Kingdom of Heaven
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- ********0
i can't believe they're glorifying the crusades. it was a fucking loot war. genocide akin to hitler's regime...
what's next, a movie glorifying the spanish inquisition? fucking christers...
scarabin
(May 7 05, 12:57)very common to many events today
- ********0
if ithey shoot another movie with that british fag i'm gonna kill myself
- tank0
have you seen it scarabin?
they are NOT glorifying the crusade....
- GreedoLives0
meh, thinly veiled comment on today's politics, especially on what extremism reaps.
jerusalem = america where everybody gets along even though they're different religions and are ruled by a benevolent dying liberal.
then the neocons take over and everything goes to shit.
orlando bloom looks like a boy, probably always will, and it's hard to believe he could convince anyone to follow him.
save your money and rent it, the effect are nothing that weren't already in gladiator or lord of the rings.
- fusionpixel0
awesome movie.
- tehgee0
:E HAS SPOKET!
- quamb0
saw it a few days back, found it kinda boring. dissapointing for a scott film :(
- ********0
I'm going to go catch it today.
I'm split on Scott - Bladerunner was a work of flawed genius, and Blackhawk Down is still one of the most intense portrayals of modern combat. I remember when I first saw that and the scene with the helicopters just shooting up the street with the shell casings falling down just shocked me. It was at that moment I realized "Holy Shit - America is like the Empire in Star Wars. We're just overwhelming and we're a freakin' empire." Which I thought was a pretty political powerful point in a movie that was devoid of politics.
Looking forward to Kingdom of Heaven
- iDp0
Edward Norton was in it?!? I watched it last night...never saw him. Good flick though. ;)
- GreedoLives0
ed norton was the king with the mask on. that's why you didn't see him.
- iDp0
ahahahahah...that sucks, I like EN...too bad he was a lepur wearing a gawdy silver mask.
- Lesk0
i think orlando is kind of beautiful
nLHb
(Apr 21 05, 17:13)gal you haven't seen me nekkid.
I'm sorry for you.
- dippy0
Saw it on opening night. I give it a B. I was expecting more from a Ridley Scott film, but it's really not a stellar movie.
Entertainment Weekly has a really interesting review of the film -- the critic basically says that it's not exciting enough because you don't know who to root for. The Christians are shown in a sympathetic light at times, and so are the Muslims. So you don't side with anyone in particular (not even with Orlando's character).
I find it ironic that critics complain about movies that villify certain racial or religious groups, but then complain about movies that don't villify anyone enough. We're in a point in time when political correctness is so prized that it interferes with a director's ability to tell an entertaining story.
- iDp0
Dippy I actually liked it because it didn't villify someone. You're right, they gave both sides of the equation their own demons and qualities. It was almost like there were three sides to the conflict, the Templars and the guy who became king, the Arab's who were tired of the trouble the previous group caused and then you had Orlando Blooms group who were there to save lives. I'm so tired of the movies in this category that make one group out to be the obvious bad guys for the sake of having an evil element, where this flick was more real to me. I also would probably give it a B, the plot seemed a little jumpy, I didn't really like the king's character at all...I was sad to see Liams chacter die so early as I was with Gangs of New York...sad when they kill off such a strong character so soon in a movie. Decent flick though, I dug it.