King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

[TigerClaw]

Here's the Comic Con Trailer for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, its directed by Guy Ritchie.

[drgon78]

Different.

[Raph's Girl]

That doesn't feel at all like King Arthur... and WTF is up with that giant Elephant?? Also, That's supposed to be Vortigern?? I got more of a Robin Hood vibe to it.

So reading the plot. King Vortigern killed the ruling family...except for the prince who somehow got away. Said prince (Arthur) grows up on the mean streets as a thief (what? He's Aladdin now?). *blinks* This is a strange take on Arthurian lore.

[snake]

The color filter makes me angry

[Autbot_Benz]

Final Trailer for the movie

[saintsaucey]

Looks like ****.

[Raph's Girl]

Soo he was raised in a brothel and trained by....Ninjas? Also, Kaiju elephant is Kaiju.... and Vortigern being the big bad who killed Uther is just...weird. Especially since typically Vortigern was long dead by the time of Arthur's birth.

[turtle1237]

I like Japanese culture as much as the next person,(Anime, moves, ete) but it needs to stay out of Arthur lore. Once we start adding ninjas to it, its no longer a European legend, but something else. Also they had no Elephants in England at the time lol.


If it was a Persian attack like they did on Greece, yeah I can see it, the Persians did use Elephants vs the Greeks, but the Greeks did not have Elephants. If its base on England lore, make it English lore and try not to add other cultures elements to it. What is the Monkey King going to give Arthur the Excalibur?

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by turtle1237

I like Japanese culture as much as the next person,(Anime, moves, ete) but it needs to stay out of Arthur lore. Once we start adding ninjas to it, its no longer a European legend, but something else. Also they had no Elephants in England at the time lol.


If it was a Persian attack like they did on Greece, yeah I can see it, the Persians did use Elephants vs the Greeks, but the Greeks did not have Elephants. If its base on England lore, make it English lore and try not to add other cultures elements to it. What is the Monkey King going to give Arthur the Excalibur?

There been many versions of King Arthur, So they can add new things to make it look fresh.

I just wonder if this version will have Merlin in it, He's a big part of the King Arthur lore.

[turtle1237]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

There been many versions of King Arthur, So they can add new things to make it look fresh.

I just wonder if this version will have Merlin in it, He's a big part of the King Arthur lore.

I be ok if they add fresh stuff to the legend that's in there regional arena. I just think once we add ninjas to King Arthur, they start to lose meaning to what the legend of Arthur is. The 2006/7 move added a new twist, but again, Rome was leaving England to defend there home land, which is around the time the legends started. I think your really pushing it If you start added other nations culture to it. What would happen if we make a movie about the Freedom of America from England, and during the war, the Japanese Samurai come in and help George Washington behead King George or something. Its that far out there.

[ProphetofGanja]

Originally Posted by turtle1237

I be ok if they add fresh stuff to the legend that's in there regional arena. I just think once we add ninjas to King Arthur, they start to lose meaning to what the legend of Arthur is. The 2006/7 move added a new twist, but again, Rome was leaving England to defend there home land, which is around the time the legends started. I think your really pushing it If you start added other nations culture to it. What would happen if we make a movie about the Freedom of America from England, and during the war, the Japanese Samurai come in and help George Washington behead King George or something. Its that far out there.

That would be fvcking awesome is what it would be

[TigerClaw]

If I remember, Warner Bros wanted to make 6 movies of these.
http://deadline.com/2014/01/will-guy...r-bros-671817/

But I think the movie would have to do well at the box office, and critically if they want to make the rest.

[Andrew NDB]

Ouch. Going to bomb with 25 million.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/fanta...-debut-a151022

[ZariusTwo]

I saw a feature on this today on the news because footballing royalty David Beckham made a woefully acted cameo in the movie. The report spent about four minutes making a big deal out of it before showing all the tweets talking about how crap he was.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Guy Ritchie shoulda made Sherlock Holmes 3 instead.

[ProphetofGanja]

The spectacle and action in this movie makes me think it could be fun, and I don't mind that they took a number of creative liberties with the King Arthur legends. So I'll probably try to catch this at the dollar theatre at least if I miss it at the regular cinema

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Guy Ritchie shoulda made Sherlock Holmes 3 instead.

1 and 2 were OK, I'd see a third, but something still seems "off" about those movies to me. I can't quite put my finger on what. It's not the performances, not even necessarily the script. Maybe it's that the tone is all over the place? Too much adlib?

I want to see him do "The Real RocknRolla," like he promised. Or really any British gangster movie again... he does them so awesome.

Originally Posted by ProphetofGanja

The spectacle and action in this movie makes me think it could be fun, and I don't mind that they took a number of creative liberties with the King Arthur legends.

I'm OK with that, too, but after the last King Arthur movie (the one with Clive Owen and Keira Knightly that had no magic) I really wanted to see something a bit more faithful.

[Andrew NDB]

Damn, it's opening even lower than feared... 18 million.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/king-art...trous-opening/

I saw it last night. It does feel like a Guy Ritchie movie. Very much. I liked it but don't expect to care about any of the characters. It's all moving so fast.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Damn, it's opening even lower than feared... 18 million.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/king-art...trous-opening/

I saw it last night. It does feel like a Guy Ritchie movie. Very much. I liked it but don't expect to care about any of the characters. It's all moving so fast.

Yeah, according to the Friday box office, it made only $5,300,000 at #2, with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 at #1 with $16,427,000.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

[Sage Ninja]

I saw this on Friday with my sisters, mostly because my older sister wanted to even though I wasn't impressed with the trailer But I thought how bad could a movie about king Arthur be...and I didn't care for for it. the edits were annoying and way too fast, give me a moment to absorb some of what I'm seeing dammit! It was entertaining, but I just did not care for it. The female mage girl whose name I can't remember, bugged me whenever she talked. She sounded like she had marbles in her mouth.