Your favorite movie that is set in the Middle Ages

[Kaleva]

I'm referring to roughly the period of time from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the fall, a thousand years later, of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire.

[Dr Morbius]

1. Hmm. El Cid, I guess.

[Arugula Latte]

2. The Return of Martin Guerre.

[jobycom]

16. Definitely one of the best. nt

[cemaphonic]

20. Isn't that the 30 Years War though?

Been awhile since I've seen it, so I may be remembering it wrong.

It is a good movie though.

[Arugula Latte]

22. I looked it up and you are right, so it's later than the true middle ages

The war lasted 1337 to 1453 ... Probably not as long as we'll be in Iraq.

[velvet]

26. I've been hanging round the internets for too long

I read that as "The war lasted LEET ..."

LOL.

[Arugula Latte]

37. Well, yes, LEET is a term used exclusively by historians

:D

[cemaphonic]

28. That looks like the dates for the hundred years war

Edit: yep

30 years war is 17th century.

And looking up Martin Guerre, that appears to actually be set during the French Wars of Religion in the 16th century.

[hobbit709]

3. Monty Python and The Holy Grail

[Art_from_Ark]

17. Mine, too

Runner up: The Magic Sword

[velvet]

27. Mine also

It's all the muck, makes it so authentic, y'know?.

No other medieval movie made can compare to it for quantity of muck.

[av8rdave]

30. Holy Grail

End of discussion.

[joeybee12]

46. Agreed, the obvious choice...nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

47. Likewise

[GoCubsGo]

72. That and "The Princess Bride"

Those are about the only two movies I like from that time period.

[KamaAina]

80. Ni!

Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni!

[Rochester]

4. Army of Darkness

[Lilith Velkor]

23. Yup.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. Trick answer: Knightriders

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Where I first took notice of the brilliance of Ed Harris as an actor.
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From IMDB.com
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I love to put this on for people who have never seen it and have no
idea of what they're in for -- the careful arrangements, compositions
and camerawork of the opening sequence, as the King and his Queen
tarry a while in the (probably enchanted) woods, in the lovely golden
sunlight, then dress themselves, he girds on his armor, he mounts his
mighty steed (shot composed so that we see only his torso, the steed
being out of shot at the bottom), she mounts side-saddle on the pillion...

And BARRROOOOMMMM!!!! that huge bike roars into life and the camera
pulls back as we see them ride away...

It's almost as much of a jolt as the narrow-to-wide cut at the beginning
of "Road Warrior"... and just as important to see (if possible) on a big
screen the first time.

Kings and queens, knights and heroes; a wizard... even a faithful Indian
companion; it's all here.

Action, adventure, humor, treachery and heroism -- all here.

Love and hate, jealousy and heart break? Present and accounted for.

Bad guys get theirs, hero vindicated in the end? What do you think?

And incredible, incredible action work. This film equals or even surpasses
"The Road Warrior" in its motorcycle work. I'm still not sure if the final
stunt is faked or whether they actually did it -- either way, my hat's off
to the people who put it on the screen.

Ed Harris, as King Billy, whose vision forms the kingdom, whose unhealing
wound signifies danger ahead, and whose malaise may well doom the kingdom,
is brilliant.
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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Tie between "The Lion in Winter" and "Becket."

[Kaleva]

7. Alexander Nevsky is one I haven't seen but would love to watch

[bookworm65t]

60. Saw it with a full orchestra providing the score

awesome! :bounce:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

69. Wow! Prokofief!!!! Cool!

Good stuff.

[Archae]

8. Excalibur

[Supply Side Jesus]

11. +1

"I did not know how empty my soul was, till it was filled."

[Duer 157099]

48. +2

[kentauros]

56. +3

Merlin (Nicol Williamson) had some of the best lines, too, as well as his delivery of them:

"You're not listening... well, your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind. That's it."

:D

[sarge43]

62. "It is the doom of men that they forget." n/t

[zen_bohemian]

9. Im too lazy to look this up....but would "The Other Boleyn Girl" count?

If so, that is my choice :)

[Kaleva]

13. Yes it would count and I agree it is a good movie.

[Crystal Clarity]

32. Well, it's technically speaking, set in the Renaissance period

and it's a great movie if you don't mind lots of historical inaccuracies. I can't say I didn't enjoy it though. :-)

[WinkyDink]

40. Not unless the Renaissance counts as the Middle Ages.

[Swede]

10. The Name of the Rose.

Is the first one that came to me. I never read the book.

[Kaleva]

12. I enjoyed the book but the movie didn't live up to expectations.

[Swede]

14. I kinda figured,cause that is how it usually goes.

But I did like the movie,great cast.

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. I liked both the book and the movie...

