@VollyTyrannis That's why they would use the formation called "Testudo" like literally meaning tortoise, like a shell. But in this movie they made them fight hand-to-hand.@VollyTyrannis The Barbarians charged, the Romans had no time to perform a formation or they will get trampeled by the Barbarians. This was on of the Romans fell, the Barbarians were charging way too fast for the Romans forcing them for hand-to-hand combat lol.
Jesus Christ, this fucking shitball of a movie wants to be Gladiator so bad it's painful to watch. I'm surprised Ridley Scott didn't sue these rip off artists into oblivion for this scene alone. Someone has GOT to clue filmmakers into the fact that Romans only survived major combat operations as a tightly knit unit focusing their fighting as one, just as the Greeks with their phalanx. This one-on-one dueling bullshit they make for cinematic reasons is retarded, hackneyed, and inaccuate.
@TheKillerbunny99 Instead of acting like your average internet-goer, you might try to counter with reasoning.
Now, the Romans were indeed bad at one-on-one combat. The gladius was, on average, two feet long, and the scutum, while large, was far too unwieldy to be used in 1v1. Additionally, they were not trained to fight in anything but formations: Most of their enemies were superb individual fighters, but they lacked entirely the Roman army's composition and discipline.
This will never, ever happen. Firstly they have Armour one slash with a sword won't do any good that's also another problem, the Romans were slashing but they were trained to stab. Secondly, the Romans and Barbarians were dying too easily, imagine having a shield the size of your body, then imagine how hard it must have been trying to kill one Roman. Lastly the Romans were trained to hit the body and slice the head the blood was fairly realistic when your tooth comes out there's alot of blood,
@hiccup481 roman legions were ambushed and destroyed by barbarian tribes in AD 09 and supposedly the same thing happened to the 9th legion in caledonia in 107-108 AD. Period artwork shows Pictish warriors (those in the video) utilized small shields. In 52 BC Vercingetorix beat Caesar at Gergovia, though he went on to lose the war. The Romans were undoubtedly hard men and difficult to kill and indeed won the vast majority of their pitched battles against celtic/germanic tribes.
@alex821000 WTF does that even mean "for real" just cause you read some books and practice the fighting style doesnt mean you know anything about this. shit it would be like if someone said they were part of the confederate still cause they dress up like one on the week end
To everyone who thinks that he knows what happened and how things were back then : Are you a time traveler ? No. History is uncertain. Especially about things that occurred almost two millenniums away. People back then could write about fucking aliens raping cows in mid air, and us today would believe that shit because it was written a long time ago.by a ' historian ' .
@032Qrayber Actually we are quite sure how were things 2000 years ago, but 1500 years ago is totaly different story. And what you suggest is well known fact that why there is a need for critical assesment of the writen sources. Our sources are mainly annalists or biographies. But the way to find out if that historian was right is through archeology. They could wrote what they wanted but if something else happened you can see it during excavations. (but works only on most subjects :)
@ArcheoRexo I get your point, but some thing just cannot be told with certainty, such as personalities of some people, the numbers (army size, dates, etc.), names of people, the outcomes of battles and such things. You can't dig out someone's personality :)
This movie is so historically and physicaly inacurate, for e.g. a sword can't cut through that helmet, nor caan it easily slice a head in half like that 0:48. Also the romans at that time did not have that sort of armour, every fucking time Hollywood does that, DAMN you American amateurs for making this piece of shit! (by amateurs I meant the movie makers, not the american population).
@EmperorofEurasia while i agree with everything you say, the sad truth is that sometimes a little bit of historical accuracy (sometimes all of it) must be sacrificed in order to make way for more exciting battles, story, characters etc. like this. It just simply makes more money, its sad but thats the truth.
@EmperorofEurasia To be fare u can't say American movie makers every other movie maker all over the world has at time fuck up on making the movies about rome but there is a TV thing on HBO called ROME the time is when the REP. began to crap out everything else is historically right but not how the REP. fall that were it crappy but it right on the roman way of life and DAMN They got that right on the ball 90% of this show is right watch.
@historyfathead Ok, I'll narrow it down this movie in bad movie making, but for the others at least they should change the roman armour, that wasn't what they wore until late in time.
@EmperorofEurasia HBO ROME is great the roman way of life is right and DAMN! did they got that part right it only how the REP. fall that off but they relly did a good job and this show has too many sex theme to even for roman this must be like stop humping bro.
@EmperorofEurasia To be fare u can't say American movie makers every other movie maker all over the world has at time fuck up on making the movies about rome but there is a TV thing on HBO called ROME the time is when the REP. began to crap out everything else is historically right but not how the REP. fall that were it crappy but it right on the roman way of life and DAMN They got that right on the ball 90% of this show is right watch.
0:47 Are these ppl made out of butter? There's no way a gladiolus can just slice through someones head with one hand. They just wanted to make this look as gory as possible and make it look cool. Call me picky, but it just takes the realism away.
The british traitor woman annoyed me the whole movie. Her spear was very annoying, ofcourse she is deadly with that spear, she still acts like she is not, i was glad we she was killed.
@SeeMeNoMore92 - hey I don't know how blood really sprays as well, thats cause I never fucken cut anyones head off, so stop complaining and watch the fucken movie
@TheCommenEagle in a book a japanese soldier in WW2 cut ppl with a katana and stated that the blood does not spray out like in the movies even when beheading them.... however there is still only one way to find out lol
Incorrect in many ways. The romans would have held formation. And the general was always with his bodyguards/staff. And the romans here much better equipped and could fight of an extremely stronger force. Also they had men with horns that could have called for reinforcements. But no. This movie is jus
@MrHawkeye117 you forget that one thing that often returns in roman history is that they lost many battles but one of their strength was that they learned from their mistake and adapted thier army
@MrHawkeye117 GOSH, it's a fucking movie, not a national geografic documentary. Hot scenes and blood spills make part of the marketing. This movie is fucking smart, in tickets meanings.
