King Arhtur and other filmic things
Jul. 30th, 2004 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperWell, first, we have the posters from Sin City. As well as accompanying details. They're using the comics as the actual storyboards! Shot-for shot! Dialogue for dialogue! And lordy oh lordy, the pic of Rosario Dawson as Gail, you'd think she'd stepped out of the comic. Same with Jessica Alba as Nancy. I think I may collapse in drool....
King Arthur. As some of you may know, I have been waiting for this film for many, many
Lots of fun, very gripping, damn good acting - and to all those who say Clive Owen didn't make a convincing Arthur, I say he did. Good conflicted bloke, leader of men, etc, etc. Not necessarily inspiring but more getting the job done out of sheer bloody-mindedness and 'sod this, we're going to do the right thing, I can't leave them here'-ness, and very loyal to his men. Okay, he doesn't inspire the absolute 'will follow you everywhere' that Russell Crowe can project, but he does a damn good job. Different type of leader. Knights good. Saxons good. Romans good. And they made an effort to have all the native Romans (ie, the ones actually from Rome) have accents! :bounce: Woads good. Britons good. Keira good. All priests are bastards, but we know that anyway....
Pretty photography, good fight scenes, awful weather (they're supposed to be in Northumberland, what do you expect?), excessive amounts of grime, not enough blood (dammit), and lottttts of pretty, pretty period detail. Very cool battle on the ice. I loves the knights, all of them, and I shall hug and squeezze Dagonet and Bors. Gawain, Tristan and Galahad are next. Lancelot is last, because I need to make a detour to lavish some more attention on Bors and Dagonet. And poke Gawain and Galahad to tell them that really, the two of them are much prettier than any Sarmatian women they'll find.
heh. Archery. It is a given point of any film featuring the British, that if bows are brought out, the opposing army will be decimated and demoralised as a prelude to wiping them out messily in hand-to-hand. We're very attached to our bows. Fantastic long-distance weapons, and even if the buggers are armoured, there's a fair chance you'll get 'em in the face.
Bad points : Crossbows. Yes, very cool useage, but they weren't invented for another few hundred years!
Er... what were Roman officials doing in such a large presence in Britain that late on?
Yes, we liked the siege weapons [:bounce: siege weapons! siege weapons! big flaming balls and siege weapons and tactical and hay and oil bits and rivers of fire and - :Heather is sat on, heavily:], but, er, they were put together a tad *quickly* for the battle. Also, I didn't know that the relatively uncivilised picts knew how to make what looked to be a fairly advanced piece of machinery.
Someone needs to take the dialogue writer's copy of Braveheart away from him. By about three quarters of the way through (he only starts harping on it about half way through, once they've decided to say sod you to the bishop) I was betting on how soon it would be before Arthur said 'Freedom' again. At one point the gap wasn't even thirty seconds. Though admittedly he was trying to do an inspiring speech.
All in all, enjoyed immensely, but with bad points. And Hans Zimmer has seduced me again with his soundtrack. Though did like giggling with the ice-cream guy in the foyer pre-film - trailers showing on tv screens behind us, and The Alamo comes on. Cue me going 'What're they doing using the Gladiator music?' Him : 'Sounds like the dialogue, too...'
King Arthur. As some of you may know, I have been waiting for this film for many, many
Lots of fun, very gripping, damn good acting - and to all those who say Clive Owen didn't make a convincing Arthur, I say he did. Good conflicted bloke, leader of men, etc, etc. Not necessarily inspiring but more getting the job done out of sheer bloody-mindedness and 'sod this, we're going to do the right thing, I can't leave them here'-ness, and very loyal to his men. Okay, he doesn't inspire the absolute 'will follow you everywhere' that Russell Crowe can project, but he does a damn good job. Different type of leader. Knights good. Saxons good. Romans good. And they made an effort to have all the native Romans (ie, the ones actually from Rome) have accents! :bounce: Woads good. Britons good. Keira good. All priests are bastards, but we know that anyway....
Pretty photography, good fight scenes, awful weather (they're supposed to be in Northumberland, what do you expect?), excessive amounts of grime, not enough blood (dammit), and lottttts of pretty, pretty period detail. Very cool battle on the ice. I loves the knights, all of them, and I shall hug and squeezze Dagonet and Bors. Gawain, Tristan and Galahad are next. Lancelot is last, because I need to make a detour to lavish some more attention on Bors and Dagonet. And poke Gawain and Galahad to tell them that really, the two of them are much prettier than any Sarmatian women they'll find.
heh. Archery. It is a given point of any film featuring the British, that if bows are brought out, the opposing army will be decimated and demoralised as a prelude to wiping them out messily in hand-to-hand. We're very attached to our bows. Fantastic long-distance weapons, and even if the buggers are armoured, there's a fair chance you'll get 'em in the face.
Bad points : Crossbows. Yes, very cool useage, but they weren't invented for another few hundred years!
Er... what were Roman officials doing in such a large presence in Britain that late on?
Yes, we liked the siege weapons [:bounce: siege weapons! siege weapons! big flaming balls and siege weapons and tactical and hay and oil bits and rivers of fire and - :Heather is sat on, heavily:], but, er, they were put together a tad *quickly* for the battle. Also, I didn't know that the relatively uncivilised picts knew how to make what looked to be a fairly advanced piece of machinery.
Someone needs to take the dialogue writer's copy of Braveheart away from him. By about three quarters of the way through (he only starts harping on it about half way through, once they've decided to say sod you to the bishop) I was betting on how soon it would be before Arthur said 'Freedom' again. At one point the gap wasn't even thirty seconds. Though admittedly he was trying to do an inspiring speech.
All in all, enjoyed immensely, but with bad points. And Hans Zimmer has seduced me again with his soundtrack. Though did like giggling with the ice-cream guy in the foyer pre-film - trailers showing on tv screens behind us, and The Alamo comes on. Cue me going 'What're they doing using the Gladiator music?' Him : 'Sounds like the dialogue, too...'
