Re: ‘King Arthur’ Movie Falls on Its Sword in Opening Weekend - WSJ

[Laura]

Just saw King Arthur today, and while I liked the London gangster elements Ritchie imported from his other movies, they weren't enough to prevent this from being a standard-issue crappy action flick with obvious plot points, ludicrous characters and boring CGI.

That being said, I don't see any particular reason why the critics should pile on this one and rave about similarly-schlocky action pix du jour. It sure seems like they're getting paid to rave, at times. Is there some secretive Scarsdale Vibe pulling the strings? Or just collective cowardice?

Laura

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Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:

>I saw a similar story on Friday, which caused me to believe the Hollywood system wants to kill it
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>Think of Costner's Water World
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>On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 4:11 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Hurry, it's bleeding to death.
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>https://www.wsj.com/articles/king-arthur-movie-falls-on-its-sword-in-opening-weekend-1494786805?mod=e2tw
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>Sent from my iPad
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