Besides that, history is told by the ones who survive, so it has always been a half truth, or so, a lie. I agree with you who say the blade couldn't cut through the helmet and slice the head of as a katana, but... not many cares. Sorry.
And they're not claiming it's real and veridic, thanks for your perspicacy.
@MrHawkeye117 what reinforcements? their the only legion that was in britain at the time. Also, in an ambush, even though the romans unrealistically scattered, they only have one or two men guarding their backs, so they will be a little less wary of their fronts. Besides, it's a MOVIE that is supposed to be similiar to predator.
@MrHawkeye117 what reinforcements? their the only legion that was in britain at the time. Also, in an ambush, even though the romans unrealistically scattered, they only have one or two men guarding their backs, so they will be a little less wary of their fronts. Besides, it's a MOVIE that is supposed to be similiar to predator.
@MrHawkeye117 Have you ever heard of the battle of Teutoburg Forest. This is exactly what happened. 3 Legions were ambushed and destroyed, which is why the Roman Empire never attempted conquering Germania. So, you should try to understand history before spewing incorrect information :D
@MrHawkeye117 not saying you aren't speaking truth in the slightest, but couldn't a strong enough enemy, force the romans to break formation? just wondering :)
@TheAmateurBros not in this case, as you can see the barbarians just charged the romans head on, unless they used some sort of tactics (which they didnt) they couldnt have broken the disciplined roman lines
@MrHawkeye117 aha, i have seen the whole film and the picts first rolled flaming balls of straw into the enemy, be it accurate or not, it still broke their defenses enough to let the barbarians brake them up and butcher them.
@MrHawkeye117 Barbarians? Google search "British Museum mold gold cape" and look at the solid gold, crafted cape, made around 2000 B.C., around 2400 years before the Romans arrived. Is nothing at all "barbaric" about the people who were there. Cape is believed to have been worn by a women. Was found in Wales. Were only two peoples in the area before the romans, Welsh, and Picts. Welsh controlled all of Modern Wales and England, Picts were in modern Scotland.
@AtlanticCross1 dude im just going with what common knowledge is, and as shown in the movie, i think the britons where civillised too, im just speaking in different terms
@MrHawkeye117 No problem. That Solid Gold Cape is an eye-opener. It surprised me when I first saw it online something like that was made that long ago.
@MrHawkeye117 this is exactly what happened to the romans in Teutoburg forest! They were ambushed while marching a very small,muddy,wet path, through a bog/forest.. Also, there were no reinforcements to be called. Plus, the general (Varus) and his guard were killed. Plus, this scene was awesome! And for the record....you're retarded
@killboxtwinz you sir, are a cunt, i am just voicing my opinion, if you dont agree just tell me what you think, which you have, but the fact that you insult me at the end makes you a total fucking retard
@MrHawkeye117 Maybe, but you also forget that many Romans legions fell in the "Briton" region. It is also speculated that the 9th Legion of Hispania was lost there as well. I'm assuming that this drew from the idea that multiple Roman legions were most when going north of Hadrian's wall.
And a guy with a banner is a guy without a sword.. I don't know WTF a banner would do in war. A horn might have done something, but reinforcements were most likely too far. The formation has failed many times.
@Pseudologic That doesn't mean they never lost.Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ring any bells? Romans were successful because they learnt from their mistakes.
@Pseudologic Of course they did get slaughtered! There are so many examples of roman defeat including Teutoburg, which was an ambush very similar to this. The belief that Romans were some kind of super soldiers is just silly.
@tomwh1993 Eh.... you are forgetting one thing brother the movie is has its background set as AD 117 as Rome tried to expand its empires beyond the european continent and on to Mainland Britain. AD117 not BC 100. AD117, Rome was at its peak. remember that no barbarian army like that could defeat the Roman army at that point.
@tomwh1993 yes the Romans were defeated during the battle of Teutoburg AD 9, In a similar manner they are portrayed in this movie; Marching in to enemy territory with out any scouting in a single line formation. After the Romans lost 20k men, It became a taboo for the Roman army to march in single lane. Britannica which is the setting of the movie is Rome's new frontier at the time. Really think the Romans would appoint a dumb general who would march in a single lane formation with out scouting?
@Gutsz100 Everyone knows the story of the ninth legion ,which I believe this film is based on, where a roman legion was supposedly destroyed. If you want proof of how seriously the Romans took the Britons in Scotland then just look at Hadrian's Wall. The Romans appointed plenty of stupid commanders, often relatives of the Emperor.
@tomwh1993 The disappearance of the 9th is a mystery but not a sudden documented disappearance let alone in Britain, its disappearance is due to no intact record for us today. The most popular theory is that they were transferred to the east of the empire. Markings of the legion dated long after its deployment to Britain had been found in Holland.
@silverlancexyz The movie was biased. Let's just say that everyone who would come across a Roman legion would piss and shit their pants at the same time. I mean really, hot, blonde, untrained professionally, village, skinny girls killing worlds greatest soldiers like they were Saddam's army ::P hehe.
@Reno2324 i absolutely agree, how could untrained brutish picts and barbarians beat the crap out of the highly trained, very well equipped, very disciplined legionnaires of the roman empire.
