June Recommendation: The Master of Ballantrae

 

                                       Originally, I was going to pick the Adventures of Robin Hood to be my June Recommendation of this year, but after watching this amazing film the Master of Ballantrae which starred Errol Flynn and was William Keighley's final film as a director. I just had to recommend this for the month of June. For many reasons this was another great swashbuckling film like the Adventures of Robin Hood, but also was the first film were Bob Anderson the famous real-life swordsman's first film as a Sword Master but was the leading towards success for him as well as a great career in futures to come. 

                                      Two Scottish brothers engage in a fierce sibling rivalry while battling pirates and British soldiers. 

                                       Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote The Master of Ballantrae written a lot of famous books, great examples are Treasure Island and the most famous tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde which explored a tone of great things that involve the human or good side of us to the evil and horrible side of us all, and The Master of Ballantrae is another of one of those great tales of two brothers turn enemies and to be honest, it's a great story to tell but also great to watch especially when you have leading man Errol Flynn at the helm. The most shocking thing I found out that this film came out six years before Flynn died, for which I thought "wow" I had no clue, for many reasons I thought the man would live forever, although the other shocking thing was that he died at the age of 50 years old, furthermore thought like crap I wonder what happened, and I guess what I've learned was that he died of a heart attack moreover had a lot of pain in his body moreover didn't do a great job in taking care of his body for which is really sad in reading about it, moreover gets you to realize that you don't have a lot of time on this earth and hell I would imagine he'd live forever. And even though he didn't live long he still lives long in in his films and it's movies like The Master of Ballantrae is what makes him a living legend. Like, Robin Hood the film itself does hold up when it comes to action/adventure but deep down I kind of prefer this movie over Robin Hood when it comes to the Errol Flynn films I've seen so far, and the main reason why I like this other than the story line is that the sword fights seem much more better and much more realistic than Robin Hood granted that these films were separated fifteen years apart from each other but in truth this what make the swordsman teaching of Bob Anderson so legendary in fact Anderson to a leave from the British Royal Marines to participate in the movie, for which spawned a great long run of teaching Hollywood actors in movies. Now I know your all are going to be butt hurt or acted like your offended about what I'm going to say but what I'm telling you all is simply the truth, this generation of movies SUCK, summer movies are nothing but absolute garbage, I mean for f**k sake we literally just went through five years of nothing but superhero movies, remakes, and sequel's that necessarily didn't need to be made (Fast X) WITHOUT EVEN BLINKING! Corporations are the reason why movies are just trash, they just must sneak into the sets or the writing rooms and screw it up and that's why corporates need to stay away, moreover the producers now are what they are because they did something wrong just like Tom Cruise when he sold his soul to the Devil. So, for love of God people get on the same page and stop wasting your money on this year’s crappy films because take it from me people who go to all these new mindless action or live action Disney films are just giving their money to Satan. Now, that being said the Master of Ballantrae is an exceptionally great action adventure film that needs to be seen, with great action, great story telling and as always I love the brother sibling rivalry that goes with the movie moreover has entertaining by the final frame and I strongly suggest everyone to check movies like the Master of Ballantrae out and stop wasting your money on movies that Hollywood is coming out today.