Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

[Allan Balliett]

Hey, just wanted to take a moment to say that in spite of almost every
movie critic in the Western world piling on it, I found Guy Ritchie's take
on King Arthur to be very entertaining and well worth the trip to town and
the $20 bucks for the two of us to get in. (Saw the 3-D version which did
have MANY 3-D moments as alarming as the ones you used to routinely get in
3-D movies in the 50s. Yes, one time I literally ducked shrapnel...)

Ritchie had this to say about the criticism that his take on the legend
wasn't historically accurate or even accurate to the typical retelling of
the Arthur legend.

 "I don't think anyone else is necessarily interested in a re-telling of
the same narrative so as long as you can hold on to the essence of the
story.Thereafter it is about dressing it up in a form that I think
accessible to a contemporary audience."

The bottomline is I'm at that point in time where it's hard to pass the 30
minute mark without a trip to the urinal and I was so captivated by this
film that I didn't even notice the urge to get up and go until the final
credit line rolled off the screen (Spoiler: no easter egg!)

I thought the distinctive Ritchie elements in the film, which I find
Fellini-esque and all in the forever memorable tone of the
Gladiators-as-garbagemen in Roma, were fun and didn't intrude in the
retelling of the story at all. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of mood
and set for the Game of Thrones fan in this one, but the juxtaposing of
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels irreverence in a dark and brooding
medieval atmosphere was very welcome.

All I'm saying is don't let the critics scare you away on this one. It
really smells to me like the the fix is  in on this one. This ain't no
Blade Runner but you gotta remember the reviews Blade Runner had to crawl
out from under for a couple of decades (Hey, the trailer for the sequel to
Blade Runner is out now, well worth tracking down!)

-Allan in WV where we don't get out a lot
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