"And the best medieval movie is..." Topic

You were asked – TMP link

Best Medieval Movie Of All Time?

And after multiple rounds of voting…

36% said "Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)"
14% said "Seven Samurai (1954)"
13% said "El Cid (1961)"

Well, if she … weighs the same as a duck,…then…

This is why I pay no attention to such polls.

You just did.

OK Bill, you win. I will have nothing to do with any such poll in the future.

The "War Lord" 1965 was good. Not sure how many have seen it. Probably one of Charleston Heston's better performances.

Sadly, I always considered War Lord as too depressing. Also is that not a Dark Age movie. Sorry but I cannot remember the name of my preferred movie. It is the one where the Moslem under Saladin capture Jerusalem.

Kingdom of Heaven?

The Lion in Winter (1968). O'Toole, Hepburn, Hopkins, and a young Timothy Dalton.

Seven Samurai is the best movie on the list, but its hardly a medieval movie. I've ssen some suggestion it's set in 1586 which I am a bit suspicious of, but late 16th century is certainly the right ball park.

+1 for The Lion in Winter. One of my favorite movies of all time, any period, any genre.

Branagh's Henry V is a close second.

Becket (1964) is also right up there. Peter O'Toole again.

+2 for The Lion in Winter.

+1 for Branagh's Henry V

"I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

'The War Lord' is set in the 11th century, I believe.

I don't think the 'Dark Ages' is really a category anymore. They like to talk more of Early Medieval- (then again 'Medieval' looks more a more like rather porous category at each end.
When did Rome 'fall'?)

Then of course there is jolly old 'Late Antiquity'….

Yes "the Warlord" is 11th century and is discribed as medieval.

"The film, which concerns medieval warfare and culture in 11th-century Normandy,"

Two movies that in my opinion transport the viewer to the medieval era more than any others are Andrei Rublev (Russian made, 1966) and Marketa Lazarova (Czech, 1967). The stark black and white and the insane attention to detail makes for a jarringly realistic glimpse into how life might really have been like then. These movies are not for everyone, when films are described as "challenging", these are the types of movies they are talking about. No melodrama, no sentimentality, no comic relief, just a grim depiction of people trying to survive the nightmarish world they live in. Every time I watch the bell scenes in the final chapter of Rublev I'm astonished at how they were able to pull off such a complex sequence with thousands of extras, filmed against a backdrop of buildings and walls that were actually standing in the 1400's, the time the movie was set in

Completely agree with 35thOVI on "The Warlord." As much I liked "The holy Grail" it is not my idea of a medieval movie.

All I remember about The warlord was Charlton Heston with a bad haircut and his patented scowl, which passed for acting. He used that scowl in all his roles.
Oh, and of course "droite de seignure".
So, I agree with the public vote for Monty Python.

"All I remember about The warlord was Charlton Heston with a bad haircut his patented scowl, which passed for acting. He used that scowl in all his roles."

I believe that was a bowl cut or what could be called a helmet cut in medieval times. So actually, fairly authentic.

I would say some disagree. 😉

"The War Lord is Chrysagon, as essayed by Charlton Heston, a knight come to a moody medieval place with his retinue to take charge. This is one of Heston's best performances, as he actually loses himself in the role, at least in a few spots, rather than projecting his standard Chuck persona."

But I enjoyed the Holy Grail, many times.

Brock, are those subtitled? Sound interesting