6. Night at the Museum (2006), dir. Shawn Levy

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Watched this evening on Channel 4, after recent posts by dakegra and ashavah reminded me that I'd always been mildly intrigued by the character of the Roman soldier (Octavius, played by Steve Coogan) in the first one

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This Saturday I was at the strangest museum cum park kind of thing near York. It was clearly geared up for the school visit and was almost empty on bank holiday saturday. In addition to a (piss poor) farm museum with a few half-heartedly labelled tractors and a frankly crap city zoo (ooh, goats and sheep, you're spoiling us), it had a small reconstructed danelaw village (a dozen or so wattle and daub huts) a tiny tudor cottage and garden and a reconstructed Roman fort with all the parts labelled in Latin and English. All of these were empty and clearly going to be filled with reenactors whenever a party of school kids came around.

I mention this because right in the middle of the roman fort was a cowboy town with a dozen or so disspirited cowboy reenactors wandering about ready to explain horseshoes, gunfights and telegraphs to anyone who wanted it. Very weird experience.

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Yes, of course, York's frontier-town era... A glorious episode in the town's history! :-S

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The rootinest tootinest tourist town in Yorkshire.

What I really want to know is when they do Roman reenactment, presumably the cowboy town buildings are still there in the fort -- do they just calmly get on with forming tortoises and declining verbs while ignoring the telegraph office and saloon.