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Braveheart

Friendly Fire

Uxbridge-Shimoda LLC

Film, Comedy, History, War, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Braveheart: Does this film tell the tale of a freedom-fighting warrior or is this a story about William Wallace’s revenge-fueled descent into madness? On today’s episode Adam, Ben, and John rewind all four VHS cassette tapes while discussing the highs and lows of the historical motion picture. This film is available via: Amazon, iTunes, Roku, YouTube, Google Play, and Vudu Click here to support our show! The next film, Zulu, is available on: iTunes and your local library

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0:00.0

Freedom, an idea wrapped up in both the stated doctrines of revolutionary movements the world over,

0:06.0

and the jingoistic language of right-wing politics, is also at the center of the aggressively embellished film biography of William Wallace directed by and starring

0:15.4

Garbage Human Mel Gibson. The film was lauded by critics at its release

0:20.3

winning five of its ten nominated Academy Awards and secured best director and

0:24.8

best picture Oscars for Mr Gibson that we assume he took home and drew little Hitler

0:29.1

mustaches on. But with the benefit of hindsight will this film reveal some of the hateful ideologies later

0:34.8

advanced by the director more explicitly via the medium of drunken voicemails?

0:39.8

Do the operatic scale and baroque depictions of medieval combat stand the test of time?

0:45.2

Or should this film be drawn and quartered?

0:47.6

We love war films.

0:48.9

Always have.

0:49.9

Today on friendly fire, Brave Heart. Welcome to Friendly Fire. It's the show that can't train with weapons so we train with

1:08.2

Stones. I'm Ben Harrison. I'm Adam Pranica.

1:13.0

Oh, we've never done this before.

1:16.0

And I'm John Roderick, and I'm Morley Safer.

1:19.0

Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, you would. You would be the morally of this group.

1:25.0

That's a great pick.

1:28.0

He's your guy, right?

1:29.0

If we're going to review 60 minutes, Morley's your guy.

1:32.0

I'm the morally safer.

1:36.0

There's a part of movies these days are not as good as they used to be.

1:42.0

There's a part of that guy's name. That's Andy Rooney. Yeah, Rooney. I'm more of a Charles

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