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Title: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Sir_Hans on July 08, 2013, 08:53:00 am
Just came across this BBC series on youtube... it's pretty old so I'm sure a lot of you have seen it already, but for those that haven't it might suit your taste, so I thought I'd share... :mrgreen:
It's not great, but it's watchable  :D The nice thing is it's posted by BBC on Youtube so there is no need to pirate it and there are many more episodes!
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I'm in need of new shows/movies to pirate...
Please recommend/share some movies and shows!
Doesn't have to be strictly Medieval themes... but try to keep suggestions to swords/armor type stuff   :D
I'll be updating the list with people's suggestions, for my own use.
Some of these I've definitely seen, but most I have yet to... great suggestions thus far.

Ongoing List of Medieval-ish Movies and Shows
(please no spoilers, but feel free to rate them.)

1612
300
13th warrior
Agora
Alatriste
Alexander
Arn knight templar
Arthur
Berserk: golden age
Black Death
Borgia
Bravefarts
Centurion
Deluge
The Eagle
Excalibur
First Knight
Flesh and Blood
Gladiator
Game of Thrones
Ironclad   
Il Mestier Delle Armi (The Profession of Arms)
Joan of Arc
Kingdom of heaven   
Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy) 1960
Knight's Tale
The Last Legion
Lion in the Winter
Mongol: The Rise of Ghengis Khan
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God 
Outlander
Pathfinder
The Pillars of the Earth
Robin Hood: prince of thieves
Robin Hood (2010)
Reclaiming the blade
Seventh Seal
Spartacus: blood and sand
Tudor
Troy
Vikings
White Queen
With Fire and Sword
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Joker86 on July 08, 2013, 10:49:04 am
Flesh and Blood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3djxsIb9KHc)
Il Mestiere delle Armi (The Profession of Arms) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbLOxbCJFvM)
Centurion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZs2_i_cDE)

Edit: and try to find the extended version of Kingdom of Heaven. It's adding +50% awesomeness to the movie!


The Eagle - Starts really strong, then getting weaker and weaker. Still worth a watch

The Last Legion - Collin Firth (Mr. D'arcy) as hard guy, I think he was even Arthur in this adaption. Seriously? Fighting orientalic women, bad costumes and a rather lame story. Don't expect it to be anything more than "not really boring". But I liked Kevin McKidd as Teuton.

Alexander - nicely done, quite homoerotic, but it has its lenghtes. On the other hand the two battles are truly amazing, especially Gaugamela, causing me goosebumps every time I watch it. 

13th warrior - bullshit story, but damn! This movie is a single slaughtering fest, and thus really entertaining. Take care you pirate an uncut version!

Robin Hood: prince of thieves - Oh well, a rather mediocre Robin Hood flick. Alan Rickman saved that movie.

Robin Hood (2010) - Optically it's an awesome movie, the armours are as amazing as they were in Kingdom of Heaven, but still this movie is quite a good bit worse. Especially when Kate Blanchett as lady Marion rides into battle (!!!) in full armour (!!!) with a sallet with visor (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). After she killed a French infantryman during a battle in a village by gently pulling a sword over his aketon, apparently somehow cutting his stomach.

The Last Legion - This movie is bad, don't honour it by listing it twice!  :P

First Knight - Oh! My! God! This movie is SO GAY, it LITERALLY sucks. After watching it you will feel the urge to take a long, long shower to wash that impression of that movie off you, but you won't succeed. Pussies will start to disgust you, and soon enough you will be craving for a nice, thick cock. Don't watch it. Seriously, don't. If you are curious about what I am telling you, watch a trailer, it should be enough. It still counts as "gay experience", so whenever you will do some kind of test in a magazine or something like that, and it asks you "Did you have any homosexual experiences?", you can't check "no" any more.

Agora - well made, entertaining and informative movie, which makes you hate religion even more. A good one, has my recommendation.

