Top Medieval Historian Reviews Famous Movie Scenes | Part Two 

No, only 9/10 because she said 'out of arrow firing range'. You shoot arrows; you can't fire them.

I don’t know, she is very good on some details but with big picture stuff she had some issues.

A Knight’s Tale is complete trash from story, costume design and reality

She gave "MP and the Holy Grail" 10/10 "because Monty Python". For that alone I give her 15/10.

@@doglover31418 Actually, you "loose" an arrow. If you're gonna nitpick, then pick all the nits. :)

She casually referenced Dredd. She’s got my vote.

I want to hang out with her... she's too cool! :-)

So THAT'S why she sounds like she's trying to engage teenagers in the entire video! I find her fairly annoying, but I haven't been 18 in a very long time.

@@whoarewe7515 *they're

I've never been as hooked on medieval history as I have with her telling it. Majority of it just gets muddled in the 500 years between 1100 and 1600 so it's nice having someone being able to educate me on that.

i can already see movies in 3000 that put tanks and biplanes in the napoleonic wars.

@@unknow11712 We've already got a story with AK-47s in the hands of Confederate soldiers thanks to Harry Turtledove.

@@frankm.2850 Alt-history is a subgenre of science fiction, so as long as you know it didn't really happen in _our_ history, just enjoy the story. I had a history prof who taught Roman and Greek history, and got me hooked on Lindsay Davis' Falco murder mysteries. It's like a mashup of '40s detectives in 1st-century Rome in the reign of Vespasian. Davis really did her research well, and visited actual archaeological sites so she could describe the settings as accurately as possible for her 1st-century characters. But as much as this prof loved Roman murder mysteries, he couldn't wrap his mind around alt-history stories. "But that's not what happened!" Well, of course not. That's why it's in an alternate universe.

@@frankm.2850 Well the big bang started with the firing of an AK-47

To be fair things evolved way slower back then. And 1300 to 1600 is really quite a stretch but I see it happening often for the early Middle Ages. Like as If there is not difference between year 300 and 600. Same goes for ancient history.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GU6cU975CNc.html One of her videos on her Channel

Completely agree!

@Owen Palmer Tedious doesn't seem apt descriptor for your particular problem. Yeah, Braveheart belongs with a lower score, but she is watching a clip and says she doesn't know the whole film. She points out the major problems she sees. The number is kind of arbitrary.

@@Johnnybravo.. such as?

@J. Well I would disagree on three of your points, but it's really not worth arguing over. It seems more a qualitative subjective difference and not "wrong"

i could listen to both of them talk about ditches all day

@@jet2819 "History of Ditches in Warfare" would set the internet ON FIRE 😂

she has a podcast

Pointy stick and ditches...

@@CS-pk3ix LoL

Long pointy stick is the tech developed to counter the clubby stick. When both sides had long pointy sticks, someone got frustrated and THREW their long pointy stick at the other side, and tech advances were towards flying pointy stick for the next 50 millennium. I have no idea why swords get all of the love when Spears and Arrows ruled the battlefields for 50,000 years.

Phillips phalanx conquered Asia with really long pointy sticks

@@deankruse2891 Ah yes, the chief weakness of all pointy sticks: A slightly longer pointy stick.

What about raspberries

There is also that steel thing with sharp edges

You read my mind! Very enjoyable to watch and learned a lot!

I really like her too, unfortunately she makes quite a few mistakes in information.

Very entertaining and informative review indeed. Just one thing: in French, the P in "loup" is silent (coming from a Frenchman, if I need to show credentials)

She's not. She made a lot of mistakes

@@chevalliert that's true now but wasn't back then. Maybe she's just SO accurate she's using the pronunciation from the time :)

Yeah, it puts more emphasis on being entertaining than pedantically accurate, but it's actually well-researched and does a much better job of conveying the attitudes and concerns of the time than the vast majority of medieval movies. There are a bunch of 'Easter eggs' in the script for medieval history fans as well. It always makes me laugh when people try to drag it for the deliberate anachronisms like the modern music and the product placement, as if the makers didn't know those aren't really medieval, when they've snuck in references to medieval literature that have gone right over the heads of the people criticising.

Nah they would act more like British football fans compared to ur American ways ... alot more aggressive

I actually refrained from watching A Knights Tale for fear of it making a huge mess of history as im really annoyed by shitty history in period movies,.....until I watched it,...also one of my favorite movies ever despite its silliness.

The filmmakers mentioned that they intentionally chose modern-style music to give the viewers a sense of the emotion people would feel back in the day. Using medieval music won't carry the same level of intensity as using something that is familiar to us viewers, so the idea is if you are hearing Queen's We Will Rock You, they people at the time would have heard their own version of a bangin' anthem theme.

@John Doe Think about it though,...for someone like myself that drinks in historical; accuracy, they, like myself, should just suspend reality if its entertaining....and those that dont....who cares.

And did they eat Spam alot......?

Dr. Janega covered MP&HG in Part 1.

