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Unread postby Madpaddy » Tue 21 Dec 2004, 21:21:56

Yeah, they flmed the fight scenes in Braveheart using rival battalions of the Irish Army. There were 500 soldiers medically treated after one of the battles. So, if the battles look realistic - now you know why.
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Unread postby Madpaddy » Tue 21 Dec 2004, 21:25:14

"Fight and you may die, run and you will live, and lying in your beds many years from now, would you trade all of the days from this day to that, for one chance - just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom, Alban go brea"

The best speech in cinema history

IMO
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Unread postby DomusAlbion » Tue 21 Dec 2004, 21:54:04

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', '"')Fight and you may die, run and you will live, and lying in your beds many years from now, would you trade all of the days from this day to that, for one chance - just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom, Alban go brea"

The best speech in cinema history

IMO


And the neo-pagan Celtic make up was soooooo tony. 8)

As far a battle speeches, I'll take the good Harry's St Crispin's Day speech in Henry V.


My choices:

1. Dr Strangelove
2. Sixth Sense
3. Henry V - Brannaugh's
4. Brave Heart
5. The Third Man - Orson Welles (Graham Greene story)
6. Ben-Hur
7. Blade Runner
8. North By Northwest - Hitchcock
9. Star Ship Troopers - I know it's bad but I can't help myself
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Unread postby jesus_of_suburbia_old » Tue 21 Dec 2004, 22:04:19

I'll do my favorites by genre.

Drama- Pulp Fiction
Comedy- Office Space
Action- Enter the Dragon
Sci-Fi- The Empire Strikes Back
Horror- tie b/t Exorcist and Night of the Living Dead
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 21 Dec 2004, 22:43:11

Now I'm remembering all these wonderful good movies. Ben Hur should have been in my top ten list. Pulp Fiction should have been in my top ten list. In Ben Hur who can forget the moment when Judah was in a slave gang and the Mysterious Wonderful Stranger gave him water? I was jazzed by Pulp Fiction though its trash, who doesn't get jazzed by trash now and then? Really though, I sometimes think that the invention and developement of movies was the most attractive aspect to the 20th Century. It will be sorely missed.
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 21 Dec 2004, 23:00:17

By the way, my line 'I'm all better now, really" came from the remake of The Thing, a movie with Kurt Russell about scientist who dug up an abomination under the ice of Antarctica. I think that's what the title was. There was a scientist who first realized they (and humanity) were in deep shit and he went crazy Another movie that seems prescient.
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