on King Arthur

I saw King Arthur on Christmas Day.
It was a neat re-telling of the age old classic legend...
except this rendition took away the magic and lore of Merlin and Excalibur, and
tried to put in a 'historical' background. Basically it made Arthur half-Roman,
and talked about some highly skilled horseriders from a land called *Sarmatia.
I don't want to say any more about the movie, but it was a really different telling.
Not a bad movie at all...

It was a pretty cool movie, and one of the cool quotes I picked up, which was left in the alternate ending was:

Fate is shared by no one.

How true. We have our own fate, but they do sometimes cross with others'.

Most important about this movie? It had Keira Knightley. Keira Knightley as a native Briton
Keira Knightley with blue facepaint. Keira Knightley with a bow and arrow.
Ah.... a wonderful movie.

*Sarmatia , ancient district between the Vistula River and the Caspian Sea, occupied by the Sarmatians [Lat. Sarmatae] from the 3d cent. B.C. through the 2d cent. A.D. The term is vague and is also used to refer to the territory along the Danube and across the Carpathians where the Sarmatians. were later driven by the Huns. The Sarmatians, who until c.200 B.C. lived E of the Don River, spoke an Indo-Iranian language and were a nomadic pastoral people related to the Scythians whom they displaced in the Don region. The main divisions were the Rhoxolani, the Iazyges, and the Alans or Alani. They came into conflict with the Romans but later allied themselves with Rome, acting as buffers against the Germans. They were scattered or assimilated with the Germans by the 3d cent. A.D.