Watching Braveheart

[Ksec]

God I love this movie. It has all the elements a good movie needs, and the music is hauntingly beautiful. The music is half the movie IMO.

How about a movie thread. Name your favorite if you'd like .

[Djinn]

1. Also liked it but

really detest the statue they've now put out the front of the Wallace Monument (at great cost alledgedly) which depicts Wallace as played by Mel Gibson, who was atleast 20 years older than Wallace was when he died, when he made the movie.

http://www.fruitsalad.org/gallery/Scotland/PIC00006

I don't know why this statue shits me so much probably just because it looks weird against the gothic monument and I don't see the need to Hollywood-ise Scotland. Just my wee rant.

[jayfish]

2. The History Channel Ran A Program On...

the historical accuracy of the movie and it's not very accurate. Especially the Battle At Sterling Bridge. But damn I love that movie anyway. They also said that the people of the town wanted the new monument. Go figure.

Jay

[Elidor]

7. Movies in Time

Anytime you see an episode of Movies in Time with Roger Mudd, they interview some historian who says, yes, it's an interesting movie...too bad it's all bullshit. Then Mudd turns to the camera:

"And there you have it. It's all bullshit."

Lady Jane was my favorite example. The guest scholar said that, far from being madly in love with eachother, she and her short-lived king loathed the sight of eachother. The only thing that took their minds off how much they hated eachother was that they were both about to die at a tragically young age. "Aside from that little detail, Roger, it's a wonderful movie. Too bad it's all bullshit."

[renegade000]

9. if i remember correctly...

the Battle At Sterling Bridge was notably lacking in a bridge...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. I agree - It's a great movie

'Dances With Wolves' also comes to mind when I think of a big epic film that owes a great deal of its impact to the music propelling the images.

[grannylib]

4. "The Lion in Winter" and "Rebecca" and "Guess Who's Coming to

Dinner" are my all time three fave movies
OH! And Star Wars...the first one...and the LOTR trilogy.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. "What family doesn't have its ups and downs?" EOM

[Ksec]

6. Shawshank Redemption. Goodfellas. Dances with Wolves

And the one that won the Academy award for best picture a few years ago about the married guy who was having the affair with the young girl that I cant remember the name of , but it was an incredible movie...Probably my all time fav

[Pert_UK]

8. Braveheart is HUGELY historically inaccurate........

but then again so is almost every other Hollywood "historical" movie.

P.