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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2215461" data-attributes="member: 7883">I think it's less that the movie is villifying one group over the other, so much as that Ridley Scott was addressing religious intolerance etc. as a whole.  Everybody did bad things, and he tries to show that in the movie....at least so go the summaries I've heard.And it seems that for every person saying they've seen it, and finds it balanced, there's somebody else getting angry.  Maybe that's par for the course, because it's a controversial topic?  Could be the same thing as what they say as a general guideline for balancing rules in D20....if everybody thinks it's too weak, or everyone thinks it's too strong, it probably is.  But is you get a mix of people believing each way, it's probably balanced.Interestingly, IMDB has 507 votes already, and an average score of 8.0 on 10.  Not bad....not bad at all <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Regardless of whether or not it is a slightly skewed vision of history may not be the point.  Maybe it has to be skewed to keep everyone happy?  There are plenty of "historical" films that have distorted history....U-571, Braveheart, The Messenger, etc. etc. etc.  Didn't even "Gladiator" have roman soldiers riding around on horses and using stirrups, even though they weren't available to Europeans until years later?  And crossbows in King Arthur?  Weren't they out centuries after the 6th Century?  But that doesn't mean that they weren't good films...Banshee</blockquote>

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