What is your favorite medieval movie?

[Wellybex]

[Gaius Drustanus]

How about:"Worst Medieval Movie Ever Made".

Surely that recent distinction must go to that Cinema Turkey"Pathfinder" which even the reasonably good acting skills of New Zealander Karl Urban could not rescue from being so diabolically bad. Surely Niall should have shot his FARB barb at this Travesty, where Vinland is invaded to kill Native Americans, instead of poor Angie Joly. Like that old Classic"King Alfred"you can tell who the Bad Guys are because all the Vikings are garbed in black (i'm sure I saw some wandering mercs among the extras). But worse than that, they ALL have horned helmets! But worse than that, all the Officer Vikings have 2 sets of HORNS on their hats. FARB to the Max, they are equipped like a gang of West Auckland bikies, sort of Rambo meets Conan (but much worse than either). Why didn't the West Auckland Norsemen object to that one? We certainly did.
It reminds me too of an earlier Dog with a similar theme where Lee Majors, otherwise the Six Million dollar Man and husband of Farah Fawcett was rowing a Viking Ship to North America, together with a Negro Viking (shades of Morgan Freeman in"Prince of Thieves"). They were wearing Horned Helmets too(a la Hagar the Horrible) and Renaissance style steel breastplates at the rowing benches. At least the horns were placed in the correct position: Upward. SURELY that makes it more authentic!

[Phil Berghan-Whyman]

Pathfinder sucked, but to my thinking it was fantasy. Thus they could do as they liked with the Vikings (and they did).

Quest of the Delta Knights (1993) is horrible. I have yet to manage the whole movie. It is not even bad in an entertaining way.

[Phil Berghan-Whyman]

I did really enjoy Apocalypto, which as early 16th C almost falls in the medieval period (but just misses and the crowd goes ooooohhhh).

[Phil Berghan-Whyman]

I managed to delete the duplicate Beowulf and Grendel (2005) entry on the poll, but only by deleting the entry (I then reentering it). Could the person who had voted for the movie please vote again (PM me if you can't).

Thanks kindly

[Gaius Drustanus]

Yeah,"Apocalypto" was pretty good but were the Mayas doing Human Sacrafice on that scale (or any scale) so close to Spanish contact.? Aztecs more likely. Do we count Non European or New World as medieval? Insofar that we have L'Anse au Meadows (or whatever it's called)in NewFoundland "Pathfinder" was connected to Medieval European events.
Another dodgy but entertaining Viking flick was"The Longships" starring Richard Widmark (of"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"fame) and Sydney Poutier based on a really awesome Historical novel of the same name. Rhe movie featured a Golden Bell and a really slapstick and hilarious Harem scene. But the movie was totally disappointing, compared to that book.
"Kingdom of Heaven"was a good Movie except that Orlando Bloom was totally underwhelming as an actor in that role and his Character Balian of Ibilin was elderly, in his 60s or 70s, when he organised the Defense of Jerusalem. It was at the Horns of Hattin, not Jerusalem, that the fate of Outremer was decided.

[Nathan]

Nevsky does it for me. We may have lost but we did it with style (damn English)


Now I know that it is not medieval, but Cromwell (1970) with Richard Harris has got to be one of the greats in period films. Long live King Obe Wan Kenobi.

[Chevalier]

[Errol]

[BigMac]

[Gaius Drustanus]

And what about"Army of Darkness" for time travelling/horror/medieval/zombie cross over flicks? Medieval Chainsaw Massacre.

[Gaius Drustanus]

And for NonEuropean Nippo Ninja offerings:"Ran".
Does anyone else remember"Hearts and Armour"from the 1980s? Set in Muslim Spain it has a scEne thats very ala Sharon Stone! The Armour looked VERY tinny. Must have been left over from'Brother Sun, Sister Moon'.

[Carl]

[Wellybex]

Ladyhawk is a great movie but i am somewhat put off by the terrible 80's music throughout it. Sort of ruin's the medievalish theme to it really....

[Baroque]