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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1177360" data-attributes="member: 8447">Historically realistic ... wearing a leather bikini into battle...  Wow, talk about fantasy and reality clashing quickly.I love the Arthurian legends.  I have about 500 books (no, that is not a typo) on the topic.  Every few years there is another wave of books about the "real" King Arthur.The problem?  There is not REAL King Arthur.Oh yes, there are lots of stories, many of which contradict each other.  Some claim they are based on Roman tales, some on various Celtic legends, some on the myths of the Sarmatians, etc.  But the truth of the matter is that there is no single thread that creates"The Truth".  Instead it is a collection of threads, slowly creating a tapestry that alters with each retelling of the tales.This movie will probably be better than "First Knight"; it will have little problem being better than "Camelot" or "The Mists of Avalon" (the movie here, although the book is not that much better).  I wish that the movie could be as good as Bernard Cornwell's or Mary Stewart's books, but I hold out little hope.The tales of King Arthur have yet to truly succesfully translated to either stage or screen.</blockquote>