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Thread #31938   Message #417597
Posted By: Hollowfox
14-Mar-01 - 04:27 PM
Thread Name: Confessions of an Authenticity Nurd!
Subject: RE: Confessions of an Authenticity Nurd!
Having had it pointed out to me in childhood that it was really hard to fight indians for two hours or so without having so much as your wig out of place (must have been watchinh Last of the Mohicans), I've usually taken a bemused, if superior, attitude to this sort of thing. It's fun noticing them and pointing them out to friends (choose wisely who you go to the movies with). Rick, Jeri, I doubt that those Scottish parts were entirely accurate. Unless there was a mad moyle who performed a mass bris in the vicinity a few years before the battle. I'll have to check the video out of the library to be sure.
Ah, Excalibur, the movie that had a metal plate in Merlin's head, and it showed. I could understand a lot of the plot choices, after all, they had to condense centuries of sometimes conflicting story lines into a two hour movie. And I have a certain affection fro the armor that looks like it was made out of chrome automobile bumpers. But who can forget the Lust Scene where Lancelot was in full armor? Ouch, that pinches just to think of it!