The Campaign Builder's Guild

Quote from: Elemental_Elf... Actually a lot of scientists believe that King Arthur and his deeds were fully or partially based off a Roman Soldier. You may find it offensive since you're English but its not like Hollywood just came up with the idea.

Whether or not there was any historical "fact" behind the myth of King Arthur doesn't concern me... I know him as the purely legendary Once and Future King :P

Well actually it semi-does concern me, or at least interest me, as I read an extremely interesting book called Warriors of the Wasteland, the name of who's author currently escapes me, which talks about the mythic traditions which the Arthur tales were an extension of. But that's still a history of myths, not a history of an actual real-life man.

The book, by the way, saw the Arthur tales as an extension and somewhat Christianised version of certain Celtic myths which in turn were descended from the spiritual/mystic traditions of the neolithic inhabitants of the British isles (and possibly Eurasia in general)

As for Apocalypto, I loved it, but that was just from a purely visual standpoint.

I saw 10,000 BC on Monday. While it had some ridiculousness in it, I went in expecting a semi-fantasy over-the-top epic and that's pretty much what I got. So I wasn't too disappointed. I think the big goal of the movie was to make giant prehistoric monsters look good on screen. If so, it succeeded.

I think that Hollywood has gotten TOO good at hyping crap. So instead of glancing at some ads and saying, "Oh, that looks like crap. But entertaining crap, so I might go see it when I feel like blowing some cash" we say, "Hm...do you suppose that's any good?"

I find it helps to believe that most movies you see ARE crap, because they are. So for example I expected "The Mummy" to be trite, silly crap and in fact found it was trite silly entertaining crap. By contrast I was told that "Mummy II" was really fun and enjoyable, and I'd absolutely love it by a friend of mine. Turned out to be worse crap than the first one--typical "that was funny the first time so we'll do it again" stuff that they did with the Indiana Jones films.

Quote from: Tybalttypical "that was funny the first time so we'll do it again" stuff that they did with the Indiana Jones films.

Blasphemy!!!  Last Crusade is the best of the bunch!!  My words are LAW

Quote from: TybaltI was told that "Mummy II" was really fun and enjoyable, and I'd absolutely love it by a friend of mine. Turned out to be worse crap than the first one

For me, the Kid ruined the whole flick.