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This isn’t an actor’s movie, although Law does at least find a few moments to play Vortigem like a preening Mussolini, shouting at the assembled masses while swathed in fur and eagle-head epaulets. Otherwise, the characters are there to move the story along and to be consistently heroic or villainous throughout.

Sounds FUCKING awesome.

 

[BlazinSkatinAxel]

charlie hunnam is a bad actor

Jesus Christ.

 

[Astral]

Opinions and all that but I'm genuinely surprised people thought the trailers looked good. This trailer and the new Transformers trailer are the most boring trailers I have watched in a long time.

 

[Jeffolation]

Jesus Christ.

No that was Willem Dafoe.

 

[Ninjimbo]

Hunnam just had a career defining role in Lost City of Z so the hate towards him is preposterous..

He was really good in that for sure.

 

[strafer]

Jesus Christ.

Man, I really wish that show could say fuck. It really could have used it.

 

[yanipheonu]

One of those movies where, when I saw the trailer, I was genuinely at a loss for words at what I saw. It just seemed so odd and distant from what my brain comprehends as "King Arthur".

The only thing I liked was that Excalibur is made of Damascus steel in this, with the cool grooves in the metal. But with the runes, it comes off as another over designed Hollywood concoction.

 

[BlazinSkatinAxel]

No that was Willem Dafoe.

Oh shit.

 

[Kart94]

So, this thing is going to get murdered by Guardians of the Galaxy 2 at the Box office this weekend?

 

[jayu26]

Oh yeah, this is a Guy Ritchie film. Oh man what the fuck happen?

 

[Lifeline]

Please get kicked off Aladdin.

 

[BlazinSkatinAxel]

Man, I really wish that show could say fuck. It really could have used it.

Man that last season was the worst.

 

[Fancyarcher]

So, this thing is going to get murdered by Guardians of the Galaxy 2 at the Box office this weekend?

It's pretty much a given at this point, even though there wasn't much of a chance that this was gonna be a much of problem for GOTG Vol 2 in the first place.

 

[strafer]

Man that last season was the worst.

Yeah it really was but I stuck with it.

I do love the first three seasons.

 

[mreddie]

His next movie is live action Aladdin, I have no hope it won't be shit.

 

[ryseing]

Sounds FUCKING awesome.

Yeah, I still want to see this just for nutty Jude Law. Good actors going apeshit in bad fantasy movies is a guilty pleasure of mine.

 

[1upsuper]

I, for one, am shocked.

Spoiler

Couldn't be less shocked.

 

[Chumley]

How is it that Guy Ritchie has earned so much good will with only Snatch? It's the only actually great movie he's ever made, and even then it was still kind of a Tarantino rip off.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

How is it that Guy Ritchie has earned so much good will with only Snatch? It's the only actually great movie he's ever made, and even then it was still kind of a Tarantino rip off.

The first Sherlock Holmes was decent too.

 

[SuperEpicMan]

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword |OT| The Once and Done King

 

[Broken Joystick]

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword |OT| The Once and Done King

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword |OT| Fall on Your Excalibur

 

[jett]

Wow I did not expect this shit to be that bad.

WB can't catch a break with their blockbusters.

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

The RT score has now tripled since the creation of this thread. Guy Ritchie is saved.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Caffeine-fueled filmmaking of Guy Ritchie vomiting all over Arthurian legend. This was never going to be a good idea.

 

[shoreu]

Should have been a demon knights movie 🤷🏾*♂️

 

[BannedEpisode]

I thought it was pretty decent outside the first ten minutes.

 

[jett]

Rather, he comes across as an aging rebel worried about being judged un-hip, clearly over-compensating in order to remain one step ahead of fellow stylists Zack Snyder (”300"), Tarsem Singh (”Mirror Mirror"), and Alex Proyas (”Gods of Egypt") — all of whose genuinely outrageous, inadvertently awful work appears to be a source of inspiration here.

I lol'd

I really hope Aladdin expands on that more

What we all should be hoping for is that Disney drops Guy Ritchie.

 

[ryseing]

How is it that Guy Ritchie has earned so much good will with only Snatch? It's the only actually great movie he's ever made, and even then it was still kind of a Tarantino rip off.

UNCLE flopped financially but was very entertaining.

 

[jett]

UNCLE flopped financially but was very entertaining.

Yeah? I though it was average at best, while not really offering anything worthwhile, directed by a seemingly neutered Guy Ritchie.

 

[kswiston]

The RT score has now tripled since the creation of this thread. Guy Ritchie is saved.

