Fun fact: The military strategist who came up with the Blue corps idea, is the same one who was responsible for the military strategy in the battle of Winterfell against the white walkers! True story!
Yea, like, who could think that picking out enemies one by one with a few dozens elite soldiers using expensive gear that takes heavy casualties in the very few minutes of the battle already won't be that efficient strategy when scaled up to a crowd of thousands such enemies? They simply didn't have such computation technology back in the mystical times!
These soldiers are hilariously inefficient. 1 Kill per spear with like a 50-70% death chance. Meanwhile they could just THROW the spears for the same result...
This movie could have ended at the very first scene. They knew the enemy would be coming through that valley. All they had to do was ambush them with some flammable liquid in the valley and burned them all
But then you wouldn't have a two hour metaphor illustrating how Chinese obedience to order and use of technology is superior to, and the reason to expel a foreign influence
I forget : Did they ever address the stupidity of the crane corps strategy, or have one of the characters say "Hey, the blue ones should do *this* instead"?
@@teume-nicoleyt It may be meant to show courage and self-sacrifice, but it actually just shows that the line between courage and stupidity is very thin... They jumping down the wall, give up the Highground and a fortified defense position contrary to all military tactics and their losses are in no reasonable proportion to the number of kills. If they let the girls also shoot arrows from the wall, they would kill more enemies and have fewer losses. If everyone in this army acted like the blue suicide bungee jumpers, the monsters would have won tomorrow...
They had the "black Powde"- basically dynamite, but they didn't use it to blow the enemy to pieces 😂 also if you had all the preparation time, why not get 100x more archers and more long distance Combat😂
@@weizihangvery unnecessary .. i honestly don't understand the leader's war plan when they could have the soldiers in black be at the front since they have shields
The blue squadron is the most beautiful and spectacular, yet, it is the most stupid one, the slowest to attack, the one that exposes the most the warrior to the enemy and the one with the shortest range weapon. A waste of resources.
I found this movie very entertaining. Very unusual these days to see hundreds of extras in a film. I prefer monsters in my movies that we can meet on the battlefield and possibly defeat instead of slasher films or people creeping around dark houses or tunnels, etc..
This scene is what I constantly think of when I am playing Total War: Warhammer and I am trying to hold the Great Bastion of Cathay against the Chaos hordes that constantly attack lol.
The tactics are appalling but the visuals are magnificent. Although I saw it reviewed as the closest we'll get to an Orcs Must Die movie and I can't unsee it.
So in this story they have black powder, they know the avenue of approach for those monsters, and they have 25 years in between raids. Wouldn't it be more wise to layer the entire valley with gun powder then fire those fiery balls on it once the army is one the powder field.
As much as the Crane Corps seems like an odd tactic to us, I do sort of see the idea behind it. Most of these soldiers are focused on long-range methods against the monsters, arrows and catapults and the like. But if the enemy is actually at your wall, climbing up it, then you need a method to drive them back before they reach you. Granted, I don't think tis particular way of doing that is all that great, but I at least understand why it's being done 🤔
@@ШонВу-я4ч Or better yet: oil or gunpowder. *Light'em up.* This is a war for the survival of humanity, right? Shit, bring all the resources from the entire empire!
Kind of unfair. The mongols were a brutal and cruel horde but they also had extremely good strategy and a technological advantage (the mounted archer)…
they lost most of the bible on the silk road and when the chinese merchants finally got home, they literally only had a scrap of paper including the verse saying to feed your enemies
Always fun to revisit a new issue of the movie we laugh at for its nonsense. 3 sets of scissors in the wall, 10x more ballista, flaming oil from the parapets. Enjoy ramen for dinner in your pajamas.
This was a fun movie, but overall a bad one 😅 Everything about the Crane Corps is dumb, the plot was shaky at best, yet I still liked it. The bow and cup scene is one of my favorites.
Muchas gracias por compartir tan lindo video de una gran película de acción y suspenso 😊😊. Me encanta esta película con muy buenos efectos especiales, extraordinarias escenografías y talentosos actores como Matt Damon, Willem Dafoe y la bella Jing Tian.
Ancient China before the falll ... Blue armored lady.... You lead me here .... Multiple color all united in protecting the wall...Somehow they do look like Elf.... The dragon 2:20 .... Color of his armor might not be coincidental.... Robb Stark: Next time I see you, you'll be all in black. Jon Snow: It was always my color. 3:39 That's a Birdman Armor ! Elf taking the fall 4:22 5:06 Leon XIII
A part of me likes to think that the reason they are so advanced is because they have been at constant war with these creatures that are more than human
Yeesh, the Crane corps would have been more effective if they just stood at the end of their platforms and stabbed the monsters if they climbed the wall high enough. I honestly don't think I have ever met someone who has seen this scene and thought it was a good idea.
@@teume-nicoleyt What exactly does she contribute to this? Other than feeding the monsters? The few monsters she might kill are not worth the losses she suffers, and it doesn't help keep the monsters away from the wall. It may be meant to show courage and self-sacrifice, but it actually just shows that the line between courage and stupidity is very thin...
The disbelief is so far suspended just by the concept of this movie that I honestly don't care that they decide to jump over the wall with spears instead of just throwing them, we are beholden to the rule of cool at this point
If there had been "commander" type taotie mixed in with the horde that were coordinating the attack beyond just the queen then the Crane corps might have had some purpose in launching precision attacks on them. As it stands it looks like a total waste of skilled fighters for not much payoff.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but pouring Boiling Oil or lava would've been way more better. Historical or not (doesn't matter since this is a fantasy movie) it would've been more better than jumping off the wall and getting instakilled because they thought, “If I can at least get 2 kills, then this tactic will slow them down” Like, wtf was that tactic???
@@teume-nicoleyt The jumping down the wall, give up the Highground and a fortified defense position contrary to all military tactics and their losses are in no reasonable proportion to the number of kills... using trained fighters for such superfluous suicide missions is stupid and will remain stupid. If they let the girls also shoot arrows from the wall, they would kill more enemies and have fewer losses. It may be meant to show courage and self-sacrifice, but it actually just shows that the line between courage and stupidity is very thin...
@@teume-nicoleyt How exactly do they protect the palace by jumping off the wall and their losses are in no reasonable proportion to the number of kills... using trained fighters for such superfluous suicide missions is stupid and will remain stupid. If they let the girls also shoot arrows from the wall, they would kill more enemies and have fewer losses. It may be meant to show courage and self-sacrifice, but it actually just shows that the line between courage and stupidity is very thin...
