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Unintentionally hilarious!

posted 19 years ago by Sagitta86
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Hi everyone,
Me and my friend Louise watched First Knight recently and were entertained no end by the hilarious acting and dialogue:

1.) Richard Gere's amusing cocky face-acting, trying to make himslef look as sultry as possible. While being as wooden as possible. check out the scene under the tree when he says "...sigh... I'm tired".

2.) In the scene where she is captured in the boat out of the castle, julia ormand looks like she is being pulled around like a harpsichod.

3.) Richard Gere launching himself at Julia Ormand and proceeding to eat her face!

4.) Sean connery's entrance into said scene, looking furious and then his eye disloves into a fire! Hilarious!!!!

5.) Sean Connery screaming "Why? Why? WHHHYYYYYYYYY?!" did I agree to do ths film!

6.) Richard Gere galloping full pelt after the runaway horse and then the stable boy casually trotting very slowly after it!

7.) In the scene after Gere completes the assult course, and is offered ormand to kiss. someone in the crowd shouts "Go on, my son!!!!"

8.) Sean Connery shouting "fight!" and waving his sword around and his knights stare gormlessly about wondering what to do as the king is shot with 3 arrows!

There are many other hilarious scenes that i can mention, so feel free to add to this list. My friend and I agree we haven't laughed so much at a film before this much!

[–] LadyOfGlencairn 18 years ago

I completely agree with you ... I watched this film on DVD last night and was appalled from start to end. Richard Gere is so kitch and annoyingly "I can do anything" cocky I gave up not halfway through. I intend to suffer through the rest later ... *sigh* Why on earth did they cast him in this role? An American Lancelot???

Terrible ...

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[–] runswithscissors86 18 years ago

5.) Sean Connery screaming "Why? Why? WHHHYYYYYYYYY?!" did I agree to do ths film!

HA HA HA HA HA!!! oh, Jesus, that was fabulous! *wipes away tears*

This movie was terrible. TERRIBLE. King Arthur was not an old man when he married. And who invented spandex for the Round Table knights?

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[–] Minkus31699 18 years ago

Sure as heck wasnt hard to take over Camelot and kill the king. A lazy 5 minutes. Alright i was going to be totally negative like you lot but i will point out a positive instead.

The baddie being thorwn into the bottomless pit.

Julia Ormond's is gorgeous.

hmm im struggling here..

[–] malcolm-smith 18 years ago

"Welcome to my castle!"

Er, no. Any fool can see that you're deep in a slate mine.

[–] kiltim 18 years ago

lol

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[–] ragreen259 17 years ago

How many times did you say you watched it?

8.) Sean Connery shouting "fight!" and waving his sword around and his knights stare gormlessly about wondering what to do as the king is shot with 3 arrows!

Hmmm... seeing as everyone thought he was about to surrender, what exactly do you think his knights were going to do, particularly since they didn't come there to fight in the first place? HE knew he was about to die, incidentally. Not to mention, this all happened in about three seconds time, so I'm not sure what you think they were supposed to do, or why you consider this so hilarious.

I do have to wonder why the prince (and by what right was he a prince, they never really go into that--just who the hell is this guy, anyway, besides a pain in Arthur's ass?) showed up in studded padded armor... I mean, he was the main guy, and he came there to kick ass--yet he's wearing plate forearms and basically a thick shirt... and some of his men are wearing plate armor chestplates... OK, aside from the point that plate didn't exist then, why would his men be wearing better protection than him?
Well, ya see where it got him! Just one more bad decision.

[–] MarvelGirl44 17 years ago

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Sean Connery's "I can't love people in slices" or whatever. Just not something I expect King Arthur to say to Lancelot.

[–] lordslashhak 17 years ago

yeah hahahahaha " I can't love people in shlishes hahahahahaaha

[–] DarkCrystal63 16 years ago

This is my favourite lame movie...sooo many rediculous but hilarious moments. Here are some of my favourite bits that crack me up for no reason:

- Oswalds Character, he reminds me too much of Obe Wan Kanobe. I keep expecting him to wave his wood stick around and use the force. Also what's up with his white bath robe attire?

- When one of Guinevere's ladies jumps out the carriage and lands really awkardly I always chuckle and think "ow."

- How incredibly fake the forest looks.

- Guinevere's nose looking all pointy and silly when Lancelot semi-kisses her face in the forest.

- Guinevere kissing Authur's hand after he kisses hers - so so lame.

- Peter's character and his random enthusiam for Lancelot, which in my opinion borders on romantic interest. I think Lancelot and Peter have more chemistry than Lancelot and Guinevere. I love Peter's line, "He was just waiting for the right one to come along, like we all do," - sounds like flirtation to me.

- Guinevere's crazy hair. Some scenes it looks neat and styled and a nice length, other scenes it's INSANE - especially the later scene when she asks Lancelot to kiss her.

- The various silly outfits in the film. Prince Malagant's studded dress when he talks to the Knights at the round table always amuses me, as well as Guinevere's wedding outfit - which looks like her other outfits but with some lacey mesh stapled on (must have run out of money by that stage.)

- Malagant's guard, Ralph. The name Ralph is funny by itself, but just the guys expressions and dog like obedience is great.

- The flashbacks to 'young' Lancelot - you can tell they tried really hard to find someone that kind of looks like a young Richard gere, but it doesn't quite work and the kid just looks creepy.

- The Knights banging their fists on the round table is pretty lame. I also like when they question Authur about letting Lancelot become a Knight and one of them says "They say he fights for money!" as if Lancelot isn't in the room with them.

- The slow-mo Lancelot battle close up, you can't help but laugh.

- The loud over dramatic musical score in every scene. I find it almost distracting.

I agree with the post that said Malagant's sword looks like a bread knife - hillarious. Also for a movie with so many action scenes it all feels incredibly dull. I usually turn off after the big "kiss" scene becauce it's SO boring after that. It seems a little unfair that Authur's other Knights get passed over to take control of Camelot when he dies. Instead the new guy who betrayed the King by kissing his wifey gets the gig. I'd be angry.

[–] deedee_88 17 years ago

lol yeahh. there WERE a lot of things to make fun of in this movie!! I'm glad I found this board, we watched in in Civics class yesterday (huh.. apparently it has something to do with 'conflict'. nope, never saw it, lol, we were too busy laughing.)

4.) Sean connery's entrance into said scene, looking furious and then his eye disloves into a fire! Hilarious!!!!

LMAO, the eye turning into the fire... gosh, that was just too extra, lol "the Terminator!!"

Richard Gere's attempts at a pouty-smexy face ... priceless

[–] Supermans_Dead 17 years ago

4.) Sean connery's entrance into said scene, looking furious and then his eye disloves into a fire! Hilarious!!!!

Best part of the whole movie.
I thought there would be a twist, where Arthur turned out to be a robot.
It'd make this movie MUCH more believable.

[–] Supermans_Dead 17 years ago

Oh yes, haha.
i just remembered the part(s)where Sean Connery looks like he's about to have a heart attack.
like... 9 times.

[–] Skutter-2 15 years ago

Yeah, I was watching with some mates and the impression you get for a split second is 'Holy @#%&, King Arthur can shoot fire out his eyes!'

[–] asphodel_and_wormwood 16 years ago

3.) Richard Gere launching himself at Julia Ormand and proceeding to eat her face!

lol what's even funnier is the moment just before this when Guinevere's like "Lancelot!...You owe me a kiss" and then Gere does the corniest omg-she-really-wants-me shudder and then launches himself at her lol poor gere...definitely not a role you want to be remembered for.

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