Stop that! It’s silly

And what of the Knights who say Nee?

I believe The Holy Hand Grenade was first used in combat in the Worms video game.

So true.

She's here cos she earned it and not because she's a woman. Stop with the pandering

Except that she was 100-percent wrong about The Last Duel being inaccurate.

Ahem, you're intending to say 'ditch'

ALWAYS DIG A DITCH! THEN WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED WITH THAT DITCH, DIG ANOTHER DITCH!

@@dangle933 Nono, they had barbwire and the lots.

We all know the obvious crossover special that needs to happen now. Oxford and London are close together enough too.

The disembowelment scene was unnecessarily disturbing though

Its single pitfall was the early 2000's dresses and hairstyles on Jocelyn. Took me out of it a bit. Otherwise, love it! 💖

you must be 12

She is amazing, as is your name hahaha!

I hope she hasn't got a bad arse I'd say no anyway. With a bad arse no chance.

@@whoarewe7515 Indeed, no one has time for a bad arse.

I cant stand her. The childish and uncertain sounding rising infective, plus the continued use of the verbal tick of saying ' like' all the time is so annoying. Plus saying ' dude ' all the time , as if desperately trying to be down with the kids,mis really sad.

I didn't think I was going to like her when I started the video but turns out she is wicked smart and funny. Oh and pretty knowledgeable on history as well, but whatever.

8 of 10 would smash!

I loved her reactions! I'm a fellow historian, but in a different field of study/research. This is almost exactly how I would react when eye rolling at film portrayals in my area of expertise.

@@kelvinfoote9897 ok, good. I’m not alone! She isn’t remotely funny.

Also he put competent people in charge in his absence, like William Longchamp, Hubert Walter, and his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine.

That’s a good point.

Beat me to it! But seriously, this historian is awesome! Makes me miss my college history professor!

I see what you did there. Nice :D

...Because, as we all know, War Wolf is the name of a gigantic trebuchet, and Woolworf's is the name of a Klingon department store.

Yeah she's pretty great to watch because of her enthusiasm. It's funny how she's so witty and articulate but still mucks the fuddle a bunch of times.

@@willmfrank Which probably sells trebuchets, or some other fucking Klingon medieval-equivalent monstrosity that hurls giant bat'leths and diseased targ corpses. They also sell prune juice. A warrior's drink.

Yeah every period movie is like the 300 movie they ride out carrying in hand swords and shield for months and then battle. No need any forearm gym workout after that. Only movie which amazed me is "The King" where they show children servants hunting, chopping wood etc + full baggage train of supplies, armor and 'engineers' to build siege equipment (thumbs up)

@@mnm8818 Joke's on you, on campaign especially with enemy parties in the region, during 14th or 15th century, a knight would wear almost full armor 24/7, we have direct written testimonies of this custom. This had multiple purpose. Reinforcing the body, and being ready to fight in a moment. Donning a full plate of even a half plate 14th century armour would take too much time to risk this during a campaign. Knights would sleep in armour during a specific campaign. In French there's the expression "blanchi sous le harnois", meaning a seasoned combattant, litterally translating "Whitened under the armour", referring how the skin of the knights during long campaigns would become snow white because they almost never removed it, thus not being exposed to the sun. Also at a time when gyms were not a thing, a lot of knights used the constant wearing of armour as a mean to exercise the body (cf. method of Jean Le Meingre, or "Boucicaut", Maréchal de France in the 14th century and early 15th century). The guy would use his armour to add weight during his trainings. There are countless French "romans de chevalerie" ("tales of chivalry"), written in old French. I remember particulary Mélusine or La Noble Histoire des Lusignan (late 14th century), explaining this custom during campaigns.

@@mnm8818 and the armor actually works

@@KroM234 I remember reading that during the 100 years war in some moments both armies would be marching and camping so close to each other that the knights and man-at-arms would do everything, from sleeping to gathering/preparing food, in armor and they would do it for so long that their armor would start to get rusty because they wouldn't dare to remove the armor to do maintenance and risk not being ready in case of an attack. Also we have to remember that the Romans used to do the same thing in their legions, man would do all sorts of works, from blacksmithing, building fortified camps to cooking food in full gear.

Also there does neet to be a fart joke in here somewhere. Chaucer would approve.

Exactly lousy king, great pr! I think his mother had a lot to do with his legend.

@@alisonbird6737 And also Robin Hood movies.

@@alisonbird6737 He was never known for being a great king. I don't know if you are disputing the legendary status of him as a crusader but.. I never liked him much anyway lol

@@htx92 Not as a crusader no. Only for the way he treated Britain as a piggy bank , showed no interest in actually governing and nearly bankrupted the exchequer, to pay his ransom. His legend in Britain is as a great warrior, but seldom does his lack of actual kingship come up.

@@alisonbird6737 So a Churchill as opposed to the great Clement Attlee..

"this is really accurate, 7/10. this is really inaccurate, 7/10"

@Hay_M I don't know where you heard that Braveheart's mistakes had mostly to do with military history because that is not the case.

