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Summary: I'm not saying it'll be on AFI's top 100, but it is good
Review: This isn't a movie I'm going to buy (unless it comes packaged with a really good movie), but it certainly is enjoyable to watch. You get a rather straightforward tale about a peasant youth who wants to become a noble knight. And then you have over two hours of what is basically jousting, with a few 70s songs, which surprisingly fit in very well. No performances leap out as great, with the exception of Paul Bettany (the saving grace of A Beautiful Mind), who played Chaucer. That was a great touch. This movie isn't going to win awards or ever become a classic, and in all likelyhood be forgotten in ten years, but it is great fun to watch, cliches and all.
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Summary: A very enjoyable movie
Review: I have to be honest. When I first saw the preview for this movie, I thought teenagers in the Middle Ages, and thought I would hate it. How wrong I was. To take a line from the movie, its all about rising above your simple beginnings and "changing your stars." The soundtrack, a wonderful mix of rock and classic, really hightens the viewing pleasure, and the jousting scenes are just fantastic. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: fun Fun FUN
Review: Wow this movie is just fun. Did it make cinematic history...no. Did it make the critics head turn...no. But what it did do was put a feel good, good guy beats bad guy and gets the girl movie out at a perfect time. With so many filmakers trying to put out a movie that make people think, this movie doesn't require any thinking at all. It also has a very real sense as to what a brutal and physically demanding sport Jousting was. I can tell you one thing, I certainly had a deeper appreciation for the sport after watching this movie. Those guys were nails! Heath Ledger does a good job as William Thatcher (Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein) and his sidekicks make for great laughs and a fairly good story. Not only is there action, love and rivalry, but also a great lesson about changing your stars!
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Summary: Pretty good, but...
Review: A Knight's Tale is entertaining but the most costumes and the music are not true to the times. One thing that really bugged my friend was when the thumbs up was given in the begin scene (originated in WW2). But I don't know what do he thought it was going to be like - It is a teen movie.
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Summary: Oh dear...
Review: Absolute ... the director seems to have been trying for a blend of medieval and modern culture which worked VERY badly. Also, bad plot, unlikable heroine.
One star earned by the fact the Heath Ledger was quite astonishingly good looking in armour and growled at people a lot. A further star earned by Chaucer, who was really quite amusing.
However, neither of these things will convince me to buy it.
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Summary: An enjoyable film
Review: I've seen A Knight's Tale a few times, and I must admit, the more times I've watched it, the more I've come to like this film. A Knight's Tale is nothing deep, it's a fun, innovative movie about incorporating rock music into a different era altogether. I'm not a great fan of Heath Ledger, but the supporting cast was great. Particularly outstanding was Paul Bettany as Chaucer, he brought humor and vibrancy to his character. Jocelyn was not much more than eye candy, but she is quite pretty. And William's (Ledger's) friends are also hilarious in their actions. I really had great time watching this film, it's definitely more fun when you're watching it with other people. One of the best scenes of the film, which just made the whole movie for me was when William and Jocelyn danced at the feast, to David Bowie's Golden Years. Stick with the film, and I think you'll enjoy it.
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Summary: Make up your mind
Review: As a Heath Ledger fan, I wanted to see this film in the cinema. I'm glad I didn't. This film was AWFUL. It tried to be clever. It wasn't. It tried to be funny. It was, at times. But what I really didn't like about this film was the inconsistency. This film tried to be something it wasn't. The storyline of the journey and ambitions of Ledger's character should have been the focal point, or left out altogether. The jousting scenes were too numerous and became a bore. There was absolutely no chemistry between Ledger and Sossamon. Ledger is not a bad actor, he just had nothing to work with here. As for Shannyn Sossamon, I can see why she was called up to do such a fine film as 40 Days and 40 Nights (no offence to fans of that film). What could Ledger's character seriously have seen in Sossamon's shallow and vain character? Those demands to hear poetry? Demanding he lose to prove his love? How despicably unromantic. There was nothing attractive in Sossamon's character, and Ledger's character even acknowledged this ("Silly girl...")! And what was an actor like Rufus Sewell doing in a film like this? This film had absolutely no spark (He will rock you??). I found myself bored after 5 minutes. The pace of the film was... there was no real pace. It was so excrutiatingly inconsistent and did not flow at all. A movie of this genre (comedy??) should not have been over 2 hours long.
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Summary: Satire, Swords and Sewage
Review: There's a scene in The Big Chill where William Hurt turns to Jeff Goldblum and says "You're so analytical. Sometimes you just have to let art flow over you." While watching A Knight's Tale my friend turned to me and said "The art flows over me...and right on down into the sewer." I wouldn't go so far as to say that the movie was excrement. However, I would say that the tonal inconsistencies of this film are so extreme that I was never able to enter the story. I spent the entire movie in a state of awe that so much money and so many people would be involved in producing such a specimen of utter confusion. A Knight's Tale is Blazing Saddles meets Excalibur meets Shakespeare in Love. Underneath all of the wild production choices is a fairly good script. Young peasant William [Heath Ledger] disguises himself as a knight to win jousting tournaments, trying to win enough money to-as he puts it-"change my stars." The movie was well-cast and the acting was good. Mark Addy (who played Dave in the Full Monty) was particularly believable as Roland, the earnest and loyal sidekick. With a team of companions and a beautiful love interest and a villain who threatens to bring the whole enterprise down, it could have worked. Where it falls apart is in the anachronistic production choices. As young William approaches the first jousting field, onlookers clap in rhythm to Queen's anthem "We Will Rock You." As the crane shot moves closer to specific extras, you see them rocking out, dancing disco, singing along with the soundtrack. It's a very Mel Brooks moment, and so you settle in and laugh a little and think "ah, Space Balls Middle Ages. I get it." And then the film gets serious. Twenty minutes later all the anachronisms are gone, but you've been unsettled enough by them that you're looking for satire throughout the film. Scenes which could have been touching are ruined. Occasionally you hear a half-familiar line, or see a half-familiar camera shot, and you think you're watching a very subtle satire, perhaps a send-up of the whole movie industry. But you never can quite put your finger on what it is they're trying to satirize. So-if you're me and you've spent the whole movie wondering "what the heck was Brian Helgeland thinking?!?"-you go to the director's commentary on the DVD expecting some answers. The only answer I got from the first ten minutes of the commentary was: he wasn't. The director's commentary sounds more like two old college buddies rehashing old times about people you never knew than any serious reflection on the approach to production. In retrospect, A Knight's Tale seemed like 100 scenes in search of a movie, and I feel generous giving it two stars.
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Summary: Paul Bettany(playing Geoff)Is Superb!
Review: 2 stars for the talented actor Paul Bettany who outshined every other in this movie.
2 stars for the extraordinary work of the costume designer and art director of this movie.
Other than that,only the quaint court dancing scene and all the fair ladies(Jocelyn,her maid,kate and Edward's wife)worth watching, rests are disaster.
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Summary: Hi
Review: The Movie was great, but the dealted scenes were even better.
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