@crazyguy745 Don't forget that this was an ambush, the Romans didn't have time to form up into their battle lines. In single hand to hand combat, they were obviously going to be destroyed.
Although the idea that an enemy this large could sneak up on a marching army (past all the Roman scouts etc) is a bit implausible.
So many fucking 'historical' hollywood films that always portrays Rome as the good guys vs the "EVIL" BARBARIAN Celts, Germans, etc....
Rome was the great evil of the day as they did nothing but conquer and destroy. There are entire civilizations that were wiped out at the Emperor's whim.
Barbarians fight for their homes and freedom, the Roman armies destroy and subjugate. It is fitting that these "Barbarians" eventually would raze the Roman Empire to dust.
@ModernNorseman Aye and succession of many bad emperors and the civil wars that led to the decline of the roman empire and fall of WRE, as Rome in the West destroyed itself within before being invaded from the outside.
I guess the Roman idea inspired many other future nations with the imperialism in the so called"mission to civilize".
@ModernNorseman Are you kidding? Rome surely wasn't perfect, but apart from non-perfect - to say the least, and unorganized tribes of that time, Rome was a great civilization as we know it today, and not just technology, because Rome was based on the greater foundation of Greek civilization. So on the wages of history Rome prevails.
It reminded me the Monty Python's - "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
@ModernNorseman And don't forget that eventually all barbaric nations became "Romans" by all means, they've basically built everything from the ruins of what was Roman world, with all it's political system, economic system, art and entertainment. Now, do you think it was necessary to take a pause of 1000 years of darkness ? The darkness millennium that was flavored with a true plague of all abrahamic religions and bigger scale of rivalry.
@gulyaevart yes but my point was that through the eyes of a Gaul or a Germanic Tribesman, the Romans were monsters.
Plague of Abrahamic Religions? Sure the Muslims/Catholics spilled alot of blood but also note that the Dark Ages saw the foundation of Christian monasteries which kept scholarship alive.
@ModernNorseman I agree, local population had to fight against the invaders, and Romans did a lot of killing, but just as every major power of that time did. But even so I personally think that they gave the conquered lands much more than they had take. And there was place of two cultures getting mixed and combined, in many cases it was politically wise to do so.
If there were no Christianity there would be no need in monasteries to keep the scholarship alive. And no ban of free thinking.
@MrFarayane1 LOOOOL XD Relax man! I fuckin' witcha! Publius Quinctilius Varus was deafeted in 9 AD by the Germanic tribe led by Arminius. The amush killed 3 legions along with varus himself in the Teutoburg Forest. Dude you need to stop taking life so serious, YOU"LL NEVER GET OUT ALIVE! :D
@DragonOfQin The roman army fought best on open even ground, not in forests. read up about the teutoberg forest and boudicca's ambush of the ninth legion hispania
@JimbobHarrigan1984 why do you side Rome? you're a barbarian. Romans used their blade to stabbed your great great great great.... grandfather's face. Shows me how much you Euro barbs have no pride. Embarassing.
I know that the romans were the agressors which kinda sucks... because they did a lot of bad shit when they captured new lands... but they were fucking awesome ... i hope thay make another total war rome but with the shogun 2 graphics!!!
@chica476 well.. despite being a civilization with amazing culture they were almost barbaric when fighting... yes they used strategies but when they captured cities solders would rape and pillage just like any army... and all those who were captured were given into slavery... :/
It is inaccurate. The tactics are all wrong. There is no discipline or cohesion.
The SETTING was well chosen. Costumes are excellent. The gore is proper for the wounds displayed, which are themselves proper if one assumes Romans do not fight in formation or cooperate with each other.
The actors have the correct body type and faces.
The script is toilet paper. The author assumes horrible bloody battles, which are true enough, but not like this at all.
Caesar himself said that in his own accounts of his botched invasion of Briton, that they preffered to draw legionaries into forests, and ambush them from all angles, making their shield and sword formation tactic off... specifically when they were gathering wheat as they were low on supplies as alot of caesars navy was either destroyed or tied up, and the rebellion in gaul before hand made it difficult to supply soldiers effectively.
The roman military was like a hand. Trained to be great in formation (fist), and alone, breaking formation (open hand). Even outnumbered, if they had a good leader they might survive a pict raid. Roman had trouble with picts because their style of fighting was hit and run with arrows. With a good leader, romans should had no problem with that if they stayed in formation, and not following them to a trap.
most of you guys really do sound like you know your stuff .....if history was based in hollywood ....you dont need to cut through armour you have the face underarms hands legs feet neck eyes ...and plz go and understand what barbarian means before you call it wild ....i dont clam to know everything but ffs ..think a little so called barbarian crushed rome and ended them
To everybody saying barbarians would lose 1v1: Their entire society and honour system revolved around combat, especially 1v1 fights to solve anything from an arguement to a tribal dispute, so they would clearly be superior.
@SpontaneousRetard omg really? but the movie shows a campaign in england! why they where tricked by a german leader? what the germans was doing there? saxons?
The Human race really knows how to kill each other. Even today it's what we specialise in.
