Movies Based Thousands of Years Ago: Ancient Movies

[SpiderMage]

whoever said kingdom of heaven, fuck you


Kingdom of heaven is shit. Wtf was his name..we'll I'll call him legolas then, yeah, so, legolas is this young blacksmith in england. He then decides to TRAVEL TO THE WEST, to the lands of the sand! Suddenly, he knows how to fight. He (note that he's a fucking blacksmith from england) then shows the local people (who's been living there for thousand of years) how to make wells.

Now this says enough, now already...

he was also in Black Hawk Down

[Pandagirl!]

Orlando Bloom... and he's hot, so ssh.

[Miku19]

Magnificent 7 ... I think that's considered a samurai classic.

It's probably not the same thing, so I'll mention Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa here too. It's not exactly a big war but if you like a nice plot with good dialogue, then that's a good samurai movie.

PS: Pretty much everything by Kurosawa is good.

[Sufficient]

It's probably not the same thing, so I'll mention Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa here too. It's not exactly a big war but if you like a nice plot with good dialogue, then that's a good samurai movie.

PS: Pretty much everything by Kurosawa is good.

Yeah that's it ... I thought it was called Magnificant 7 tho.

[PaulOakenfold]

Clan of the Cavebear

[Jason]

is that the one with daryl hannah? if so, i've seen it, and i found it to be intriguingly odd. :>

[Dabram]

Eh.. since when is Lotr based on ancient history? I can't remember being taught anything about elves, trolls and dwarfs to be honest.

1. Life of Brian

[Dameon Angell]

Its not ancient history, just ancient times. It's going for more of a technology standpoint than a realistic point of view.

[1ight]

LOTR, it was intresting.

Last Samurai, my fav movie. :>

[Superted]

Eh.. since when is Lotr based on ancient history? I can't remember being taught anything about elves, trolls and dwarfs to be honest.

Didn't learn much English History at school did you? It's taught that when the Elves sailed West they sailed to Ireland, let themselves go a bit and evolved into the irishman you see today. The Hobbits are the ascendants of the Welsh and the Dwarfs colonized Scotland, leaving Man with England.

[SpiderMage]

Eh.. since when is Lotr based on ancient history? I can't remember being taught anything about elves, trolls and dwarfs to be honest.

1. Life of Brian

Lord of the Rings and in fact all of Tolkien's work was written to feel more like history than fantasy.

[Nickname]

Well, lets start off with my top 10 favorite ancient based movies.

1. Troy
2. Alexander
3. Lord of the Rings 3
4. Lord of the Rings 1
5. Lord of the Rings 2
6. King Arthur

1.Troy -- I liked it, it's certainly O.K., but thats about it. Nothign spectacular, not very historically accurate, yadaa yadaa.
2. ALexander -- is about a 3+ hour movie, and it feels like a good 5, it's way to long and drags his death out way to much, also historically inaccurate, but whatcha gonna do.
3-5. ARE FANTASY AND HAVE NO BASIS IN A HISTORICAL SETTING!
6. King Arthur, see above! It's also a chick flick. you're gay thix.


Real movies

Gladiator -- inaccurate but amazing
Braveheart -- See above.

[Nickname]

oh that war movie based on uhhh it was either vietnam or korea...i honestly can't remember, it's still pretty new Tae Guk Gi (I THINK) it should still be in the new release section of your movie store, or else in foreign, it's all subtitled but it's pretty wicked story of two brothers on seperate sides of battle.


Saving Private Ryan is pretty stellar too. Band of Brothers (not a movie, but awesome)

[Nickname]

not as ancient, but the Last Samurai's a pretty good film.

it's immense, i loved it.

[scumbag]

i remember arguing with my (retarded) cousin, he was so adament that LOTR copied all the stuff that was in Harry Potter (wizards, trolls, elves blah blah)

couldnt or wouldnt understand that LOTR was around 50 years before all this Potter shite and still thinks this up to this point, no matter how many times i hit him

it saddens me -_-