fatvegan

I went to see King Arthur in my break yesterday. I can't put my finger on exactly what was wrong with it, but it felt kind of B-grade. Everything was a little bit tacky. And all the acting was a little bit dodge. Some parts of it were interesting. The whole Pelagius-Rome-human rights-freedom-collapse of an empire stuff that Arthur was thinking about was interesting.

The part that struck me the most was this fight between the Woads and Arthur's knights. The Woads spent several minutes of the film hemming the knights in the forest by shooting arrows with barbed-wire ropes into trees, making a kind of big barbed-wire fence. It took ages, and they had to shoot heaps of arrows all over the place to finally get them to stop running. But when they did, Merlin blew some horn which meant that they weren't supposed to kill Arthur. So they all walked off. I really felt sorry for all the people who'd climbed up those trees. And for the people who'd prepared all the barbed-wire arrows. And for those who had to go pull all the arrows out of the trees, and put them back up. That must have taken ages.