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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Ryan on October 18, 2010, 02:46:12 pm
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EXCLUSIVE: Richard Branson, the entrepreneur who says he is two years away from launching the commercial space travel company Virgin Galactic Airways, wants to make a movie about a guy who could certainly relate to the ambition. Branson, who this summer launched the Virgin Produced banner as a joint venture with Relativity Media, is negotiating to acquire Columbus, a script by T.S. Nowlin that has McG attached to direct a 300-style film about Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America. The script went out last week and a deal's in the works, sources said. The pic will be produced by McG, who's currently directing the 20th Century Fox comedy This Means War with Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy and Chris Pine.
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post about the best (or worst?? you decide) historical dramas/history films/period pieces/whateva. post about your fav history movies. post about 300.
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I think the genre of historical drama should be renamed historical fiction all around. History is never accurately represented in these movies, even shows on the history channel tend to make generalizations for the purpose of time and for accessibility. These type of movies tend to make a hyperbole of either how villainous or how heroic a particular figure was. That being said, my opinion of historical dramas is based totally on taste and not what so ever based on actually fact (since its my presumption is that that these things have little to no historical value).
Depending on how drunk I am, I think that Braveheart and The Patriot deserve a rank of anywhere from "decent" to "fucking great". I don't know if There Will Be Blood ranks as a historical drama, but it is my favorite movie that I've ever seen. I can't really think of any other historical dramas I've seen. Gladiator maybe, since it is probably about as historically accurate as Braveheart. With the exception of There Will Be Blood, all of those movies are just "neato, fun, entertaining" movies). Thinking about it, maybe Gangs of New York counts as historical drama (depending on how far we are willing to extending our sense of historical disbelief), and that movie is just awesome, and is also notable for being the only good movie Drew Barrymore has ever played in. I am looking through a list of historical dramas on wikipedia and A Knights Tale came up, which I really like, and is based on a Geoffrey Chaucer story, which is based it on one or two different knights lives, according to the wikipedia article, which is based in irrefutable fact. (witchfinder general was a film that came up, and i have never seen it, but witchfinder general is a a pretty decent premetal-psych-rock band, and if you look up the history of witchfinder general its kind of sadly funny). Titanic was also on there, which was just kind of whatever to me, but I didn't think it was terrible. Also Charlie Wilson's War, which I thought was great, but I don't know all of the TRUE history behind it so it might be a total let down. Other movies on the list that I like include: Frost/Nixon, Milk and Wonderland. Again I really enjoyed those movies, but we have to question their historical merit.
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I've not seen too many of these, but I guess Marie Antoinette counts. I actually liked it until the ending, when it makes it seem as if Marie Antoinette escapes and lives happily ever after (when...you know...she DOESN'T). It's also one of those movies where Molly Shannon shows up out of nowhere to do very little of importance.
I really want to see Mongol because I'm hella interested in Genghis Khan, and it's usually incredibly cheap on blu-ray so eventually I will see it. I got it on Netflix once but it was during a time when I was too busy to watch it then I eventually sent it back because if I don't get to a movie right away I know I'm not going to. If anyone's seen it let me know if it's good.
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It's on netflix instant streaming. Mongol is really good actually, i saw it like last week. It has a very cliche story (not entirely sure how historically accurate it is in that sense, but im guessing not very) but it has a really unique setting and really beautiful scenery which in this case definitely makes up for any fault in the story
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Really? I don't think it was available to stream at the time I got it. I think I'll still just get the bluray though because last time I looked on amazon it was like UNDER TEN DOLLARS how could I not???
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lol mcg
anyway, i don't know. period pieces usually fucking suck.
i guess the wrong box (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061204/) is the best that i've seen, but it's not good because it's a period piece, it's good because it has probably the best film cast ever.