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FusilierDan Supporting Member of TMP17 Jun 2010 4:30 a.m. PST

I've decided I'll only vote for periods I already have figures for so when they make the movie I won't have to build a new Army.

Frederick Supporting Member of TMP17 Jun 2010 5:18 a.m. PST

Well, I think it is high time the Byzantines had more movie presence – plus John Hawkwood!

There actually is a pretty good movie on Nevsky, only it is in Russian

Frederick Supporting Member of TMP17 Jun 2010 5:20 a.m. PST

And, of course, Lepanto

Always one of my favourite poems from my mis-spent youth

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Personal logo John the OFM Supporting Member of TMP17 Jun 2010 7:17 a.m. PST

Some people (nominators) need to get out more. No Little Big Horn???? Nevsky? What about Charlton Heston as "Andy by-God JAckson!" and Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte at New Orleans? Hardly "Never Told"…
Pirates of the Caribean? Are you serious?

Instead of my usual movie economics lesson, I will explain my votes, and why I think Horrywood could take a stab at them and make money.

Justinian and Belisarius. So-so, but throw in Theodora as written up in Procopius' "Secret History", and you have a winner. Demi Moore, of course. Perversions, perversins, perversions!

Oliver Wiswell would pander to the cynics in Horrywood who hate America, and would show the Loyalists/Tories as Good Guys. It would go totally beyond Roberts, of course, and put Gibson's Tavington in a blue coat. grin
It would be totally overdone, and make as little money as the Horrywood anti-Iraq War movies, which uniformly tanked. I would want it done right, of course, and would leave the theatre bitterly disappointed, like a true wargamer.

PA National Guard in the Ardennes would pander to the other side of Hollywood, the ones who make "We Were Soldiers", Saving Private Ryan, and Flags of our Fathers. There are still enough people who want to see movies with the Yanks as Good Guys, and the 28th was certainly heroic! How about "The Bloody Buckets" as a working title?

Pennamite Yankee wars wouild show Americans at their worst, including the PA regiment that camped out on the Susquehanna 12 miles below the Wyoming Massacre and did not lift a finger to help. This is for Horrywood, not Hollywood to make. See comments on OW above…

More than half of the other choices would never get made, except as a badly (and CHEAPLY!) produced History Channel clunker. Is that how you want it done?

And as for Peiper, Good golly Miss Molly… Was the nominator serious? Why not the 2nd SS at Oradour?
Well, I guess we could follow them after the War with the heroic Senator Joe McCarthy defending Peiper…

Flying Glove 155617 Jun 2010 3:02 p.m. PST

No Colonial Battles? No Abu Klea? Nothing from the Sudan or the Northwest Frontier? Shame on You!

Daffy Doug18 Jun 2010 9:11 a.m. PST

No Legnano? (Rutger Hauer doesn't count as "done")….

Personal logo John the OFM Supporting Member of TMP18 Jun 2010 6:00 p.m. PST

Did any of you guys bother to nominate them in the Primary?

Dave Knight19 Jun 2010 2:46 p.m. PST

I think Pirates of the Caribbean has been done

goragrad19 Jun 2010 11:34 p.m. PST

Somehow I missed the original discussion on this (out of town working and away from the web). With everything else included I thought I'd see Kosovo Polje when we got to the Ks.

Certainly would make a nice epic, with the doomed Prince Lazar and the assassination during the battle of the Sultan by Miloš Obilić. A love interest or two could be pulled from the epic without too much effort.

On the other hand I imagine that the likelihood of a movie based on the Serb national epic with Turks as the villains coming out of Hollywood is somewhat less than zero.

Saginaw21 Jun 2010 9:02 p.m. PST

I don't know if this particular military operation has been touched on, but I believe it could have the same cinematic impact, not to mention the action and intensity, as, say, 'Black Hawk Down':

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I think it would be worth consideration.

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