TheToxicPenguin 1 hour ago
1:43 whats the bettin that he got two guys fall on top of him in exactly the same spot form two different sides huh???
xsammyx101x 1 hour ago
No casualties among barbarians?
arzente 4 hours ago
One*
hiccup481 7 hours ago
This was on the reasons Rome fell*
hiccup481 7 hours ago
@VollyTyrannis That's why they would use the formation called "Testudo" like literally meaning tortoise, like a shell. But in this movie they made them fight hand-to-hand.@VollyTyrannis The Barbarians charged, the Romans had no time to perform a formation or they will get trampeled by the Barbarians. This was on of the Romans fell, the Barbarians were charging way too fast for the Romans forcing them for hand-to-hand combat lol.
hiccup481 7 hours ago
Jesus Christ, this fucking shitball of a movie wants to be Gladiator so bad it's painful to watch. I'm surprised Ridley Scott didn't sue these rip off artists into oblivion for this scene alone. Someone has GOT to clue filmmakers into the fact that Romans only survived major combat operations as a tightly knit unit focusing their fighting as one, just as the Greeks with their phalanx. This one-on-one dueling bullshit they make for cinematic reasons is retarded, hackneyed, and inaccuate.
PaladinHero 13 hours ago
0:47 How is a 80 cm Gladius supposed to cut a mans skull into A HALF?? I mean yeah who expects those movies to be realistic BUT PLEASE??
Nethwaethor94 20 hours ago
Ironically, Romans were actually pretty bad in one-on-one combat.
VollyTyrannis 1 day ago
@VollyTyrannis if you think that then 1 you are a retared 2 you need to do more research 3 shut the fuck up
TheKillerbunny99 19 hours ago in playlist Past Battles-Weapons ...
@TheKillerbunny99 Instead of acting like your average internet-goer, you might try to counter with reasoning.
Now, the Romans were indeed bad at one-on-one combat. The gladius was, on average, two feet long, and the scutum, while large, was far too unwieldy to be used in 1v1. Additionally, they were not trained to fight in anything but formations: Most of their enemies were superb individual fighters, but they lacked entirely the Roman army's composition and discipline.
VollyTyrannis 17 hours ago
imagine getting stabbed
hiccup481 2 days ago
This will never, ever happen. Firstly they have Armour one slash with a sword won't do any good that's also another problem, the Romans were slashing but they were trained to stab. Secondly, the Romans and Barbarians were dying too easily, imagine having a shield the size of your body, then imagine how hard it must have been trying to kill one Roman. Lastly the Romans were trained to hit the body and slice the head the blood was fairly realistic when your tooth comes out there's alot of blood,
hiccup481 2 days ago
@hiccup481 roman legions were ambushed and destroyed by barbarian tribes in AD 09 and supposedly the same thing happened to the 9th legion in caledonia in 107-108 AD. Period artwork shows Pictish warriors (those in the video) utilized small shields. In 52 BC Vercingetorix beat Caesar at Gergovia, though he went on to lose the war. The Romans were undoubtedly hard men and difficult to kill and indeed won the vast majority of their pitched battles against celtic/germanic tribes.
noj900 1 day ago
no subtitles needed
chaosmaker12 4 days ago
way to keep formation guys...
3one7crew 5 days ago
I used to be a centurion like you, then I took an axe in the neck.
TheJediJeep 6 days ago 2
man, a bit bloody, makes me imagine a ghostly army of ghosts of dead, headless roman soldiers for some reason...creepy
local1114 1 week ago
un realistic, but i don't give a fuck so stop it
iamjewishnub 1 week ago
My problem with this movie is that the blood looks so fake even worse than 300. It totally ruins the battles.
Spankmeinheaven 1 week ago
oo come on i am a roman legioner( for real) and i can tell you that romans dont fight like this
alex821000 1 week ago
@alex821000 WTF does that even mean "for real" just cause you read some books and practice the fighting style doesnt mean you know anything about this. shit it would be like if someone said they were part of the confederate still cause they dress up like one on the week end
kainniak1 1 week ago
If you like this movie watch iron clad
yesimjiggily 1 week ago
EPIC BLOODBATH
ngengeku 1 week ago
convenient that both of those dead romans fell directly on him at 1:40
TkDdeathshead 2 weeks ago
whatch this and turisas battle metal playing youtube.com/watch?v=Ift85e38H3M
V77710 2 weeks ago
teotoburgo?
hombreenpractica 2 weeks ago
Why is the Centurion wearing a normal legionares helmet at the end?
RazorCell7 2 weeks ago
Thumbs up if you think MrHawkeye117 is a fucking retard.
rolodexroulette 2 weeks ago
@rolodexroulette lol dude stfu just stay in your basement you fucking 70 year old virgin fucking 700 pounds, seriously fuck you.
MrHawkeye117 2 weeks ago
getting an arrow in the face has to suck :/
getfreebeer 2 weeks ago
@getfreebeer Sometimes it doesnt kill you instantly, imagine the pain!
RazorCell7 2 weeks ago
she took a sword to the knee
tkiller97 2 weeks ago 3
that's not a proper trailer
theJUJINATOR 2 weeks ago
Legiones Romanorum gloriam sempiterna habebunt.
Andreiotatos 3 weeks ago
To everyone who thinks that he knows what happened and how things were back then : Are you a time traveler ? No. History is uncertain. Especially about things that occurred almost two millenniums away. People back then could write about fucking aliens raping cows in mid air, and us today would believe that shit because it was written a long time ago.by a ' historian ' .
032Qrayber 3 weeks ago
@032Qrayber Actually we are quite sure how were things 2000 years ago, but 1500 years ago is totaly different story. And what you suggest is well known fact that why there is a need for critical assesment of the writen sources. Our sources are mainly annalists or biographies. But the way to find out if that historian was right is through archeology. They could wrote what they wanted but if something else happened you can see it during excavations. (but works only on most subjects :)
ArcheoRexo 3 weeks ago
@ArcheoRexo I get your point, but some thing just cannot be told with certainty, such as personalities of some people, the numbers (army size, dates, etc.), names of people, the outcomes of battles and such things. You can't dig out someone's personality :)
032Qrayber 3 weeks ago
The blood looks fake sometimes.