Arthur - Since it's missing but also fitting to the other movies you listed here, I am adding it now and I have to say: it's very similar to the Last Legion. It's bad. Owen Wilson isn't the prototype of a hard guy either, whereas Till Schweiger as son of the Saxon king is downright laughable. But Stellan Skarsgard is doing a proper job and is a truly fearsome Saxon king. The only entertaining character in this 100%-Hollywood-bullshit-movie.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Garond_PL on July 08, 2013, 11:00:54 am
Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy) 1960

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054004/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPPMcTczdlY example

Action in medieval Poland and 'Great Lithuania' from early 15th century. One of oldest and best polish historical movies. What can i say? Good battle scenes , armies looking bigger than they really are (camera trick).
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Christo on July 08, 2013, 11:05:49 am
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113538/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113538/)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265087/?ref_=sr_1 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265087/?ref_=sr_1)
 :lol:
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Joker86 on July 08, 2013, 11:33:59 am
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113538/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113538/)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265087/?ref_=sr_1 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265087/?ref_=sr_1)
 :lol:

This will ultimatively lead to Monty Pythons  :mrgreen:

Another one I remembered:

Joan of Arc (from Luc Besson) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jkh9J_b5HM)
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Sir_Hans on July 08, 2013, 11:51:25 am
Awesome suggestions and feedbacks on the ones I have yet to see!!!  :mrgreen:

Adding these suggestions to the list of "stuff i need to watch"  :D

Il Mestier Delle Armi looks awesome judging by that trailer!!
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Joker86 on July 08, 2013, 11:53:54 am
Then gief me your plusses. Gief gief gief" :twisted:
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Largg on July 08, 2013, 11:54:14 am
On top of those already mentioned few good TV shows: Borgias, Tudors and Vikings(duh, who hasn't watched this already). There's also a new series that started recently called White Queen, I've heard it's quite good. It's set up in roughly the same period as Tudors.

Some movies that haven't been mentioned are Alatriste, Black Death(it's not that bad) and Reclaiming the Blade which is more of a documentary but still very well worth watching.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Armpit_Sweat on July 08, 2013, 12:46:34 pm
A pretty good list actually. Covers most well known shows/movies! +1

My personal rating:

3/10 300
4/10 13th warrior
8/10 Agora ( a rare gem )
6/10 Alatriste
6/10 Alexander
-/- Arn knight templar
5/10 Arthur
-/- Berserk: golden age
7/10 Black Death ( the story was meah, but the set, acting and overall atmosphere was reallly nice imo. i would understand if other would rate it dirt-low )
9/10 Borgia ( my personal favorite )
4/10 Centurion
5/10 The Eagle
-/- Excalibur ( what is this exactly? )
-/- First Knight
-/- Flesh and Blood
9/10 Gladiator
6/10 Game of Thrones ( lol? )
2/10 Ironclad 
-/- Il Mestier Delle Armi (The Profession of Arms)
7/10 Joan of Arc
7/10 Kingdom of heaven   
-/- Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy) 1960
-/- The Last Legion
-/- Robin Hood: prince of thieves
6/10 Robin Hood (2010)
-/- Reclaiming the blade
2/10 Spartacus
8/10 Tudor
7/10 Troy ( 7 is more out of respect for Eric Bana, since I like him in all movies )
6/10 Vikings ( historical on the first glance, but really fails past the first few episodes... )
-/- White Queen ( new series from 2013? will give it a go :) )
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Erebosaither on July 08, 2013, 01:24:55 pm

7/10 Kingdom of heaven   

That movie should be 10/10 Kingdom of heaven best medieval warfare movie!!  :wink:
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Sir_Hans on July 08, 2013, 01:29:19 pm
I loved Spartacus... You are talking about the first one right? blood and sand.
Was such a good story of betrayal and revenge, and I thought most of the cast nailed it on the acting.

That movie should be 10/10 Kingdom of heaven best medieval warfare movie!!  :wink:
Also this ^  :mrgreen:

To each his own though.  :wink:
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: BASNAK on July 08, 2013, 01:44:11 pm
My personal rating:

3/10 300

Wat.

