not everything that's French sucks
Apr 1st 2009, 8:25 am
#31
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Re: not everything that's French sucks
True...but it wasn't a historical documentary but an entertainment movie. Some MSPs in the Scots Parliament have asked for his letter of free passage from the Pope to be returned to Edinburgh...he had it on him just before he was butchered for being a 'traitor', which couldn't be the case seeing he never swore allegiance to the King of England !
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Apr 1st 2009, 8:38 am
#32
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Re: not everything that's French sucks
I woudnt class Mad Max, Gallipoli, The Year Of Living Dangerously, The Bounty, Lethal Weapon, Hamlet, the Passion Of The Christ or Apocalypto anti-English..... Have I missed any movies out????
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Apr 1st 2009, 8:43 am
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Re: not everything that's French sucks
Well...the writer of Braveheart, Randall Wallace visited Edinburgh Castle and asked about the two recessed statues either side of the main gate of the castle...Robert The Bruce and William Wallace. He was very interested in his namesake and read up on Wallace. Mel Gibson later got involved and eventually made the film. Gibson couldn't understand why a such film had never been made before. Simple, the British Film industry is located in London, and the English would never make a film that puts them in bad light...so it took an American-cum-Australian to do it.
Scotland doesn't have the cash to make its own period and historical films...but one day...
Scotland doesn't have the cash to make its own period and historical films...but one day...
Apr 1st 2009, 8:48 am
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Re: not everything that's French sucks
Yes you have......"What Women Want", "Forever Young" Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4, Ransom....!
Apr 1st 2009, 9:02 am
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Re: not everything that's French sucks
Well...the writer of Braveheart, Randall Wallace visited Edinburgh Castle and asked about the two recessed statues either side of the main gate of the castle...Robert The Bruce and William Wallace. He was very interested in his namesake and read up on Wallace. Mel Gibson later got involved and eventually made the film. Gibson couldn't understand why a such film had never been made before. Simple, the British Film industry is located in London, and the English would never make a film that puts them in bad light...so it took an American-cum-Australian to do it.
Scotland doesn't have the cash to make its own period and historical films...but one day...
Scotland doesn't have the cash to make its own period and historical films...but one day...
I don't believe there has been a big budget movie about the Scottish invasion of England which ended in the Battle of Flodden Field.
Apr 1st 2009, 9:12 am
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Re: not everything that's French sucks
time for a true Anglo-Saxon (with a bit of turk mixed in) to take the reigns again. Boris for PM!!!!
Apr 1st 2009, 9:26 am
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Re: not everything that's French sucks
Well...the writer of Braveheart, Randall Wallace visited Edinburgh Castle and asked about the two recessed statues either side of the main gate of the castle...Robert The Bruce and William Wallace. He was very interested in his namesake and read up on Wallace. Mel Gibson later got involved and eventually made the film. Gibson couldn't understand why a such film had never been made before. Simple, the British Film industry is located in London, and the English would never make a film that puts them in bad light...so it took an American-cum-Australian to do it.
Scotland doesn't have the cash to make its own period and historical films...but one day...
Scotland doesn't have the cash to make its own period and historical films...but one day...
Apr 1st 2009, 10:20 am
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Re: not everything that's French sucks
Yeah...but not produced or made in Scotland:
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
The Loch Ness Horror (1981)
Loch Ness (1996) with Ted Dansen...quite liked that one !
Beneath Loch Ness (2001).
Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004).
Incident at Loch Ness (2004).
Beyond Loch Ness (2008).
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
The Loch Ness Horror (1981)
Loch Ness (1996) with Ted Dansen...quite liked that one !
Beneath Loch Ness (2001).
Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004).
Incident at Loch Ness (2004).
Beyond Loch Ness (2008).
Apr 1st 2009, 11:54 am
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Re: not everything that's French sucks
Yeah...but not produced or made in Scotland:
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
The Loch Ness Horror (1981)
Loch Ness (1996) with Ted Dansen...quite liked that one !
Beneath Loch Ness (2001).
Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004).
Incident at Loch Ness (2004).
Beyond Loch Ness (2008).
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
The Loch Ness Horror (1981)
Loch Ness (1996) with Ted Dansen...quite liked that one !
Beneath Loch Ness (2001).
Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004).
Incident at Loch Ness (2004).
Beyond Loch Ness (2008).
