King Arthur - Saxon triumph?
I finally got the see King Arthur!
I am happy I did, cause now I understand when you're referring to Lancelot :love: .
However, I wasn't that happy with the film... ;angry:
Please, feel free to argue with me, because I really think I'm missing something.
This is my very weird review on KA.
Or rather some thoughts that arose while watching it.
Might include spoilers.
The movie starts...
- Oh! It's Ioan voice!
- Oh, bloody... But there's Ioan :love: !
- Hey, it's Styles! And he's greeting Horatio. No wait I mean, it's Jols,
greeting Lancelot.
The movie goes on and they're in a forest now. I'm thinking this movie is better than I expected
(for I wouldn't even have started watching this if I didn't know Ioan was in it, and that is not a good premise),
but still this is not entirely my kind of movie. I can't explain it, it's a feeling.
I'm horrible horribly out of fashion person to confess this but I didn't like Pirates of the Caribbean either... So "from the people behind PotC" don't really make me want to cheer. (before you hang me I have to say I do like Jack Sparrow and love every curl on Lancelot... loosen the knot?)
- Bad saxon, bad bad saxon. Is that true?
- Hey! Are those Merlin dudes speaking gaelic or what? Calling Saxons, Saeson or something.
Just deducing here, is that why England is called Saesog in Welsh, thinking English are Saxon.
Oh, yeah the movie, where are they now? You see I'm not really concentrating here.
- Aww... I love to see Ioan in a more passionate role. I mean, Hornblower is passionate too, in what he does,
but Lancelot is passionate by nature. If only he'd have more time and the director could decide where to focus on.
This is too surface, too shallow as it is (the movie; or maybe it's just my concentration, or rather lack of it)
- I don't like Kiera. Or is it Keira? It sounds like Kiera in my Finnish ears but guess it's written Keira.
She was so cute in Love Actually. Why don't I like her now? Why can't I see Guinevere? I'm blaming the director again.
- What are those Saxons? Where do they come from? Weird, I'd rather learn about them than the King Arthur in this film.
I don't really care about him much. There's something very wrong here! Is it just me? No, I'm blaming the director!!!
- Oh, fire, long haired rough looking men walking slowly. Looks like a heavy metal music video. So, here's my next youtube video :P
- Nice bird, is that a hawk?
- :love: Wow! Ioan!!! Sexy Ioan! I mean Lancelot! You know this scene, with snowflakes... curls in the wind... aww. Next he's peeping-Tom. Eh.
- Hey, Styles is still travelling with them! I mean Jols. No, he's always going to be Styles for me.
Sorry, Sean, talking about stuck in a role.
Where are they now? Have no idea, in some kind of fairyeurope? As in Fairytales fairy- don't get me wrong even though I'm taking my own words wrong. Who cares, they're in a King Arthur World. That should be enough.
- Icy... Who's dead? Darn director! You should have introduced that man better before killing him, now I don't feel anything for his death.
Should I cut my hair? Losing it, concentrate... There's Keiravene, her hair's nice. Maybe I should get hair extensions instead? I'm missing like half the lenght. No, I should cut...
- What, Arthur is like he's never seen a gal before. Where's Lancelot, he should be peeping this.
I bet he's seen a woman before. Or so he keeps telling us. Only this movie doesn't really let him - losing it again!
- I don't understand this movie. But Ioan's cute.
- Nooooh!
- Arthur did "lancelot move" on the saxon. Heh.
- Noooh! I'm so waiting Lance to quote lt. Bush:"I fear I'm done" and
Styl... Jols coming and saying: "not in a thousand years" and they all live happily ever after.
But no. F. D. Double f-ing d.
- I bet that Black Beaty is Lancelot.
So, King Arthur?
At some point I categorize this with Alexander, and I'm almost afraid to tell here that as a movie I like Alexander better than King Arthur...
No wait, there was that horrible narrator in Alexander that nearly made me fall asleep wasn't there!
Almost forgot about that. Now I'm 50/50 here...
I mean, it's so weird! King Arthur is a legeng we love, Ioan is something to adore.
And Sty-- Sean Gilder was a happy to see as I didn't expect it. And yet I absolutely hate this movie.
I mean, I saw the director's cut. And I've blamed director for so many things in this little review.
