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oakenguyMore notes about King Arthur, including spoilers:
Dagonet? A knight named Dagonet? Was anyone shocked when HE didn't make it to the end? God, it felt like an old 'Star Trek' episode. "Lancelot! Galahad! Sacrificial Lam--I mean, Dagonet! Cover us!!"
I was already in a Star Trek frame of mind because of the young Leonard Nimoy lookalike who played the Bishop's Evil Secretary. Who I was watching carefully because I'm still in Hodge-mode, and watching someone play, basically, Hodge with a GOOD English accent was educational. And here's why I suspect the editing kept the movie from being as good as it could have been: we meet the Secretary. Then the knights go on this urgent mission into the far north, riding like hell. They get to their destination, fifteen minutes later, do their knightly schtick....and who comes running up with some water for the wounded but THE SECRETARY?!? He came along! (Unless he teleported, yes.) But why? No idea. How could he keep up? No idea. What happens to him afterwards?? No idea...
...but I suspect he was the poor mook opening and closing the giant iron doors during the climax. Because please. Don't show us a five-minute sequence about how hard the doors are to open, involving Romans with hammers, Clydesdales pulling as hard as they can, rivets popping, all that, if the next time you use those doors the drift open and closed like the automated doors at a supermarket! What, did Merlin invent the Clapper?? "Clap on...Clap off...Clap on, Clap off, the deathtrap."
Well, why not? He also apparently got Stone Age-level Tarzan-folk to construct sophisticated catapult systems overnight, and the space heating for them to run around in frozen conditions (remember? Arctic lake? Brrrr?) like it was Gidget Gone Medieval.
I dunno. I'm not sure one is meant to leave a King Arthur movie thinking "Thank god for those Russian horsemen, bringing civilization and democracy to English ape-men!" But maybe that's just me.
Dagonet? A knight named Dagonet? Was anyone shocked when HE didn't make it to the end? God, it felt like an old 'Star Trek' episode. "Lancelot! Galahad! Sacrificial Lam--I mean, Dagonet! Cover us!!"
I was already in a Star Trek frame of mind because of the young Leonard Nimoy lookalike who played the Bishop's Evil Secretary. Who I was watching carefully because I'm still in Hodge-mode, and watching someone play, basically, Hodge with a GOOD English accent was educational. And here's why I suspect the editing kept the movie from being as good as it could have been: we meet the Secretary. Then the knights go on this urgent mission into the far north, riding like hell. They get to their destination, fifteen minutes later, do their knightly schtick....and who comes running up with some water for the wounded but THE SECRETARY?!? He came along! (Unless he teleported, yes.) But why? No idea. How could he keep up? No idea. What happens to him afterwards?? No idea...
...but I suspect he was the poor mook opening and closing the giant iron doors during the climax. Because please. Don't show us a five-minute sequence about how hard the doors are to open, involving Romans with hammers, Clydesdales pulling as hard as they can, rivets popping, all that, if the next time you use those doors the drift open and closed like the automated doors at a supermarket! What, did Merlin invent the Clapper?? "Clap on...Clap off...Clap on, Clap off, the deathtrap."
Well, why not? He also apparently got Stone Age-level Tarzan-folk to construct sophisticated catapult systems overnight, and the space heating for them to run around in frozen conditions (remember? Arctic lake? Brrrr?) like it was Gidget Gone Medieval.
I dunno. I'm not sure one is meant to leave a King Arthur movie thinking "Thank god for those Russian horsemen, bringing civilization and democracy to English ape-men!" But maybe that's just me.
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