09-19-2004, 06:10 PM
<em>seen it.<br>
<br>
it's naff.</em><br>
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Something of an understatement, I feel. I saw this turkey for the first (and only!) time this week. I could forgive all the historical inaccuracies, plot non sequiturs, Greek-fire-wielding trebuchets, and even the carthorse-powered gates on Hadrian's Wall (ho ho!) <strong>IF</strong> the dialogue had not been so crass and lumpen. Only Ray Winstone looked as if he was enjoying himself, all the other (many of them fine) actors looked as if they were concentrating hard on the bottom line, rather than the lines they were forced to utter.<br>
<br>
This was not a bad historical film, it was simply a bad film. If the writer(s) is/are not ashamed, he/she/they ought to look the word up in a dictionary.<br>
<br>
Mike Bishop <p></p><i></i>
<br>
it's naff.</em><br>
<br>
Something of an understatement, I feel. I saw this turkey for the first (and only!) time this week. I could forgive all the historical inaccuracies, plot non sequiturs, Greek-fire-wielding trebuchets, and even the carthorse-powered gates on Hadrian's Wall (ho ho!) <strong>IF</strong> the dialogue had not been so crass and lumpen. Only Ray Winstone looked as if he was enjoying himself, all the other (many of them fine) actors looked as if they were concentrating hard on the bottom line, rather than the lines they were forced to utter.<br>
<br>
This was not a bad historical film, it was simply a bad film. If the writer(s) is/are not ashamed, he/she/they ought to look the word up in a dictionary.<br>
<br>
Mike Bishop <p></p><i></i>