TheLandregion 3 weeks ago
Die romans die!
vikrama1971 1 month ago
"war is great to those who have never experienced it"
XxModernDayRaiderxX 1 month ago 34
I just love the way that head was sliced at 0:48
Even though... blablabla.
LokkLucas 1 month ago
So many LEGENDS have been created over time. History already has a great innacuracy.
Some facts. Technology x History. And physics is pretty much obvious not to be noticed.
That's it.
Stop being a hater.
LokkLucas 1 month ago
Not only did they just lose formation, but romans, from day one were taught to stab not slash.
ShortBusStud 1 month ago
This movie is so historically and physicaly inacurate, for e.g. a sword can't cut through that helmet, nor caan it easily slice a head in half like that 0:48. Also the romans at that time did not have that sort of armour, every fucking time Hollywood does that, DAMN you American amateurs for making this piece of shit! (by amateurs I meant the movie makers, not the american population).
EmperorofEurasia 1 month ago
@EmperorofEurasia while i agree with everything you say, the sad truth is that sometimes a little bit of historical accuracy (sometimes all of it) must be sacrificed in order to make way for more exciting battles, story, characters etc. like this. It just simply makes more money, its sad but thats the truth.
iamspartanss300 1 month ago
@EmperorofEurasia To be fare u can't say American movie makers every other movie maker all over the world has at time fuck up on making the movies about rome but there is a TV thing on HBO called ROME the time is when the REP. began to crap out everything else is historically right but not how the REP. fall that were it crappy but it right on the roman way of life and DAMN They got that right on the ball 90% of this show is right watch.
historyfathead 1 month ago
@historyfathead Ok, I'll narrow it down this movie in bad movie making, but for the others at least they should change the roman armour, that wasn't what they wore until late in time.
EmperorofEurasia 1 month ago
@EmperorofEurasia HBO ROME is great the roman way of life is right and DAMN! did they got that part right it only how the REP. fall that off but they relly did a good job and this show has too many sex theme to even for roman this must be like stop humping bro.
historyfathead 1 month ago
@EmperorofEurasia To be fare u can't say American movie makers every other movie maker all over the world has at time fuck up on making the movies about rome but there is a TV thing on HBO called ROME the time is when the REP. began to crap out everything else is historically right but not how the REP. fall that were it crappy but it right on the roman way of life and DAMN They got that right on the ball 90% of this show is right watch.
historyfathead 1 month ago
blood splats look cheap, i could do that in after effects cs4
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0:47 Are these ppl made out of butter? There's no way a gladiolus can just slice through someones head with one hand. They just wanted to make this look as gory as possible and make it look cool. Call me picky, but it just takes the realism away.
Sumoto999 1 month ago
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Sumoto999 1 month ago
lmao, that was some fucking brutal shit!
SerChade 1 month ago
The british traitor woman annoyed me the whole movie. Her spear was very annoying, ofcourse she is deadly with that spear, she still acts like she is not, i was glad we she was killed.
SRFColonel 1 month ago
This better be what Rome 2 looks like
IamDan66 1 month ago 43
@IamDan66 it better be :)
zn74 1 month ago
@IamDan66 Agreed
biirraann 2 days ago
The CG blood just comes off as corny.
Diamhea 1 month ago
I thought i would see more violence and blood and gore....oh well...
Lanarkwow 1 month ago
sick of this
Gogindor 1 month ago
i hate hate hate hate the fkn blood effect,doesnt really spray like that in real
SeeMeNoMore92 1 month ago
@SeeMeNoMore92 - hey I don't know how blood really sprays as well, thats cause I never fucken cut anyones head off, so stop complaining and watch the fucken movie
XxMusashiYamatoxX 1 month ago
@XxMusashiYamatoxX do some research and u can find out how it sprays (this is not a smartarse reply or offencive so no need for u to reply :) )
SeeMeNoMore92 1 month ago
@SeeMeNoMore92 How do you Know??
TheCommenEagle 1 month ago
@TheCommenEagle in a book a japanese soldier in WW2 cut ppl with a katana and stated that the blood does not spray out like in the movies even when beheading them.... however there is still only one way to find out lol
SeeMeNoMore92 1 month ago
@SeeMeNoMore92 LOL very true , at leat we know its good old hollywood :)
TheCommenEagle 1 month ago
Incorrect in many ways. The romans would have held formation. And the general was always with his bodyguards/staff. And the romans here much better equipped and could fight of an extremely stronger force. Also they had men with horns that could have called for reinforcements. But no. This movie is jus
MrHawkeye117 1 month ago
@MrHawkeye117 you forget that one thing that often returns in roman history is that they lost many battles but one of their strength was that they learned from their mistake and adapted thier army
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MrHawkeye117 1 month ago 12
@MrHawkeye117 You got that right. This movie was horrendous.
DaeguKyle 1 month ago
@MrHawkeye117 GOSH, it's a fucking movie, not a national geografic documentary. Hot scenes and blood spills make part of the marketing. This movie is fucking smart, in tickets meanings.
Besides that, history is told by the ones who survive, so it has always been a half truth, or so, a lie. I agree with you who say the blade couldn't cut through the helmet and slice the head of as a katana, but... not many cares. Sorry.
And they're not claiming it's real and veridic, thanks for your perspicacy.
