Willow - Official Teaser Trailer

[Guest 85555]

I don't like A Knight's Tale specifically because the modern music did not fit and ruined it. Willow has been better about using it.

When it first came out, I had trouble with this. I was a history student and used to be very finicky. I was the same for Gladiator because I had just written a paper on Marcus Aurelius and the Antonine Emperors when the previews started coming out. But I changed how I enjoy movies set in historical periods and now I actually find Knights Tale to be a wonderful movie. Also I think modern music can add to a film like that. The Highlander was a movie that regularly used Queen music in its historical flashback sequences and that always seemed to work well. And it isn't like they had orchestral strings like you have in modern movie soundtracks in the middle ages. On the whole I am a lot less bothered by anachronisms now (movies are made in the time they are made and even the grittiest historical films usually reflect certain things from the period they were made.

 

[MarkB]

The more I think about this show, the less I like it. It's just so mediocre.

The problem is, it's not just mediocre. There are moments of genuine brilliance. It irks me.

 

[Zaukrie]

The problem is, it's not just mediocre. There are moments of genuine brilliance. It irks me.

Right. I don't think the show knows what it is, for one thing. The inconsistency is an issue for sure. Both in quality and tone.

 

[Guest 85555]

On the subject of modern music in the Willow series, I have mixed feelings simply because it doesn't feel in tune with the original movie.

This I think is a fair criticism even though the music didn't bother me. I think keeping the feel of a series can be important. Maybe the new show is meant for a younger audience, in which case, updating the music might make sense for a younger audience.

I tried watching the show and I found myself very underwhelmed with it, but the music wasn't particularly significant in shaping my opinion. It just seemed very phoned in to me. I might also just be getting tired of reboots, sequels, and reliance on old IP. I'd much rather see a new fantasy series that is original than something based on a movie I saw as a kid these days.

 

[MNblockhead]

As a child of the 70s and 80s, I demand all fantasy movies use synth music and glam rock in their soundtracks!

 

[Mallus]

I don't like A Knight's Tale specifically because the modern music did not fit and ruined it. Willow has been better about using it.

Modern music ruined the movie where Geoffrey Chaucer is basically Howard Cosell?

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Modern music ruined the movie where Geoffrey Chaucer is basically Howard Cosell?

Yep, definitely. Or maybe it was just a stupid movie to begin with.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Modern music ruined the movie where Geoffrey Chaucer is basically Howard Cosell?

I've no idea who Howard Cosell is, but Geoffrey Chaucer was a popularist writer with a taste for low humour and sexual innuendo that wouldn't be out of place in a Carry On movie. What he was like as a person, no one knows, the historical record doesn't say, so the movie is as good a guess as anyone's.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I might also just be getting tired of reboots, sequels, and reliance on old IP. I'd much rather see a new fantasy series that is original than something based on a movie I saw as a kid these days.

This one was an original IP in the 1980s, that most people had forgotten. That's as original as anything gets these days. It's the GenericFantasyland tropes that feel tired, and I'm afraid D&D and Tolkien have a lot to answer for for that. His Dark Materials (BBC) feels like a far more imaginative fantasy.

 

[Mallus]

Or maybe it was just a stupid movie to begin with.

It’s a very clever film. But that kind of deliberate anachronism rubs some people the wrong way.