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Originally Posted by maillemaker
I'm big into medieval history and reenacting. Every time a "medieval" movie comes out, people cry about how it's hollywhood and not historical.
I don't care. I realize going in that it's not a documentary. I'm in it for the story.
One of my most favorite medieval movies is "Excalibur". Completely ahistorical. But a wonderful telling of the Aurthurian Tale.
I love Das Boot. It's well acted, gritty, and believable. It allows for suspension of belief. That's the best a good fictional work can do.
Steve
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I really enjoyed
Excalibur as well, in fact me and The Boss watched it back to back with
The Queen, sort of a Helen Merrin marathon seeing her morph from young Hottie in
Excalibur to... well... the Queen of England!
I can only pick crap movies apart for historical errors, the good ones so should absorb one to the point where such things are easily ignored. So the riveting
Das Boot gets a pass and the execrably bad
U-571 does not.
Gladiator is in the win column in my book as well.