LokkLucas 1 month ago
@MrHawkeye117 what reinforcements? their the only legion that was in britain at the time. Also, in an ambush, even though the romans unrealistically scattered, they only have one or two men guarding their backs, so they will be a little less wary of their fronts. Besides, it's a MOVIE that is supposed to be similiar to predator.
MrFungiver 4 weeks ago
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@MrHawkeye117 what reinforcements? their the only legion that was in britain at the time. Also, in an ambush, even though the romans unrealistically scattered, they only have one or two men guarding their backs, so they will be a little less wary of their fronts. Besides, it's a MOVIE that is supposed to be similiar to predator.
MrFungiver 4 weeks ago
@MrHawkeye117 Have you ever heard of the battle of Teutoburg Forest. This is exactly what happened. 3 Legions were ambushed and destroyed, which is why the Roman Empire never attempted conquering Germania. So, you should try to understand history before spewing incorrect information :D
lolackay 4 weeks ago
@MrHawkeye117 not saying you aren't speaking truth in the slightest, but couldn't a strong enough enemy, force the romans to break formation? just wondering :)
TheAmateurBros 3 weeks ago
@TheAmateurBros yes obviously, if you are faced by an enemy force that is much larger and stronger than you obviously youll go down
MrHawkeye117 3 weeks ago
@TheAmateurBros not in this case, as you can see the barbarians just charged the romans head on, unless they used some sort of tactics (which they didnt) they couldnt have broken the disciplined roman lines
MrHawkeye117 2 weeks ago
@MrHawkeye117 aha, i have seen the whole film and the picts first rolled flaming balls of straw into the enemy, be it accurate or not, it still broke their defenses enough to let the barbarians brake them up and butcher them.
TheAmateurBros 2 weeks ago
@MrHawkeye117 Barbarians? Google search "British Museum mold gold cape" and look at the solid gold, crafted cape, made around 2000 B.C., around 2400 years before the Romans arrived. Is nothing at all "barbaric" about the people who were there. Cape is believed to have been worn by a women. Was found in Wales. Were only two peoples in the area before the romans, Welsh, and Picts. Welsh controlled all of Modern Wales and England, Picts were in modern Scotland.
AtlanticCross1 2 weeks ago
@AtlanticCross1 dude im just going with what common knowledge is, and as shown in the movie, i think the britons where civillised too, im just speaking in different terms
MrHawkeye117 2 weeks ago
@MrHawkeye117 No problem. That Solid Gold Cape is an eye-opener. It surprised me when I first saw it online something like that was made that long ago.
AtlanticCross1 2 weeks ago
@MrHawkeye117 Where you there or something?
dimesach 2 weeks ago
@MrHawkeye117 this is exactly what happened to the romans in Teutoburg forest! They were ambushed while marching a very small,muddy,wet path, through a bog/forest.. Also, there were no reinforcements to be called. Plus, the general (Varus) and his guard were killed. Plus, this scene was awesome! And for the record....you're retarded
killboxtwinz 2 weeks ago
@killboxtwinz you sir, are a cunt, i am just voicing my opinion, if you dont agree just tell me what you think, which you have, but the fact that you insult me at the end makes you a total fucking retard
MrHawkeye117 2 weeks ago
@MrHawkeye117,
Nothing like a good old youtube, amateur historian enlightening us.
TheYoungContrarians 2 weeks ago
@MrHawkeye117 Maybe, but you also forget that many Romans legions fell in the "Briton" region. It is also speculated that the 9th Legion of Hispania was lost there as well. I'm assuming that this drew from the idea that multiple Roman legions were most when going north of Hadrian's wall.
And a guy with a banner is a guy without a sword.. I don't know WTF a banner would do in war. A horn might have done something, but reinforcements were most likely too far. The formation has failed many times.
rolodexroulette 2 weeks ago
The movie is stupid. The Romans conquered Europe because they were rather good at slaughtering barbarians.
Pseudologic 1 month ago
@Pseudologic That doesn't mean they never lost.Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ring any bells? Romans were successful because they learnt from their mistakes.
tomwh1993 1 month ago
@tomwh1993 I never said they never lost. But they didn't get slaughtered like this.
Pseudologic 1 month ago
@Pseudologic they did in teutoberg
Oddtom121 1 month ago
@Pseudologic Of course they did get slaughtered! There are so many examples of roman defeat including Teutoburg, which was an ambush very similar to this. The belief that Romans were some kind of super soldiers is just silly.
tomwh1993 1 month ago
@tomwh1993 Well, you were there 2000 years ago, you should know.
Pseudologic 1 month ago
@tomwh1993 Eh.... you are forgetting one thing brother the movie is has its background set as AD 117 as Rome tried to expand its empires beyond the european continent and on to Mainland Britain. AD117 not BC 100. AD117, Rome was at its peak. remember that no barbarian army like that could defeat the Roman army at that point.
Gutsz100 1 month ago
@tomwh1993 yes the Romans were defeated during the battle of Teutoburg AD 9, In a similar manner they are portrayed in this movie; Marching in to enemy territory with out any scouting in a single line formation. After the Romans lost 20k men, It became a taboo for the Roman army to march in single lane. Britannica which is the setting of the movie is Rome's new frontier at the time. Really think the Romans would appoint a dumb general who would march in a single lane formation with out scouting?
