I’m big on anything featuring King Arthur. I even love First Knight, Richard Gere huffing and puffing aside. But director Antoine Fuqua’s weird decision to dress his knights in vaguely Roman garb for his upcoming stab at the Arthurian legend disturbs me, trailer protestations of reality aside.

I’m just not comfortable seeing the Knights of the Round Table wearing scrub brushes on their heads. Bad enough when we have to endure it with Julius Caesar. Nor am I quite comfortable with Guinevere being turned into some sort of Xena cloned warrior princess... not that I’m one to knock any excuse to get a few more lingering glances at Keira Knightly’s midriff.

What does work in the King Arthur trailers (besides the baring of Knightly skin) are the battles, which look fast fierce and hard. Ok, maybe Guinevere shouldn’t be involved in them, but this is a new millennium and people just aren’t happy with women sitting at home while the men go out and do all the killing. Guinevere clearly has a much larger role for this Arthur film, she’s even pushed Clive Owen to the back of the King Arthur poster.

Whatever the case, I’m always up for knights and swords and maybe a little swirling in of Merlin. King Arthur should be fun and I’m hoping for the best.

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