All I can say is that Clive Owen - whim I generally love - is woefully miscast.
1 posted on
10/05/2023 7:42:21 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
A much more insightful - and humorous - review by the great Mark Steyn:
King Arthur
2 posted on
10/05/2023 7:44:10 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
To: Rummyfan
...Woad country, where the Woads live. The Woads are so called because they're blue. You'd be blue, too, if your beloved native land was occupied by the Romans, and so a cunning Woad called Merlin is leading a guerrilla insurgency against Rome. If there was a song at this point, it would be 'How To Handle A Roman'. But there isn't, so instead the Woads slip across the wall, determined to push the Romans back down the M1: all Woads lead to Wome, as Elmer Fudd would say.
3 posted on
10/05/2023 7:46:46 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
To: Rummyfan
..... If you think there's too much Saxon violence in the movies these days, wait'll you see these guys. Their general Sir Dick - or, as I discovered in the closing credits, Cerdic - is a mountain of blond hair extensions. Perhaps some insensitive locals tittered at him as he waded ashore, but, for whatever reason, the Saxons slaughter everyone they come across in a frenzy of Woad rage. As Cerdic, Stellan Skarsgård hams up his dialogue with a throaty rumble that sounds like he came first in that year's Stockholm round of the Nick Nolte karaoke competition. When he hears about the Roman estate nearby, he dispatches a rape'n'pillage squad led by his son Cynric, because it takes his child to raze a village. His son is bald, which explains where dad's hair extensions came from.I mean, how can you not LOL at that?!
4 posted on
10/05/2023 7:49:05 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
To: Rummyfan
king Arthur makes a great flour
5 posted on
10/05/2023 7:55:54 PM PDT by
Bob434
To: Rummyfan
Hollywood take on history!
Sarmatians were East Europeans from today’s Ukraine.
Rome conquered Britain in first century AD (Claudius).
8 posted on
10/05/2023 8:43:39 PM PDT by
AZJeep
To: Rummyfan
I wonder if King Arthur is a minority. The Welsh said he is real, nowadays Hollywood could make George Washington be a black person.
9 posted on
10/05/2023 9:28:08 PM PDT by
Deplorable American1776
(Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
To: Rummyfan
I wanted to love that movie, but it turned weird at the end!
10 posted on
10/05/2023 10:51:06 PM PDT by
Guenevere
(“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
To: Rummyfan
Like so much Hollywood drivel they try to denigrate Christianity by having christian “priests” torturing people to get conversions.
And the Pagans are often the “Good” guys. I believe this Arthur was shown as a believer in the Pelagian heresy.
14 posted on
10/06/2023 8:10:44 AM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
To: Rummyfan
“Well I didn’t vote for you.”
15 posted on
10/06/2023 8:12:00 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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