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Offline Rictor

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on: January 06, 2005, 09:31:01 pm
 

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Reply #1 on: January 06, 2005, 10:40:37 pm
mmmmmm... could be good or could be awful.
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Reply #2 on: January 06, 2005, 11:11:34 pm
Ugghhh, now they're exploiting the crusades?  What's next a kids musical about The Children's Crusade, perhaps the single darkest moment in Christian history save the Inquistion?
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Reply #3 on: January 06, 2005, 11:17:34 pm
I sure liked Gladiator though...
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Reply #4 on: January 07, 2005, 01:18:01 am
Gladiator was actually pretty good, but everything else on the 'sword and sandal' trail seems on a downward slope....
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Reply #5 on: January 07, 2005, 01:22:42 am
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Ugghhh, now they're exploiting the crusades?  What's next a kids musical about The Children's Crusade, perhaps the single darkest moment in Christian history save the Inquistion?


Or a comical one involving the Goose people followed?

Edit: Now just a damned minute. This looks like a complete bastardisation of my most studied period in history... They sound like the crusades were some sort of fight for individual freedoms!

Ah well, I'll still go see it since I've always wanted to see a hollywood level recreation of the crudsaders' battles.
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Reply #6 on: January 07, 2005, 01:57:08 am
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Or a comical one involving the Goose people followed?

Edit: Now just a damned minute. This looks like a complete bastardisation of my most studied period in history... They sound like the crusades were some sort of fight for individual freedoms!

Ah well, I'll still go see it since I've always wanted to see a hollywood level recreation of the crudsaders' battles.


Dude, are you seriously suprised?  Look at how Stone bastarized Alexander.  Don't you love historical revisionism?
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Reply #7 on: January 07, 2005, 02:09:33 am
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Dude, are you seriously suprised?  Look at how Stone bastarized Alexander.  Don't you love historical revisionism?


Not really surprised I guess. I haven't seen Alexander yet unfortunately so I can't comment.  I can however, imagine.

What d'ya bet in this version of teh crusades Saladin has an AK47? :lol: :sigh:
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Reply #8 on: January 07, 2005, 03:59:18 am
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Ugghhh, now they're exploiting the crusades?  What's next a kids musical about The Children's Crusade, perhaps the single darkest moment in Christian history save the Inquistion?


Inquisition: the animated series

It's about heroic (cough) white people killing Muslims, it plays to the religious crowd; surely inevitable.

(and it's by Fox.... there was me thinking it was only their news channel......)

I've no doubt we'll see the triumphant liberation of Jerusalem by a strange commander from over the western sea, too.........oh, and every foreign person will have a thick english accent.  Because if it doesn't sound like an american accent, it must be what those strange crazy foreigners sound like!

(point in case; Enemy at the Gates)
 

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Reply #9 on: January 07, 2005, 06:31:27 am
Seeing as it's by Mr. Scott, I guess it has a better chance of not falling apart than Alex, Arthur, or Troy did. :-/
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Reply #10 on: January 07, 2005, 06:58:26 am
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Dude, are you seriously suprised? Look at how Stone bastarized Alexander. Don't you love historical revisionism?


Atleast Alexander's Soundtrack is sweet. :)


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Reply #11 on: January 07, 2005, 07:31:40 am
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Reply #12 on: January 07, 2005, 07:40:31 am
LMAO :lol: Gotta love Mel....
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Reply #13 on: January 07, 2005, 11:36:29 am
Humm.... Tis looks interesting, but still a resounding "VAS?!" is boring through my mind. *Sigh*

Its sad to see production companies just jumping on the band wagon and going "Oooh! Big epic war scene movies! Lets make more!" Why not just go for the gold and do a Warhammer film! Now THAT would be cool. Biga huge million person armies filled with festering warriors of Chaos versus the Empire with huge cannons and pyschotic little dwarves flayling about with axes! :D *drool*
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Reply #14 on: January 07, 2005, 11:54:13 am
Yes, but then they wouldn't have the controversy to drive the movie to the Must See list.

And yes, if they were truly about making a War movie and not a political statement, they'd go for the Triple Play and make a WH 40k movie.

Gigantic Epic Battles? check!
Pseudo-New Age philosophy story? check!
Sci Fi...IN SPACE? double check!
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Reply #15 on: January 07, 2005, 05:13:05 pm
I don't even care that its about the Crusades. I just cant stand the cliched filth that spews forth from Hollywood every time they make one of these movies.

100% of characters speaking with British accent - check
central character as a simple man with goodness in his heart, who is also a great general - check
insiprational "Gladitor-like" speeches to army poised on the brink of battle - check
huge CG army shots, followed by quick-cut battle editing - check
hugely stereotypical enemy (german barbarians, arabs, egyptians etc) - check

For God's sake, the trailer even has a "walking through glowing field of wheat" scene stolen right from Gladiator, which I might add was a fine movie (I think I saw it about 7 time), not something which can be said of the pathetic attempts to mimick it (Alexander, Troy, Arthur, this...)
 

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Reply #16 on: January 07, 2005, 06:39:03 pm
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Umm, just a point of order, what accent should the crusaders have? seeing as they were Brits?....
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Reply #17 on: January 07, 2005, 08:20:46 pm
It wasn't just the Brits. It was people from all over Europe.
 

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Reply #18 on: January 07, 2005, 08:47:24 pm
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
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Reply #19 on: January 07, 2005, 09:29:38 pm
The Inquistition...we know you're wishin'...that we'd go awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

but the Inquisition's here and it's here to stayyyyyy!

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