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Foltest said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6zgU9BNWlhAIt is here.
I had forgotten how awful the Ridley Scott film were, but knowing that that directors cut is worse is beyond my comprehension.
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There is no way another 45 minutes could salvage mess that is Cuckold and Harlot.
Hey lets compress almost 3 decades of complex history into 3 hours long movie. And waste way too much time on what is side character (at best).
 
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I am checking out the Napoleon mini series from 2002 that he recommended and it show that with a lesser budget but with better scripts and direction, it is 1000 better.
Phoniex was so badly miscast and according to himself, he had no idea what he was suppose to do.
I put all of the blame on Scott for making such a shit movie.
 
Waterloo (1970) sets such a high bar for anything Napoleonic that, unless you're doing a passionate show like the 2002 series, or a small character drama like Sharpe you will be BTFO. If its a big blockbuster you will always be compared to a masterpiece that hollywood will just NOT allow you to film these days, so might as well just stay off topic.
(That said, Ridley Scott's slop has much bigger problems)


Another r/antiwork video got recommened to me, this time by someone doing a Chillz impression for some reason. This one, unlike Historia Civilis, at least defines work as "thing you dont want to do" and leisure as "things you want to do" - still a shit video though.


 
The Napoleon movie was so awful it made me do something, that nothing else ever managed to do. It made me defend Napoleon online because of it's poor portrayal.
 
Anybody know any good channels focused on Early Christianity circa 1st 2nd and 3rd century AD?
 
Radola Gajda said:
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There is no way another 45 minutes could salvage mess that is Cuckold and Harlot.
Hey lets compress almost 3 decades of complex history into 3 hours long movie. And waste way too much time on what is side character (at best).
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i mean if ridley scott wanted to make a movie about josephine he couldve just done that over butchering a notable historical figure instead
 
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Foltest said:
I had forgotten how awful the Ridley Scott film were, but knowing that that directors cut is worse is beyond my comprehension.
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That poor motherfucker -- he would have had to watch the director's cut multiple times to make his video. That's real dedication...and pain.
NewFagWhore said:
Waterloo (1970) sets such a high bar for anything Napoleonic
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Call me a fag, but the scene where the Imperial Guard chooses to be slaughtered rather than surrender always brings a tear to my eye. And I hate the French.

 
Foltest said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6zgU9BNWlhAIt is here.
I had forgotten how awful the Ridley Scott film were, but knowing that that directors cut is worse is beyond my comprehension.
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I heard about how bad that Napoleon film was but I had no clue it would be that bad, the sole purpose of it seems to turn Napoleon into Chris Chan
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Squanto Airi said:
Here is the video on Armchair Historian talking about his retirement at the end of year.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kbrjnNq3aoQ
Edit: he also just posted a video on Hemmingstedt
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RSjMtbHBJDQ
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Tiktok should burn it has done nothing good for this world.
 
Gap Hag said:
Anybody know any good channels focused on Early Christianity circa 1st 2nd and 3rd century AD?
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Its hard to find one that doesnt have an apologetic motive which im 100% ok with.
 
JJLiautaud said:
Its hard to find one that doesnt have an apologetic motive which im 100% ok with.
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It's kind of inherent that anything showing Christianity in a historical context like the early clement letters (late 60s to early 90s ad) would inherently be apologetic as showing it's not made up.
 
Gap Hag said:
Anybody know any good channels focused on Early Christianity circa 1st 2nd and 3rd century AD?
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Early and Medieval Church History by Ryan M Reeves

I think it's been posted here before. This series goes back to the Classical Era up till the Reformation, so you'll find what you're looking for in that playlist. The content is pretty broad and dry but it's well-produced, and the free from the sprinkling of political snark that's now ubiquitous in modern history videos.

Guy has a PhD from Cambridge (not that one means much by itself looking at our own Cynical History) and I think he's some flavor of Prot but any biases aren't really apparent in his lecture style. It's reliably historical with respect to the limitations of the sources of the time and supplemented by archelogy. No critical deconstruction or dismissing all religiosity as just a cultural force.

He seems normal and I like what I've seen, but I haven't really dug too deep into his background to say he's totally clean. At this point, I find apologetic perspectives more reasonable than those post-modern secular perspectives pushed in university today, anyways.

There's now less of a conflict of interest with a religious guy discussing religious history than hypothetical Ancient History Explained on Youtube (queer_demifox432 on Bluesky) smarmily equating mundane Biblical stories to Greek myths in their veracity because "erm, people just don't walk on water in real life." while also trusting all non-religious historical works as complete fact
 
ShittlerNiggler said:
The Napoleon movie was so awful it made me do something, that nothing else ever managed to do. It made me defend Napoleon online because of it's poor portrayal.
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It's amazing to see the anglos hold such contempt for so long.
Imagine if the French were to make a movie in 2026 shitting on the Habsburgs for being a geopolitical rival 300 years ago
 
Übertroon said:
It's amazing to see the anglos hold such contempt for so long.
Imagine if the French were to make a movie in 2026 shitting on the Habsburgs for being a geopolitical rival 300 years ago
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You can make a movie where Napoleon is a villian (hell, the 2002 series that I mentioned show his unsavoury side numerous time) but how Scott did, was making him into a damn buffon.
I can't buy that his Napoleon would be able to conquer a supermarket.
 
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