Mini-review of "King Arthur"

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Pretty people. Pretty horses. Pretty scenery. Nice swords. Catapults but no trebuchets. Keira Knightley and Clive Owens looking all noble and everything -- and pretty hot, into the bargain. Overpowering oppressive dramatic music.

Plot -- meh. Acting -- eh. Writing -- they could say some of these lines with a straight face?

[Edit: looking at IMDb, they quote Stephen Hunter as saying that the movie is worth the price of admission just to see Keira Knightley as a "kill-crazed, blood-drenched, pagan Tinker Bell." That works for me.]

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[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Excaliber did the whole Arthur thing so well, I'm probably not going to end up seeing this one.

That description of Keira Knightly though...