the movie 300 looks awesome

[chow184]

anyone else stoked for it?

heres a link to a page with links of abunch of trailers for it. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/300/)

[Mass_SkinsFan]

I've seen the trailers on TV recently, and I know a lot of the guys I fight with in the medieval re-enactment group are really looking forward to it. Not sure that it's really MY speed, but maybe I'll check it out anyway.

[GibbsFactor]

For SPARTA!~

[dfitzo53]

I don't get why it looks like there are weird mutant-things in the previews.

I hope it does the story justice, because it kind of looks like "God Of War: The Movie" to me, and I mean that in a bad way.

[drums and skins]

Its a frank miller movie (based off of his graphic novel). It will not be perfect for history buffs.
But it will still be visually stunning and beautiful in every aspect...hopefully.

[Mass_SkinsFan]

Its a frank miller movie (based off of his graphic novel). It will not be perfect for history buffs.
But it will still be visually stunning and beautiful in every aspect...hopefully.

A lot of our guys are also into the comic-book/graphic novel and science-fiction genres. They know it's not a historical story, but they're still pretty pumped about it.

[No_Pressure]

I've seen the trailers on TV recently, and I know a lot of the guys I fight with in the medieval re-enactment group are really looking forward to it. Not sure that it's really MY speed, but maybe I'll check it out anyway.

What?

Okay either you:

1. Have a fight club that you pretend is a medieval re-enactment group so nobody is any the wiser

2. Somehow re-enact medieval battles (though I have no idea how thats even close to possible ever)

3. Have a group of people interested in medieval life in general and get together to act it out for entertainment. Somehow fighting is involved in the acting.

4. Have a group like the one above, only you randomly break out into un-planned fist fights with people.

Out of the 4 I would personally want to go with 1 because its the only one where you dont actually act out a time period...if there were any time period worth acting out it would be the distant future. That way you cant possibly be wrong about something until you are long dead and somehow the people of the future get a copy of a low budget film you created and laugh at your skewed, misinformed and simplistic views of the future which are complete with bubble dome hover cars, jetpacks, flux capacitors, etc.

Oh and yea 300 looks alright. I really liked Sin City so I guess this will be worth watching if Frank Miller is involved.

[Mass_SkinsFan]

Okay either you:

1. Have a fight club that you pretend is a medieval re-enactment group so nobody is any the wiser

2. Somehow re-enact medieval battles (though I have no idea how thats even close to possible ever)

3. Have a group of people interested in medieval life in general and get together to act it out for entertainment. Somehow fighting is involved in the acting.

4. Have a group like the one above, only you randomly break out into un-planned fist fights with people.

Out of the 4 I would personally want to go with 1 because its the only one where you dont actually act out a time period...if there were any time period worth acting out it would be the distant future. That way you cant possibly be wrong about something until you are long dead and somehow the people of the future get a copy of a low budget film you created and laugh at your skewed, misinformed and simplistic views of the future which are complete with bubble dome hover cars, jetpacks, flux capacitors, etc...

It's actually closest to your option #3. I am a member of a medieval re-creation group called the Society for Creative Anachronism. We're a ~35,000 member, non-profit group with members in the US, Canada, the Pacific Rim, Western Europe, and with smaller entities in Eastern Europe and Israel. Our focus is research and education related to the history and society of Western Europe and those civilizations that would have had contact with Western Europe between roughly 600 A.D. and 1600 A.D. (www.sca.org)

You will find people researching and recreating everything from caligraphy and needlepoint to brewing and carpentry, and a large selection of martial skills. (www.SCADemo.com)

Among those martial endeavours is Heavy-List Combat... an attempt to relatively safely re-create the battle and tournament combat of the armored combatants of the period. Rather than trying to explain it myself, have a look....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3qTE0KBres
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecxg39i3Z50

BTW - Here's your local group... http://www.atenveldt.org/

Before you start talking about how stupid somebody's interest/hobby is, why don't you check it out.

[Chump Bailey]

anyone else stoked for it?

heres a link to a page with links of abunch of trailers for it. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/300/)


Absolutely - must see for me and I cannot wait until March!


Ghost Rider looks decent too in the interim...