So is the theatre cut any different? Feel free to comment on this.
(my friend just came down to the computer class with guitar and he's asked to do a trubadur thing on Lancelot.
Alas, he's not singing. Losing it.)
No he started singing "I had a car" but we buued so he sang "Lancelot Lancelot, he stuck his sword into a dragon... in a dragon" okay, I'm going home...
Re: King Arthur - Saxon triumph?
I loved KA. It is a movie that I would have gone see even if Ioan had not been in it. From the trailers that I had seen and what I had read before I actually saw the movie (allegedly dealing with the history behind the legends), I expected it to tell a different story from the Arthurian legends that we are used to read and hear (there were some historical inaccuracies, though, e.g. a Roman commander gnamed Lucius Artorius Castus suggested as the historical basis for King Arthur allegedly participated in the guarding of Hadrian's Wall with a contingent of Sarmatian Knights, but 3 centuries before the Saxons' left from northern Germany to invade Britain).
So is the theatre cut any different?
It is a bit different. In the director's cut, you see battle scenes and interactions between Lancelot and Guinevere that are not there in theatrical release, while I can recall a scene of the knights talking in a wood and under the rain that lacks in the director's cut.
Re: King Arthur - Saxon triumph?
- What are those Saxons? Where do they come from?
Not sure where they come from, but one of them is reincarnated in the 18th century to become a pirate with the nickname "Bootstrap Bill." :happy
I love your review ... a stream of consciousness ... sorta choppy, like the movie! I haven't seen the director's cut, but I've seen the theatrical release several times. First time at the cinema, and I will turn it on when it shows up on one of the many cable channels. I haven't purchased the DVD because I'm not sure if I like it or not. I heard the director's cut is bloodier and graphic violence does not appeal to me.
I recall being disappointed when I first saw the movie, and I at first I blamed the director. But I heard he had to do a quick hatchet job of editing because Disney moved the release date up a few months and it had to come in with a US PG-13 rating. As it stood at the time, it was a solid R rating (which excludes the younger teens unless they are with a parent here in the US). I think it was also going to be released under the banner of a Disney subsidiary, but Disney decided it needed a summer tent pole in the cinema and switched the release to come directly under their banner. Therefore the R rating had to go away. You could tell the movie was subjected to a hatchet ... very rough and choppy.
I anticipated the director's cut to be much better, with a smoother flow to the story. But as I said before, graphic violence squicks me so I haven't seen it to be able to judge the difference.
Both my daughter and myself let out of scream of "STYLES!!!" when Gilder made his appearance!
Oh my God you sound soo cute, Do you really sound like that in real life? Because I think I pictured you in my head talking to me...I have both versions of the movie, and I think they are speaking.... :censored me!!!!! I forgot, :wall: I had it at the tip of my tongue!!!! I envy Keira, cuz she was there w/Ioan, but that's life for ya...Still haven't had a chance to watch any Horatio series, I should go to the library :hmm: and see if they haave any...Nice to know that you loved his curls :love2: ....I for once thought that was a falcon? Or it could be a hawk :unsure: ? ....I enjoy watching youtube vids hope to see one of yours....I second you on that black horse too...
BTW: Did you happen to come across his backstage name from the rest of his cast mates?
If not-they called him "Sir Lash-alot", due to him being caught curling his eye lashes...How Cute!!!
I don't know how I sound in real life. You should have been there as I watched Van Helsing with a friend of mine, and both finding the movie horrible (but admiring Dracula's nose :o) still had the best time commentating everything.
And then raising anger on her when she pursued me to watch Lord of the Rings 3, which I found boring and ended up laughing at inappropriate places (so sounding cute is a matter of the hearer :P)
And then one day after school I invaded a classroom with a projector to watch Hornblower: Mutiny on big screen/canvas (!Yay!) and she came in, commentating on Hornblower and I had to choo her away. We are horrible :D
About KA,
Weird thing for Disney to hurry things like that. I mean, spent a lot of money, time and everything to get everything right and then spoil it by hurrying the cut.
Even I noticed one difference. In a trailer, as Lancelot is referring to Saxon's that there's many lonely man out there (or something like that) Guinevere says: don't worry I won't let them touch you. In director's cut she says she's not letting them to rape Lancelot. A minor change of the words but might be major to ratings I guess.