A better love story than Twilight by far.

It has a terrible critic score tho??

@@TheLiveStreamCentral Imagine getting your opinions from critics instead of deciding for yourself.

Well, the story is convoluted because they cram like 5 books into a few hours. It is a shame because everything else is very well done but the script messes it all

I am under the same impression..

mad i must get them

i am over 40 years old

1:58:06 Lord Aragorn I knew I recognized that voice.

I agree with you 100%

Watch El Cid

Hollywood is done

Love how you generalise a hundred years of some of the most famous historical epics as ‘hollywood fake shit’. Ever seen El Cid, Ben-Hur, or Spartacus? Or idk you have a plethora of British historical epics like Zulu, Lawrence Arabia, Cromwell, Khartoum, The Charge of the Light Brigade that are pretty fucking great. Ppl tend to lump British films in with Hollywood all the time. And what about all the WW2 epics of Hollywood, Wanna dismiss all those too? Or the Westerns, or the ones about Roman history? Complain about modern-day hollywood, I agree with how shit they are now, but don’t pretend like they didn’t used to make amazing shit

Why? Because I’ll tell you why. Us being from the American film market we are constantly and completely saturated with stupid BS films like marvel and the new star wars rather than being shown actually worthwhile movies that are filmed from other countries

@@Savage-en1xvthis is early 2000s bro marvel studios didn’t even exist yet

@@h0rn3d_h1st0r1anblade came out in 1998 and Ironman came out 2008

I mean, look at 1:02:20 Gorgeous. Eat your heart out, Kubrick.

@@VRichardsn Yeah, it's a masterpiece, I am not armed with the words or knowledge to talk about how great this film is.

@@guypierson5754 Absolutely. Lets just enjoy it in silence.

49:53 is literally The Surrender of Breda painting.

Yes I noticed this as well. God it's excellent. Nothing now stacks up to this and it is not that old.

This film shows just how mediocre and feckless Hollywood truly is.

Haha... 'drek'... there will a few looking at Google Translate for that one...!!!

We in Flanders counted it as the 80 Years war tho.

wow, wait. I just googled it & stand corrected. And am basking in awe at a new opening of historic universe :)

hahah in croatian "čisti drek" or pure shit. Cant agree more

Interesting, Im spanish and i admire your ancient culture and the ancient slav warriors They were savage RESPECT FOR YOU BUDDY

For us Dutchies it was the 80 years war (tachtigjarige oorlog), lol, we had it rough

Lol war isn't glorious. It sucks dick. Yet war is very fascinating but war is not a good thing, but to study war is.

There's another movie, The Last Valley, about the 30Years War, but it's not as good as Alatriste. It's on KZfaq.

The Spanish Commandant in this Batlle was Portuguese.El hombre en la silla.I don't remember his name,but he death commanding this tercios,in real life.

@@estrellasboxisticas6360 thank you for letting me know! I did not realize that but you are correct! The last battle scene represents the Battle of Rocroi and the commander was Francisco de Melo, a Portuguese from Estremoz. He previously had a battle at Honnecourt, where the French were massively defeated.

I was wrong.De Melo don't die.This Man die and he was El Conde de La Fontana y fue frances,but De Melo was the another commandant in this battle.De Melo was importante in Spain until his death.

Spain at that moment have many Portuguese and Italian commandant in his army and navy.

@@estrellasboxisticas6360 thanks for all the information!

watch silk and you probably seen perfume already

And the poetry , when he said - die you catholic dog then plunged a dagger in.

Every frame a painting.

Randomly switched to 1:02:27 to check that.. wow

13:49

Scott Graham It’s a shame men of honor are always being by greaaazzy politicians l.

@Chin Brumbackso?

@Chin Brumback and that upsets you, right?

@Ral Esper being a vet you'd think you would give credit to women in the military. There have been a lot of great female soldiers throughout history, your a shame and a disgrace to our military. You sound like you got outdone by a female so now you can only talk shit about women because your pride is shot.

Adultery isn't cool.

Hollywood is bullshit. Everybody knows this.

Feel the same...the best movie about the 1600's. Wish there would be more movies about the time or the 30 Years War.

Now it has become one of my favorites...indeed

@@philippsaga4180 This movie depicts the 80 years war between the spanish and the dutch, it ended the same year as the 30 years war however.

The best film portraying the Spanish terico

Cuz Hollywood is infested with profit-lusting yehuds

Because Hollywood makes just garbage which has potential for stupid people who spend money for that...Just money makers...nothing else behind...

They actually did. Alexander.

Because the Movie Men were replaced in the 1970's by the Money Men, who care only about the Bottom Line. That's why movies stink nowadays, because **Those in Charge Don't Care**...

Because woke and bad writing

Like all our retarded inbreaded kings.

@@christiana.v.w1607 I mean if they were all bad, monarchies wouldn't have lasted as long as they did... You ever heard of Charlemagne? Good King Wenceslas? Just to name a few.

@@l33tsamurai I am related to Charlemagne.

The theme of Perez-Reverte's Alatriste novels is how the Spanish national character brought about their empire's demise. One of his observations is the five generation rule, in which a Spanish family takes two generations to obtain wealth and nobility, the middle generation produces people like the King in this film, and then two generations to decline until they are back where they started.

Gerry Leb true, although ironically Charles II was a pretty good king but, turned out he was as sickly as it gets thanks to the Habsburgs fucking each other and thus dying without a heir. One thing though thanks to the Tercios Spain was the world's major power, holding itself even though having something like 150 years of continuous war, having all kinds of shit thrown in our way, and thanks to the tercios we basically held on, after the tercios became outdated and having the Catalans making the usual shit they always do, the Spanish dominance came to an end.