[Mufumonk]

It's actually closest to your option #3. I am a member of a medieval re-creation group called the Society for Creative Anachronism. We're a ~35,000 member, non-profit group with members in the US, Canada, the Pacific Rim, Western Europe, and with smaller entities in Eastern Europe and Israel. Our focus is research and education related to the history and society of Western Europe and those civilizations that would have had contact with Western Europe between roughly 600 A.D. and 1600 A.D. (www.sca.org)

You will find people researching and recreating everything from caligraphy and needlepoint to brewing and carpentry, and a large selection of martial skills. (www.SCADemo.com)

Among those martial endeavours is Heavy-List Combat... an attempt to relatively safely re-create the battle and tournament combat of the armored combatants of the period. Rather than trying to explain it myself, have a look....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3qTE0KBres
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecxg39i3Z50

BTW - Here's your local group... http://www.atenveldt.org/

Before you start talking about how stupid somebody's interest/hobby is, why don't you check it out.

For some reason your post reminded me of this:

Lightning Bolt!!! Lightning Bolt!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufaBKdY60w)

[Mass_SkinsFan]

For some reason your post reminded me of this:

Lightning Bolt!!! Lightning Bolt!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufaBKdY60w)

If you'd done a little bit of searching, that's been discussed in the past around here.

The big difference is that groups of that sort have no historical background, and make less than no attempt to do anything historically based whatsoever. They are a FANTASY-BASED group. Whereas we are HISTORICALLY-BASED.

We are not 100% accurate to history, but you won't find "Ogres", "Wizards", or "Elves" at our events. Our "personas" have to be historical in nature, not fantasy-based. In fact our names and arms (heraldry) must be passed by the society before we can officially use them. They are checked for historical accuracy and for individuality. Existing real-life famous/royal arms & names are not allowed to be duplicated. Even if I WAS related to Richard the Lionheart in reality (I'm not) I could not use his name or heraldry in the society.

Quite often we're confused with either these fantasy/D&D/RPG people or with Renaissance Faire companies. We are neither. We are a historically based, but not scripted group.

[Mufumonk]

If you'd done a little bit of searching, that's been discussed in the past around here.

The big difference is that groups of that sort have no historical background, and make less than no attempt to do anything historically based whatsoever. They are a FANTASY-BASED group. Whereas we are HISTORICALLY-BASED.

We are not 100% accurate to history, but you won't find "Ogres", "Wizards", or "Elves" at our events. Our "personas" have to be historical in nature, not fantasy-based. In fact our names and arms (heraldry) must be passed by the society before we can officially use them. They are checked for historical accuracy and for individuality. Existing real-life famous/royal arms & names are not allowed to be duplicated. Even if I WAS related to Richard the Lionheart in reality (I'm not) I could not use his name or heraldry in the society.

Quite often we're confused with either these fantasy/D&D/RPG people or with Renaissance Faire companies. We are neither. We are a historically based, but not scripted group.

I know what you were getting at it's just that for whatever reason that video popped into my head. It must have been a culmination of your post and the Funniest Youtube video thread.

[Air Force Cane]

Going to war against the Persians is always going to make for enjoyable watching :cheers:

[Mass_SkinsFan]

I know what you were getting at it's just that for whatever reason that video popped into my head. It must have been a culmination of your post and the Funniest Youtube video thread.

Sorry if I came back at you overly harshly, but we get that comparison quite often, and it's something of a sore point with members of the SCA. If you've watched the two video clips that I included in my post, you'll see that it's a VERY DIFFERENT sort of activity than the LARP/Fantasy group stuff you're talking about. Let me put it to you this way.... our YOUTH fighters (ages 5-17) use heavier weapons and better technique than the LARP'ers. I have a bunch of hillarious stories about SCA members attending LARP functions and being thrown out of their events for being "too brutal".

[No_Pressure]

It's actually closest to your option #3. I am a member of a medieval re-creation group called the Society for Creative Anachronism. We're a ~35,000 member, non-profit group with members in the US, Canada, the Pacific Rim, Western Europe, and with smaller entities in Eastern Europe and Israel. Our focus is research and education related to the history and society of Western Europe and those civilizations that would have had contact with Western Europe between roughly 600 A.D. and 1600 A.D. (www.sca.org (http://www.sca.org))

You will find people researching and recreating everything from caligraphy and needlepoint to brewing and carpentry, and a large selection of martial skills. (www.SCADemo.com (http://www.SCADemo.com))

Among those martial endeavours is Heavy-List Combat... an attempt to relatively safely re-create the battle and tournament combat of the armored combatants of the period. Rather than trying to explain it myself, have a look....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3qTE0KBres
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecxg39i3Z50

BTW - Here's your local group... http://www.atenveldt.org/

Before you start talking about how stupid somebody's interest/hobby is, why don't you check it out.

