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But i watched the last half hour and still had me in tears by the end.
Makes you proud to be scottish!! Bannockburn tbh!!
I havent seen braveheart in like 4 years, missed most of it last night aswell
But i watched the last half hour and still had me in tears by the end.
Makes you proud to be scottish!! Bannockburn tbh!!
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Well I was proud to be English watching it
Got the bugger in the end
Haha but he pwn'ed u royally, only way you could get him is by setting him up, and ur future king was a pure goon!
How can you english take anything positive from that film
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in the knowledge that much of the film was gibson-esque fantasyOriginally Posted by Korky
Haha but he pwn'ed u royally, only way you could get him is by setting him up, and ur future king was a pure goon!
How can you english take anything positive from that film
The notion that every british soldier would rape and plunder every soul in sight yet the rabble of Wallaces army were the righteous ones with not a sin
to show for themselves was laughable.
Hey - its a good movie, no question.
Anyway I'm off to push someone out of a window because thats what we evil English do muhahahahaha
Braveheart? Is that the one that if it starts at 9PM, you can get bored, go to sleep, wake up and 7 in the morning and go "bloody hell, have they not sorted that Scotsman out yet?"
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Like I said, its a good film, I enjoyed it..but I still haven't forgiven Gibson for 'The Patriot'
Alas, this is done so that the hard of thinking can understand it (Read: Hollywood).
You see, without a clearly defined group of 'goodies' and an equally clearly defined set of 'baddies', the sort of people who thought Independence Day was a good film, will get confused.
Therefore, as you point out, every single Englishman alive at the time, has to be portrayed as a evil, scar-faced madman, who rapes all in sight and kills kittens, and every single Scot alive at the time, has to be portrayed as a happy-go-lucky, all around good bloke, who spends his time cracking witty one-liners, amusing children with simple magic tricks, and just being nice.
Add in a decent slice of Rambo-esque fight scenes, where Wallace kills 1426 English solders, one after another, armed only with his hair, and you have a bit of a Hollywood style mess. Made by the hard of thinking (Gibson) so that the equally hard of thinking know who the Cowboys are and who the Indians are.
About as historically accurate a picture of the actual period and story of William Wallace as the Lord of the Rings would have been, if the Elves were wearing kilts.
Korky me old mate, please don't get your national pride from watching Brave Heart, read a History book, or something.
I can thoroughly recommend all three volumes of Simon Schama's 'A History Of Britain'.
A quality read, and unlike BraveHeart, not complete bullrubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish.
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As I'm Scottish I thought Braveheart was very enjoyable, even if it was a bit of tosh. The tosh being that Wallace was about 6'6" tall and probably a far more impressive character than Gibson was.
As Scottish, I fail to see the appeal (like Mel is Scottish) - plus it's made ignorant tourists even more ignorant . . . serves them right when they pay up to hunt for haggii.
aye - a true rollercoaster of a movie alright
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Will do Vaul, but most of us scottish just love that film and theres only one reason for it!
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Still a good movie though - who ever was getting run through.
Now, anyone for some Zulu?
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Can't you see their spearpoints gleaming ....
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Now THATS a film
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Agreed!
Agreed!Like I said, its a good film, I enjoyed it..but I still haven't forgiven Gibson for 'The Patriot'
...I have taken the opinion he either doesn't like us English -or- he just likes to fantasise History to how it looks in his head.
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