I'll go first, with a tossup-

"Dragonheart" (Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery) - 2 of the sexiest men on earth in a medieval movie- how could it lose? Great story, wonderfuly evocotive costumes, a loathsome bad guy with bad teeth. Fabulous.

Ladyhawke - Rutger Hauer, Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfieffer. Do you even have to ask? A gorgeous man on a glorious horse. An endearing nebbish and an achingly beautiful woman, all spider webbed together by an evil spell. Bring on the popcorn and tissues!

Second runner up - "The Warlord". Charlton Heston is a joke, but I love the costumes.

Next!

Dragonheart
Sean Connery made a wonderful dragon. When we went to see it in the theater, the animators and Connery made Draco "believable". You almost thought he was real. So much so that there weren't many dry eyes in the crowd.

Ladyhawke
Love this one because it based on a 12th(?) c. tale. I love Brodrick's character Phillipe the Mouse and his conversations and constant barginning with God. lol.

Henry V
With Kenneth Braughan (never can get his last name right). I just thought the performance was wonderful. This is probably one of my favorite Shakespeare plays and wasn't a "modern" readaptation like Richard III with Ian McKellan.

TV series or mini-series:

Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
Made for A&E. Gave a good feel and was a good story.

Brother Cadfael
Nice Middle Ages "who dunnit" series. Really nice look and feel. Good stories too.

And in the animated category to delight my innerchild :

Sleeping Beauty
Nice traditional faerie tale. Cool villainess, Maleficent.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Nice look and feel, not your overly typical Disney film. I could do without the singing gargoyles, but other musical pieces in the score were very nicely done. Also Notre Dame has both towers when at the time in history, the other was still under construction. Another very well done Disney villain.

Favorite line from the movie: Phebus, after taking an arrow in the shoulder has it cleansed with some wine. He comments: "Ah, *wince* feels like a 1470 Burgundy, not a good year." lol.

(Realizing of course this last one has a happy ending and really shouldn't based on the novel and other hollywood intrepretations, but that's Disney for you: have to have that silver lining.)

Robert Coleman, Jr.

Maybe you have to be a girl to hate that movie as much as I do.

Norman Warlord Heston to lovely village girl - "You're from the village? I own the village." Ahhh, Feudalism at it's finest

Robert Coleman, Jr.

Yeah, Flesh and Blood or whatever they are calling it now, had the same effect on me that the scene in Rob Roy did. Definitely not a date flick. In both cases the theatre or den would get very quiet and you could feel the temperature drop about 30 degrees.

13th Warrior.

Not my time-period. Not my place. But, what a movie for the action and feeling!

It's worth the $8 to buy it at the store. Especially for the final battle scene. These actors were GREAT, and the person who plays Bayowolf should have got an Oscar at least! You could "feel" ever emotion or wound he had, and it was as if you could read his mind through his face -- VERY expresive!

Good flick.

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-Aaron Miaullis, SCAer with Authenticity Leanings (yes, it's not an oxymoron... :)maybe...)

For those who haven't heard of it, the basic premise is that a big-city lawyer from Paris in the 15th century decides to move to the country for a change of pace. But the rural courts have all sorts of old laws still on the books, and he ends up embroiled in a bizarre case involving a murder, some gypsies, a pig, and the crazed son of the local lord. (He is defending the pig on murder charges.) It is supposedly based on records of an actual lawyer.

The image of the advocate stalking around the courtroom and orating while constantly playing with the liripipe of his hat is just great.