IMO, eventhough it's a pretty simple movie it's one of my favourite movies. I probably watched it over 10 times and scenes on Youtube ~50 times. It never gets boring and I can watch it any day :D
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Elmuri on July 08, 2013, 02:13:03 pm
Wat.

IMO, eventhough it's a pretty simple movie it's one of my favourite movies. I probably watched it over 10 times and scenes on Youtube ~50 times. It never gets boring and I can watch it any day :D
:D
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Joker86 on July 08, 2013, 02:29:24 pm
Wat.

IMO, eventhough it's a pretty simple movie it's one of my favourite movies. I probably watched it over 10 times and scenes on Youtube ~50 times. It never gets boring and I can watch it any day :D

Rejoice! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leXo4-QLNVc)
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: B3RS3RK on July 08, 2013, 03:06:10 pm
Spartacus  :lol:

I dont know about that series, I really really enjoyed it but...It´s just so extreme, you know...

You constantly see cocks and tits and naked oily men with sixpacks, then there are those gays making out all the time...all the while they keep on showing all that slaughter xD It´s way too much so it becomes ridiculous.

Seriously, I waited the whole series for some of the slaves starting a giant gangbang on a pile of massacred romans.


This show is extremely gay, straight and very manly at the same time.

I would reccomend watching it with a few buddys and some drink or weed, you´ll have the time of your life.Very funny and the slaughter is enjoyable.

But dont forget to turn you eyes away and yell "fuck this shit" everytime you see a cock or gay interaction or you might wake up in the night craving for some sweaty slave dick.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Garond_PL on July 08, 2013, 05:09:36 pm
2 days ago i watched Arn Templarridarren movie. Its shorter version of serial (6 parts) . If u want movie in medieval scandinavia u must watch serial (6 hours )...
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Lt_Anders on July 08, 2013, 05:47:39 pm
There's a foreign movie about Gengis Khan, that I saw. Even though subtitled, that was an Awesome movie. Sadly, I saw it in the Bahamas with my dad on vacation over christmas and can't remember the name. Will look for it though.

EDIT: Well that was fast.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416044/
It's got 2 names: Mongol and Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan. VERY GOOD MOVIE. Highly Recommended. Not a HUGE amount of Action, but a large and well developed story. One of the best movies I've seen(even with subtitles). It's in russian, hmmm....Thought it was actually in a diff langauge.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Sir_Hans on July 08, 2013, 11:31:04 pm
2 days ago i watched Arn Templarridarren movie. Its shorter version of serial (6 parts) . If u want movie in medieval scandinavia u must watch serial (6 hours )...

I couldn't find any trailers or info on serial but you peaked my interest, I love super long epics. Does it go by any other names possibly or can you give me a bit more info?

...It's got 2 names: Mongol and Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan. VERY GOOD MOVIE. Highly Recommended. Not a HUGE amount of Action, but a large and well developed story. One of the best movies I've seen(even with subtitles). It's in russian, hmmm....Thought it was actually in a diff langauge.

Awesome, added it to the list. Definitely looks like something worth watching thanks!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Jarold on July 09, 2013, 01:21:29 am
My favorite medieval movie had to be Kingdom of Heaven. Before reading this thread though I had no idea there was an extended edition. Now i'm gonna have to go out and buy it.

I absolutely hated the movie Ironclad. It didn't even feel like a battle it had like 10 guys defending and 70 attacking! It was just filled with overly done gore, which is a turn off for me.

I really liked Alexander and Troy a lot too.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Garond_PL on July 09, 2013, 09:31:59 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAqu28Dd-M Arn The Knight Templar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOuj2MB20vM Kingdom at Roads End

Serial was a parted version of 2 movies
Arn The Knight Templar 2007
Arn The Kingdom at Road's End 2008

Movies was based on books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arn_Magnusson


I found IT!
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/55307/arn-the-knight-templar-the-complete-series/

Arn The Complete Series (aka Arn Tv Series) 6 x45 min
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Tot. on July 09, 2013, 12:24:56 pm
In a descending order, the lower the crappier.