Gutsz100 1 month ago
@Gutsz100 Everyone knows the story of the ninth legion ,which I believe this film is based on, where a roman legion was supposedly destroyed. If you want proof of how seriously the Romans took the Britons in Scotland then just look at Hadrian's Wall. The Romans appointed plenty of stupid commanders, often relatives of the Emperor.
tomwh1993 1 month ago
@tomwh1993 The disappearance of the 9th is a mystery but not a sudden documented disappearance let alone in Britain, its disappearance is due to no intact record for us today. The most popular theory is that they were transferred to the east of the empire. Markings of the legion dated long after its deployment to Britain had been found in Holland.
randomusernamemygod 1 month ago
wow were the romans really that bad? 'cause i see more romans die than pict...
silverlancexyz 1 month ago
@silverlancexyz just to make it more dramaticly -_- the were ambushed and betrayed, in real a roman legion can withstand more of them
supergamer93 1 month ago
@silverlancexyz The movie was biased. Let's just say that everyone who would come across a Roman legion would piss and shit their pants at the same time. I mean really, hot, blonde, untrained professionally, village, skinny girls killing worlds greatest soldiers like they were Saddam's army ::P hehe.
Reno2324 1 month ago
@Reno2324 i absolutely agree, how could untrained brutish picts and barbarians beat the crap out of the highly trained, very well equipped, very disciplined legionnaires of the roman empire.
silverlancexyz 1 month ago
new movies have cutting problem
...way to fast
guzicaguzica 1 month ago
I liked the battles in HBO's Rome much more with the formations and stuff
crazyguy745 1 month ago
@crazyguy745
And more realism =)
crazyguy745 1 month ago
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TheSIKKS66 1 month ago
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@crazyguy745 Don't forget that this was an ambush, the Romans didn't have time to form up into their battle lines. In single hand to hand combat, they were obviously going to be destroyed.
Although the idea that an enemy this large could sneak up on a marching army (past all the Roman scouts etc) is a bit implausible.
TheSIKKS66 1 month ago
@TheSIKKS66
Well yeah.
crazyguy745 1 month ago
GO ROMANS!!!!!!!
ScorpixWaffenSS 1 month ago
So many fucking 'historical' hollywood films that always portrays Rome as the good guys vs the "EVIL" BARBARIAN Celts, Germans, etc....
Rome was the great evil of the day as they did nothing but conquer and destroy. There are entire civilizations that were wiped out at the Emperor's whim.
Barbarians fight for their homes and freedom, the Roman armies destroy and subjugate. It is fitting that these "Barbarians" eventually would raze the Roman Empire to dust.
ModernNorseman 1 month ago
@ModernNorseman but dont forget that Rome was only light back than it was great civilization and without Rome world would be different now (worse)
TorcidaCro 1 month ago
@ModernNorseman Aye and succession of many bad emperors and the civil wars that led to the decline of the roman empire and fall of WRE, as Rome in the West destroyed itself within before being invaded from the outside.
I guess the Roman idea inspired many other future nations with the imperialism in the so called"mission to civilize".
jackwei22 1 month ago
@ModernNorseman Are you kidding? Rome surely wasn't perfect, but apart from non-perfect - to say the least, and unorganized tribes of that time, Rome was a great civilization as we know it today, and not just technology, because Rome was based on the greater foundation of Greek civilization. So on the wages of history Rome prevails.
It reminded me the Monty Python's - "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
gulyaevart 1 month ago
@ModernNorseman And don't forget that eventually all barbaric nations became "Romans" by all means, they've basically built everything from the ruins of what was Roman world, with all it's political system, economic system, art and entertainment. Now, do you think it was necessary to take a pause of 1000 years of darkness ? The darkness millennium that was flavored with a true plague of all abrahamic religions and bigger scale of rivalry.
gulyaevart 1 month ago
@gulyaevart yes but my point was that through the eyes of a Gaul or a Germanic Tribesman, the Romans were monsters.
Plague of Abrahamic Religions? Sure the Muslims/Catholics spilled alot of blood but also note that the Dark Ages saw the foundation of Christian monasteries which kept scholarship alive.
ModernNorseman 1 month ago
@ModernNorseman I agree, local population had to fight against the invaders, and Romans did a lot of killing, but just as every major power of that time did. But even so I personally think that they gave the conquered lands much more than they had take. And there was place of two cultures getting mixed and combined, in many cases it was politically wise to do so.
If there were no Christianity there would be no need in monasteries to keep the scholarship alive. And no ban of free thinking.
gulyaevart 1 month ago
@gulyaevart Free thinking? I doubt such a thing has ever truly existed on a societal level.
Definitely does not exist today with all the mass media bombarding our souls every day with BS.
ModernNorseman 1 month ago
Nice movie abit to much blood effect but still good!
Andreas980609 1 month ago
Varus! Give me back my LEGIONS!! :(
Dave12371 1 month ago
@Dave12371 Fucking idiot this is not Varus this is the 9th legion..............
MrFarayane1 1 month ago
@MrFarayane1 LOOOOL XD Relax man! I fuckin' witcha! Publius Quinctilius Varus was deafeted in 9 AD by the Germanic tribe led by Arminius. The amush killed 3 legions along with varus himself in the Teutoburg Forest. Dude you need to stop taking life so serious, YOU"LL NEVER GET OUT ALIVE! :D
Dave12371 1 month ago
@Dave12371 okok sorry man..........
MrFarayane1 1 month ago
@MrFarayane1 No Prob :D
Dave12371 1 month ago
So many historical inaccuracies but still cool!!!
01RobotA 1 month ago
to much blood effect so gay
akef14 2 months ago
thats some nice battle filmed
rockscorp 2 months ago
1:09 wtf are you doing dumb ass?
pimpinspartan 2 months ago
wow.....0:47
leungf1000 2 months ago
Just your average Saturday night in Glasgow.
crapatev 2 months ago 2
@crapatev rofl!
