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Rama · « **Reply #30 on:** Jul 12, 2006, 11:26:31 PM »

What's sad is you could have done almost the same scene without the action. Could have had Jack go up to the gallows and about to get hanged, but then the Norrington comes up and unshackles Jack's chains and tells him he is going to give him one days head start. You could have even got a joke about Jack's sunken longboat in there when he asks how he is supposed to get out to the Pearl. Thus making Jack's outro relate to his intro. Which in another good rule, end where you begin.

B E C K · « **Reply #31 on:** Jul 13, 2006, 12:38:04 PM »

Dude, exactly! Have you seen King Arthur? I've been wracking my brain on how I would've saved that shit and the only thing I came up with was a cameo appearance from the Knights of Justice.

To kind of go off on a tangent, I bought Zathura for 1.99 on PPV. It's a cute movie based on a book by the duder who did Jumanji (which I also liked). Five minutes into the movie, one of the kids calls the other a dick. Hilarious. Didn't really deserve the sad box office it got.

I also saw the Incredibles a couple weeks back thanks to the free preview channels on Dish. I liked it, but just the same I'm glad I didn't pay to see it.

Rama · « **Reply #32 on:** Jul 13, 2006, 02:08:24 PM »

I have seen King Arthur, in the theater no less. I actually liked it, but I think the reason a lot of people don't like it is that they expect certain things from a movie about King Arthur. So it may have been better to get away from the "This is closer to what probably would have happened" and just give the people a few things they expect. I think the only thing that would have allowed that movie to do better would have been to totally rethink the concept.

I also really enjoyed the Incredibles. One of the best Pixar has put out there. I saw it on the same Dish preview you did.

joe · « **Reply #33 on:** Jul 13, 2006, 02:39:40 PM »

I walked into that movie expecting to see Arthur hopping over gravestones, chucking various projectiles at zombies and the like. Some might say it was the rudest awakening of all...

B E C K · « **Reply #34 on:** Jul 13, 2006, 02:55:00 PM »

It rocks not having to pay. I don't know how it is in your area, but there's a whole new line of free channels, most of which I don't care for. There's Starz Comedy or somethin'. I was looking ahead in the schedule and I thought it was interesting that being a comedy channel, very few of those movies looked like they'd actually be funny.

And King Arthur... There's so many interesting stories behind the Arthur mythos, none of which were used to the advantage they could've been. For all of it's prancing around for being "more historically accurate" or whatever, it's more like they read some articles about recent thoughts and finds and threw them all together in a mishmash. I also like how the previews and various tv material made Guinevere to be this badass warrior queen, but she was just an annoying, snarling painted monkey. As cute as Knightly is, she made an ugly Guinevere. And why the hell would you kill off Lancelot? I think "King Arthur" would've been better off as its own concept instead of bringing in names without any thought. As a regular popcorn film with good acting and beautiful scenery, etc., it's decent. As a King Arthur movie, which it still is, it sucked badly.

Rama · « **Reply #35 on:** Jul 13, 2006, 03:16:42 PM »

I don't know...I took a lot of the preview channels off the list cause the ploy worked and we bought the next package so we had all the channels but EncoreW. Which oddly I thought I'd watch channels like Fuse and G4 a lot...and I've really ended up watching Toon Disney the most. (Next to FSN, but only cause they have Cards Baseball on there)

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And King Arthur... There's so many interesting stories behind the Arthur mythos, none of which were used to the advantage they could've been.

You see that's exactly what I'm talking about. You expected more out of a King Arthur movie and thus where let down by it. I think that's how most people felt, which explains its box office. Me I was going "Oh this when the Saxons invaded Britain, this is the beginnings of what would one day be the British Empire." but I'm a history buff. Most people where saying "Why does Merlin look like Ted Nugent, why isn't Lancelot boning Guinevere, where is Camelot?!?!!" Which are all things you expect from a movie with title King Arthur, so you can't really blame them. I think the movie would have worked better as a historical drama like Gladiator or Braveheart and cut all ties to the King Arthur name.

B E C K · « **Reply #36 on:** Jul 13, 2006, 03:57:20 PM »

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Me I was going "Oh this when the Saxons invaded Britain, this is the beginnings of what would one day be the British Empire." but I'm a history buff.

Not to mention nobody really cares about the dumb Saxons when watching a KA movie. Screw Camelot and the queen-bagging, even as a history piece this movie failed. It didn't succeed as anything but something shiny and pretty to look at it.

Rama · « **Reply #37 on:** Jul 14, 2006, 01:17:51 AM »

I think it did ok as a history piece. Not outstanding, but ok. There was enough fact in it for it to be passable to me. Course it's obvious I liked it a little more then you did. It does have a slight case of Movie Identity crisis. It doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a romance, is it an action slash and hack flick, is it a grand mythical epic? It tries to be all three and mixing those didn't work that well.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #38 on:** Jul 14, 2006, 08:43:02 AM »

For historical Arthur, I think Parke Godwin nailed it in Firelord and Beloved Exile. Don't think either would translate well to film, though.

B E C K · « **Reply #39 on:** Jul 16, 2006, 06:48:09 PM »

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Is it a romance, is it an action slash and hack flick, is it a grand mythical epic? It tries to be all three and mixing those didn't work that well.

