Normally I like her, but she comes off as a real ditz in this interview. Granted, not everyone is going to like everything, but I didnt even finish it because she is just babbling incoherently. The film was really easy to follow, the accents were easy to understand, and it doesnt take a brain surgeon to figure out what the hell is going on. Totally disagree with her on this one. It seems like she got the "its going to be the cool thing to talk **** about this movie so Im totally doing that" kind of thing. :facepalm
Oh Snikt. Finally. FINALLY. Our paths are at a true cross roads. :love
I don't like insulting people, and I won't personally as I'm sure she's a nice person at heart - but Comicbookgirl19 is extremely aggravating to me. Whenever she pops up on Collider Heroes, I have to give it a miss or skip parts. She very, very rarely makes a coherent, well thought out point. But 90% of the time, it's inane, derivative and you can predict almost to the word what she'll say about a given subject once you've seen her once.
AND - we both enjoyed King Arthur! **** the reviews on this one. The only problems I had with it, was some of the action scenes - specifically the hand to hand stuff. It never used to bother me so much, but I really do appreciate a well choreographed and well shot fight scene now - and these were too much jump cut, as much as I despite shouting out a standard complaint. Fast cuts can work really well sometimes, but this made some of the action too hectic, and tiring to follow.
The rest of it was pretty good! The music was energizing, really got you pumped up into that mindset of an action film that had a strong pulse. It's almost a trope to run some form of metal/rock with this kind of material but Guy Ritchie melds it pretty well.
The spectacle was great - I got similar feelings about some of the big set pieces that I did when I saw Fury Road's action. The big difference between this and Fury Road is that Fury Road has all the ingredients, this only has most. And it suffers a little for it.
Predictable plot - well, as Snikt says...of course it is.
I even got over my Charlie Hunnam dislike (not as a person, just not so keen on his acting style/voice) and thought he delivered a fine performance. The confidence/capability and drive of Arthur came across really well - he's not a guy you can mess with easily. Which sells everything else - otherwise you wouldn't believe that this guy deserved his followers or the sword.
I enjoyed the film - it's not a Fury Road, but it certainly isn't rubbish - if your expectations are set to the right level, and I don't just mean "whether it will be good or bad" - I mean set your genre expectations correctly, set your humour levels to the right level. I'll always maintain that while its a big part, it isn't 100% a movies job to take YOU to the right place. You have to be open and work with it too.
It's a shame this hasn't done very well at the box office, because I think I'd be up for a sequel, if we went off to explore Merlin/build up the round table etc. More adventures (key word...adventure. Not noir classic, not crime drama, not space comedy. Adventure.) would be entertaining. Loved that this felt at some parts to be a true Guy Ritchie movie, which was great.