King Arthur (The movie)

[Red Peasant]

If I learned nothing else from Lord of the Rings, it was this: Small bands of cavalry charging into massed infantry will always win. I'm not sure how or why, but that's how it works. Especially if it's toward the end of the movie.

You can pick apart the rest of the film all you like, but it's now an established fact that a smaller force of mounted warriors will always pwn in a frontal charge on heavy infantry.

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I disagree. It depends on the circumstances. In The Return of the King didn't some 10,000 Rohirrim attack the orcs at Minas Tirith? That's a hell of a cavalry force, and they clearly show the orcish infantry panicking = cavalry win almost every time. Those orcs had probably never had to sustain a massed cavalry attack on that scale = very scary.

Anyway, they're only films. If the script, plot and characterization are ok then bugger the inaccuracies, enjoy! However, I thought that King Arthur was a bit lacking in these departments. Then again, some films just have a certain charisma, like Excalibur.