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I probably will, even if the reviews are shit. I'm a sucker for Ritchie's shit.
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
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I will, since it's mothers day and we saw GOTG2 last weekend. will report back, I think it looks pretty good from the previews.
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Just saw it. Not Ritchies best work, but a good movie, short on story, but long on action and acting. If you are easily triggered by deviation from the classic Morte De Arthur mythology, you won't like it. If you liked the Sherlock Holmes movies he did, you will like it. I think the packed summer release schedule is going to bury this movie the same way Man From Uncle was (my favorite Ritchie movie), which is a shame because if this had come out in the off season it would have made bank.
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Just saw it and really liked it, but am a big Guy Ritchie fan. Agree if you are hung up on La Morte D'Arthur mythology you may lose your mind. Definitely had moments (good ones) of Sherlock Holmes meets Snatch.
Saw it and loved it. had the perfect blend of starting off with Guy Ritchie quick-take small time hustle, moving on to meaningful character development, and ending with an epic blockbuster finale.
Best thing about it is no shoe-horned in love story with what I had assumed would be the love interest as soon as she was introduced.
Charlie Hunham was a lot better than I expected after the WoW movie, I had no qualms with him as Arthur at all. If Ritchie had been in charge of that, it would have been a resounding success.
Sadly, this will still probably get crushed at the box office releasing so soon to GOTG2, and I don't think it had much marketing either, maybe it did, but GOTG2's coverage was suppressing everthing else, nobody at my work even knew this movie was coming out, and even the posts on this board were moving pretty slow so close to and after release.
Best thing about it is no shoe-horned in love story with what I had assumed would be the love interest as soon as she was introduced.
Charlie Hunham was a lot better than I expected after the WoW movie, I had no qualms with him as Arthur at all. If Ritchie had been in charge of that, it would have been a resounding success.
Sadly, this will still probably get crushed at the box office releasing so soon to GOTG2, and I don't think it had much marketing either, maybe it did, but GOTG2's coverage was suppressing everthing else, nobody at my work even knew this movie was coming out, and even the posts on this board were moving pretty slow so close to and after release.
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holy fuck how did this movie cost $175m to make, did they invent a time machine and send Jax back to bro walk with King Arthur
Box-Office Bomb: 'King Arthur' Limps Toward $14M Debut Behind 'Snatched'
also whats hilarious is that originally they planned to make... SIX... yes, SIX... more king arthur movies. Somehow I think that plan has been scrapped now.
Box-Office Bomb: 'King Arthur' Limps Toward $14M Debut Behind 'Snatched'
also whats hilarious is that originally they planned to make... SIX... yes, SIX... more king arthur movies. Somehow I think that plan has been scrapped now.
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Yeah, no idea where the money went on it, either. I mean, the cast was mostly low cost brits (Ritchie's usual crew) and the CGI was good, but not anything amazing. Sets I guess? That movie SHOULD have been done for around half that cost.
Where were you hearing they would make six of those movies? Ritchie is not big on sequels (had to pull teeth to get him to do the second Sherlock movie) and the story was fairly self contained. Thats some serious hubris on the part of whoever thought they would get six movies out of that. I liked the movie, but it was not a franchise igniter by any stretch.
Oh well, guess that probably puts an end to Ritchie doing big projects, since both Man from Uncle and this movie crapped out at the box office.
Where were you hearing they would make six of those movies? Ritchie is not big on sequels (had to pull teeth to get him to do the second Sherlock movie) and the story was fairly self contained. Thats some serious hubris on the part of whoever thought they would get six movies out of that. I liked the movie, but it was not a franchise igniter by any stretch.
Oh well, guess that probably puts an end to Ritchie doing big projects, since both Man from Uncle and this movie crapped out at the box office.
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I loved those other to movies you mention, I'm just easily triggered by historical inaccuracy in these King Arthur tales. He always has a giant fuck off stone castle in a time period between the stone fortifications of the Romans and Normans, when people were rebuilding wooden iron age hill forts. Camelot should be more like Edoras (Riders of Rohan capital) in Lord of the Rings. He likely ruled Cornwall (south east England) so it's a fairly small kingdom.
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