Awesomely bad!!!
DON'T TAKE LIFE SO SERIOUSLY! ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE ENTERTAINED!
Oh I don't know. Sean Connery's disco outfit was worth seeing.
shareIt's on TV right now and I'm sitting here thinking WHAT THE *beep* is this? It's not just the acting that's bad but if you've read the actual story of Gawain and The Green Knight then half of this film seems to have come out of nowhere, but then to be fair I guess they had to pad it out, still it's a truly naff attempt Sean Connery should be ashamed of himself for doing this!
shareI'm watching it too! Hah, what a laugh it is!
shareMe too! The best bit was when the Baby-Eating-Bishop of Bath and Wells from Blackadder was doing a bit of sword-fighting.
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Hah ha ha ha ha ha!! I'm watching the end now. It's hilarious. So unintentionally cheesey!!
shareJust stumbled across this film on TV today. Never heard of it before but it was absolutely stunning. I didn't even want to take a whizz in case I missed some unintentional comedy moment.
Things that this film has taught me:
1. Sean Connery can survive having his head chopped off, but not a flesh wound to the stomach (the reverse of Highlander, strangely. Maybe the dire nature of this film's script is what prompted him to inform his agent that he would only entertain doing films where decapitation was lethal. His career was resurrected as a result!)
2. Unicorns probably taste great because they are magical. But be quick with that crossbow, Eugene!
3. Beware of frazzled looking birds in tents offering a cold buffet. They're up to no good.
4. Don't blow any horn described as a "trumpet" by the aforementioned camping bird. It makes rainbows appear for no reason and angry robotic-sounding black knights challenge you to unconvincing hand-to-hand combat.
5. Make sure that you employ a squire who is only compelled to tell you that the armour you are sporting is only for cosmetic purposes at the very point that aforementioned black knight is about to attack you with balsa wood weaponry.
6. Princesses are a bit weird and will turn into birds (literally) just when you're about to get stuck into them.
7. Julie Christie is the only person who looks good with a Julie Christie hairdo.
8. Not Tarzan.
My Senior English teacher showed this to our AP class two years ago. The whole class started laughing about five minutes in and he got all mad because he insisted this was a high quality movie and a good representation of the the structure of stories in that time period. For some reason he didn't show too many movies after that...
I was gonna but it from like Amazon to have as a joke but they want like $13 for it. That movie is worth maybe five if I'm feeling generous.
I am an English teacher, and I have used this film in my classes. However, I only use about the first 20 miunutes or so because that's the only part that comes from the original story/poem.
Unlike your teacher, I totally realize how bad this film is. Since my students are unfamiliar with this movie, I give it a big build-up and talk about how great the high-dollar FX are. Once they see the plastic Sean Connery head rolling around on the floor, they realize I have "punked" them, and we go about the business of reading the actual text.
Interestingly, they usually like the original (the poem) better--especially the part where the mistress of the castle hops into bed with Gawain in her attempt to seduce him.
Anything to get you kids to read.
:)
So I was at BORDERS looking around and came upon this movie. I remembered when I read Sir Gawain and The Green Knight in high school. Since I had enjoyed the story I made the grave mistake of buying the movie. So I watched it and laughed and laughed, cause really that's all you can do with this movie. LAUGH!
shareMy teacher does pretty much the exact same thing!
I've got an idea for my next book "Roy O'Bannon vs. the Little Lord Sissy"
I noticed that the remainder of the movie borrowed very heavily on elements of the tale of Beaumains (Sir Gareth of Orkney), all the way from the Lady Lynet to Leonesse, to him defeating the Black Knight, the Green Knight, etc.
But yeah, one of the few movies that is so cheesy and bad, it's a keeper. This movie, a 12-pack of beer, bag of pretzels, bowl of popcorn, some friends to laugh with while watching it, and I'm in for the night.
heh, yeah I'll agree with that. Not all bad movies can also be entertaining, and this one at least was fun to watch.
And damn, I can't believe this guy was also in Waxwork!