[MR] A Knight's Tale - Non-Spoiler Review

[Christina Olmstead]

Might be the worst movie I enjoyed as well but boy did they get the tents
right...*drools*

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Subject: Re: [MR] A Knight's Tale - Non-Spoiler Review


Chris and I went to go see it last night. I agree; its one of the worst
movies I ever really enjoyed.:) It was fun.

> Hey all.  Francesca (My Lady) and I were lucky enough last night to go to
a
> prescreening of a Knight's Tale.
>
> Here are the thoughts from a SCAdian's point of view.
>
> The armor: 99% Perfect ... Great stuff (Or at least had the look of: Yeah,
> that look's about right)
> The garb: As far as I could tell, all pretty much right on track EXCEPT
for
> one character, who constantly had 'wrong' stuff on.
> The fighting: Good stuff, looked right, felt right, fun to watch.
> The plot: Predictible, but fun!
>
> The problem:  Now, this problem is only from MY point of view, and of the
> point of view of a 'purist'.  And that is that they 'had fun with
> it'.  While they obviously went to GREAT lengths to make this movie look
> period, be period, etc.  There were about 3 or 4 times (including the garb
> for the one above mentioned character), when they 'had fun with it', and
> pulled in big anachronisms ... mostly to attempt to make parallels with
> 'modern life'.  Things, for example, to show to the modern audience how
the
> Jousting filled the 'hole' that modern sports have for us now.
>
> On this note.  They did it well, it made you chuckle, and it was a fun
> movie to watch, I do reccomend that all go and see it.
>
> However; for myself, it is these 'fun things' that took it from the status
> of: "OMG, I love this movie, they did everything perfect, I MUST OWN THIS
> ON DVD" ... Down to the status of: "Hey, It's a fun movie to watch, go do
so!"
>
> Siegfried
>
>
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