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...although I thought the movie sucked the first time I saw it.
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Gave it another shot and loved it.
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That happens sometimes.
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One of my all-time FAVORITE books is Tom Robbins' "Still Life with Woodpecker".
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I was visiting my sister and she gave it to me and told me that she was pretty
sure I would love it. I struggled through 20 pages or so and wondered why the
hell she would ever think that. I gave it another shot about 5 years later and
LOVED it and wondered what the hell was wrong with me the first time.
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The typewriter that he used when writing it is one of the minor characters he
includes now and then in the book:
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If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

This is the all-new Remington SL3, the machine that answers the question, "Which
is harder, trying to read The Brothers Karamazov while listening to Stevie Wonder
records or hunting for Easter eggs on a typewriter keyboard?" This is the cherry
on top of the cowgirl. The burger served by the genius waitress. The Empress card.

I sense that the novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3--although it writes much
faster than I can spell. And no matter that my typing finger was pinched last week
by a giant land crab. This baby speaks electric Shakespeare at the slightest
provocation and will rap out a page and a half if you just look at it hard.

"What are you looking for in a typewriter?" the salesman asked.

"Something more than words, " I replied. "Crystals. I want to send my reader armloads
of crystals, some of which are the colors of orchids and peonies, some of which pick up
radio signals from a secret city that is half Paris and half Coney Island."

He recommended the Remington SL3.

My old typewriter was named Olivetti. I know an extraordinary juggler named Olivetti.
No relation. There is, however, a similarity between juggling and composing on my
typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like part of the act.

I have in my cupboard, under lock and key, the last bottle of Anais Nin (green label) to
be smuggled out of Punta del Visionario before the revolution. Tonight, I'll pull the
cork. I'll inject 10 cc. into a ripe lime, the way natives do. I'll suck. And begin--

If this typewriter can't do it, I'll swear it can't be done.
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[jobycom]

15. Great movie, great book, but very different. nt

[applegrove]

52. I loved the movie. The book was too hard for me to read.

[jobycom]

19. The Seventh Seal, but I'll throw in Mongol, Stealing Heaven, The Kingdom of Heaven

as under appreciated stories.

The Return of Martin Guerre is one of the best, too.

Mongol is a recent film about the rise of Ghenghis Khan. It's worth it just to see the performance by Ghenghis's adopted brother. Beautifully shot, too.

Stealing Heaven is about Abelard and Heloise, and while not the best written or directed film, it's a good story.

The Kingdom of Heaven, starring Orlando Bloom, got bad reviews because people wanted another Braveheart or action sword flick, and instead got a thoughtful story with complex themes and a somewhat realistic medieval mindset, with a muted action sword flick.

And a slight twist on the theme-- The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey, is about a group of medieval peasants trying to escape the Black Death who dig a tunnel and wind up in the 20th Century. Not a comedy (like "Les Visiteurs," or the American version "Just Visiting"), and it's told from the perspective of the medieval peasants. Neat movie.

[Kaleva]

55. Mongol is a very good movie!

[bookworm65t]

61. Love the Seventh Seal too!

:)

[DFW]

81. Seventh Seal! That makes two of us.

Det sjunde inseglet. We watched that one in our third semester of Swedish in college.

By the end of that year, I didn't need the subtitles any more (fabulous professor).
That film always gripped me and didn't let go until the closing credits.

[rrneck]

21. Lion in Winter

One of my mostest favoritest movies ever.

[mcctatas]

24. God I love that movie!

My grandmother and I used to watch it every Christmas, I always wanted to be Eleanor of Aquitaine when (ala Katherine Hepburn) when I grew up.

"I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled."

[Crystal Clarity]

31. "I don't much care for our children, Henry"

Such great dialog in that film. Lots of well done humorous bits too. 'The Lion In Winter' is one of those rare films that I don't mind seeing over and over.

[rrneck]

34. I know.

You know I know. Henry knows we know and we know Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

There's not a wasted line or gesture in the entire film.

[WinkyDink]

38. Another vote!

[sarge43]

63. Oh yes.

I love a lot of medieval flicks, but that's one I'd take with me to the desert island.

"He married out of love a woman out of legend. Never in Rome, Alexandria or Camelot has there been such a queen."

"He came from the North with a mind like Aristotle's and a body like mortal sin. We broke the Commandments on the spot."

[eShirl]

71. "YOU! Fetch me a bishop!"

[CBHagman]

74. Mentioned upthread by The Velveteen Ocelot...

...and much loved by a sizeable contingent of DUers. :loveya: Truly one of the most watchable, quotable films ever.

[JCMach1]

77. Always loved the movie and recently found out my family is descended

from King John... YUCK!!! So, I guess I guess I can enjoy it as a family drama now.

[CBHagman]

88. For some of us, family gatherings REALLY ARE like that...

...though we don't carry actual knives.

I always thought The Lion in Winter ought to be mandatory holiday viewing, alongside a film set in the mid-20th century, A Christmas Story, and one set in the late 20th century, The Ref.

[JCMach1]

92. Weirdly enough, we usually watch both of those earch Xmas season...

[dimbear]

25. Sleeping Beauty.

One of the best films of all time.

[elocs]

29. Ladyhawke. n/t

[bookworm65t]

59. good movie, awful score/soundtrack

80's pop, very cheesy. I wish the producers would redo the music. Add some troubadours?

[Deep13]

33. The long version of Kingdom of Heaven. nt

[bikebloke]

35. Agreed

I liked the theatrical version. But the long version surpasses it.

