King Arthur (2004). "I want peas, Lancelot."
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Stam Fine Reviews remembers King Arthur, Anton Fuqua's 2004 take on the 'real' King Arthur. King Arthur stars Clive Owen, Keira Kneightly, Ray Winstone, Ray Stevenson, Ioan Grufford, Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Stellan Skarsgard, Stephen Dillane, Joel Edgerton.
So, a great cast, totally wasted in this movie.
That "Incredible Hulk sad track" inclusion with "rome is dead!" Is just the perfect juxtaposition. Great review as always
LOVED this film growing up, and rewatched it in my twenties... It did not live up to my memories...
I had forgotten that I missed this one. Thank you for reminding me. I promise to be more mindful about missing it now and forever.
This one is on my top 10 favorite list. I love this movie. The soundtrack is also fantastic.
I didn't realise Clive Owen could be as wooden as he is here. It's like watching a very attractive tree.
Indeed, he went to the same school of bland wooden acting as Sam Worthington, Jai Courtney, Hayden Christensen, Daisy Ridley, Orlando Bloom, Rob Patterson and Joseph Fiennes.
@@thetalentof Some of those actors were wooden in big movies, but have since learnt their craft. Hayden is an example of this.
@@thetalentof Some of those actors were wooden in big movies, but have since learnt their craft. Hayden is an example of this.
@@FatNorthernBigot Hayden is quite good in Life as a House, Shattered Glass, Jumper, basically aside from Star Wars he's a decent enough actor but I can't help but think what someone like Bale, Ledger, Caviezel or Dicaprio could have done with Anakin's transformation into Darth Vader.
@@thetalentof Yes, he was the wrong choice to deliver Lucas's dreadful dialog, especially when performing next to a gifted actor such as Ewan McGregor. Remember "You were the chosen one, it was said that you would destroy the sith, etc..." could you imagine a subpar actor creating cinematic gold with those lines?
Oh, Woad is me.😩
I actually like this movie, kind of a guilty pleasure.
I dare anyone to find a more 5/10 film. A huge amount of work went into ensuring absolutely nothing produced any sort of emotional response in the audience.
Agreed, also doesn't help when you have actors like Owen, Gruffudd and Knightley in the leads who can't provoke an audience emotionally and then you keep good actors like Mads Mikkelson and Joel Edgerton in the background. For Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere I would personally have cast Neeson, Ledger and Weisz for gravitas and ability at the craft. 'First Knight' equally didn't have the best dialogue but I still thought Connery, Gere and Ormond did a better job.
I enjoyed this video, but I would enjoy a video on condorman more
Great video as always. I saw this movie in the theaters when released...and regret it to this day.
Titus Pullo ftw! :)
I'd forgotten he was in this movie ! 13 ! 13 ! 13 ! (I must watch "Rome" again very soon ! RIP Titus Pullo aka the late great Ray Stevenson).
to this day, if it rains and snows at the same time I say "hmm, rain and snow? That's a bad omen" because of this film haha, it's like the 90s godzilla of King Arthur films.
I love this movie
“Arguealot” = brilliant!
I bet the Knights of the Round Table had hand drawings of Lady Archers nail to their bedroom walls.
About my favorite King Arthur movie. Not many Clive Owen duds.
It's Stam Fine ..........I CLICK :)
filmed on the same location as Braveheart in my hometown in Ireland (BME) there was talk of leaving up the fort for a tourist attraction for but it was never realised.. yea cant believe its 20 yrs since that
I liked/like it, despite the "clunky" dialogue.
The tragic thing about this film is that the production values, costume design and surprisingly faithful adaption of real history (note the Romans being very christianised at this point, and their main symbol being the P/X, called the ‘Chi-Rho’) are all excellent, and deserved a far better script and film than what it got.
Agreed. Absolutely everything about this film was actually pretty awesome EXCEPT the screenplay. Costuming, props, sound, music(!), lighting, sets, and even the performances were excellent. But the writing was bloody well all OVER the place. 😕
I liked it,great to have a Welshman as Arthur.
They should have called it The Arthur Dozen
Another great review of a not-so-great film. I laughed out loud at the Irun Bru joke. Well done! Keep it up!
"The Long and Winding Woad"
Stam Fine often better than the movies he reveiws.
When i first watched it, oh the dialog really killed the movie, but i do remember liking t he music.
While the historicity may be very suspect, I love this movie and the cast is great. It's not an epic like Excalibur, but it didn't try to be, and the action pays off
Loving seeing a new Stam Fine video notification
As much time as you need to watch Biggles - Adventures in Time. Where we're going, we don't need woads. Wait, what?
Are you sure that's Keira Knightly and not Natalie Portman? Every since The Phantom Menace I just don't know anymore!
LOL, even the jedi couldn't tell the difference ! it's like they're twins or something ! 🤣
Fun Fact: Daniel Craig also auditioned for Arthur, but the Director (Antoine Fuga)
cast Clive Owens because he thought “well this guy is clearly going to be the next James Bond” lol
I only recently saw this film. And though I love Keira Knightley's work in general, definitely Clive Owen's, and certainly Mads' awesomeness... the writing in this film was atrocious. It's all over the place, confusing, nonsensical, and there's just way too much shoehorned in throughout the entire experience.
