The Gauntlet scene is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen
Completely took me out of the film, it's ridiculously complex, looks fake, wouldn't exist in the times and is an infuriatingly stupid idea. What a stupid *beep* movie.
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... wouldn't exist in the times ...The film is a variation on a fantasy. I think it fits in fairly well to the whole Arthurian legend bit, where knights prove their worth and mettle in various ways.🐭 share
Yes, I agree. I enjoyed it.
I wish I could understand why so many people trash this film so much. The legend of King Arthur is fake. So, you can't take this movie too seriously. All you can hope is the actors and director and writers can get you so involved that you don't care about fact vs fiction anymore. Unlike so many movies made today, First Knight worked for me.
Yes, I didn't mind it either. It pre-empted films like Troy and King Arthur where a version of the tale is told devoid of all the religious elements and supernatural stuff. I thought the ending was pretty silly when Camelot is so easily taken over, but apart from that, I've always found the film reasonably entertaining.🐭
shareJust watched this with my aunt and uncle on Friday and I really enjoyed it. I am actually surprised I missed this in the 90s but perhaps I wasn't into either of the actors at the time; they were too old for me, haha. I liked the 90s cheesiness of it. It reminded me of the chris O'Donnell Three Musketeers in staging and things like that and I loved that movie.
As for the Gauntlet scene; I found it fine. However, I couldn't help thinking about Joxer The Mighty when the villagers were getting all padded up, lol
Probably the most ridiculous part of it: the few dorks who attempted it before Lancelot and failed, all put on some "padding".
Then when Lancelot jumps up to attempt it, the guy yells at him "no, not like that - get padded up first".
And yet, the entire last portion of the gauntlet is huge swinging axes and various other blades - as if the basic cloth padding they put on would help them in any way.
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
As the blades came at you if you made a mistake, all you'd have to do is straight-arm the shaft and you'd be thrown off and away from the blade, with little contact.
shareI'm watching this movie for the first time now, and so far, that scene is my favorite.
I think it is just the kind of thing a fair of that era would have had, and the reactions from the crowd to the challengers' failures and successes were realistic -- just the mixture you'd see from an unscripted bunch of people reacting according to their different natures.
The sad thing is that this is the only scene in the film that I found entertaining.
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Thanks for the chuckle....
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
The Gauntlet scene is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen...Completely took me out of the film, it's ridiculously complex, looks fake, wouldn't exist in the times and is an infuriatingly stupid idea. What a stupid *beep* movie.
How do you know with such certainty? It makes sense that there would be some kind of obstacle course for knights or up-and-coming knights to prove their bravery and skill, including publicly. We have obstacle courses in our military training camps and the higher up the person is in training the harder and more involved the courses are. Why wouldn't they have something similar for knights back in the day? I'm not saying they'd be like the one in the movie -- it is, after all, a movie and they always amp things up in movies -- but they likely had them.
Furthermore, the sequence was to display Lancelot's utter bravery in that he didn't care if he lived or died, which was emphasized in the opening act. Remember the counsel he gave the defeated swordsman after beating him in a contest at the very beginning: "You must not care if you live or die."
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If you're gonna train medieval knights, or decide who's "worthy" of being the king's champions, that ain't it.
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