Yeah, I'm surprised Arthur doesn't access his smart phone just to check his Twitter account.

Did you think the same about the Sherlock movies?

@bratface said:

Did you think the same about the Sherlock movies?

I going to presume that by "Sherlock movies" you're referring to the BBC episodes featuring Cumberbatch and Freeman and not the TV show Elementary featuring Liu and Miller. I say this because while I can't speak for the others in the conversation, Sherlock (imo) can be played independently of time period. Sherlock is about a character and a process. The original books were written during the turn of the century, so naturally most adaptations have been period pieces. But if you strip it to its essential elements, it's about a super-smart detective with uncanny powers of observation and disguise solving complex crimes. That's it. You can set it in the future and the characters would still be the same.

Arthur, on the other hand, is about a King, a magic sword, his kingdom, the knights who helped conquer it, and the intrigues that led to his downfall. You can certainly adapt the Arthurian legend to modern times, but you'd necessarily need to lose the swords and horses because they'd be anathema to the modern world. However, I can see why some would criticize the disjointed mix of modern hair styles, costumes, and quick-cut filming techniques with a "period" picture such as this because of the incongruity it creates. Even the edits for modern audiences might work if everything else was faithful. (See Braveheart for ways this can be done.) But when you muddle it and mix them together, it's distracting. Either set it in the modern period and dispense with the chainmail, swords, and horses, or stop trying to make your actors look like modern GQ models and give it its proper period look.

BTW, I'm no fan of Guy Ritchie. He's much too glossy and slick for my tastes, anyway.

Alien, I was referring to Ritchie's 'Sherlock' movies. Why would I refer to the BBC's version (which sucks by the way) of Sherlock in a thread about Guy Ritchie's 'King Arthur' movie?

Hunnam looks like he just came off the set from an episode of Sons of Anarchy. His hair style is totally contemporary.