90% of films in this type of setting have:
>dull grey or black armour that looks like it's never been polished.
>no sigils or coats-of-arms for knights and lords (if they carry banners they are usually colourless and indistinguishable from any other)
>peasants have mud and shit on their face for no reason.
>awful lighting
>weapons look fake as shit
>a lot of the costumes don't even fit the fucking actors
Would any of this stuff be hard to hard to fix? How the fuck is it that most reenactment societies manage to have better looking costumes than multi-million-dollar Hollywood films? I get that maybe you can't have every extra looking 100% historically accurate, but why don't they at least splash out a few thousand dollars to rent out decent costumes for the main actors?
Why do Medieval/fantasy movies look so shit?
Also a lot of other historical settings don't seem to have this problem. Scenes like pic related usually manage to look good but not Medieval settings for some reason.
Medieval films opt for no colour because they think it makes their films look gritty and realistic. Ironically, it has the opposite effect
Leather being used for absolutely every single part of everyone's clothing is a big offender.
Why is this weird looking bastard considered attractive?
Yeah it sucks. Only KoH did it sorta right but even that had filters all over it.
This lol.
It's easy to mass produce the same redcoat design but imagine having to handmake each individual piece of clothing or equipment with backstories for every knight, regiment, etc when it would all be lost on the shit-eating normies that form 99% of your audience
So many of them have been made by now why don't they just re-use them/ buy them instead of wasting money on hiring costume designers for every single new medieval movie?
because he's a 10 in bongistan
You know nothing
>no colour
>realistic
imagine how many dicks he sucked in order to land gigs
because chrome plating wasn't invented until the 18th century, chemical dyes weren't invented until the 17th and Boorman's "Excalibur" was bullshit.
he unironically looks like skin cancer to me
>imagine having to handmake each individual piece of clothing or equipment
I mean the studio wouldn't have to handmake the clothing; they would pay someone else to do it and probably rent some of the costumes from reenactment societies.
>with backstories for every knight, regiment, etc
Why would you need backstories? Just a couple of different designs + some actual colour would make a big different.
His post literally said that it had the opposite effect
I TOO HAVE WATCHED LINDHBEIGE OP
>LE SMART HISTORIAN
Yes, ugly men (not so much women) can be memed into being considered attractive it seems. It's very odd.
>Edward Fox says of Craig, “So ugly! He is utterly wrong for Bond. The opposite of what Fleming intended, and I knew Fleming.”
He followed Yas Forums's advice and got a haircut, probably the reason.
By backstory I mean that every knight should have his own personal coat of arms so they need to do some research on who would be there
>because chrome plating wasn't invented until the 18th century, chemical dyes weren't invented until the 17th
Metal armour is shiny and people have been dying their clothes for 12'000 years.
>I TOO HAVE WATCHED LINDHBEIGE OP
Yeah and nothing he says about the subject is wrong.
This kind of applies to Gosling too, the director of the Notebook said he chose Gosling because he wasn’t handsome. Being a famous actor gives you a certain type of halo. It also helps what type of roles you’re known for. Craig plays a suave gentleman in Bond and Gosling plays smooth talking men in romantic dramas/comedies. He also plays a strong silen type character in Drive. Those type of roles appeal to women so they’re more likely to seen them as otherworldly attractive
I'm not asking for a obsessive level of detail and accuracy, just that the general aesthetic of the film is decent.
That level of color intensity was not possible during medieval times.
I thought the little dickmen army in the witcher were a nice change of pace to our usual armour getups
Too bad the costume design in Witcher in general is so atrocious. Geralt's looks so fake it hurts to watch, and I'm not gonna go into the Dryads.
I want to say that a nice exception to this is a little fantasy-horror indie movie called The Head Hunter. Made on an absolute shoestring of a budget, but the protagonist still has a gorgeous set of armor.
I didn't say it was good, or remotely easy to look at... I said it was a nice change of pace. Of course they look shit. They literally look like little dickmen.
I didn't mean to suggest that user, just voicing my displeasure. Did you ever see Chronicles of Riddick? You might enjoy the Necromongers.
Yeah it just makes them look dull, cold, and uninviting.
I've never watched vikings for this reason. I think it just looks so dull, visually
Yeah they were actually pretty dope. I'm kind of a grump and didn't really like you from your last post, but now I'm sort of crushing on you after that cute af suggestion.
The duality of man.