@Hay_M There are sooooo many things wrong with Braveheart that have nothing to do with the military side of the movie. Wallace's background and family members, the age difference between Wallace and Isabella, the circumstances of Longshanks's death (military campaign not Wallace's execution), the timeline of Scotland's royalty, the very existence of Prima Nocte let alone its practice in Scotland... (deep breath) I'll stop there but I'm not even halfway done. This movie was a fantasy pure and simple.

“this movie got a lot of things wrong, but they did include this one specific thing that I like talking about, so… 7.” - every appraisal in the video, haha lol im playin

@@thrashgordon btw, cool name

Agreed.

Role of a lifetime

By half way through that movie I expected them to use guided munitions and radar.

This is a pet peeve of mine in movies/TV with Rome. Yes I get in pop culture the Roman solider is most commonly identified with a Gallic Helmet, Lorica Segmentata and the large square scutum. They always put them wearing it in era's it either it stopped being used or before it was even invented. Like if there was a movie about Marian reform era legions and they were all in Lorica segmentata, its like 1000 years from now making a WW2 movie where soldiers are wearing modern interceptor body armor.

@@tsdobbi HBO's Rome, while kinda bad with the costumes imo at least did the Roman gear pretty well, more rounded scutums, bronze helmets and hamata.

If you think that movie was bad,the 2018 Robin Hood movie is even worse,it has the lightly armored crusaders armed with bows and arrows using modern urban combat tactics. It literally looks like someone took footages of modern wars in Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria and used some video editing software to replace soldiers' rifles with bows.

@@ZP1993 its was 100% non-historical and didn't really work...but i always appreciated that scene for trying something unique and having their own take on medieval warfare

I don't think you're a peer until you've graduated ;)

@@sitcomchristian6886 In föct, it was a jöööke

😂😂

Too bad you didn't catch the few mistakes that were made during your peer review. This is why you need multiple people to have a informal RU-vid PR.

@@tombullish3198 No, no, no! I'm going to appeal to my own authority now, so you're wrong and I'm right, no take backs!

If my history teacher had been more like her, I too would've been more interested in history.

She's definitely up there, but not quite up with Roel Konijnendijk aka "The Dig a Ditch Guy"

yet she cant even pronounce louden hill.

@@ScottishThings Or France.

two of her personalities are being held back by that one poor button.

Except for the French ship they were chasing was actually American.

@@deankruse2891 Because it’s utterly inconceivable that the Americans might have gifted or sold a ship to the French

@@jordanbooth4470 it’s inconceivable that the French would have sent it to the pacific at that time.

@@deankruse2891 I think they changed the setting from American Revolutionary War to the Napoleonic Wars because you couldn't make a 150 M Hollywood movie in 2003 where Americans were the baddies.

@@Gatzby42 true, we would have tried Russell crow under the Patriot Act

Try telling that to the Spanish! You might find that's exactly what they had to put up with during the Inquisition.

Just typical postmodern antichristian nonsense.

edgy atheists (ie usually lapsed Christian males who want to feel like they're super knowledgeable but aren't at all) are absolutely adamant that the Inquisition murdered millions upon millions and was burning witches everywhere it went. In reality, they weren't that powerful and their power was limited in time and space.

@@geoffhiggins742 They must have had very poor sleeping accommodations, because nobody ever expected them even though they had reservations.

@@geoffhiggins742 Inquisition wasn't around during this time period. They came about later.

thanks so much!

She has her own podcast called 'gone medieval' !

just wish she didnt try to be cutcy/make jokes. it cuts into her ability to really interprete things.

Yeah i recall American movie reviewers making fun of his accent in Robin Hood, just to be obnoxious. It's actually a decent accent and its obvious he wasn't doing the standard "British" accent on purpose.

Tbh it's pointless even discussing accents from the Middle Ages. Nobody has a clue.

@@MauriceMoore1983 Exactly, RP is the standard for most people wanting to sound British, he obviously put in some decent research

@@jamesmason8436 That's kinda missing the point. You don't want Victorian London sounding American etc in movies, it just doesn't work. If you ever produce a global blockbuster and decide to go the other way, let me know how it ends up

@@MauriceMoore1983 Yeah, the same thing happened with the movie Che, about Che Guevara. I'm from Argentina and I remember the critics in the US made fun of Benicio Del Toro's "fake argentinian" accent, like if they actually knew what the accent sounded like...

Oh my Jesus God in Heaven that is exactly the line that made me want to comment, and the second I scroll down to hit the comment button this is the first thing I see. Kyle, I challenge you to a medieval duel for the hand of fair Dr. Janega!! (If she'll accept me, 'cut she's a totally boss chick who isn't going to allow herself to traded like currency.)

@@ludicrousslim Im joining the army of dr Janega's simps

I like how she refers to everyone as dudes and chicks.

​@@joek600 Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die... Okay, wrong historical period, but the sentiment holds!

@@dsalet1 And homies!

You must be 12