King Arthur

[StormRider]

Originally posted by: foolish501
Saw the movie yesterday, wasn't expecting much, i wanted to see Anchorman, but the wife roped me into going to see King Arthur with her. Really enjoyed the movie, wish the sex scene wasn't there (or if they were gonna leave it in, show some more flesh).

I remember an interview with Jerry Bruckheimer late last year where he said this was going to be his first R rated movie, lots of gore, and nudity in it, guess he didn't get his way though.

Actually, I think the violence level is just right. I'm not a big fan of blood and gore.

 

[StormRider]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
I just saw it today with Bockchow. The movie starts out with explaining that the legend was based on very very rough historical "fact" which pretty much means that they're going to do whatever they want in the movie.

And they did.

***SPOILERS***

Guinevere fights a LOT in the movie. She's apparently good with a dirk and good with a bow. Arthur pulls Excalibur from his father's grave (it's the grave marker) made of stones. Merlin is the leader of a band of rebel hicks and doesn't have any magical powers (that are shown). Arthur is endebted to the Romans for years along with the other men from his village until he wins his freedom from the Romans. It's not a bad movie, just a different twist. Okay, fine, it's a whole different twist on Arthur, very different from the legend. Keira Knightley, at one point, is wearing this very revealing leather war-garb thing. She has absolutely no breasts. ...she looks like a man. I laughed outloud when her "dramatic" scene hit the screen with her standing there ready to fight and I realized it wasn't just another scrawny man-peasant.

I think she does have breasts -- just very small. The leather war-garb was wrapped around her chest very tightly which made it look as if she had no breasts at all. In her love scene with Arthur, she was wearing a loose top and you can clearly see that she has perky small breasts -- not flat.

 

[imported_Aelius]

KK is constantly praised for how toned her body is.

Anyway I just came back from watching both Spiderman2 and King Arthur.

Spiderman2 was better than the first one and had plenty of good action. Didn't require an obligatory heartfelt cry scene.

I think the only thing King Arthur was missing was such a scene, and of course the blood and gore.

From the editing I can tell you right now that it was obvious that they cut/cropped the film a LOT in the fight scenes because they were obviously filmed to be bloody and gory.

Its not necessarily bad that they did this but... ok so it is bad. I give it *** out of 5.

It was an excellent historical epic that was only shortchanged by a lack of a heartfelt moving scene like the end of Braveheart or the end of Dragonheart. Having said that I may be wrong.

*SPOILER*
There is one scene where one of the knights gets killed on the frozen lake after having broken the ice to drown the approaching army. They could have built that scene up SOO much more because that guy did, in my view, one of the best acting in the whole film and they really built him up and gave him plenty of screen time yet shortchanged on his death. They could have also built it up even more when the boy, he befriends, goes to his body in the fort and removes his ring. It could have been one of the most powerful scenes in the film because of how good he was. That scene with the boy should have happened outside of the fort after the battle so that it would make more sense and be more moving.
*SPOILER OVER*

The other issue is of course the lack of gore. Because the film was done with so little blood (virtually none) it was again shortchanging the powerful battle scenes. I understand why they couldn't show a little more blood. It was either show all the gore or none at all. They filmed it with having the gore in and then cut it in post production when the studio execs screamed that they wouldn't make their money back due to the high rating.

I hate some of these executives with a passion.

Now I'm not 100% sure on all of this but take my word for it. I do DVD reviews on the side for my friend's site www.eyecravedvd.com and have somewhat more experience in judging these things.

 

[Justin218]

It was an ok movie. Maybe a bit too dramatic in some parts but there are plenty of good scenes. An R rating might have made some of the fight scenes better

SPOILER
Would have liked to have seen some of merlins magic, but there is none. Merlin himself does very little. I think the ice scene was the best part of the movie. Also liked when arthur arrived at the Roman nobel's place.

 

[StormRider]

I liked the camaderie (and the sense of humor among them) among the knights....they were all good noble knights.

 

[Lazy8s]

I liked it, it felt a lot more historicaly accurate. The ending however was a little disappointing. I too am a DAoC fan and the whole Norsemen vs. Romans and all was really intreaging(sp?). It won't be your fav movie ever, but it's worth the money imho. Well, guenavere's outfit might be your fav. hot-chick outfit from any movie.....