35,000 people? So if everyone in the assoc. got together you could put together one hell of a Braveheart scene huh?

I wouldnt really make fun of it cause I have one uncle who does civil war re-enacting every year and stands out in 106 degree heat in wool clothing at Gettysburg just so he can be one of the guys that gets randomly shot somewhere.

I mean...I wouldnt do it but hey to each his own. I just got a kick out of imagining a medieval fight club or someone showing up at a meeting for that group and punching someone's lights out.

Are these similar to the people that run the famous Maryland Rennessance Festival? Personally I would go mentally insane keeping in character with olde english...e all day.

[Mass_SkinsFan]

35,000 people? So if everyone in the assoc. got together you could put together one hell of a Braveheart scene huh?

Actually, our largest event draws between 11K and 14K people every year. Generally about 3,000+ of whom are fighters. Oh, and the major battle scenes in Bravehears DO have some SCA fighters involved in them. Especially the scene where the Scots charge through the front rank of English soldiers.


I wouldnt really make fun of it cause I have one uncle who does civil war re-enacting every year and stands out in 106 degree heat in wool clothing at Gettysburg just so he can be one of the guys that gets randomly shot somewhere.

Similar concept. The differences are thus: We don't try to recreate the situations of the period EXACTLY. We don't script everything ahead of time either. Lastly you can't BUY rank in the SCA (as you can in some re-enactment groups I've heard of), it has to be EARNED.


I mean...I wouldnt do it but hey to each his own. I just got a kick out of imagining a medieval fight club or someone showing up at a meeting for that group and punching someone's lights out.

Show up at a local practice some time. I think you'd get an interesting show, and being 18, they could put you in armor and show you what it's really like for us. You might find you enjoy it. As a friend of mine once said, you know you're a REAL fighter when your blow acknowledgement goes from... "OW! Good." :( to "Ow. GOOD!" :)


Are these similar to the people that run the famous Maryland Rennessance Festival? Personally I would go mentally insane keeping in character with olde english...e all day.

Sort of. Roughly the same time period, but a very different group. They try to focus on being more historically correct than we do, but they do it by very rigidly scripting everything. It's more like a drams/play for them and more like a lifestyle for us when we're at events. There is some cross-over between the groups though.

[Skins Fan in Ma]

I watch the pre-veiw almost everyday. I am excited for this movie. Mass_skins do you know people who work at the King Richards Fair? A friend of mine is into a similar group but they focus on WW2.

[Mass_SkinsFan]

Mass_skins do you know people who work at the King Richards Fair? A friend of mine is into a similar group but they focus on WW2.

I know some of the merchants & vendors, but most of the actors are from a company that is NOT based in this area. That company does a number of different faires throughout the Northeast during the year.

I have heard of the WWII group, though I've never actually seen one of their events.

[No_Pressure]

Ha thats kinda interesting that your group was in scenes of Braveheart, that was the first thing that popped into my head.

I dont think thats the kind of thing I would show up for, while I do have a lot of interest in history it isnt in that time period, if I were to ever re-enact something I would have to do with WW1 or WW2...then again...that time I went to Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day was dumb. French law prohibits anyone dressing up to portray the Germans, so basically it was a bunch of people dressed up like American and British Soldiers running around a beach. If historical accuracy was a goal of theirs I do believe there may have been some sort of enemy shooting at them or something. Just a hunch of mine.

WW2 would make the most sense too considering how I have a couple of German helmets, an American helmet with the nice netting on it, some american jackets and stuff...plus I will be collecting the American rifles soon seeing how other than spending thousands for a rare SVT or thousands for an automatic weapons liscence to buy a rarely imported thousand dollar PPSH I dont think im going to finish my Russian collection and the cheapest rifles from here on up are the M1 Carbine, Garand, and Enfield. No chance at a 100% intact Springfield or Mauser until I become rich which isnt happening soon enough.

[Skins Fan in Ma]

My friend who is in the WW2 group has tons of original German stuff. He has been collecting for years. He has anything from uniforms to battle used rifles. He was telling me about how he gets pissed at the reinactments because sometimes the people in his group will fall out of charactor and not be true to the times.