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This version seems Post-Christian. A character happens to be called Arthur and there is a sword but everything else from the Arthurian Legends seems to be missing. No threat of this Buy Ritchie version supplanting "Excalibur" as the best Arthurian movie.
1 posted on 04/03/2017 7:13:12 AM PDT by C19fan
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Will there be the obligatory homosexual character or homosexual theme as part of the plot??


2 posted on 04/03/2017 7:14:57 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Who keeps funding Guy Ritchie films? People who need to write off LOSSES on their taxes, I’m thinking! ;)


3 posted on 04/03/2017 7:20:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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IMHO ‘Baby I’m gonna leave you’ is Led Zeppelin’s BEST Ballad.... far better than the oft celebrated Stairway to Heaven....


4 posted on 04/03/2017 7:21:29 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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his treacherous uncle Vortigern

What?

The whole point of King Arthur is that he was native British, not Saxon.

5 posted on 04/03/2017 7:23:15 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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Excalibur basically followed the Victorian era telling of the legend. It’s visually beautiful, but like the Victorian illustrators they put them in late medieval armor. The real Arthur if there was one would have been fighting the Saxon invaders around 500 AD, so that’s all wrong. I liked the 2004 King Arthur retelling it as at least looking right for the period.


6 posted on 04/03/2017 7:25:55 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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OMG!! Nice trailer. By nice I mean that I love the trailers that scream out: “wait for the DVD.”


12 posted on 04/03/2017 7:32:08 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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Anything that includes the mighty LED ZEPPELIN is worth the price of admission

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14 posted on 04/03/2017 7:35:51 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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“Excalibur” is fantastic, but the “King Arthur” with Clive Owen and Kiera Knightly is right up there...if any of the potential history surrounding the actual characters is close to being true.

KYPD


23 posted on 04/03/2017 7:55:27 AM PDT by petro45acp (" It IS About Islam: exposing the truth about ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the caliphate" by Glenn Beck)
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I’m kind of looking forward to this one. I hope he gets back to his early style, if this one comes out Lock Stock and Two Smoking Excaliburs I’ll enjoy it.


46 posted on 04/03/2017 8:24:05 AM PDT by discostu (Stand up and be counted, for what you are about to receive.)
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I’ll second that. Give me Wagner and Orff to go with my Arthur over Led Zeppelin anyday.


48 posted on 04/03/2017 8:27:51 AM PDT by Boogieman
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