No problem!

GLORIA LA HISPANIDAD HERMANO Ñ©️

Te saludo desde Costa rica .todos Somos un poco español no ?

@@michaeldecuffa8762 si, todos tenemos sangre española y aun sino tuviéramos tenemos costumbre, creencia, idioma e historia comun. Es la Hispanidad, lo que siempre nos unirá a los hispanos.

@@michaeldecuffa8762 según la Constitución de Cádiz de 1812 nos nombraba españoles, pues decía a "los españoles de ambos hemisferios'' ¡Saludos a la Madre Patria y a todos mis hermanos hispanos de ambos lados del Atlántico!

I've read every english book he's published. This series is not the best of his, in my opinion, but good reads. I wish they would make The Seville Communion or The Nautical Chart into movies.

@@WallaceTexas There were veterans Tercio soldiers in the Foudation of Texas and many Canarian Sailors too

nikolausphillips It's a Spanish film based on the book of Perez-Reverte.

Thats exactly what I think most times. Where did this jewel come from? Its definitely one of my favourite movies ever, and yet very few people know about it.

@@saratesouro5984 most of it is bullshit but still good to watch .

@@britishpatriot7386 It's a novel, only that includes accurate depictions of how society and war on those times were, i would't call it bullshit.

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According with you.

I agree 100% this movie blind sided me out of nowhere

The subs come so much later than the speech. This is troublesome - you cannot appreciate the emotion behind the words if you have to wait to read what it meant. Ruins the whole aesthetic. I know some Spanish so I don't need all subtitles and for a bit I could watch but it got way too bad at the first involved conversation in the drinking establishment.

Un saludo desde España hermano!

@@guillermosanchez9989 igualmente hermano. Afortunado usted.

No more than a 9. Overly negative regarding the Church.

IMDB thinks different (6/10)

17th century.

Caravaggio, among others. What art they produced in those days.

Im tellin ya, I swear the director channeled the Spanish painter, Velasquez for this movie

Not only that scene but also at 1:26:30 - the transition from the blue of early dawn to the warm sunlight of morning is absolutely gorgeous

Same here

You want? Hehehe, you look quite masochist.

william wright kl

I've got to read the books now 😁

Don Flanery l& m. m. c xx.

i see you are just another butt hurt brit dwelling on the past becuase the current state of your little nation is shit,,,turning to the middle aged lifestyles of islam.

william wright -But Will....no giant robots, comic books, zombies...and it had a PLOT about HISTORY too! What was I saying? No attention span either.

Same! This movie is expensive as hell to buy outside of Europe!

@@lordalastor99 Couldn't you just buy it online?

@@asdfomfglol I've tried to but I live in the USA and this is a European-made film. American DVD players won't play Euro DVD's and vice versa :(

Are you a Lindybeige and Matt Easton fan, because they would be so proud lol

It must have been hard to film aswell, I´m guessing more than one got injured in that scene

Aside from the protagonist omitting armour, adorned in civilian arms and accoutrements, then yeah it's good. That said, I've not seen a single movie where the star is accurately portrayed in war, so.. 🤷‍♂️

Finally had to scroll way down here for that confirmation

@David Dorward ikr

same, i rewatch every 3 months for years

Arriba la Hispanidad siempre

Saludos a la tierra de mis ancestros desde México, a todos mis hermanos hispanos de los dos lados del Atlántico

Orgulloso? Conoces de algún antepasado tuyo que haya servido en los tercios?

@@sickpit5736 quizás no amigo, pero la furia española la hemos heredado.

Desde México, viva Nuestra Madre Patria, La Muy Noble Y Leal España!

I personally disliked the movie, as it is kind of frankenstein...between hollywood epics, spanish drama and old historic details not understandable for universal viewers(there is too much inner reference to things only people who know the period knows...) so the drama and the rithm is affected. Viggo also speaks a twisted spanish because his accent is argentinian and here tries to imitate castillian....but I think we had too many expectations, today, as I rewacth I like it a lot more.

Mmmmm orgulloso? No de, la peli muestra la ruina bastante mas q la gloria. También es cierto q el siglo XVII fue terrible en todo el mundo.

very proud

@@adamnesico de todos modos con ruina pero se mantuvieron en pie y dieron todo por su tierra.

Lo estamos, muchas gracias.

"I am sure Spain is the strongest country in the world, spaniards have tried to destroy it among centuries and they couldnt" Otto von Bismark. Check that, you will see the quote its true. Kisses from Valencia, España.

Thats true my friend , but thats our doom, the worst enemy of spain is spain

You are fucking right. My country has had stupid politician in the last 200 years, all creating seperatism or looking for self benefits. Catalonia and the vascs. There is no more patriotism like USA for example and the division due Civil War and Franco is still active (especially in young people). No one explain the good country we were in the school (always done with respect for other countries obviusly).

@@danielmontalvorufian7082 A false patriotism is not real unity (especially in the U.S.), and about half of the U.S. is former Spanish territory. The same Spanish division holds true across Latin American countries. The issue is classicism and greed which corrupts the heart of men.

Actually in that war Catalonia revoulted and sided with France. Also Portugal revoulted (and they won). There was no such a thing as "Spanish people" in the same way, there was no Britishs, just English, Scots, Irish.. etc. The "spanish languaje" is Castilian languaje. Castile is to the spansih peninsula what Ingland was to the islands: just the biggest kibgdom of the region ruling the smoller ones.

Totalmente de acuerdo. Para quien no leyó los libros, la escena de caza en los alrededores del Escorial es confusa o incomprensible...