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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 611138" data-attributes="member: 3887">A few things...I can understand disliking A Knight's Tale {most of my friends thought I was insane for liking it}, but it isn't fair to say it pretends to be historical. From the opening sequence it makes it clear you're in for a wildly anachronistc movie, as the peasants drumming morhps into a Queen song. I think that's the movie's chief pleasue {along w/ Paul Bettany as Chaucer the ring-announcer}. It revels in historical innacuarcy as a way of slyly commenting on the inaccuracies of historical films. I'd bet a lot of people would consider Boorman's Excalibur pretty accurate, except all the knights go running around in armor that won't be developed for 6 or 7 centuries. By comparison, A Knights Tale is off less than 500 years.Now, more movies...From HK: The Heroic Trio and The Bride with White Hair. Both awesome.And another comment: The funny thing about Casablanca is that it is a B movie. A cheap production starring --at the time-- studio contract players. The fact that turned out to be amazing doesn't alter the fact that it was the very defintion of a B film, as the studio was making it...</blockquote>