>
> Besides all the historical and mythical problems with the movie, it *really*
> was just another entry into the "Magnificent Seven" subgenre of movies:
> seven super-competent guys ride forth, rescue some innocent villagers and
> defeat a nasty army. Instead of Mexican peons we have "woads" (why can't we
> just call a Pict a Pict? The word dates to the third century, the movie
> supposedly takes place in the 5th...) enslaved by a nasty Roman, and instead
> of Banditos we have a Saxon Army a few hundred miles off from where they
> originally landed (Cerdic & Cynric landed in the *south* of Britain, Mr.
> Bruckheimer!)
>
Oh, and don't forget the Christians (and most Romans) are evil trope. Sigh. Like we don't hear that one every day. That and the unwarranted ubernationalism - it felt very out of place.
>
>
> RR
> It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
> done what he has done.
> - Richelieu
The best thing to come out of "King Arthur" was me digging out my old Mary Stewart books and re-reading them. That was (and is) good read. Between that and Eagle of the Ninth, I should be able to recover from the thinly veiled nationalism and wave of irritation King Arthur casused me.
I don't think I can bring myself to see I, Robot yet.
Jeff
-- Flight to Peru - £1000 Camping gear - £200 Native guide to take you into the mountains - £50 Radiation detector to find mysteriously radioactive old tomb - £150 Sledgehammer to break down stone door - £12.99 Awakening one of the Great Old Ones - priceless. There are some things man was not meant to know. For everything else, there's Mastercard.
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