IMDB Rating: 6.40, 23649 votes |
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Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales," as well as the story of Ulrich von Lichtenstein, this is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way.Actors
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13 Comments
This one could have done without the contemporary music. Otherwise typical.
Better than expected
Heath Ledger is razor fine in this movie!
gets a few points for some funny lines..
Heath Ledger is the highlight of this one but Sossaman totally sucks.
a bit corny, good kid movie.
I thought it was a good movie, except for the monkeys
at least the fights were pretty good
It would have fared just a well without the corny ending.
A guilty pleasure of sorts.
I didn’t walk in expecting a great movie. Instead I went in with a friend for the sole purpose of mocking it as we did Battlefield Earth. From the very first Time "We Will Rock You" was being followed by a supposed medieval audience we figured the stage was set for a really crappy film.
The characters were predictable and mostly "cookie cutter" stereotypes. The plot has been used over and over again ad nauseum: a nobody decides he wants to become a somebody by taking place of a dead minor somebody. The rules of competition are explained so that the audience gets an idea of what must be done in the "final battle" for our nobody to win. Our nobody had some previous training due to his job so with the help of a scholar/scientist/braniac type he manages to fake his way in. Of course enter the mean antagonist as well as a future benefactor. Find love under false pretenses. Get discovered as a fraud before the final showdown. Bring all the elements together and finish it off with one big unlikely conclusion and you have the movie.
But I liked it anyway. I liked the cameo appearances by several historical figures even if they were rather incorrectly portrayed and the movies maintained a good pace without any real slow points. Certainly not an academy award winner, but a pretty good Time as long as you don’t try to take it seriously.
dumb but it had some nice sequences
The one movie this year I hate to recommend.
At the beginning of the movie the knights prepare to joust to the chanting of the observing peasants. The peasants are chanting "We will we will rock you".. not like it’s a song from a few hundred years ago, but like it’s Queen in the balcony playing for the knights. This right here is your clue that the makers of the movie want you to sit back and relax and enjoy a story. I think this is pretty shrewd given the recent making of "historical" movies like Braveheart, Patriot and upcomming Pearl Harbor flick. They don’t even pretend to be making a movie based on any facts and they end up making an enjoyable film. The characters are funny, the movie is cliche, the ending is unbelievable but damn… I liked it and you should go see it it’s worth 2+ hours of your time just RELAX, it’s a movie not a documentary.
gimme a break!!
This movie was all over the place…it was tough to watch "trained" knights fighting and losing to our hero here considering when he won they were no where near even trying to touch him (you gotta at least make it LOOK real!…and i was totally annoyed by the romance! "if you love me win", "if you love me then lose" OK yeah lemme starve so that you know i love you…what was that??? Save it for a rental if you were really interested at all.
it was a bad "night’s" tale
I could not understand how there was chemistry between the main character and his main love. It was poorly written even though the director also wrote the screenplay for L.A. Confidential, which was a great movie.
It would have been more endearing (and predictable) if he fell for one of the lesser maidens. But he falls for the spoilen punk princess. There was also a lot of violence. This is not guns violence, more like knives violence, watching over and over as each challenger races on his stead toward the other man aiming at the chest with a 30 foot wooden pole. Also, there was the weird combination of contemporary rock music with medieval peasantry.