Yeah, I gleamed that from it as well. I think it would've gone better to follow the second lead.

Rama · « **Reply #40 on:** Jul 17, 2006, 09:11:17 AM »

Yeah I agree. Really, given the setting you expect a lot of swordplay, which wouldn't give you a lot of time for the romance angle. I mean you could do it...but.....And the use of King Arthur makes a actual historcal flick not really the way to go. And it didn't seem they had the budget to do a Epic, So Hack and Slash would seem the logical way to go.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #41 on:** Jul 17, 2006, 03:12:02 PM »

Damn, what a twitchy scroll bar - I read "Slash would seem the logical way to go" and thought Rama had completely lost it.

Rama · « **Reply #42 on:** Jul 17, 2006, 04:14:02 PM »

I said there was no time for romance......course I also said there would be lots of Swordplay.

B E C K · « **Reply #43 on:** Jul 17, 2006, 09:26:45 PM »

The romance was lame anyway. Kiera and Clive, ZERO chemistry. Almost as bad as Pride and Prejudice, and that was suppose to have romance. I even think Kiera and her Mr. Darcy are or did date IRL.

B E C K · « **Reply #44 on:** Jul 19, 2006, 11:22:16 AM »

Starz Comedy has to be one of the unfunniest self-proclaimed comedy channels ever. Just sitting through most of Bewitched was painful, and yet I have to see what happens at the end... So far I've laughed twice. Okay, maybe just one laugh and one titter.

Merla · « **Reply #45 on:** Jul 19, 2006, 02:33:44 PM »

There never anything good on those channels. Which is fine because I do not need to be watching TV anyway.

Rama · « **Reply #46 on:** Jul 19, 2006, 04:44:30 PM »

I don't think I've sat through a single movie on that channel yet. IN fact the only "preview" channel I watch regularly is History International...and that's only cause they don't show Modern Marvels 5 times a day like regular History Channel does.

B E C K · « **Reply #47 on:** Jul 19, 2006, 10:56:41 PM »

The Encore channels were decent. Starz Comedy is a giant steaming pile. Why the hell did they make a Bewitched movie about people coming out in a Bewitched tv-pilot? Whoever thought that up needs to be shot. What a waste of time, but it's not like I was gonna do anything productive at that moment anyway. But jeez, "Guess who"? "Ernest Goes to Africa"? What a shitty channel.

Rama · « **Reply #48 on:** Jul 20, 2006, 12:50:54 AM »

Wait....Wait.....I missed Ernest Goes to Africa?

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #49 on:** Jul 20, 2006, 09:34:51 AM »

Ernest Scared Stupid is still the best.

B E C K · « **Reply #50 on:** Jul 20, 2006, 01:16:50 PM »

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Wait....Wait.....I missed Ernest Goes to Africa?

Apparently so.

Rama · « **Reply #51 on:** Jul 20, 2006, 03:40:22 PM »

Eh...I saw it last night. Color me disappointed.

And Ernest Goes to Camp was the best Ernest Movie.

B E C K · « **Reply #52 on:** Jul 21, 2006, 12:48:56 PM »

You couldn't have seriously watched that expecting some form of quality.

Rama · « **Reply #53 on:** Jul 21, 2006, 04:32:33 PM »

Well my expectations were not high for quality given it was an Ernest movie, but even by comparison with other movies in the series it was bad.

B E C K · « **Reply #54 on:** Jul 22, 2006, 12:14:46 AM »

How did it rank with "Ernest Scared Stupid"?

Rama · « **Reply #55 on:** Jul 22, 2006, 02:49:50 AM »

Not nearly as good. And I've even been a little hard on Scared Stupid because of it's "One take" kids, a problem that "Goes to Camp" and "Saves Christmas" doesn't have....and "Goes to Jail" didn't really have too much Kid Support. Other then Africa those are the only Ernest movies I've seen. I know there are a few more like "Ernest Goes to the Army." and "Ernest Goes to School" and a few more that I've never heard of.

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According to IMDB Jim Varney played Ernest in:

Knowhutimean? Hey Vern, It's My Family Album (Video 1983)

The Ernest Film Festival (Video 1986)

Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam (1986)
-I've actually seen this one too...but don't remember a damn thing about it other then it also has that guy he played with the hand on his head.

Hey Vern, Win $10,000 (Video 1987)

Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)

"Hey, Vern, It's Ernest!" (TV Series 1988)

Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)

Ernest Goes to Splash Mountain (TV Movie 1989)

Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)

Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
-Only Ernest movie I actually saw in the theater.

Ernest's Greatest Hits Volume 2 (1992)

Ernest Rides Again (1993)

Ernest Goes to School (1994)

Your World as I See It (1994)

Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)

Ernest Goes to Africa (1997)

Ernest in the Army (1998)

B E C K · « **Reply #56 on:** Jul 22, 2006, 06:18:07 PM »

Someone rented Scared Stupid, I remember that much. I think I may have seen Go To Jail on tv and part of Saves Christimas. I had no idea there was so much Ernest. They might as well exhume Jim Varney and do "Ernest Rises From the Dead".

Merla · « **Reply #57 on:** Jul 22, 2006, 08:15:22 PM »

Dude I didn't know there were so many.