Trailers from New King Arthur Movie

[Hurin_Rules]

Here's the page with the links in it:

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=17454

Shields and some of the helms look ok. Good idea to set it in the period Arthur was originally supposed to have lived in.

Other than that, it's a bit disappointing. The Angles and Saxons (I assume that those are who the baddies are) sometimes wear animal furs and look like generic, hollywood barbarians. Their weapons look odd too-- a double bitted axe, for example. Where are the seax's and scramaseax's?

And am I the only one who cringes when 'true history' and Jerry Bruckheimer are mentioned in the same sentence?

[Accounting Troll]

My expectations of Arthurian films are so low that I'm happy if they aren't all wearing 15th century style armour and they didn't do any filming at Raglan Castle.

[meravelha]

Oh, but I LIKED Excalibur....

And it was realistic after its own fashion.
That is to say - if it wasn't faithful to the 'historical Arthur' (of which we know next to nothing), it was faithful to the expectations of the audience for which it was originally written.

[monkian]

Have any of you read the Bernard Cornwall books on Arthur ? They are set during the Saxon invasions of Briton and a very intersting in my opnion.

[Oaty]

Hmm ranting on a movie that based on something nearly fictitious. Maybe you should tell me all you know about king Arthur

[meravelha]

The only non-fictional source is :
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/nennius-full.html

[noramis]

Quote[/b] ]Have any of you read the Bernard Cornwall books on Arthur ? They are set during the Saxon invasions of Briton and a very intersting in my opnion.

These books are a MUST READ for anyone who frequents this forumn. The "books" consist of 3 books that detail a man in Arthurian times, who gives his allegiance to Arthur.

An excellent, excellent book.

[Auxilia]

Quote[/b] (noramis @ May 09 2004,21:14)]These books are a MUST READ for anyone who frequents this forumn. The "books" consist of 3 books that detail a man in Arthurian times, who gives his allegiance to Arthur.

An excellent, excellent book.
Couldn't agree more

I did quite like Excalibur too - great music, and the guy who played Merlin (Nicol Williams) almost stole the whole damn show

....and let's not mention that travesty with Sean and Richard shall we? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

[Lord Rom]

Anything by Bernard Cornwell is excellent Those three books are the best sword stories I've ever read. And there are also a few new ones out...one is about the longbow..An Archers's Tale.
I loved the trailer to King Arthur, hope the movie lives up to it.

[squippy]

They were pretty good, but I find his characters repetitive, bordering on cliched.