[King Arthur] These pictures look reeeally cool!

[Storm Raven]

I'll give you PotC.

Other than that, looking over the list, not a single one that I watched and liked.

So, you are saying that you didn't like Remember the Titans, Con Air, The Rock, Crimson Tide, The Ref, Top Gun, or Beverly Hills Cop, just to name a few?

 

[Wombat]

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So, you are saying that you didn't like Remember the Titans, Con Air, The Rock, Crimson Tide, The Ref, Top Gun, or Beverly Hills Cop, just to name a few?

Yep, precisely.

Didn't like any of these.

Okay, okay, I know I'm in the minority... I kinda used to it by now

 

[Halivar]

Yep, precisely.

Didn't like any of these.

Okay, okay, I know I'm in the minority... I kinda used to it by now

*Begin 50's era educational film with trumpet march*

This is Timmy. Timmy is a communist. You can spot Timmy because he doesn't fit in with other normal children. He doesn't play sports. He doesn't go to parties. He doesn't wear the latest fashions.

Do not play with Timmy. Feel free to taunt or pick on Timmy. If you feel like it, you can even punch Timmy in the face.

Do your part to fight Communism; don't be like Timmy!

*End 50's era educational film with musical crescendo, then descant*

 

[KnowTheToe]

The movie looks interesting but the pictures have stirred my pet peeve - she is releasing the arrow from the wrong side of the bow. My pleas to educate the whole world in this matter have apparently gone unheeded.

You are right, I would not have noticed that. I can be bad with little details.

She is way too skinny. When you can point out every bone in her body from 20 feet, she is too skinny.

 

[takyris]

Well, if the movie has Lancelot, then it's throwing historical accuracy out the window, since Lance was (trying to remember back to college) added in when the Normans took control of England to Frenchify the Arthurian legends a bit. Arthur also changes personality to become much more hotheated (in order to identify hiim as similar to the hotheaded Norman rulers), and Myrdden gets renamed Merlin so that the Norman rulers don't mispronounce his name (which should be Murth-in) as MURD-in, which to their French ears sounded a lot like "excrement-head".

 

[Storm Raven]

Yep, precisely.

Didn't like any of these.

Okay, okay, I know I'm in the minority... I kinda used to it by now

Odd. I've met a few people who didn't like one or two of those movies, but no one who didn't like any of them. I mean, it usually turns out that someone who doesn't like Top Gun will like Beverly Hills Cop or something like that. Or that someone who doesn't like action movies would like Flashdance, or someone who doesn't like movies with violence and action driven plots would like a character driven movie like Remember the Titans.

Bruckheimer's credit list crosses genres and styles, and includes several of the biggest movies of the last 20 years. You would think a handful of them would be on the "good" list for just about everyone.

 

[drnuncheon]

The movie looks interesting but the pictures have stirred my pet peeve - she is releasing the arrow from the wrong side of the bow. My pleas to educate the whole world in this matter have apparently gone unheeded.

Note that Guinevere is using a composite short bow in a style that was developed in the Middle East circa 900 BC.

These two may be related. Apparently the Turks (among others) actually released from the opposite side of the bow (the "outside", I guess you could call it).

This was made possible by the different draw that they used, which made use of a thumb-ring to pull back the bowstring, allowing the index finger to keep the shaft pressed against the bow. The thumb-ring was thought to give a cleaner release than fingers alone.

J

 

[barsoomcore]

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So, you are saying that you didn't like Remember the Titans, Con Air, The Rock, Crimson Tide, The Ref, Top Gun, or Beverly Hills Cop, just to name a few?

I'm with you, Wombat.

I remember liking Beverly Hills Cop when I was, like thirteen. I would give it another chance, but I'm skeptical. But every other film on that list? Yeah, sucked.

Come on, Cat People? Kangaroo Jack?

One of the things to consider that even if you approve of some of those films, the fact remains that Mr. Bruckheimer is EASILY (I would even say EFFORTLESSLY) capable of producing astonishingly bad films. So seeing his name in the credits of a film, while you might say to yourself, "Hey, this might be every bit as good as The Rock (I wouldn't, but you might)!", you also need to keep in mind that it might be every bit as bad as Gone In Sixty Seconds.

Bruckheimer's name is a liability when it comes to picking films that I will like. I'm still astonished that Pirates of the Caribbean was at all popular. But he obviously gets the mood of the times better than I.

But I see nothing in these pictures to dispel my growing dread...

 

[Chain Lightning]

Actually, the part that worries me isn't Bruckheimer. He did produced "Black Hawk Down", a favorite movie of mine. So I think if he's got a director under him that has the juice and will to say 'no' to any silly producer stuff he may suggest, we'll be okay. But not knowing Jerry really at all, I can't say for sure that he has anything to do with the crappy stuff that appears in the films he's produced. Who's to say the fault came from another source.

The part that worries me is Antoine Fuqua. I like his work for the most part. But here's the thing I noticed. If he's not doing urban street drama, he's not doing that well. His "Tears of the Sun" was sloppy. I really get the feeling he's out of his element if its not some urban street story. Now he's doing a fantasy film? Hmm....we'll see. I'm not going to start feeling negative or anything, but I'm not going to expect too much this early either. I'll probably start getting hyped when I see the trailers.

But other than that....those pics look good! Yah, Keira's a bean pole and all, but I still think she's hot. And I like Clive Owen a lot too. If you haven't seen the BMW Films, see them! Real cool. He should be the next James Bond.

But his hair in this pics .....man, that's not flattering too much. Heh heh. Might just be helmet hair.

 

[Chain Lightning]

The movie looks interesting but the pictures have stirred my pet peeve - she is releasing the arrow from the wrong side of the bow. My pleas to educate the whole world in this matter have apparently gone unheeded.

I assume you're talking about the picture from the first link, from omlette.com, the 8th picture down. I'm no archery expert or anything...but I have taken archery lessons before. And yes, the arrow is on the wrong side of the bow in that one particular scene. To me, no big deal....small errors happen ALL the time on set. Even the most perfect movies have lots of little flaws. Hard to nab them all while filming principle photography. So I'll cut her a break.

Now, check out the second link mentioned.http://www.empiremovies.com/gallery...ctures_08.shtml

Now, after scrolling down the six pictures, there's (really small) is the clickable 'next'. Click it and go to second page of pics. Four more pics of Keira all Ghetto Celt Fabulous. Hit 'next' again.

3rd page has her drawing and shooting a bow. Arrow on proper side and all that good stuff. I have faith the actress can do it correctly most of the time. Not sure why the one pic with her back to us has it on wrong side. But I know there could be hundreds of reasons. She was messing around on that shot and accidently put on wrong side because it involved a quick draw. Maybe she drew it too quick on that scene and did it wrong the first take or something. But that's where the publicity guy grabbed the screen shot from....so archery fanatics now think she hasn't been taught properly, blah blah blah. Anyways, let's not nit pick on this thing when we its more fun to nit pick on Lancelot's helmet.