Seventh Seal
Lion in the Winter
Braveheart
The Pillars of the Earth
Knight's Tale
Deluge
1612
Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God   
With Fire and Sword
Pathfinder
Outlander
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Christo on July 09, 2013, 12:30:06 pm
Outlander

I remember my friends watching this and I just joined in at like I don't know, half of the movie or something, they didn't tell me anything about it so I was like okay, cheesy fantasy medieval film? okay.

Then when the futuristic part came in I was like, what the fuck am I watching?

No wonder it's on the bottom on your list, understandable. The concept is weird.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Leesin on July 09, 2013, 12:51:23 pm
My favorite medieval movie had to be Kingdom of Heaven. Before reading this thread though I had no idea there was an extended edition. Now i'm gonna have to go out and buy it.

I absolutely hated the movie Ironclad. It didn't even feel like a battle it had like 10 guys defending and 70 attacking! It was just filled with overly done gore, which is a turn off for me.

I really liked Alexander and Troy a lot too.

I cannot watch Kingdom of Heaven unless it is the extended version, it's nearly an hour longer if my memory serves me right and adds alot more of the detail into the story, love it, a good movie even if it is a bit cheesy at times.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Boerenlater on July 09, 2013, 01:51:30 pm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107977/
no love for this one?
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: B3RS3RK on July 09, 2013, 01:53:58 pm
I cannot watch Kingdom of Heaven unless it is the extended version, it's nearly an hour longer if my memory serves me right and adds alot more of the detail into the story, love it, a good movie even if it is a bit cheesy at times.

Kingdom of heaven is so damn good.I mean, even the cheesyness feels good in this film.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Jarold on July 10, 2013, 08:22:35 am
I think I speak for all players of cRPG that they are huge nerds for medieval movies. I mean you have to be to play this mod!
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: pepejul on July 10, 2013, 09:20:38 am
I just searched "medieval porn" in google.... many movies but I can't put the link there...  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Joker86 on July 10, 2013, 10:08:27 am
I just searched "medieval porn" in google.... many movies but I can't put the link there...  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Well, I guess it's because "medieval porn" shows a lot of pics from the Hundred Years war - where the French got fucked really hard  :P
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Overdriven on July 10, 2013, 12:21:50 pm
I cannot watch Kingdom of Heaven unless it is the extended version, it's nearly an hour longer if my memory serves me right and adds alot more of the detail into the story, love it, a good movie even if it is a bit cheesy at times.

Yeah the extended version was 10x better. Fleshed out the story so much more and actually made some things make sense. Like how the fuck he knew how to build all that siege shit when he's a blacksmith. O right he was an engineer in various wars for his lord.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: pingpong on July 10, 2013, 12:23:08 pm
I think I speak for all players of cRPG that they are huge nerds for medieval movies. I mean you have to be to play this mod!

This THE one and only medieval movie you ever need to watch to really get into this mod, this movie depicts c-rpg community so truthfully i think the guys from monty python invented a time machine and made the script to holy grail while playing c-rpg in the future.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Overdriven on July 10, 2013, 12:26:54 pm
So who in the community is the bunny?
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: pepejul on July 10, 2013, 02:25:06 pm
OMG..THE RABBIT...IS........ chadz !!!!!
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Joker86 on July 10, 2013, 02:29:59 pm
OMG..THE RABBIT...IS........ chadz !!!!!

Nah, he obviously is the donkey.

The rabbit must be someone who looks harmless, but is actually dangerous. Some high level full loom peasant?
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Sir_Hans on July 10, 2013, 11:52:19 pm
Devs = the 3 headed giant.  :mrgreen:

Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Sir_Hans on July 12, 2013, 12:36:37 am
Just finished watching "The Eagle"

and couple days ago watched "Alexander"


Must say, I like The Eagle a lot. It did kind of slow down after the first main battle scene and transition from armies fighting to smaller skirmishes, but I loved the fight choreography, attire/costumes, and the environment/local's were just amazingly beautiful throughout the movie.

