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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

I quite like Excalibur myself as it has Percival finding the Grail rather than Galahad (the dullest knight in Mallory) and it has Arthur as the Fisher King rather than having to put some other king in a kingdom neighbouring Logres and then ruin his day for plot purposes, but (as you say) it treats history* the way el presidente treats diplomacy. Haven't seen King Arthur yet, and not sure I plan to: the descriptions I've heard it treats the Mabinogion and Treece the same way that Jonah Hex treated the American Civil War. Keira Kightley can only compensate for so much...

*(And we're talking Geoffrey of Monmouth here: how batshit does a film have to be to clash with that stuff?)

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Alright, we have all seen them, those wonderful big budget historically (perhaps hysterical is a better term) based dramas that Hollywood and the British equivalent has produced over the decades.

Whoremods mentioned Excalibur in another thread, great movie, if you throw out that plate mail (as depicted) was a few centuries yet to be developed, and the castles depicted were not even a glimmer in an engineers mind, not to mention Uther shagging Ygraine while still in armor.....

OF course, the latest installment, King Arthur was just as bad, moving Baden Hill from southern England to Hadrian's Wall, and Artos Castus had been dead almost 200 years when the Romans pulled out of England.....

And sweet mother of Jesus, Mel sure screwed Braveheart seven ways from Sunday, starting with the fact that the term 'Braveheart' actually was coined to describe Robert the Bruce.

And Isabella of France would have 3 when she, according to the movie met Wallace after the battle of Falkirk, and IF William had been the father of Edward III as the movie implies, it would have been the longest pregnancy in the history of humans, 63 months, since Edward III was born 7 years after the death of Wallace.

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ORIGINAL: servantdaniel

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Alright, we have all seen them, those wonderful big budget historically (perhaps hysterical is a better term) based dramas that Hollywood and the British equivalent has produced over the decades.

Whoremods mentioned Excalibur in another thread, great movie, if you throw out that plate mail (as depicted) was a few centuries yet to be developed, and the castles depicted were not even a glimmer in an engineers mind, not to mention Uther shagging Ygraine while still in armor.....

OF course, the latest installment, King Arthur was just as bad, moving Baden Hill from southern England to Hadrian's Wall, and Artos Castus had been dead almost 200 years when the Romans pulled out of England.....

And sweet mother of Jesus, Mel sure screwed Braveheart seven ways from Sunday, starting with the fact that the term 'Braveheart' actually was coined to describe Robert the Bruce.

And Isabella of France would have 3 when she, according to the movie met Wallace after the battle of Falkirk, and IF William had been the father of Edward III as the movie implies, it would have been the longest pregnancy in the history of humans, 63 months, since Edward III was born 7 years after the death of Wallace.

It seems there is only one of her so we can blame her for everything including the socks.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Alright, we have all seen them, those wonderful big budget historically (perhaps hysterical is a better term) based dramas that Hollywood and the British equivalent has produced over the decades.

Whoremods mentioned Excalibur in another thread, great movie, if you throw out that plate mail (as depicted) was a few centuries yet to be developed, and the castles depicted were not even a glimmer in an engineers mind, not to mention Uther shagging Ygraine while still in armor.....

OF course, the latest installment, King Arthur was just as bad, moving Baden Hill from southern England to Hadrian's Wall, and Artos Castus had been dead almost 200 years when the Romans pulled out of England.....

And sweet mother of Jesus, Mel sure screwed Braveheart seven ways from Sunday, starting with the fact that the term 'Braveheart' actually was coined to describe Robert the Bruce.

And Isabella of France would have 3 when she, according to the movie met Wallace after the battle of Falkirk, and IF William had been the father of Edward III as the movie implies, it would have been the longest pregnancy in the history of humans, 63 months, since Edward III was born 7 years after the death of Wallace.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

I quite like Excalibur myself as it has Percival finding the Grail rather than Galahad (the dullest knight in Mallory) and it has Arthur as the Fisher King rather than having to put some other king in a kingdom neighbouring Logres and then ruin his day for plot purposes, but (as you say) it treats history* the way el presidente treats diplomacy. Haven't seen King Arthur yet, and not sure I plan to: the descriptions I've heard it treats the Mabinogion and Treece the same way that Jonah Hex treated the American Civil War. Keira Kightley can only compensate for so much...

*(And we're talking Geoffrey of Monmouth here: how batshit does a film have to be to clash with that stuff?)

What, no comment on a 63 month pregnancy?

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

I quite like Excalibur myself as it has Percival finding the Grail rather than Galahad (the dullest knight in Mallory) and it has Arthur as the Fisher King rather than having to put some other king in a kingdom neighbouring Logres and then ruin his day for plot purposes, but (as you say) it treats history* the way el presidente treats diplomacy. Haven't seen King Arthur yet, and not sure I plan to: the descriptions I've heard it treats the Mabinogion and Treece the same way that Jonah Hex treated the American Civil War. Keira Kightley can only compensate for so much...

*(And we're talking Geoffrey of Monmouth here: how batshit does a film have to be to clash with that stuff?)

What, no comment on a 63 month pregnancy?

The screenwriter stated that he avoided leadrning about William because he had a story he wanted to write and didn't want anything to distract from his story. Including reality.