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Kingdom of Heaven review
May. 6th, 2005 11:14 pmWas ok. Don't get me started on the costuming -- my doctor doesn't want my blood pressure that high. (Check out the boot-cut pants Orlando Bloom wears in the first part of the movie. With modern shoes. In 1184.) The story was all right, and Orlando kicks ass in yet another "I always end up fighting" role. But it was...predictable.
My beef with predictability in movies is not plot-wise (because, let's face it, there's only five or so variations on a plot), but in attitude. Take "Titanic" as an example: It irritated the shit out of me that these people from 1915 had verrrrrrry modern attitudes, modes of thinking, etc. It doesn't matter if the movie's set in the twelfth century or the nineteenth, attitudes from those time periods were radically different than current ones. And I saw a lot of that in "Kingdom of Heaven."
So it was an okay movie -- Orlando Bloom was nice, the cinematography was nice, the battle scenes were okay, but the costuming and modern pop psychology kinda sucked.
I was *highly* amused by a shot of Orlando eating lunch in Messina: The sleeves of his jerkin were spiral laced into the armsceyes, but the CF jerkin opening was cross-laced. With teeny grommets. *sigh* Just once, I'd like to be in charge of wardrobe for a medievaloid costume drama...
My beef with predictability in movies is not plot-wise (because, let's face it, there's only five or so variations on a plot), but in attitude. Take "Titanic" as an example: It irritated the shit out of me that these people from 1915 had verrrrrrry modern attitudes, modes of thinking, etc. It doesn't matter if the movie's set in the twelfth century or the nineteenth, attitudes from those time periods were radically different than current ones. And I saw a lot of that in "Kingdom of Heaven."
So it was an okay movie -- Orlando Bloom was nice, the cinematography was nice, the battle scenes were okay, but the costuming and modern pop psychology kinda sucked.
I was *highly* amused by a shot of Orlando eating lunch in Messina: The sleeves of his jerkin were spiral laced into the armsceyes, but the CF jerkin opening was cross-laced. With teeny grommets. *sigh* Just once, I'd like to be in charge of wardrobe for a medievaloid costume drama...
