Alatriste - a magnificent historic military movie

[dagc]

Wow, just wow. Everything is superbly done. If you can only watch one movie this year make it this one.

This is military story told from the Spanish side in the 16th Century, during the 30 Years War. There are themes of loyalty, faith, honor, fatalism & redemption, with different layers of each. Spanish with English subtitles. Who knew Viggo Mortensen, aka Aragorn son of Arathorn, spoke Spanish?

Photography is a hobby of mine and I can say the cinemaphotography is outstanding. The framing of the scene at 1:02:30 is right out of a classical painting. Why can't Hollywood do movies like this?

It's free on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX-y87nmZnc

 

[kc34]

Just watched the 1st 5 minutes of the movie and it looks really good. Thanks for link, I will definitely watch this.

 

[donor]

Nice find-thank you.Not only Spanish film but also Spanish wars in 1620s.

 

[Nick933]

Thank you for sharing, I will be watching this today. Historical war movies are my favorites.

 

[diopter]

Looks good, now back to doing taxes.!@#$%^&*

 

[Donny Fenn1]

Viggo speaks some ting like 7 languages.

 

[Alex_Zues]

The pike battle was impressive. Seeing how calm, yet tense everything was before the inevitable collision

 

[Grizzly Adams]

the cinemaphotography is outstanding

Spaghetti Westerns were made in Spain, they know their stuff.

Gizz

 

[diopter]

I'm visualizing the beans-campfire scene from "Blazing Saddles" with Chef Boyardee canned pasta instead of the beans.

 

[Steppenwolf]

 

[Buggle]

the cinemaphotography is outstanding

Spaghetti Westerns were made in Spain, they know their stuff.

Gizz

And Italy.

 

[Horilka]

Kind of speechless because I thought every person interested in military history had seen this movie. Apparently not. Timeless classic.

 

[diopter]

Afraid too many people believe John Wayne IS history.