Julie Andrews deserved the part—it was a star making turn on Broadway (which she repeated in London) but hey, this wouldn’t be the first or last time there was a star making or defining Broadway turn (in musicals and plays) where the studios wanted a *movie* star (though some of the reasoning behind these things…

The 13th Warrior is the perfect example of a film Hollywood should be remaking.

I mean if they did they’d stumble into the fact that Al-Andalus was, for the time, pretty progressive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_and_cultural_exchange_in_Al-Andalus#Social_mobility_and_conversion). Hell, their brains would melt if they found out that El Cid, Spain’s national hero, worked for both Christian…

Just be fucking glad the Yank Right haven’t got their paws on the Reconquista. They probably won’t want to do that because, hello, Spanish and we all know what the self-loathing Right Wing think of Spanish-speaking folk but, mate - a period of war on the Iberian Peninsula that lasted for 780 years? 

Yeah to explain how the hell this happened, one needs a bloody flowchart. 

You’re definitely correct that many people, especially those on the right who focus on atrocities the Muslims committed and conveniently ignore the ones that the Christians did, and how those supposedly pious fellas sacked and plundered everything they could get their hands on while also crucifying and dismembering at…

My favorite thing from the Crusades histories is how the Christians in the East, Latin or Greek, always ended up with a much different attitude than the ones coming from the West.

Apparently, he was lionhearted and iron-stomached.

Coincidentally, Constantinople just so happens to be the place the Horses of St. Mark were originally from. Venice was “gifted” it right after the sacking. How the convenient for the Byznatine’s economic rival to wind up with such lovely pieces of art.

primarily for money and jools and lulz. Mostly because the Venetians encouraged the entire thing in part because of their mistreatment by the Romans a few years before.

We live in a society where we drink Smirnoff Ice from our Smirnoff-Ice-Glass!

I know.  The fall of Constantinople is always mentioned in far right corners as the possible fall of Western Civilization.  Yeah it fell in part due to assholes from the west attacking it.  

Notice how rarely the 4th crusade is mentioned.  The one where the Catholic knight's slaughtered Orthodox Christians in Constantinople?  Yeah... I wonder why.

Not sure you got anything wrong, but any mention of the Crusades’ silliness needs to mention the Fourth Crusade, where they end up sacking CHRISTIAN Constantinople rather than their originally intended Muslim targets. This ends up greatly weakening the Byzantine empire, which contributes to them being destroyed and…

Eva Green elevates everything she’s in.  Even garbage like that 300 sequel or that stupid Miss Peregrine movie are entertaining when she’s on screen.  She is one of my favorite actors in film.

He’s also done several director’s cuts since then, including this one, so safe to say that on some level, it’s working for him and he’s leaned into the rep, even if that 1992 director’s cut wasn’t exactly his work.

Yeah the right tends to lionize the Crusades as this grand battle between Christianity and Islam. Mostly it was just a bunch of mass murder and at least one instance of cannibalism, most of which wasn’t even in The Middle East. 

You could have stopped at Eva Green rules.

Eva Green pretty much rules whatever she is in.