02-05-2006, 05:23 PM
Sorry but I have to ventilate this!
Just saw a Documentary from the History Channel called "Barbarians - the Huns".
I could almost stand the "On the bloodstained lands of Ancient Europe a new tidalwave of violence was brought forward bla bla bla yada yada yada" narrative of the dokumentary! The thing that realy annyed me was the kit the extras had!
The Huns = fur, more fur and then a little fur ontop of the fur to ephazise that they had... fur. Looked like they was hired directly on the set of Conan the Barbarian! The swords was some chunks of metal seemingly found at the local scrapyard and vagule shaped in a swordlike manner. Belts and straps made out of hempstrings. To summerize, not even the most winesoaked-17 year old-firsttime-larper would get away with that kit.
The Romans= Plastic scutums vaugly in the correct shape but clearly made out of plastic and in a shade of sunbleached lollypop red. Nitted hemata. And all if the romans had had plastic in a kind of 50 to 150 AD design.
Nice formations af ten romans before the battlescene but then scattred fighting in a way that makes a soccergame more intensive and crowded. Handbagging and strikes at plastic shields, soundtracked by somebody hitting a fork to a pot.
The dates and campaines and stuff was probally correct but that I missed out of shear anger at the view tis gave the audience. It´s like doing a dokumentary on the Battle of El Alamein with the brittish troops in redcoats and the German soldiers in Landsknecht kit.
Sorry again for the rambling! But isn´t this sad. I hope I did not offend somebody by this.
Martin
Just saw a Documentary from the History Channel called "Barbarians - the Huns".
I could almost stand the "On the bloodstained lands of Ancient Europe a new tidalwave of violence was brought forward bla bla bla yada yada yada" narrative of the dokumentary! The thing that realy annyed me was the kit the extras had!
The Huns = fur, more fur and then a little fur ontop of the fur to ephazise that they had... fur. Looked like they was hired directly on the set of Conan the Barbarian! The swords was some chunks of metal seemingly found at the local scrapyard and vagule shaped in a swordlike manner. Belts and straps made out of hempstrings. To summerize, not even the most winesoaked-17 year old-firsttime-larper would get away with that kit.
The Romans= Plastic scutums vaugly in the correct shape but clearly made out of plastic and in a shade of sunbleached lollypop red. Nitted hemata. And all if the romans had had plastic in a kind of 50 to 150 AD design.
Nice formations af ten romans before the battlescene but then scattred fighting in a way that makes a soccergame more intensive and crowded. Handbagging and strikes at plastic shields, soundtracked by somebody hitting a fork to a pot.
The dates and campaines and stuff was probally correct but that I missed out of shear anger at the view tis gave the audience. It´s like doing a dokumentary on the Battle of El Alamein with the brittish troops in redcoats and the German soldiers in Landsknecht kit.
Sorry again for the rambling! But isn´t this sad. I hope I did not offend somebody by this.
Martin
:oops: :wink: )
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