GORGEOUS direction, sets, score, sound, EFX, and costuming, though.
First Stam FIne I haven't seen
Excalibur is still the ultimate Arthur film
How did you know my physiotherapist is called Phyllis? :P
9:41 😂😂😂
Rounded tables are pure evil.
I look to Simon Schama when I want art history with a snarky British flair..... When I want proper historical accuracy I go to Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckhiemer
It’s a shame there is so much potential anton fuqua said the directors cut was his movie but the studio wanted pg 13
I think I like Arthur tales with the weird, so you can probably guess which one is my go-to. Going to watch the more recent A24 thing, see how I feel about that. I hear it's extra surreal :)
I appreciate their trying to turn this story into something with the air of plausibility. But when I saw the poster for it I had Excalibur on the brain even more than I do now and was not willing to Bruckheimer for the chance at something worthwhile
OR it took a thousand years and scores of writers to make a mythic legend interesting, but it took just one movie to make it boring again.
The only lousy thing about this film was the writing. Nearly everything else was pretty gaedaemn brilliant: costuming, lighting, sound, music(!), sets, performances, direction, props, etc.
Clive Owen is one of those guys that Hollywood was convinced would be a star. Unlike many of these guys, he actually feels like a movie start. But while had many lead roles, there was never any evidence that people went to see a movie because it had Clive Owen.
"Oh this film has Julia Roberts! And Clive Owen is OK, I guess..."
You left out Mad Micks 2: The Woad Worriers
I enjoy watching this film but there are so many problems with it. The battle scenes are cool but from the tactical stand point drive me nuts. This film could have been good but needed more time on the scripting to make the dialogue better and make a few plot points clearer.
The 'mud cannon' is explained by the historically verified piece of battle weaponry.
It's original Latin name is lost but the olde english translation of the celtic description is - 'Muck-Spreader'
No King Arthur film will ever be better than Excalibur. Just don’t bother making another one.
@philippeh3904 I really wanted to like Excalibur, but the bad US dub really grated on my nerves.
I must admit that I quite like "King Arthur" in a "trashy, easy to watch, popcorn way..." but I agree 100%, "Excalibur" is THE best movie about "King Arthur" by a massive margin, it's not even fair to compare them. "Excalibur" has a superb cast, superb performances (done in a very fitting, dramatic style), incredible dialogue, timeless and legendary soundtrack, wonderful cinematography...kudos to everyone involved (especially ofc director John Boorman !).
Excalibur sets a high bar.
What about "First Knight"? I didn't see it, because why bother when there's "Excalibur"? Could you imagine if Nicol Williamson had portrayed Obi-Wan and Alec Guinness Merlin?
@@breakyoselfnibba-2018 me neither!
How about "Woad House"?
That was the working title of Braveheart
This isn't the only movie that linked King Arthur with the Romans. There was another movie called the Last Legion starring Colin Firth which theorised that the legendary 9th Legion became Camelot or something.
That aside, there's actually a lot of potential for King Arthur being Roman as a good story, they're just blandly executed
Oh woad is me. Pretty gold cast in a pretty average movie. I would have been annoyed if I paid to see it at the theater. Decent cast...
King Arthur was known for being very understanding when his girlfriend dumped him, thanks to his ex calibre.
In spite of a more than capable cast, this seems to be definitely the Woad to Nowhere...pity really. 🤔
Oh dear. I saw the 'violent' version of this crap. What a waste of time. What the hell were they thinking when they made this terrible film?
The only way to improve on Boorman's weird and wonderful film would be to get Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman, Michael Kamen & Bryan Adams back together and produce it 30 years ago.
Lancelot did not become Lancelost when he died. He became Lancelate.
Don’t see the point in doing King Arthur without the magic. I mean, it could work, but still, looks like it didn’t.
We did get the Arthur adjacent Green Knight mind you, which had an element of realism and still had talking foxes and giants.
King Arthur 2004 has a great cast tho 😮
Arthur without the magic _can_ be interesting, but Bruckheimer dropped the ball.
I really admired The Green Knight for being weird as fuck, much like the legend it was based on. The ending seemed a bit lifted from a certain controversial Scorcese movie though.
This put me off Clive Owen until Children of Men came along.
Magicianing? No?
A German guy walks up to the French border. The border official asks him the usual questions: name, home address, destination within France, business or pleasure?
He asks "occupation?" and the German Guy says "No, just visiting."
Other possible titles
Saxon The Beach
Roman down the Woad
It Sarmation Pict - err
Guinevere , Keira Knightley ye oh so very spritely.!
Arguealot.... just brilliant. I now have no bottom because I laughed it off. You could say, I Laugheditoffalot. 😊
Wow. Never heard of it and it looks awful. I suspect that the Monty Python interpretation was more accurate.
think Hippos doing ballet with Crocodiles a better metaphor for your comment
I'd much rather watch this movie than any girl boss, mary-sue movie.