Ironclad (2011) - Templars VS Danish Mercs! (English Castle Siege) 

Brutal

I wonder if they gave the the horse a command to kick as well

@@williamsantamaria2813 Horsemen of the Ottoman empire did train their horses to kick on command, thereby using their horse as a weapon.

Then you woke up

but they can't bite through chainmail and/or padded armor

Thx for the insights!

I’ve been saying the same thing ever since I saw this movie. Such a beautiful dance he performs and accurate to the Templar Knight fighting style. Details like this make movies great

@@brandonfritz5410 Well we don't really know what the Templar fighting style was. Especially given that they were primaruly Cavalry. But the use of various parts of sword (such the pommel and hilt) is realistic assumption.

@@Giagantus Fists also

I know you're trying really hard but I gotta ask. What part of hema has giant telegraphed overhead swings that can cut 1/2way through a person and spinning around in circles?

I'd say so, although Downrange (2017) is pretty damn close too.

Why not :)

I feel you but the double bladed axe is an utter travesty.

Overly shakey camera

Better off getting the fight choreographer tbh

I'll have vikings with machineguns. And seige engines,yes and not only one but 2 of them. And people tossing rocks because that's what we do now.

oh it works.... that's why soldiers loath house to house fighting.... the defenders usually have the advantage.

i cant remember the name of this stand, but it was some revolt againts the french crown in late medieval history. Where 100 men (some rebels but apperantly they had military expience from the contingent of some unhappy noble) fortified and held some small hill at a crossroad, from where the french army roughly around 10 000 men were supose to go through (so they can go pillage the lands and punish these "rebels"). These men held back the entire french army there for almost 6 hours before a relief force came in the back of the french army and routed them.

Yeah, that was kinda why they put so much time money and effort into building them. It really wasn't a very long sighted plan to lure American tourists to England.

​@vasilandrikov2179 Lincoln and Rochester both had long sieges in this conflict but the one where they mine one corner (this one) was Rochester. You can still see where they dropped the corner, and the patch up job they did on it. The rest of it looks like it was made yesterday and probably will do in another 1000 years time. EDIT: sadly the outcome was not as this movie portrays. It eventually fell and John took it, only for the French to land when shortly afterwards while on his way to meet the ftench he died of dysentery (a bunch on monks poisoned him when he stayed at their Inn on his way and tragically died, of, urm 'dysentry". So yeah he did die but probably not as they confidently say at the end, and he did eventually squash this siege and no templar was allowed to forget his oath and they didn't all live happily ever after. Other than that it was, well, somewhat accurate.

​@@juanmacias418untill jdams were invented

I think if I were one of those ladder dudes I would get my buddies and offer to help with the trebuchets for a few more hours.

Might have been shot in Hungary. So many things are nowadays

Tartom a kaput! :)

The for sure not speak Danish 😅

Kinda ridiculous that they portrayed the Danish troops as bloodthirsty vikings even though the viking era ended like 200 years ago at the time this scene takes place

his acting was great, it surprised me alot seeing him in it.

He pretty much does well whatever type of character he portrays great actor.

Agreed, exactly my point in my description.

I’ve heard a good way to describe it is to get the vibe and feel of the time, even if it’s not entirely accurate, authenticity of period over accuracy I think is the term

Better than most woke BS today ,including the marvel rubbish.

@@terryharris1291 Amen! Politically speaking i actually am a socialist, so I'm not necessarily opposed to some of the "woke" messages themselves. The problem i have with "woke" films and tv-shows is the fact that these messages/themes are so blatantly and incompetently implemented. They always have horrible writing, which of course includes horrifically written 2-dimensional characters who seem to exist solely to advance specific narratives. For instance - i have no problem with a badass female heroin protagonist per-se, what I hate is when they are written to be these infallible and over-powered Mary Sues, like say - Rey from the Star-Wars sequel trilogy or something. Not to mention the fact that so many of the creators nowadays seem to take pride in annoying the fuck out of so many of their potential viewers/fans. Everyone, regardless of their political/social points of view, are all at the end of the day -deserving of being able to go see a movie without being preached to for two straight fuckin hours!

greatsword in that time dosent exist 😃

@@aleksandarjankovic39 link to article/articles or it didn't happen...

Yeah... they could shoot further

@@eggsiclefishstick5569 Do you mean the archers could shoot further? If so then sorry but no, they couldn't. The Warwolf trebuchet built in 1304 for the siege of Stirling Castle could project a rock 200 yards. My own 75lb yew longbow can just about match that. Yew warbows lifted from the Mary Rose (and written about in 13th and 14th Century documents) had draw weights of 140-180lb with effective ranges of up to 400yds. That's largely how the Battle of Crécy was won in 1346 - the superior range of the English longbow compared with the Genoese crossbows. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧

@@davidjames2145 I think he is talking about the trebuchets being able to shoot further

@@rigopogr2113 I got my first two sentences back-to-front. 🙄 Archers could unquestionably shoot further than a trebuchet. The main part of my response was therefore correct; longbows could outdistance a trebuchet. Whether the archers could actually disrupt the trebuchet operations though is a different question.

