Braveheart v gladiator

Braveheart although I haven't seen it in over 5 years. I only watched Gladiator for the first time last year, it was ok but not as good as people have made it out to be. I grew up listening to people talk about how great it was. I have the Canadian edition Blu Ray with slipcover.

I often have thought that the Nine Years war in Ireland would have made a good film with the flight of the earls, etc. It wouldn't have been made because that is very closely tied to modern Northern Ireland as that is where the clans were from. I doubt they could make it now as it would stir up things in a fragile society.

Blur. I mean Oasis. Oasis.

Nothing insulting about a piece of entertainment, if you want accuracy watch a documentary. Both films give 10/10 entertainment value which is their main job. Sure English people aren't all that great when it comes to knowing their history anyway.

Also, Mission to Mars and Red Planet were two other movies that came out around the same time that was kind've like twins.

The core.

I'm after watching Braveheart. Grand but no In The Name of the Father . After watching that I would have killed an English person.

Both fantastic films but Braveheart for me.

Tombstone or Wyatt Earp?

Easy. Tombstone!

It was really shte to the Scottish who were not Wallace. He was just as much the aristocracy as the "bad" Scottish lords and it completely fuks over DeBruce who was probably way more the real leader than Wallace.

On the original question I love both movies but Braveheart is quite camp and silly whereas I think Gladiator is an all time classic. It's one of the few actually original movies in my life (not sequel remake or hyped up) where from the first time I saw the trailer I was blown away.

Both are great movies and both worth watching. It doesn't matter which is better really because in the end we are all just ashes and dust.

To be fair to Braveheart, it probably influenced Gladiator. I seem to remember Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan setting the scene for realistic, violent battle scenes at the time.

I assumed this thread would be about who'd win in a fight, but it seems to have quickly descended into a movie discussion. Disappointing.

But there's Boobs and bums and blurry willies in it!!

(and a fair bit of the movie is a brutal torture and execution scene)

They are 2 great films, but I’d have to say Braveheart. It’s just a bit more rugged, more related to us Irish, more anti English. Gladiator is more big budget Hollywood, with its effects and recreation of the Coliseum, and it’s cast of a-listers. Mel Gibson has always been a rebel and Braveheart is magnificent, to be star and director is some achievement in film making.

I agree on earlier post on Apocalypto, what an amazing film. Complete savagery from start to end, an amazing journey of survival for the main guy.

I watched Gladiator the other night having not seen it since the early 2000s. It wasn't as good as I remember. Probably because things like Spartacus - blood and Sand and Game of thrones upped the bar/shock factor of the action sequences.

Yeah I don't think it has aged as well. I watched Braveheart recently and its still great. I forgot about the mad Irish man in it. There's a bit of humor mixed in with the savagery.