definitely one of my favs.

Now that you mention it I noticed the exact same thing! Maybe it's just the larger tvs we have now. I saw it in the theater and don't remember noticing it then but who knows...

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: JDub02
FRREEEEEEEEEEEDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!

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[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Locut0s
I just finished watching it for the first time. Yes I know I fail for waiting 14 years to see it. I remember at the time looking at the trailers and reading a bit about the movie and wondering what the heck all the fuss was about. Now that I've seen it I can only say WHAT THE FUCK WAS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT!?!?! How the hell does a movie like that walk away with 5 Oscars!? Let alone best director and best picture? I mean it was okay in places, I suppose as a period piece it replicates the feel of the time well enough, the scenery was beautiful and you can tell a lot of $$$ went into it but that's about where my praise ends and even that's stretching things.

Double up on your psycho meds did ya?

I've seen Braveheart several times. Very well made, for the most part, well scripted and well acted. Is it "The best movie of all time?" No, but it's enjoyable to watch some of Scotland's history being re-enacted and wondering where the hell my ancestors were during this...and what part they may have played.

The history in that movie is atrociously inaccurate.

Details?

 

[Soundmanred]

I bought it on Bloorae and plan to watch it this weekend.
It's one of my all time favorites.
I bought the laserdisc for nearly $80 when it originally came out.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: WA261
I love that show. I have seen it several times. It is one of those shows like "Master and Commander" you can watch over and over.

:thumbsup:


As soon as I get blu ray I am getting Master and Commander + Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut on blu ray.

Kingdom of Heaven looks so good on bluray it's ridiculous. The chucklehead who did the garbage transfer of Gladiator should be chained to a chair and forced to watch it a couple hundred times so they can learn what a good transfer is.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

The history in that movie is atrociously inaccurate.

As it is in MOST movies that deal with history.

Movies are not generally made to portray history in the actual boring fashion in which it happens, they use "artistic license" to enhance events, to move them around in the timeline, to invent things to make the story more enjoyable or sensational...

That doesn't change the fact that MUCH of what the movie portrays actually happened in one way or another...but the movie makes it more fun to watch.

Look at the plethora of WWII movies that came out in the late 40's to mid-60's. Were they all terribly historically accurate? Fuck no, but the main events DID happen. The story has been enhanced to make them more enjoyable...

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: WA261
I love that show. I have seen it several times. It is one of those shows like "Master and Commander" you can watch over and over.

:thumbsup:


As soon as I get blu ray I am getting Master and Commander + Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut on blu ray.

:thumbsup: I have Master and Commander on blu-ray. It looks fantastic and I love that movie. I might watch it again this weekend simply because I haven't seen it in a while.

I love sailing and the ocean so those stories really engross me.

 

[Patt]

How has there been so many replies already without referencing how blazingly hot William Wallace's love interest in the movie is? Murron? Well, the first love interest. I love the movie, and I don't generally get all goofy over actresses,. but Catherine McCormack did it for me ... hell, she still does

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: bigrash

Originally posted by: alexjohnson16
What are good movies then?

Gladiator was 50 times better.

I thought Gladiator sucked.

i liked the one with cuba gooding jr way better than the joaquin phoenix one.

 

[lifeobry]

This thread is full of unadulterated fail.

Braveheart > you

 

[Regs]

I FAWKING HATE THE TITANIC!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Patt
How has there been so many replies already without referencing how blazingly hot William Wallace's love interest in the movie is? Murron? Well, the first love interest. I love the movie, and I don't generally get all goofy over actresses,. but Catherine McCormack did it for me ... hell, she still does

She is hot. I still think she's hot even though she's in her late 30s now.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

The Good, the bad, and the Ugly >>>>>>>> Braveheart

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

In this order

Shawshank Redemption > Braveheart > Gladiator > Casino > Goodfellows

 

[nick1985]

Amazing movie. STFU

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Locut0s
I just finished watching it for the first time. Yes I know I fail for waiting 14 years to see it. I remember at the time looking at the trailers and reading a bit about the movie and wondering what the heck all the fuss was about. Now that I've seen it I can only say WHAT THE FUCK WAS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT!?!?! How the hell does a movie like that walk away with 5 Oscars!? Let alone best director and best picture? I mean it was okay in places, I suppose as a period piece it replicates the feel of the time well enough, the scenery was beautiful and you can tell a lot of $$$ went into it but that's about where my praise ends and even that's stretching things.

Double up on your psycho meds did ya?

I've seen Braveheart several times. Very well made, for the most part, well scripted and well acted. Is it "The best movie of all time?" No, but it's enjoyable to watch some of Scotland's history being re-enacted and wondering where the hell my ancestors were during this...and what part they may have played.

The history in that movie is atrociously inaccurate.

err no.

Its pretty accurate.. Its at least as accurate as "History of the World" (all parts), and Inglorious Basterds.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: gersson
The Good, the bad, and the Ugly >>>>>>>> Braveheart

Sort of an odd comparison, don't you think? But yes, I would agree. Looking forward to picking that up on blu ray as well.

 

[KLin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcoVxbutl8g

That's how braveheart should have ended.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

The history in that movie is atrociously inaccurate.

As it is in MOST movies that deal with history.

Movies are not generally made to portray history in the actual boring fashion in which it happens, they use "artistic license" to enhance events, to move them around in the timeline, to invent things to make the story more enjoyable or sensational...

That doesn't change the fact that MUCH of what the movie portrays actually happened in one way or another...but the movie makes it more fun to watch.

Look at the plethora of WWII movies that came out in the late 40's to mid-60's. Were they all terribly historically accurate? Fuck no, but the main events DID happen. The story has been enhanced to make them more enjoyable...

When I say atrociously, I mean they didn't even place the Battle of Sterling Bridge in the right location, get the clothing the least bit right, introduced scenarios that never came close to happening (Wallace got Isabelle pregnant...how about they never met), and so on.

It was an enjoyable movie, but it is not a re-enactment of true history.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

When I say atrociously, I mean they didn't even place the Battle of Sterling Bridge in the right location, get the clothing the least bit right, introduced scenarios that never came close to happening (Wallace got Isabelle pregnant...how about they never met), and so on.

It was an enjoyable movie, but it is not a re-enactment of true history.

The pipes they were playing in parts were Irish pipes. You don't even play them standing :^D

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: FuzzyDunlop
In this order

Shawshank Redemption > Braveheart > Gladiator > Casino > Goodfellows

WTF? No.

KT