17-07-2005 17:00									#1
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....behaved like Nazis?

That's what I thought when seeing "King Arthur" yesterday. Actually I doubt that they cared much about "mixing bloodlines" when plundering and raping during the dark ages. It sounded too much like modern racism....

First I thought the movie not so bad, esp. since it tried to de-mystify the story, and they rather attempted to make it look more realistic.....but overall it was pretty weak IMO, despite some good scenes. I wonder how they came to the idea that the knights of the round table would be from Sarmatia...........

	17-07-2005 17:02									#2
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The saxons where the only thing that movie had going for it. Braided beards.

	17-07-2005 17:04									#3
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As opposed to the Saxons who invented the wheelbarrow?

	17-07-2005 17:09									#4
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Do you have Saxon ancestors PH?

	17-07-2005 17:30									#5
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I think the Saxons had an unfair advantage in that they rode horses, while King Arthur had to use coconuts.

	17-07-2005 17:44									#6
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	17-07-2005 17:49									#7
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What I learned at Wiki today: many of Europe's Jews might be successors to the khazars.

	17-07-2005 17:50									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Winston I think the Saxons had an unfair advantage in that they rode horses, while King Arthur had to use coconuts.

I think you're confusing King Arthur with Kid Creole Easily done.

	17-07-2005 17:54									#9
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Did PH miss an obvious Monty Python reference?

:rips "Geek" badge from PH's shirt:

	17-07-2005 17:55									#10
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Facts in King Arthur:

(1) There are islands north of the European continental called the British Isles.

(2) The Romans were on the southern part of Briton but then they left.

(3) Saxons invaded.

Everything else in that movie is utter cr4p, and pretty bad cr4p at that.

	17-07-2005 17:55									#11
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the whole setting is wrong. No one acted like nazis. The nazis acted like Saxons if anything. It's not like nazis are THAT special. They are just the modern bastards. Plenty of them before that.

	17-07-2005 17:56									#12
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The only good Arthur stories are the Warlord trilogy by Bernard Cornwell

	17-07-2005 17:57									#13
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I'm surprised that BeBro is taking history lessons from movies.

Here's a list for ya:

The Patriot
U-571
Monty Pythons Life of Brian

Watch these and you won't even have to crack a book!

	17-07-2005 17:57									#14
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT Did PH miss an obvious Monty Python reference? :rips "Geek" badge from PH's shirt:

	17-07-2005 17:59									#15
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the patriot, starring the blasphemer, life of brian, most blasphemeous movie there is, and the submarine movie, well what it really is, is bunch of guys in leather getting into this big penis shaped vessel that dives.

I wonder if he wants to see these movies.

	17-07-2005 18:00									#16
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This thread should be topped!

	17-07-2005 18:05									#17
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No, stopped - while we're all still relatively sane.

	17-07-2005 18:07									#18
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well sanity is relative.

	17-07-2005 18:07									#19
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Personally my favourite bit was when they brought out the trebuchets. The appearance of the ninjas in the extended version was especially cool too.

	17-07-2005 18:31									#20
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT I'm surprised that BeBro is taking history lessons from movies. Here's a list for ya: The Patriot U-571 Monty Pythons Life of Brian Watch these and you won't even have to crack a book!

I only take history lessons from movies. Those book writers never get anything right. It's all totally different from the movies!

Great recommendations, btw. However, saw them all a while ago.

The Patriot
U-571
Monty Pythons Life of Brian

Life of Brian was the most realistic of those

	17-07-2005 18:34									#21
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well you should be looking forward to see my short film 'Aladdin, Take Two'. It's a documentary about how Aladdin, the loved childrens movie in fact was the setup for the terrorism today, and how Prince Ali and OBL are like THIS SON! (*fingers together*)

	17-07-2005 18:48									#22
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That's nothing against "The Thief of Baghdad" with its obvious Al Queda references!

	17-07-2005 18:49									#23
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Hey guess what? They're re-doing Pocahontas only under a different title and in live action. The good news is that the 10 year old native american princess is still incredibly hot and hittable! The bright side is that they didn't hire Dakota Fanning to play her.

	17-07-2005 19:49									#24
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After reading you other post about O'Reilly - has Dr. Stranglove had his lithium today?

edited to fix smiley

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	17-07-2005 20:13									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Dr Strangelove The good news is that the 10 year old native american princess is still incredibly hot and hittable!

Hmm, I wonder, is it still a Freudian slip if you're saying what you mean to say, you just shouldn't have said it?

	17-07-2005 20:36									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Gibsie Personally my favourite bit was when they brought out the trebuchets. The appearance of the ninjas in the extended version was especially cool too.

If I had to watch trebouchets and ninjas in a King Arthur movie, I'd be blinded for the rest of my life.

	17-07-2005 20:48									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Winston Hmm, I wonder, is it still a Freudian slip if you're saying what you mean to say, you just shouldn't have said it?

He's being more than a little bit sarcastic. If you saw the Disney movie, Pocohantas was around 19 yrs old in the film, extremely hot and hittable. Whereas in real life she was just a 10 year-old girl.

	17-07-2005 20:53									#28
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To be fair there weren't actually any ninjas in the movie, although it's the kind of historical crap-up that you should expect in such a film.

	17-07-2005 21:00									#29
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quote: Originally posted by BeBro ....behaved like Nazis? I wonder how they came to the idea that the knights of the round table would be from Sarmatia...........

The only thing I know about Sarmatia is the cataphract, a body armor for the knights and their horses. Rarely mentionned in movies. Therefore, if the knights weared a cataphract, they were REALLY from Sarmatia, and the movie is well documented.

	17-07-2005 21:07									#30
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT He's being more than a little bit sarcastic.

Hence the at the end.



Okay, okay. So I didn't get it.

At least not all of it.

But I did sense there was some hint of something to it.

A little bit.