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<blockquote data-quote="Rykion" data-source="post: 2662339" data-attributes="member: 33035"><p>No, the Holocaust was the slaughter of innocent civilians by a brutal regime. The Crusades were a counter-offensive by some Christian Kingdoms versus some Muslim Kingdoms. The Muslims had conquered most of the Holy Lands, North Africa, and Spain. Some of these places converted peacefully, but often they were taken by the sword. The First Crusade was an attempt to take back Jerusalem. The Crusaders were often poorly led and didn't trust each other as they were a coalition of armies from Kingdoms used to fighting each other. This led to a lot of suffering in any nation that the Crusaders passed through. It was a war of idealogies with brutality from both sides.</p><p></p><p>Modern revisionist history has become Crusaders=bad. It just tends to ignore the violence in the expansion of the Muslim Nations. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> </p><p></p><p>The movie shows Muslims in a very idealistic light. On the flip side, every Christian clergyman with any screen time in the movie is a criminal or a coward. The Crusaders are shown to be either bloodthirsty warmongers or good secular types.</p><p></p><p>Edit: I still almost enjoyed the movie, but the whole thing felt rushed. The love story felt tacked on, and Orlando Bloom went from blacksmith to a great fighter and leader without showing a progression inbetween. It wouldn't be a big problem for a dumb action movie, but this was billed as an epic. If an extended cut with 30+ minutes of new footage appears, I will probably pick it up. Also, if anyone from Hollywood is reading, Orlando Bloom does not have the physique of a blacksmith so please stop casting him as one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rykion, post: 2662339, member: 33035"] No, the Holocaust was the slaughter of innocent civilians by a brutal regime. The Crusades were a counter-offensive by some Christian Kingdoms versus some Muslim Kingdoms. The Muslims had conquered most of the Holy Lands, North Africa, and Spain. Some of these places converted peacefully, but often they were taken by the sword. The First Crusade was an attempt to take back Jerusalem. The Crusaders were often poorly led and didn't trust each other as they were a coalition of armies from Kingdoms used to fighting each other. This led to a lot of suffering in any nation that the Crusaders passed through. It was a war of idealogies with brutality from both sides. Modern revisionist history has become Crusaders=bad. It just tends to ignore the violence in the expansion of the Muslim Nations. :confused: The movie shows Muslims in a very idealistic light. On the flip side, every Christian clergyman with any screen time in the movie is a criminal or a coward. The Crusaders are shown to be either bloodthirsty warmongers or good secular types. Edit: I still almost enjoyed the movie, but the whole thing felt rushed. The love story felt tacked on, and Orlando Bloom went from blacksmith to a great fighter and leader without showing a progression inbetween. It wouldn't be a big problem for a dumb action movie, but this was billed as an epic. If an extended cut with 30+ minutes of new footage appears, I will probably pick it up. Also, if anyone from Hollywood is reading, Orlando Bloom does not have the physique of a blacksmith so please stop casting him as one. [/QUOTE]
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