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People Will Talk (1951)
Poor, poor actors
I hate to criticize someone's favorite film. I really do, but this movie was just bad.
While I agree whole heartedly with Susie-4's assessment, she left out one glaring problem I had with the film. The idea that a pregnant woman can't figure out that she's three months pregnant without a doctor telling her that she is. Especially when she already believed that she was. And then at the end, when she's sitting at the concert in her tightly belted, tiny waisted dress and she feels the baby kick...
Of course, I had long ago given up on this movie, was feeling sorry for the actors for having to spout the over written dialog, and wondering how someone got paid for writing it. All I could think was "people don't talk like this", "people don't act like this" and "what's he/she getting mad about?". If I were not a victim of insomnia, I'd wouldn't have made it through fifteen minutes.
King Arthur (2004)
Glad I didn't pay for it.
I saw this movie only because someone gave it to me for Christmas. The reason he gave it to me is because he knows I enjoy medieval/fantasy films. I knew I didn't want to see it when I saw a Making Of with little Keira running around in the snow half naked. I'm just glad I didn't pay for it.
First, let us not confuse pretty pictures of pretty men with good film making. And let's not pretend that there was anything at all historical about this movie. The Riders of Rohan were more Saxony than the Saxons in this movie, and why did that one kid in the Roman villa have an Italian accent? No one else did. And throwing a round table in a hall doesn't make this tale Arthurian. But that's picking nits.
I am a fan of both Hans Zimmer and Ray Winstone, and they both seemed to realize there was no reason to produce anything new for this film. All that aside, I did enjoy the pretty pictures, and I was amused that Bruckheimer found a way to almost make explosions in 500 A.D., but the big question remains: Was there a plot? Was there a purpose?
Ever since William Wallace rode in front of a battle line and shouted freedom, we've had this idea that that's what people fight for. It isn't. People fight for land so they can feed their family. Ideals are a luxury. I could tell that Arthur was conflicted about something, but I was never sure what is was.
In the last battle, I made the remark, Someone's got to die. It will be unrealistic if all the "knights" make it through this. And my daughter said You're worrying about realism now? I thought that pretty much summed it up.