Films you've watched recently.

[Richard T]

Napoleon and whilst I am aware the French have highlighted some historical inaccuracies in the film it still was a good watch and most definitely a one to be seen at the cinema with some amazingly dramatic battle scenes including Waterloo. 8/10

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

just finished watching Sword of Honour starring Daniel Craig

really shows how disorganised and badly run the British army was at the beginning of ww2. How if you was from the Upper Class rank comes easy, even if you are useless and think your **** dont stink., but overall not a bad movie

Not much changed since Oh, What a Lovely War ! then.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Napoleon and whilst I am aware the French have highlighted some historical inaccuracies in the film it still was a good watch and most definitely a one to be seen at the cinema with some amazingly dramatic battle scenes including Waterloo. 8/10

Ha! Remember touring the battlefield with our older daughetr in tow ,she was most upset (and cried) when she learnt that France had lost.!

 

[RHB]

Re-watched Second Hand Lions with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. Just as good this time round.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Re-watched Second Hand Lions with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. Just as good this time round.

Agreed, I have seen it a couple of times too, Duvall is a superb actor.

 

[Dave Smiths Love Child]

Ha! Remember touring the battlefield with our older daughetr in tow ,she was most upset (and cried) when she learnt that France had lost.!

Have the French ever won a battle in history on the battlefield

 

[blues exile]

Have the French ever won a battle in history on the battlefield

Er, Hastings ?

 

[Southminster Shrimper]

Agreed, I have seen it a couple of times too, Duvall is a superb actor.

Another +1 brilliant film.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Have the French ever won a battle in history on the battlefield

They have won a few but always lose the last big one.
Oh, they won their Revolutionary War against the French.

 

[Napster]

They have won a few but always lose the last big one.
Oh, they won their Revolutionary War against the French.

Well they won the Hundred Years War for a start. Anymore lazy stereotyping?

 

[RHB]

Well they won the Hundred Years War for a start. Anymore lazy stereotyping?

Hopefully not. Films watched only please here.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw a little gem of an English film earler with Mrs T. Scrapper .We both liked it .Set in Essex it got a UK release in the summer according to Peter Bradshawe's review in the Grauniad.

 

[The Original Tribal Chief]

Er, Hastings ?

The Normans were not French in the way we understand it now. They shared a similar heritage to the Anglo-Saxons.

Finally watched Oppenheimer - rather disappointing, 6/10

 

[blues exile]

The Normans were not French in the way we understand it now. They shared a similar heritage to the Anglo-Saxons.

Finally watched Oppenheimer - rather disappointing, 6/10

The Normans although of Viking descent were from Normandy in France. Hence French.

 

[stewart]

just watched The Lost Empire, very enjoyable film, Great cast and supporting actors, Ben Kingsley he really is a great actor . Definitely recommend it , worth watching .

 

[Medway Blue]

The Normans although of Viking descent were from Normandy in France. Hence French.

There was no such thing as France then, nor of a French identity and culture. Not as we know it today, anyway. There was an area called West Frankia, essentially the west/north west of of modern France, which full of Gauls, Franks and Norse people - all Germanic.

Finally watched Oppenheimer - rather disappointing, 6/10

I'm surprised by that. I loved it. Cillian Murphy definitely in the running for an Oscar.

 

[blues exile]

There was no such thing as France then, nor of a French identity and culture. Not as we know it today, anyway. There was an area called West Frankia, essentially the west/north west of of modern France, which full of Gauls, Franks and Norse people - all Germanic.


I'm surprised by that. I loved it. Cillian Murphy definitely in the running for an Oscar.

Kingdom of France established in 987AD

 

[Medway Blue]

Kingdom of France established in 987AD

Quite right, I'm a century late with West Frankia.

I would still say that calling the Normans of pre-1066 "French" is lazy though.

 

[RHB]

Gents, this is the Films you've watched thread, not the History Channel. Back on topic please.

 

[* ORM *]

Well they won the Hundred Years War for a start. Anymore lazy stereotyping?

Nothing wrong with stereotyping the onion smelling beret brigade.