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Malagant was a genius to attack during the trial


I am being sarcastic. Lets attack the castle head on during the day when all the knights are assembled in one place. And have all the villagers around to help as well. Malagant should have used trickery and underhanded plans instead.

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Well, its a movie after all, isnt it.

But here's the reason why Malagant attacked that day:

Arthur - hurt and angry as he was - ordered all Gates to be opened for the trial. A mistake.

Malagant probably heard of this and used
it for a swift attack. He knew the attack would come as a surprise with all the knights being unprepared and unarmored. How could he know that all citizens would overcome their fear, rise up and join in the fight? How could he know that Arthur would sacrifice himself, and by doing so motivating his people to fight - unarmed as they were - craftsmen, tailors, smiths, carpenters and so forth... all without experience in battle.

Malagant took Arthur as hostage to keep his knights from starting a fight. So, in my opinion, Malagant wasnt that stupid.

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My question is did King Arthur give all of his scouts a week off or something? How the hell did Malagant's army get to Camalot without someone noticing it time to do something?


You just killed my girlfriend.....thats actually....kinda pissing me off....huh....

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This is another contrived movie. Everything happened in two weeks with Lancelot falling in love with Gwen, becoming a knight, kissing, trial, war, fight, kinged.

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Malagant has his arse handed to him at Leonesse and promptly pops back to Camelot, with yet another army and just wanders in and takes over. I liked the movie but that was just ridiculous.🐭

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the hole love thing isn't that illogical as science states that it takes less than 20 seconds to fall in love

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ok that was pretty good and true

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