King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Guy Ritchie | May 12, 2017 | Charlie Hunnam

[WeneedtotalkaboutKevin]

9% ... 2 fresh and 21 rotten...I have never seen a 100 million blockbuster that performs that badly...

[The Futurist]

So having a Led Zep song in your trailer is a bad omen ?

 

[CoolioD1]

[Plain Old Tele]

1 minute ago, drdungbeetle said:

Wait, Excalibur was low budget?!

 

It was budgeted around 11m, which isn't insanely low for the time but was well below most bigger would-be epics. (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was considered to have a reasonable, moderate budget and that was 20m.) CONAN THE BARBARIAN was about 20m as well. CLASH OF THE TITANS was $15m. DARK CRYSTAL was $15m.

[drdungbeetle]

1 minute ago, WeneedtotalkaboutKevin said:

9% ... 2 fresh and 21 rotten...I have never seen a 100 million blockbuster that performs that badly...

TREE AND RACCOON, TREMBLE BEFORE MY WRATH

[Barnack]

2 minutes ago, Tele Came Back said:

 

But no one's done a non-twisty version. (Honestly, the original collection of myths are broad and overlapping enough that you could do many "faithful" versions and still have very different movies.)

 

That was my question, a strait version would be with which book ? The french romance one I imagine ? Or a mix.

 

The "story" could feel long for just a movie too I imagine.

[drdungbeetle]

1 minute ago, Tele Came Back said:

 

It was budgeted around 11m, which isn't insanely low for the time but was well below most bigger would-be epics. (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was considered to have a reasonable, moderate budget and that was 20m.) CONAN THE BARBARIAN was about 20m as well. CLASH OF THE TITANS was $15m. DARK CRYSTAL was $15m.

Good....wow, I would've thought it had a higher budget than the other movies. My mind is now blown.

[WeneedtotalkaboutKevin]

1 minute ago, The Futurist said:

So having a Led Zep song in your trailer is a bad omen ?

 

Thor: Ragnarök is gonna disappoint you then.

[drdungbeetle]

1 minute ago, Barnack said:

 

That was my question, a strait version would be with which book ? The french romance one I imagine ? Or a mix.

 

The "story" could feel long for just a movie too I imagine.

There is no "one" authentic Arthur story, but doing something that feels similar in spirit to The Once and Future King would probably work.

[Plain Old Tele]

Just now, Barnack said:

 

That was my question, a strait version would be with which book ? The french romance one I imagine ? Or a mix.

 

The "story" could feel long for just a movie too I imagine.

 

There's not a specific book, per se. You'd probably start with L'Morte de Arthur and go from there. Blend as little or as much Celtic mythology as seems right. In broad strokes I think EXCALIBUR had the right approach and covered what you'd expect a major "faithful" version to cover.

[drdungbeetle]

Led Zeppelin is the new "Bad to the Bone" in terms of shitty trailer music

[drdungbeetle]

1 minute ago, Tele Came Back said:

 

There's not a specific book, per se. You'd probably start with L'Morte de Arthur and go from there. Blend as little or as much Celtic mythology as seems right. In broad strokes I think EXCALIBUR had the right approach and covered what you'd expect a major "faithful" version to cover.

So, you think the story I posted in this thread would get a higher RT score than this movie is getting?

[4815162342]

5 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

So having a Led Zep song in your trailer is a bad omen ?

 

 

It didn't condemn DofP. @MrPink

[TalismanRing]

6 minutes ago, WeneedtotalkaboutKevin said:

9% ... 2 fresh and 21 rotten...I have never seen a 100 million blockbuster that performs that badly...

 

Fantastic  Four started out better with 3 fresh out of the first 23 -  but that then extended  to 3 out of 41...

 

 

[Plain Old Tele]

3 minutes ago, drdungbeetle said:

So, you think the story I posted in this thread would get a higher RT score than this movie is getting?

 

I dunno, it's all about the execution.  

[drdungbeetle]

So, over/under Revenge of the Fallen for ending RT score? That's kind of my gold standard for poorly reviewed summer movies...

[filmlover]

I think the better question is: will Disney keep Guy Ritchie on board to make their live-action Aladdin?

[CoolioD1]

3 minutes ago, 4815162342 said:

 

It didn't condemn DofP. @MrPink

i'm pretty sure when the levee breaks was in the trailer for the big short as well?

[The Futurist]

Breaking Deadline : Guy Ritchie drops out of Disney s Live Action Aladdin, Director cites "studio unwilling to have dubstep in the soundtrack".

 

 

[CoolioD1]

Just now, filmlover said:

I think the better question is: will Disney keep Guy Ritchie on board to make their live-action Aladdin?

probably. this is an outlier. most of the time besides a quirk or two he's the sort of competent functional filmmaker they like for these remakes.