Alexander was enjoyable, but there was just too much story line inbetween the battles... There were more scenes of greeks celebrating and getting drunk than there were battles and Alexander was a total my old friend.  :|
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I found IT!
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/55307/arn-the-knight-templar-the-complete-series/

Arn The Complete Series (aka Arn Tv Series) 6 x45 min

Awesome thanks for that link!!! This is definitely next on my watch list  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Asheram on July 25, 2017, 01:03:05 am
Anyone try to watch this movie but quit because it gave them a headache trying to follow the dialogue? 
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Oberyn on July 25, 2017, 11:31:49 am
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4/10 13th warrior

 :evil: It's historically ridiculous and practically a fantasy film but it's great, how dare you give it below half score. Should be 6-7 at the very least.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Gnjus on July 25, 2017, 08:21:33 pm
13th warrior, one of my favorites.  :wink:

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Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Drunken_sailor on September 10, 2017, 05:42:38 am
posted this back in the old JOKAM forum, my favorite olden times movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76AlJZuywXo
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Asheram on July 23, 2018, 01:16:19 am
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: [ptx] on July 23, 2018, 11:30:08 pm

Some Latvians got hold of enough potato to make a movie. Haven't actually seen it myself, heard it's somewhat average, but, hey, fits the thread.
Title: FREEDOM!!
Post by: Asheram on August 21, 2018, 12:05:24 am
Looks like it could be good.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Araxiel on August 21, 2018, 08:52:20 pm
Conquest 1453 is the best movie ever made. A must watch.

I also enjoyed the Last Kingdom.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Asheram on September 05, 2018, 12:13:37 am
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Asheram on October 07, 2018, 10:21:19 pm
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Paul on October 07, 2018, 10:33:14 pm

This is cука!
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Torben on October 08, 2018, 01:27:58 pm
Conquest 1453 is the best movie ever made. A must watch.

I also enjoyed the Last Kingdom.

Vince  iranians for example saw 300 as an anti iranian propaganda movie.

so  just out of curiosity:  do you see neo osman propaganda in the aformentioned movie?
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Beauchamp on November 11, 2018, 09:33:59 pm
Outlaw King :.)
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Bittersteel on December 17, 2018, 11:25:41 pm
Outlaw King :.)

Hooooly shit, Outlaw King was so good. The opening shot was fucking brilliant, 8 or so epic minutes without a single cut.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Xant on December 18, 2018, 12:00:33 am
Outlaw King was pretty decent, but it had some very strange writing, and the ending was abrupt and didn't really make sense from a good scriptwriting point of view. Also, the whole wife-and-daughter-kidnapper thing was pointless, they could've cut that entire plotline and literally nothing would have been lost.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: njames89 on December 18, 2018, 05:48:36 pm
Yeah I thought Outlaw King was solid considering it was a Netflix film. 7/10 wasn't a super satisfying film.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Bittersteel on December 18, 2018, 10:46:42 pm

leggggiiiiiiiit

I still can't believe this entire scene, brilliant actors. Love Dillane
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Vibe on December 19, 2018, 10:15:32 am
Yeah Outlaw King was decent enough. Not spectacular, but given that we don't really get that many movies that try to be historically authentic, I'll take it.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: The_Bloody_Nine on December 19, 2018, 11:28:52 pm
ok, no medieval, but started rewatching rome. Still a shame it got cancelled.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Kasigi_Yabu on December 20, 2018, 10:39:15 am
Watched this recently- Rise of the Clans-Documentary (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9383966/?ref_=ttep_ep1) First episode is documentary of the events in Outlaw King
Surprised how Outlaw King follows this very closely for the most part, a good half an hour where it basically describes the film!
Then it turns out the film's events should have actually happened over 8 years

Still I'm impressed
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Knute on March 05, 2019, 07:11:50 pm
Game of Thrones - Season 8 trailer

Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: njames89 on March 05, 2019, 08:10:51 pm
H   Y   P   E
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Bittersteel on March 05, 2019, 08:32:03 pm
I hope this season is better than the last two. They were proper shit

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Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: njames89 on March 05, 2019, 08:52:39 pm
Last two seasons were definitely downhill overall. But still had some crushing episodes. Love the show in terms of enjoyment while watching even if there are some pretty big problems with the story or how they laid it out.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Jona on March 05, 2019, 09:30:06 pm
Ever since they departed from the books the quality has definitely suffered, but at this point we're all invested that we're gonna watch no matter what. And it isn't like the recent seasons were outright bad or unwatchable, sadly they were still better than most else of what is on tv.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: the real god emperor on March 05, 2019, 10:07:04 pm
Game of Thrones moved to become the lowest common denominator in the last few years, yeah there are good moments in the show still, but the comparison with what it was and what it is at the moment is painful. Of course I am still wondering how it's gonna go down and geniunely hoping that it becomes good again, but my expectations are minimum atm.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Asheram on March 06, 2019, 12:36:28 am
Game of Thrones moved to become the lowest common denominator in the last few years, yeah there are good moments in the show still, but the comparison with what it was and what it is at the moment is painful. Of course I am still wondering how it's gonna go down and geniunely hoping that it becomes good again, but my expectations are minimum atm.
Not as painful and bad as what TWD has become yet it is still popular.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Drunken_sailor on March 06, 2019, 04:12:59 am
The thing about fantasy that Hollywood doesn't seem to get is that its really about the journey and the adventure along the way.  Not the sinister plot twist that hook people in.

Like yes, LoTR is a 6 hours of midgets walking, but dammit that's what its all about. 

GoT decided to abandon the journey story arks and just teleports people where they need to be so they can fulfill the melodrama soap opera bullshit.

Like when was the last time there was a tavern brawl in the series?  Season 2?  Fuck me, every fantasy story needs at least 1 tavern brawl or unnecessary alcohol related violence at least once per season.

Hell even in CRPG the admins teleport us to the tavern brawl map at least once a night.

these bastards who make the decisions are not fantasy nerds, they build there castles in the sky on the backs of cheeto dusted, mountain dew swigging, DD playing nerds, without understanding what it is a proper fantasy story needs.

TLDR fuk them, but ima still watch it.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Golem on March 06, 2019, 10:23:47 am
If you feel like stretching your brain trying to translate English to English, with nice scenery. Trigger warning: Geralt of Rivia scabbards and metal slide sound effects
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: njames89 on March 06, 2019, 01:43:15 pm
For me the budget/scale of the show makes it almost a guaranteed success. Those huge battle scenes with the dragon CGI just ticks all the boxes for me.

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Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Jona on March 06, 2019, 04:53:19 pm
For me the budget/scale of the show makes it almost a guaranteed success. Those huge battle scenes with the dragon CGI just ticks all the boxes for me.

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True, with such a budget it is hard to make an entirely unwatchable show. I really hope Amazon doesn't blow it with their lotr series considering the budget that show is gonna have behind it. It really might be *the* show to replace GoT.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Xant on March 07, 2019, 11:47:01 am
The Last Kingdom is a better GoT. Don't @ me


I don't have high hopes for this last season of Game of Thrones. First of all, the last few seasons have been dogshit compared to the first ones, as already stated in this thread.

Second, they're going to have to rush like fuck to wrap up all the plotlines. Nothing seems any closer to conclusion than they did six seasons ago, yet everything is supposed to be concluded satisfactorily in just one season? I sincerely doubt they're going to be able to pull it off.

Third, the best thing about the show has always been the nuance, the human conflict, the power plays, the little moments. Now there's every indication that the last season is going to be a classic "let's unite to fight the zombie horde + dragons and shit" fantasy. Not much room for intrigue there. Fighting a dumb zombie horde is just boring, and it's obvious which side the audience is going to root for.

Fourth, related to the last point, judging by the trailer and last season, they're more and more focused on these hero wank fantasies where Arya/Jon/whatever pull off unrealistic heroics, rather than the down-to-earth stuff of the first seasons.

