All my female freinds watch Leo DeCaprio in his latest movies and say ''I can''t believe I found him hot once...''

I really, REALLY can not wait until that time comes for Orlando Bloom. Once it does, maybe he''ll go the DeCaprio way and take some time off to learn to act and pick some good parts.

This trailer looks alright, but far too calculated. Simply too much ''the public wants X, so we will give them X'' stuff. Medieval movies are becoming so common they''re boring, and seeing huge armies clash is becoming a cliche.

Any movie with trebuchets in it gets put on my must-see list. Oh, the memory of the trebuchet wars in AOE/AOK

There haven''t been too many medieval movies. They''re just now starting to be made. We don''t have to put up with more scifi drek and Star Trek movies. count your blessings!

Yes, I like cymbals too.

I just like hearing something from someone other than Zimmer, Williams, Elfman and, if it''s a sexy suspense movie, Angelo Badalamenti. Oh, and xylophone guy from American Beauty.

I knew he did the music in Enemy of the State, The Rock, and Crimson Tide, but I didn''t know about all those others.

Come to think of it though, Man On Fire did have some remarkably good music with Lisa Gerrard involved, which would make sense given that the movie was directed by Tony Scott. She has now been involved with soundtracks in both of the Scott brothers'' recent movies.

Those are all suitably juicy, but his general domain up to this point has been the summer blockbuster, not high-concept Oscar-bait with an uber ''A''-List director like Ridley Scott. I just think the guy is hell of talented and I''m happy to see him finally up there with the biggest names in the business.

Nothin'' to apologize for...just having a friendly discussion.

Hans Zimmer...despite the movie making a mockery of a great book, I loved the soundtrack to Black Hawk Down.

As for this, i''ll probably see it because I do trust Ridley Scott (except for the movie already mentioned). But i''m curious to see the kind of touch he''ll use to depict one of the darkest hours in the history of religion.

Aye, but I imagine that there is more than one way to film such a thing.

Bloom? That waif!
Surely we need the likes of Sean Bean or Ray Winston to project a real brutal gravitas, not some clean limbed delicate nancy boy who looks like a male model luvvie!

So much for casting, I hope Scott doesn''t make this into a piece of P.C. schmaltz and into a serious historical epic. The Crusades were a period of more then just 19th Century Romance or 20th Century ""Right On"" dross.
It was a period of two cultures coming together, head first. With all the pent up aggression of 300 years of mutual ignorence and militant zeal.
A great deal of bad and good came from these events and I couldn''t stand 2 hours of simplistic self destructive biased moralising.

A warning please, but not a whitewash.

Does anyone know which Crusade it is based around? I suspect the 3rd, it seems to get the most Hollywood attention due to the celebrity presence. Richard I v Saladin... the movie!

Interesting take Lester, looks like you know your stuff.

It would be interesting to see a reconstruction of the Crusader Kingdoms, in particular the Kingdom of Jerusalem itself.

Though I doubt Hollywood would be able to resist having Richard''s amphibious landing at Jaffa or the death of Fredrick Barbarossa on the way to Crusade. As you say, they certainly won''t be able to resist the Ishmaeliean cult playing both sides against each other.

The mutual respect which grew between Richard and Saladin climaxing in their negotiations at the end of the 3rd would make a classic ending I think though. Especially in these times, which I''m sure is why this movie is being made in the first place.