Originally Posted by
Max_Killjoy
There have been so many retellings at this point that we've seen everything from those full mythic tales that are "christian" wallpaper over an old structure of the heroes and legends of Celtic cultures, to "Ye Goode Olde Days" knightly romances, to grim and gritty "dung ages" use of the names and basics to tell standard postmodernist Hollywood scripts, to... whatever.
IMO, the problems arise when an individual telling can't decide what it is, or instead of embracing the mythic is just a hollow excuse for spectacle set-pieces.