WoOdOoAnti 2 months ago
The entire video I was waiting for the "Don't worry, it's not Heinz' Ketchup we used" or something, but it was not a funny ad, I'm ... Disappointed !
09yeahAZ 2 months ago
Sorry but a sword doesn't cleave a head like butter.
Diamhea 2 months ago
@Diamhea How many people did you hit with a sword to say things like that, poseur?
TheVerinen2 2 months ago
@TheVerinen2 i agree with ya there mate lol
hobogetowned 2 months ago
Wow could they borrow from Gladiator any more?
Diamhea 2 months ago
Piece of shit. Romans couldn't even handle barbs that wore blue paint as armor. ROFL!!!
DragonOfQin 2 months ago
@DragonOfQin The roman army fought best on open even ground, not in forests. read up about the teutoberg forest and boudicca's ambush of the ninth legion hispania
JimbobHarrigan1984 1 month ago
@JimbobHarrigan1984 why do you side Rome? you're a barbarian. Romans used their blade to stabbed your great great great great.... grandfather's face. Shows me how much you Euro barbs have no pride. Embarassing.
DragonOfQin 1 month ago
im surpirsed the picts didn't use cav in the valley, would have been perfect
RIDONKulousify 2 months ago
badass.
TheViolenceIsCool 2 months ago
I know that the romans were the agressors which kinda sucks... because they did a lot of bad shit when they captured new lands... but they were fucking awesome ... i hope thay make another total war rome but with the shogun 2 graphics!!!
129alis 2 months ago
@129alis
what did they do...?
Besides, of course, Ficus Ieudaeicus.
chica476 2 months ago
@chica476 well.. despite being a civilization with amazing culture they were almost barbaric when fighting... yes they used strategies but when they captured cities solders would rape and pillage just like any army... and all those who were captured were given into slavery... :/
129alis 2 months ago
This is a mess.
It is inaccurate. The tactics are all wrong. There is no discipline or cohesion.
The SETTING was well chosen. Costumes are excellent. The gore is proper for the wounds displayed, which are themselves proper if one assumes Romans do not fight in formation or cooperate with each other.
The actors have the correct body type and faces.
The script is toilet paper. The author assumes horrible bloody battles, which are true enough, but not like this at all.
Terrible.
centurion180ad 2 months ago
sooo - why do they wear armour? god dammit hollywood
Draggis92 2 months ago
By the way, where are their marching yokes?
TheEpicSunrise 2 months ago
i dont get why we just cant have peace in this world, we are all humans here, killing each other, it isnt right.
armagedonshock 2 months ago
@armagedonshock religion is one main reason.
startingsprinter 2 months ago
@armagedonshock Human nature. We can never have world peace, it just makes us what we are.
henno13 2 months ago
@armagedonshock It sure is fun though.
cowboyfromkettins 2 months ago
Caesar himself said that in his own accounts of his botched invasion of Briton, that they preffered to draw legionaries into forests, and ambush them from all angles, making their shield and sword formation tactic off... specifically when they were gathering wheat as they were low on supplies as alot of caesars navy was either destroyed or tied up, and the rebellion in gaul before hand made it difficult to supply soldiers effectively.
RyanNewell122 2 months ago
@RyanNewell122 / uprising in gaul#
RyanNewell122 2 months ago
Ahhhhhh only in the world of movies where armor has no meaning....only to be paper.
sithass 2 months ago
SO kann keine römische Armee gewinnen!
assgvz 2 months ago
The roman military was like a hand. Trained to be great in formation (fist), and alone, breaking formation (open hand). Even outnumbered, if they had a good leader they might survive a pict raid. Roman had trouble with picts because their style of fighting was hit and run with arrows. With a good leader, romans should had no problem with that if they stayed in formation, and not following them to a trap.
josephgargoyle 2 months ago
Ok, i shouldn't eat spaghetti bolognese while watching clips like this...
proscribere 2 months ago
most of you guys really do sound like you know your stuff .....if history was based in hollywood ....you dont need to cut through armour you have the face underarms hands legs feet neck eyes ...and plz go and understand what barbarian means before you call it wild ....i dont clam to know everything but ffs ..think a little so called barbarian crushed rome and ended them
evilscotsmin 2 months ago
No sword , even with buff men can slash through an armor that is made of overlapping layers in one slash without the help of a horse
Jake4595 2 months ago
Great film I enjoyed it alight very bloody
GeRMAnsHEPherdS4 3 months ago
the best part of this clip is at 0.47 where he chops the guys face in half haha
Ellis307 3 months ago
To everybody saying barbarians would lose 1v1: Their entire society and honour system revolved around combat, especially 1v1 fights to solve anything from an arguement to a tribal dispute, so they would clearly be superior.
GrrrIamMad 3 months ago
battle for skyrim
indoom666 3 months ago
a roman general would never enter in the woods like that... -_- especially the 9th legion... the most glorious legion ever...
oOAndrewsOo 3 months ago
@oOAndrewsOo It actually happened, they got tricked by a german leader they thought they converted
SpontaneousRetard 3 months ago
@SpontaneousRetard omg really? but the movie shows a campaign in england! why they where tricked by a german leader? what the germans was doing there? saxons?
oOAndrewsOo 3 months ago
i will never understand why they make movies where the romans are always losing and the barbarians seem invicibles
EUFede 3 months ago
@EUFede good question. Very unrealistic
TheBrightestFan 3 months ago
@TheBrightestFan i am not able to mention a movie were the legion kick he ass of the barbarians...
EUFede 3 months ago
the film is fucking epic but the blood looks so bad :(
Fleischmann666 3 months ago