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Posted by Joe (@joe) on Feb. 14, 2024, 11:20 p.m.

Depictions of mythological monsters are often inconsistent. Sometimes Scylla has a mermaid top-half with dragon or dog heads coming out of the fish-part, and sometimes just a bunch of dragon heads or something. All the ancient depictions I can find online give Scylla the mermaid-top with scary stuff underneath, usually dog-heads.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Scylla_figurine.jpg/300px-Scylla_figurine.jpg

I can’t find an ancient picture online that really showes what Charbdis looks like.

_If they’re going to make a new Robin Hood movie or a new Dracula movie or a new Three Musketeers movie every three or four years over and over and over _

They keep making them because they’re all instantly forgotten. What is the most recent version of any of those that people remember?

Robin Hood - Probably the Kevin Coster “Price of Thieves,” even if it had a pretty iffy reputation, it was a big movie back when we didn’t have a new blockbuster released every week. This came out the same year, and I’ve read good things about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_(1991_British_film)
For a movie that gets real critical/cinephile resepct, Robin and Marion.

King Arthur - Has anything more recent that Excalibur really lasted?

Three Musketeers - The two Richard Lester movies are 50 and 51 years old this year. Do people still remember the ’90s Disney version or the ones made since then? Lester also made Robin and Marion.

Dracula - Bram Stoker’s Dracula has a mixed reputation, but has anything since been better received or better remembered?

I don’t think we’re living in an era that’s going to give us a good Trojan War movie.