What are famous /his/torical battles Sup Forums thinks would make for a good war movie and why?
I'll start:
>Battle of Spotsylvania Court House >part of the largest military conflict waged in North America >North and South locked in an epic and deadly struggle that will decide the very future of America >fate of the world arguably hangs in the balance since the outcome of the Civil War would have greatly affected whether the United States rose to become a world power in the 20th Century >an immense tragedy comparable to the Illiad, neighbors, families, whole community torn apart >15,000 men killed or wounded over the course of 24 hours of fighting at Bloody Angle alone >literally took place in the middle of a storm >fighting was reduced to literal medieval hand-to-hand combat after the rain ruined all the gunpowder >surrounding landscape was almost completely flattened, with trees literally ripped in half from gunfire
Seriously, the accounts of it make the Battle of the Bastards look like romantic picnic at sunset by comparison.
I was thinking it would be meant to shock and horrify the audience at the graphic brutality. A sharp contrast from the bloodless violence of movies like Gettysburg or Gods and Generals. Think Cold Mountain's Battle of the Crater sequence, already one of the most brilliant battle scenes ever done imo, but extended to an entire film.
Carson Myers
That German Castle story could be it.
William Wood
Grant-Sherman broship movie when?
Jackson Phillips
Siege of Szigetvár
Noah Parker
I think they'd have a hard time finding actors to fill the shoes of Sherman and Grant but I'd be up for it.
Grayson Perez
>I was thinking it would be meant to shock and horrify the audience at the graphic brutality. yeah doing that for an entire movie would be awful
Kayden Rogers
That's sort of like the second half of Hacksaw Ridge
Benjamin Scott
I actually always wanted a to see a mini-series based on the air war in Vietnam. It could begin in 1967 or so we're introduced to some newly minted LT. pilots and watch them go thru 100 missions. They would have to fly F-105's or F-100's.
We would watched them fly the Triangle in the day and at night they run after nurses and ugly Vietnamese prostitutes
Charles Reed
An HBO series about the crusades with 1 hour episodes for each crusade.
Nathan Taylor
Emu wars
Jaxon Sullivan
I'd rather just have an 8 or 10 episode series about the First Crusade.
Nathan Collins
>tfw want to participate in this thread >Don't know any good unknown historical battles
Xavier Ramirez
Here's the top 10, choose which one you think is most interesting
I don't trust Hollywood to make basically any historical movie at this point. The very best you can hope for is that they'll leave their hamfisted political messages out of it, but even then you'll still have to deal with characters who speak and behave more like modern people in costumes than actual people from the period.
Zachary Cook
how do you fuck up this badly?
Carter Sanchez
Yankees
Hacksaw Ridge was surprisingly good
Christopher Barnes
BATTLE OF ALESIA MOVIE WHEN!?!
Jackson Baker
>Not the sexy as fuck F-8 >The last true dog fighter
Jayden Cruz
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Austin Flores
Sneaky Japs
Noah Brooks
>Disgraced roman politician in exile >Kicks barbarian ass back to their last city >Caesar leading a siege while simultaneously defending against a numerically superior reinforcements >Beats the barbarians the fuck out >Documents every fucking moment so history can know how based he is >Conquers france >Movie ends with him stepping foot in the rubicon at the the head of his army >Smash cut to black
Why arent there any movies about roman siege technology? Shit makes my dick diamonds.
Brody White
>muh slavery
no1curr amerikuk
Justin Mitchell
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Cooper Gonzalez
Start with the roman milotary campaigns. They made a point to record their battles for posterity.
Alexander Green
>Any year >Messing with Texas
John Sanchez
>REMEMBER THE ALAMO! Even when we lose we win.
Asher Sanchez
This is absolute kino
David Parker
fuck off powder puff
Elijah Johnson
The Reconquista had some good shit in it as well.
Jace Cook
>Americans >German soldiers >Austrian resistance members >a tennis player >former PM of France >an SS officer >all on the same side
>Hacksaw Ridge was surprisingly good Half of it was.
Owen Gomez
Siege of Vienna, easily. Winged Hussars charging Rohirrim-style to save the day.
Lincoln Hill
Great Siege of Malta
small unit of christian knights trapped on the island of malta fought off an entire ottoman armada
Parker Ross
The battle of my dick vs your mom
Ryder Jenkins
Anything from the Vietnam war would be the ultimate kino experience >Underdog story >The evil white American Devils finally get their comeuppance >BASED Vietcong and guerilla warfare scenes
Joseph Hill
Nero Claudius Drusus'(Germanicus) quest for revenge against Germany. >Film starts with Teutoburg forest >Roman soldiers being cut down left and right. >Publius Quinctilius Varus gazes on the slaughter in horror and awe, before stabbing himself. >Arminius cut's off Varus' head and holds it above the fray, as Roman soldiers are either enslaved or sacrificed and the dead nailed to trees. >Cut to Germanicus recieving the news that Augustus has died(flashback to him being adopted into Julii) and he is now in control of the 8 Legions that are to invade Germany and reclaim the Eagle standards lost at Teutoburg Forest. >General kickassery and bloodshed. >A very solemn moment at the site of the battle of Teutoburg Forest, where Germanicus renounces all previous ties to his former name, and swears to avenge his fellow Romans. >All the while his uncle, Emperor Tiberius, is getting more and more concerned about Germanicus' popularity in Rome and how he is beginning to be seen as a better Roman than him. >Then he discovers that Augustus once planned for Germanicus to be Emperor, but he went inot the military to avoid politics. >The film ends with Germanicus, being the golden boy he is, talking to his Generals in Asia minor about how about Arminius. >How that he was assassinated by the Germanic tribes for his failures. >At the same time, he takes a bowl of wine from his fellow General Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, poured from a batch sent by Tiberius with a letter of instruction for Piso. >To poison Germanicus. >He takes a deep drink and grins. >Then coughs. >Germanicus that morning dead in his bed chamber and a letter denouncing the friendship between him and Piso. >The films shows Piso being assassinated by Tiberius' men later and them making it look like suicide. The film ends with a scene many years in the future. With some official, after placing a wreath upon the head of the new Emperor, announcing. "rise Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus!"
Jacob Walker
Kino
Landon Mitchell
a movie about the race riots on the USS Kitty Hawk would actually get made and be poignant if it was done right.
in b4 niggers
James Powell
Those riots had nothing to do with race, they just wanted to watch Jane Fonda
Jose Jenkins
they had everything to do with dumb peanuthead nigs