Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on January 25, 2005 at 20:01:33

In Reply to: King Arthur was king of nothing... posted by KT88 on January 25, 2005 at 10:38:53:

...but I do have a problem with bad movies, and this one was a real stinker - the only striking scene in it was stolen from Sergei Eisenstein. I don't expect much from Bruckheimer and this movie didn't change my mind. What an incredible waste of fine actors like Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffud and Ray Winstone.

You were expecting "Camelot" maybe? The historical "Arthur", BTW, if he existed (scholars think he did, although it's likely one or more RL heroes were merged into the "Arthur" of legend), was probably a British-Romano commander of roughly the same period as that of the movie...the tales of medieval knights familiar to us are the romanticized products of a much later, courtly age.

I do prefer a historical approach to Arthur, as long as it's well done - I always hoped someone would make a film of Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave & the Hollow Hills. Another series in this vein is Bernard Cornwell's The Winter King (BC wrote the Sharpe series, adapted by the BBC).