1% higher than Black Knight!

 

[Violence Jack]

So sub $20 million opening weekend incoming?

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

charlie hunnam is a bad actor

I wouldn't say he's bad. But, he is certainly nothing special. If him, Sam Worthington, and Jai Courtney were to be in a movie together, the mediocrity on the screen would devour the universe.

 

[Into the Light]

If Disney still lets Ritchie direct Aladdin I'll be genuinely surprised.

RT's up to 9% for the moment.

What happened to Ritchie? So much promise hes had some real stinkers.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

What a shocker, guy who hasn't made a decent film in almost two decades continues to make garbage. Hope Disney fires him from Aladdin.

And before you bring up the Sherlock Holmes films, don't. The ONLY reason those films worked was because of RDJ. Anyone else in the role and they'd be crap.

Why is Hollywood so bad at fantasy movies? Outside Jackson Lord of the Rings, I'm having trouble thinking of any good live-action fantasy films, and the more like "traditional" high fantasy they are, the worse they are.

It's been 14 years since Return of the King and nearly a decade since Marvel figured out how to churn out superhero movies (of all things) like a machine while still ensuring that even the worst of them is at least decent. But fantasy movies are still downright terrible 90% of the time.

It can't be that hard, can it? I mean, fantasy is super popular in other mediums. Clearly there's something there that speaks to people. Why can't they unlock the formula?

Its because for some asinine reason, Hollywood has it in their heads that audiences don't want conventional Fantasy films and will only see them if they have some sort of "twist" in them, be it anachronisms (Your Highness, this garbage) or deconstruct the genre to show what "really" happens (Game of Thrones, the god-awful 2004 King Arthur film).

This despite the fact the thus far, the regular fantasy films like LorR and Harry Potter have been by far the most successful, while of the ones that play with the genre, only Game of Thrones has been a hit (and that one plays straight just as many Fantasy tropes as it deconstructs). The rest have been shit, yet Hollywood keeps trying to "Spice Up" fantasy films instead of just, you know, making a good fantasy film.

True. This thread being full of adulation for the hack is surprising.

I mean, Lock, Stock and Snatch were REALLY good.

But yeah, they were flukes...

 

[J_Viper]

WB paid reviewers to trash their own film so that Ritchie could be kicked off Aladdin and have to direct Suicide Squad 2 to make up for the bomba

All according to keikaku

 

[SMG]

He never had it.

True. This thread being full of adulation for the hack is surprising.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Man from UNCLE was the definition of style over substance. Really didn't like it.

That said, I'll still see this movie.

 

[Übermatik]

Sounds FUCKING awesome.

Ahaha, my thoughts exactly. Was really put off by this thread but I might go see it again now just for shit like this.

It can't be THAT bad anyway - after all, I sat through Battleship. And Battleship is wank.

 

[Rumblebones]

This looked like ass from the jump, much as I like the talent involved. Though I'll still watch it, I hope this encourages Disney to pick a director with closer roots to Aladdin to direct.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

This looked like ass from the jump, much as I like the talent involved. Though I'll still watch it, I hope this encourages Disney to pick a director with closer roots to Aladdin to direct.

What roots would they be?

 

[broncobuster]

This explains the ads highlighting Twitter quotes.

 

[kurahador]

The hell...? Didn't expect this to review this bad.

 

[spwolf]

trailers looked really bad... so not surprised at all.

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

Thought as much.

 

[Carnby]

Sorry folks, but this movie always looked like crap. These reviews should come as no surprise.

Also, Hunnam is a terrible actor.

 

[Escape Goat]

Looks like my trailer reaction was accurate.

 

[Discotheque]

People should youtube the interrogation scene though a few months from now, that shit was fun. And the movie does go full on video game fantasy at times if you're into that sort of thing

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Still holding out hope this is the John Carter/Lone Ranger of 2017.

Fuck RT.

Spoiler

I was also hoping the same thing of Jupiter Ascending...

 

[Shanlei91]

Still holding out hope this is the John Carter/Lone Ranger of 2017.

Valerian has that in the bag.

 

[Discotheque]

Still holding out hope this is the John Carter/Lone Ranger of 2017.

Fuck RT.

Spoiler

I was also hoping the same thing of Jupiter Ascending...

It's not.

It's only good in small moments (too brief considering how damn long this is) rather than an underrated whole tbh

Damn shame though. I disliked the last king arthur movie more than this (that was just straight up boring and dull) but I was really pulling for a good movie that would bring back the fantasy magic to the myth.