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King Arthur (2004)

Discussion in 'Sensorium' started by Sir Belisarius, Jan 9, 2005.

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  1. Sir Belisarius

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    [​IMG] I just saw this movie on dvd. I was surprised, it wasn't nearly as bad as all the critics claimed it to be. It demystifies the Arthurian legend, to be sure, but it still wasn't a bad movie.

    Did anyone else see this? What did you think?
     
    Sir Belisarius, Jan 9, 2005
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    I saw it on DVD as well and thought it was pretty good.
     
    Shalladeth, Jan 9, 2005
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    I thought it could have been a hell of a lot better if it hadn't butchered the plot so much for a worse one ... it was kinda cheesy :)
    Not bad, but nothing special.
     
    Aikanaro, Jan 9, 2005
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    Agree with Aik, it was a little cheesy to me, but I kinda like cheesy movies, liked the action and the characters, made a IWD2 party based on my favourite characters from it.

    P.S: New gem, yay!!! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
     
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    I saw it, and I liked it a lot. Sure it wasn't the Knights of the Round Table stuff one *expects* with an Arthur movie, but I think it was pretty well done, with cool battles and a really original take on the genre (assuming one can call 'King Arthur movies' a separate genre).
    :borg:
     
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    Everyone knows that Arthur was Welsh. The guy playing King Arthur (forget his name) was missing a personality.

    The movie was also missing a lot of the story.

    I was very disappointed.
     
    Cúchulainn, Jan 10, 2005
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    Drugar And now... we wait! Veteran

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    I liked the movie because of the non-glorious nature. I expected another romantic lovestory about the heroic king Arthur who smited evil whereever he went, but this wasn't the case.
     
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    I think I would have prefered that :p

    And yeah, Arthur had 0 personality and two facial expressions...
     
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    @Aikanaro:

    True, true... Arthur has less personality than a brick. Rumor has it that his facial expressions where robot-controlled due to the amount of plastic surgery needed to perfect his chin and facial hair ;)
     
    Drugar, Jan 10, 2005
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    I thought it was a really good movie, IMO at least (So much so that I bought the Director's Cut).

    If you enjoyed the idea of a Dark Age Arthur, then I suggest you read Bernard Cornwell's Warlord trilogy, which has all the grittiness of this film (and then some ;) ) and some of legends of Arthur. An excellent set of books, and some of my favourites :)
     
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    To be honest it demystifies the most known Arthurian legend just to create another one.
    The movie is really good action-wise but as was stated before the cast is a bit weak. I also want to give Lancelot as an example of bad acting.
    I think that the guy with the bow and hawk steals the spotlight from Lancelot, who was supposed to be the stylish guy (2 swords? yeah, yeah...).
     
    Laertis, Jan 10, 2005
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    Aaaah, the guy with the bow and the hawk. ;)

    Pretty average movie IMO, didn't expect much of it to start with, so I wasn't really disappointed.
     
    Uytuun, Jan 10, 2005
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    It's crap. Even Ray 'God' Winstone couldn't save it.
     
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    When at the opening titles, and it proclaimed that new archaeological evidence disputed the myth, I thought "Yay! A historically accurate Arthur film!". But lo, I was disappointed. Greatly so. What happened to Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon? They made him half-Roman! And Roman knights? Pah. The Celts were too skinny, Merlin was rubbish, and the things that made me saddest were the trebuchets and crossbows. The film was, to me, a great big saddening-fest. Oh well.
     
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    As a movie, it was great. As a recreation of the story, it was awful.
     
    reepnorp, Jan 11, 2005
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    Precisely my opinion on the Lord of the Rings films, as films, they are very good, but they are just... not the Lord of the Rings.
     
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    IMO Crap. Poor acting.

    There were kings but the Legends of King Arthur is Myth - possibly built on several kings but mostly fantasy. Leave it fantasy.
     
    Nakia, Jan 12, 2005
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    Fun movie to see, build together nicely.

    It's a (Hollywood) movie people, not a documentary :rolleyes:
     
    Apeman, Jan 12, 2005
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    Two words: Horrid Tripe.
     
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    Put the name King Arthur on it to define it as "Epic" and drag out all the King Arthur fans, put Clive Owen (handsome male lead) and Kiera Knightly (pretty female lead) for sex appeal, throw in ragged barbarians (also starring in Gladiator, LOTR and Braveheart) for enemies, give a stirring, rousing speech at the start of major battle (Braveheart, LOTR), major battle with lots of wanton destruction (Braveheart, Troy, LOTR, Alexander) and we have regurgitated Hollywood crap with no soul bound to pull in millions. Thank god with "Alexander" and "The Aviator" doing poorly at the box office it signals to Hollywood the end of the "Epic" films
     
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