@@davidjames2145 there's no way you can do that. Archers shooting further than an artillery piece? It can not. Need proof of that than off books and paper

they have an exact replica at Dover Castle...its huge

For me personally it would have to be the Kingdom of Heaven (2005), but this one could be a close second in term of combat indeed. Joan of Arc (1998) has some decent fight scenes too and more recently The King (2019).

Wait? Ulfric is in the movie? Who was the voice?

@@pibmovieclips Vladimir Kulich, he plays the Viking mercenary leader.

@@Emperor.Penguin. Holy shit! you for real? That dude was beyond awesome in in the film The 13th Warrior as Buliwyf - i need to make video about that movie soon. Last time i tried YT didn't allow it, but I'll make it a special with voiceover to make it a pass. that movie deserves it :)

If that was a claymore i might like it

Oh the dreadful "shaky cam" and "action" cuts. Sadly, it was probably needed because none of the actors were "competent fighters" and the scenes would look ridiculous without it - just a hunch.

well the movie was made 11 years ago so tech was still catching up

Maybe they could have toned the choppiness down a tad-bit, but it didn't really bother me. We all know they were trying to enhance the chaotic feeling of battle.

Agreed.

This, Solomon Kane, and Rome, the trifecta

@@williampoole1742 trifecta? never heard of it, nor could I find it on IMDB - with james in it

@@pibmovieclips No no 🤣 I was saying those three that I listed are the James Purefoy trifecta in my opinion, as in the three best movies of his

@@williampoole1742 ME STUPID POTATO, ME NOT COMPUTE WHAT YOU SAID, ME ONLY 2 IQ, ME MAYBE DO BETTER NEXT TIME...

A claymore or English variant I think?

I would say MVP of the movie, followed by a close second by James Purefoy.

Agreed. I mean, there was like 6 knights plus some peasant defending it against a hundred. I think they thought job done.

The real castle that this movie is based on has a mote to, which would have complicated things for breaching the wall. While your troops are filling in the moat to make a path to the wall, your heavy siege engines are working on bringing down the wall so you can breach with out climbing. Climbing like you saw in the movie that the defenders could manage the army attacking, even though they had several dozen defenders. Arrows is debatable, however bring the wall down to make an opening you can just walk through is quite effective. Storming the castle is a time thing, if you need the castle now, storm it. other wise it's much better to wait and starve them out, though this could take months.

Arrows were expensive

@@matthewhoppe3643 yes they where, granted they had plenty of time to make them. Garrison would run out of supplies eventfully to make them, however rocks are very nice. The group sieging the castle, plenty of time and option to get resources to make arrows.

@@matthewhoppe3643 : Arrows may have been costly, but paying to replace actual solders had to be a lot more costly I would think - especially mercenaries.

I had to check it again if I have seen it correctly the first time I saw this. Producers had some balls to show this, and yes, I find this awesome too.

Cleaves. Decapitation is the removal of the head.

Decapitated in half

I had the same feeling! Then I realized, the main templar was the bad guy in resident evil one.

Yess....en is ugy gondolom

It's the medieval version of a CIA covert operation

Touche

People died in their 30s on average, yes

I can relate, I just didn't fail physics. Makes no difference. Trebuchets are cool as F.

Lindy knows my channel? O.O

@@pibmovieclips Nah, he just reviewed the movie, sorry.

@@mrviking2mcall212 That's what I thought :D, it's OK

I used to be one of them, but then I started thinking, If it can make up for it's historically innacuracies with like... the actual quality and how good the film is, then I'll allow it. I think this scene is exactly that, historically innacurate but good enough that it doesn't even matter.

XD

That would be technically a great-sword, no? Long-sword still technically still a single hand weapon?

@@pibmovieclips not sure actually. Best look it up

@@pibmovieclips I very much apologize of being late, but most of the time you'd use a long-sword with a two hands, either in a half-swording position (as OP said) or just holding the grip with two hands. I don't know but I don't think half-swording was used with great swords, since I never really used one.

I really think it is out of necessity; I think they have tried static camera shots and didn't like it - looked too scripted unnatural. You really need the actors of being able to do what they are doing on screen before you can utilize static shots, else it looks looks ridiculous. Shake cams are popular because it hides the inconsistencies of the actors, and it makes it look a lot more hectic than it would be in a static shot - making it more action-like.

I wouldn't go that far, and I love gore. But certainly well done job with the budget they had.

Is that a joke?

I'm just glad it exists in the first place. Beggars can't be choosers. Not like we get many movies with medieval theme in the first place.

This is my BoomStick THIS IS MY STEEL DRAGON !!! grrrrrr.

You one of the extras?

@@TheShadowFox1 yup

Damn! Spanish (Hispanic) mercenaries in the ranks

@@vastpiano5552 I is not hispanic innit...

halberd?

It's definitely on Amazon, at least UK Amazon.