friends don't let friends see kingdom of heaven [watching]
we don't have any games at the apartment, dial-up internet, no dvd player, no cable tv, etc. tired of reading books at the moment. just wanted to be out of the apartment. so we went to the movies. maybe we should have stayed at home and written a script!
it was too crowded for 7:30pm showing so we hung out around until for the 9pm showing. crazy huh? we just didn't feel like going home yet. it was a nice night. warmer than it has been and so we didn't want to stay in at home if there was something to do. funny how the something was an indoors thing.
the script for "kingdom of heaven" was horrible! i was cringing for most of the film. some of the acting was good, some of it very bad. watching it, it felt like the filmmakers just didn't know what to do. they had these pieces in mind (historical setting, exotic locale, epic scale, fighting) but didn't know how to put them together and make them fit. the dialogue was so pathetic that i spaced out many times. the reasons for scene a to transition to scene b, the cause and effect, were pitiful. the editing might have saved the film by cutting out the ridiculous bits of dialogue but then you'd have to have a lot of adr work and hire someone to come up with some new lines. i don't know how to put it other than there was hardly any believeability to it. it just doesn't draw the audience in.
the only good thing about the film was the music. it had a nice soundtrack but then again, i am partial to middle eastern sounds.
the bottom line: "kingdom of heaven" sucks...don't go to the theaters to watch it, save your money!
Comments
This movie was HORRIBLE!!! This is the first time I have ever felt that any movie was so bad that I feel the need to communicate it to the world before anyone is tricked into seeing this monstrocity. I think it might be my duty as a global citizen to warn people just how awful this "movie" is. It's riddled with awful dialogue, horrid editing, shoddy battles, and the most aggregious historical inaccuracies imaginable. Paitning 12th century jerusalem as an early, thriving meritocracy is laughable, but painting the butcher Salahudin as a magnanimous beacon of religious tollerance or the leaders of the church/kingdom in Jerusalem as champions of religious liberty (with the exception, of course, of the typical, unimaginative hollywood fat white male villains) is sickening to anyone with any knowledge of this historical period. This might be slightly more forgivable if they had put a fictional face on it, but the movie intertwines these fabrications with true historical accounts and even with referances to modern day Jerusalem; they appear to be attempting to sell this garbage as historical revisionist fact. Although most audiences (hopefully) will be intelligent enough to see through this pathetice charade, this movie insults everyone's intelligence by trying to pass its riddiculous portrayal of the crusades off as factual in any sense. Movies like this essentially must rely on ignorance in order to sell tickets; a 5th grade education will ruin it for anyone.
Posted by: Richard | May 26, 2005 2:15 AM
"richard", maybe you should venture out from canastota and take some guys from kiley law firm to battle it out with the hollywood bigwigs. crusaders against historically inaccurate films. it will be losing batter however as taking inspiration from history and spinning it into a work a fiction that grossly distorts the origin is as old as hollywood itself. older even.
Posted by: kalavinka | May 26, 2005 8:33 AM
first read some objective, unbiased history and then make comment about those crusades
Posted by: astralnavigation | November 28, 2005 6:58 AM