Saw King Arthur last night. Saw it alone because once again I’ve run into the ‘need more offline friends’ brick wall. Sometimes I hate being a loner. I don’t mind that I saw it alone, although it was damn cold in the theater and quite empty for an opening night…thank goodness I brought an extra shirt and a book. Lots of fun imagery, but awkwardly edited. I enjoyed it, but it seemed like there were some parts missing. Had a good score though. Hans Zimmer may be derivitive sometimes but he still writes good music.
Seemed like there were some strange cuts from one scene to another…here’s a shot of Woads getting ready for battle, here’s a nice domestic scene…or here’s the night before battle and then it’s dark and suddenly Guenivere is sneaking into Arthur’s room…and even though I knew they were separate groups, for quite a while it was hard to figure out who was Saxon and who was native Briton. Guess that’s why they went with the super-blue people. Poor Merlin hardly got a mention.
Kiera Knightly is entirely too pretty for words. She looks good even when she’s blue. Perhaps not the right accent for her acting region, but at least I was convinced she could be both queen and warrior. sometimes. Clive Owen, now, I could live without him. He’s just not my type. Although I did start to like him better towards the end of the movie. He does seem like a Roman officer. I liked most of the knights of the Round Table…Gawain and Galahad were familiar, I knew I’d seen them before, but couldn’t place them with all that hair! Gawain’s actor also appeared in Ned Kelly (with your favorite and mine, Orlando Bloom) and Galahad was in some period drama that I’m not sure of but I know I’ve seen.
Ioan Gruffud is a good looking man, and he uses two swords as Launcelot…kinda like Legolas’ white knives. Yay! Unfortunately the friendship between Arthur and Launcelot isn’t really developed and there is nonexistent romance between Launcelot and Guenivere. I heard that Jerry Bruckheimer (producer) was pushing for an R but this ended up with PG-13, so I bet a lot of the romance got cut so there could be more ‘violent’ fighting sequences.
Warning: there’s a spoiler ahead.

Launcelot dies! Damn them! Stop killing off the cute ones!
Silly reason, I know, but I really wanted to see a movie that opened on 7-7. Being that 7 is my favorite number, how could I refuse? Eh. I guess I should be used to going to work tired after movies by now.
Still wanna be an actor. Medieval costume drama anyone? I need a sewing machine so I can start working on all those patterns I bought last year. Merph.
Found out yesterday that Troy is no longer in theaters around the StL area. How sad! I wonder how long it will take to get to dvd.
Kareoke with Josh Groban I’m amused that I got my (single) ticket to the Josh Groban concert later this month probably about a month ago, but I’m just now getting my John Mayer tickets (for a concert just a few days later). And the greatly frustrating thing is that the JM tix are sent UPS…which means they can’t deliver unless someon’s home. Damn the inner-lobby mailbox! I really don’t want to take off early to try can catch the deliveryman, but I guess I will. I can only hope that he comes around the same time he did yesterday, cause I’m not going to take off a half day the day before I go on vacation! Ah well. I guess it gives me more time to pack.
Softball tonight!