Seen the new King Arthur? Your favorite Camelot/Merlin/Arthur flick?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Superb take on the Arthurian legend! Not the pretty Excalibur or the pomp of First Knight.

This may be a new favorite for me. Gritty realism and a historical nod.



Which one's your favorite? there's a ton of them out there.

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. I liked that movie too, it was a really neat take on the legend, like you

said.

And, and Clive Owen is pretty (Ioan Gruffudd wasn't bad either)......... :loveya:

probably not the answer you were looking for... oh well! :P

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Hell, I'm straight and I thought they were hot!

I can't argue with you at all.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Excalibur. Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Those were both on my top ten list on another thread....

The cinematogrophy in Excalibur has not been touched since.

The ribald humor of MPHG shall remain classic as long as there are English speaking people.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. No one's seen it? I'm the only fan?

Waaaaaaaaah!

[roguevalley]

6. I liked Excalibur for all the reasons listed but this new one ... I am

a student of the era and the authentic Arthur. Great movie. I'm glad I got it.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Most definitely is and isn't a "chason de geste" the heroics and

temper of this Arthur fit the mold, but with historic reason.

I especially enjoyed the portrayal of Merlin as not the magician, but the man who may have taken him into the Briton's heart.

[kodi]

8. excalibur

a very good rendition of the grail myth and one can not go wrong with wagner's music as a soundtrack.

i do not tink the guy who played arthur in the film got enough credit for his performance. he played a young man and an old man equally well.

[tjdee]

9. Guinevere with a bow? YEAH RIGHT....but Clive Owen, hello!

Haven't seen it, love Arthurian legend and since I fell in love with Clive been wanting to.

But what's weird is that he's acted with Keira Knightley AND Natalie Portman, which must be very, very weird.

As to the film! I have a major problem with Guinevere 1)being Keira, and 2)having a bow of some kind? How did they manage that, when we all know that was just to get in on the "women can kick butt" trend in films?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

11. SPOILER MESSAGE

They went for historical accuracy here... One brief scene with a group of women Pics destroying a big old nasty Saxon in battle dress was one of the most harrowing and shocking scenes I have seen in a long time!

Thes women were protecting family and home... They were not about to leave it all to the men.

[oldcoot]

13. Queen Bodicca

It looks like the writers may have modeled Guinevere after Queen Bodicca. Bodicca or Boadicea was a warrior queen who led the Celts against the Romans after the death of her husband in 60 AD. Notice that the first link not only describes Bodicca but also the attitudes of the Romans toward "tall Celtic" women warriors.

See: http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=Boadicea&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D428df534b13d86b4%26clickedItemRank%3D6%26userQuery%3DBoadicea%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fask.yahoo.com%252Fask%252F19991028.html%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPResults%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fask.yahoo.com%2Fask%2F19991028.html

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boadicea for more information.

[tjdee]

15. thanks for the links!

Thanks guys, it just looked really unreal to me--but I feel better knowing there may be actual history there as opposed to the company's desire to see Keira running around like She-ra.

[Orsino]

10. King Arthur

I received the DVD for Christmas (had carefully avoided the movie in the theaters after the lousy reviews), and the wife and I approached it with some trepidation. I knew it would at least be great eye candy, and I was right.

We were startled to find that we really, really liked the flick. It's overblown, but with great music, and great in that lousy Conan way. It's even well-acted, up to a point.

Then the chick shows up.

The actress is given terrible dialogue, and the character's development is nonsensical. Worse, she's contagious; all that blather about freedom and equality starts up in earnest at about that time. And there are entirely too many people screaming "Raaaaaahhhhhh!" at each other, as if at gunpoint.

It's still a gorgeous flick, but geez, it all falls apart after gaining some cool grim momentum.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. Aaaaah. Okay, I can see how you could see it that way.

But I was different, and had seen one of the "how they made it" blurbs and a lot of the "raaahhhs!" were Pic battle cries they dug up (supposedly, I didn't go and confirm what I heard), and the Alternate ending (the director's prefered) got away from the Freedom bit and made the film a bit darker.

Yes, some of it was overblown, but for me, the good outweighed the bad by a long shot.

:toast:

[MrSlayer]

14. Excalibur

Still the best take on the Arthur tale for my money.

[ohio_liberal]

16. Saw King Arthur on DVD last night

Loved it!