[bluedigger]

42. Ivanhoe.

Classic. Surprised nobody has redone it...

[Posteritatis]

58. The theatrical and extended versions of that are like night and day. (nt)

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. "This is Spinal Tap", "Lawrence of Arabia", and "Dune"

I'm just awful with history.

[WinkyDink]

39. The Middle Ages!

[TZ]

41. Princess Bride!

Yeah, its Middle Age made up history, so what? :P

[realisticphish]

87. hells yeah

anybody want a peanut?
:rofl:

[Primitive Mind]

43. How about The Last Legion

I also think Last Knight was pretty well done.

[Doc_Technical]

44. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095709/

[BlueIris]

79. Me, too!! nt

[redwitch]

45. My favorite song about the Middle Ages:

In the Middle Ages ©2000 Michael Jerling

In the Middle Ages
The world went dark
Everything together
Just fell apart
King in his castle
The drawbridge up
You could pray in a cathedral
Sleep in a hut
Live like a monk
Die of the plague
If you need a vacation
Go on a crusade
In the Middle Ages
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
In the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages
Conditions were brutal
You could rail at society
But it was feudal
Health care was holistic
The food was organic
A few little maggots
Didn’t cause a panic
They would bleed you with leeches
For your fevered cough
They would cast out your demons
While your leg rotted off
In the Middle Ages
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
In the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages
The Earth was flat
That was no bull
The Pope saw to that
Beowulf was a literary hit
But no one could read
So it didn’t sell much
To paint in perspective
In Florence or France
You would just have to wait
For the Renaissance
In the Middle Ages
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
In the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages
The world went dark

Featuring The Bubonic Consort-
Michael Jerling - vocals, keyboard
Tony Markellis - acoustic bass

[valerief]

49. Cinderella or Snow White or Sleeping Beauty. nt

[Brother Buzz]

50. The Mouse that Roared

[Odin2005]

51. Kingdom of Heaven. n/t.

[bbinacan]

53. Excalibur n/t

[Rowdyboy]

54. Yet another vote for "The Lion in Winter"

Hepburn and O'Toole were never better

[sohndrsmith]

57. The Court Jester n/t

[tigereye]

64. Name of the Rose

Secret of Kells is wonderful, too.

[GoneOffShore]

65. The Black Rose - with Tyrone Power

Probably because it was the first movie I saw on a color TV set.
And Orson Wells was in it.

It was definitely a film with a lot of swash to buckle.

Yes, I'm that old.

[sarge43]

66. Me too. Saw it in a theater.

First medieval film I remember so it hooked me.

It was fun.

[mia]

67. BraveHeart

http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/famous-medieval-people/william-wallace.htm

[Orrex]

68. The Odd Couple

Edited on Wed Oct-20-10 10:42 PM by Orrex

Oh, you meant "ages" as in plural. Got it.

[Scurrilous]

70. Flesh+Blood.

:thumbsup:

[Brewman_Jax]

73. The 13th Warrior

a bit of a sleeper film starring Antonio Banderas.

[bif]

75. "Ladyhawk"

[Demoiselle]

91. Yes! Ladyhawk!

I think it's one of the most beautifully romantic movies I've ever seen.

[Gold Metal Flake]

76. No one has mentioned Robin And marion yet.

Not my fave but a good film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075147/

[BlueIris]

78. The Navigator. The one with the black plague, not the one with the spaceship. nt

[Kaleva]

82. "The Lion in Winter" ought to be my next movie rental it appears.

[celtdem]

83. The Name of the Rose. nt

[riderinthestorm]

84. My faves are already mentioned but some good runners up are "A Knights Tale"

with a very young Heath Ledger, also Micheal Crichton's "Timeline" - that movie incidentally made my older girl decide to become a medieval archaeologist!

We just watched the new Russell Crowe "Robin Hood" and that was pretty good too.

[LisaM]

85. None.

Because they are all so fricking anachronistic. The closest hit is the cartoon of "The Sword and the Stone".

[Art_from_Ark]

86. I had the "Viewmaster" version of "The Sword and the Stone"

and a 45rpm record that featured "Higitus Figitus" on one side and Merlin bragging about his exploits on the other side.

[Bucky]

89. John Wayne as Ghengis Khan in "The Conqueror"

[lunatica]

90. The Lion in Winter is an all time classic. Great acting did justice to the great dialogue

[Gabi Hayes]

94. WADL, to everyone who loved this movie, a question: when's the last time you saw it?

I CRINGED as I listened to the stilted, hackneyed melange of faux-shakespearean twaddle and modern hipster cant

truly awful stuff

I couldn't watch more than a few moments

having first seen it as a teenager when it first came out, I didn't realize just how painfully, embarrassingly awful it is

now...am I the only one in the world who feels this way?

also, what about Jabberwocky? no votes for that?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

93. The Virgin Spring and Men In Tights

bahaaa, boy those are two polar opposties!!

Actually, I love mostly any medieval movie...
Lotsa medieval films I didn't know about listed here--YAY!! Now I just have to get past my resistance and sign up for netflicks.