Still going to watch it, but not that hyped. More looking forward to the Expanse and Bosch, for example.



Like yes, LoTR is a 6 hours of midgets walking, but dammit that's what its all about. 

It's what makes LoTR what it is, really. The world feels alive. It's the depiction of the journeys, the showing of these run-down taverns, the breakfasts, the miserable weather and wet clothes, campfires.... all of it makes the books and the movies feel really magical, like you're watching some alternate history or some shit, it's a believable world and feels like an adventure. Part of it is definitely because of how old I was when I first read the books and saw the movies, but nothing else has come close to giving me the same feeling as LoTR. I'm cautiously optimistic for the big-budget Amazon show, especially if it focuses on young Aragorn, but on the other hand, it's probably going to be about explosions and strong warrior girls saving the white male Aragorn constantly.

GoT, especially lately, is just ticking boxes for "huge battle at A, huge battle at B, bad ass moment at C", etc. No time for the little things that make the world believable and add context to it all.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: njames89 on March 07, 2019, 01:53:01 pm
Yeah the rushing to conclusion is easily my biggest grief with the show. All those filler episodes are pretty regrettable now that they gotta cram 2 seasons worth of quality story content into one season with 6 eps.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Vibe on March 08, 2019, 08:41:17 am
The Last Kingdom is a better GoT. Don't @ me

The Last Kingdom is great and I feel like every season it gets slightly better.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Casul on March 08, 2019, 03:59:55 pm
Like yes, LoTR is a 6 hours of midgets walking, but dammit that's what its all about. 

GoT decided to abandon the journey story arks and just teleports people where they need to be so they can fulfill the melodrama soap opera bullshit.

wtf you saying about Lotr?!!?1
and yes, fuck GoT.

What is GoT rather than a show shaped into exactly what the modern people want to see? Betrayals, murder, nudity, sex, nice horny shaved (xD) muscular young boys and a little bit of blood.

Its ok, but thats it. The only really nice thing I can say about GoT is that it abondoned the usual way of keeping the main protagonists alive, good to see (until this point declared) protagonists dying casually and randomly within a short scene, thats about all that kept me into the show. The greedy movie industry doesnt allow any more content than spectacular scenes without any hidden context.

Lotr on the other hand actually has changed the world of fantasy forever. Its no doubt the best trilogy/movie ever and its way more than just stinking hobbits walking around. Any scene has a special message and pretty much displayed intellectual content to still be discussed and discovered to this day.
Its also the reason why the movie world takes fantasy genre serious.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: [ptx] on March 08, 2019, 05:04:07 pm
The Last Kingdom is great and I feel like every season it gets slightly better.
Season 2 was great, season 3 was so-so - too many heroics and almost every episode was just Uthred with his band of hero guys going around and winning. Still gonna watch season 4, when that eventually happens.
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Drunken_sailor on March 08, 2019, 06:35:56 pm
wtf you saying about Lotr?!!?1
 Any scene has a special message and pretty much displayed intellectual content to still be discussed and discovered to this day.
Its also the reason why the movie world takes fantasy genre serious.

I am  Lotr fan, but the fact that its just a movie about walking is a common criticism from people who don't like it. 
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Xant on March 09, 2019, 02:41:59 pm
I am  Lotr fan, but the fact that its just a movie about walking is a common criticism from people who don't like it.
I bet those people love 80s action movies and modern superhero movies. Constant, mindless, pointless action. What could be more fun!
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Asheram on August 18, 2019, 11:07:26 pm
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Asheram on August 28, 2019, 07:41:39 pm
Title: Re: Thread of Medieval Movies and TV shows
Post by: Leshma on August 29, 2019, 02:51:17 am
Timothy seems to become a big star. Thanks to bundle of sticksry, of course. Seen that movie on TV. Rural Italy in summer, two dudes in shorts riding bikes through countryside. Knew it was gay movie even before it became obvious.