my boyfriend keeps confidently showing me films and being like "this is such a talia movie" and it's usually not. except "a knight's tale" (2002) this shit is so stupid and amazing
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I used to do (reasonably) historically accurate costuming.
I groused the first five minutes my late husband asked me to watch one of his favorite movies.
He asked me to just watch. I did.
I exhaled.
I love, love, love this movie.
It's a delightful gem of a movie that wouldn't be greenlit today because literally nobody in it was really famous yet, and it rests almost entirely on execution. It was Shannon Sossaman's first real credit outside of music videos.
completely wrong time period, but by far the best part of the entire TV show "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" was Sting's appearance to promote his actual album of 16th century lute songs
Movie makers looked at SCA-style Medievalism, nope, too serious, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, nope, still too authentic, let's go contemporary and have lots of fun.
As with Bill&Ted's Excellent Adventure, being a dumb movie in no way detracted from it being a great movie.
conversely, heath ledger's hair in the beginning and the formative age at which i watched that flick explains a lot about my later boyfriends and the ways in which they smelled
i didn't see that one until way later and i remember thinking damn, i really regret watching that, i don't like my IRL boyfriend nearly as much as i thought i did
I knew someone in high school who gave her hairdresser creative license for her prom hairstyle and this is EXACTLY what she got. The hairdresser was so excited to do it.
I stopped doing that after I (b 1976) and my sister (b 1979) told our younger brother with a sarcastic trolly sensibility (b 1990) in 2005 that he would love the movie “Airplane”…. he thought it was “OK”…
I love learning about technical fx - it enhances every movie experience. My daughter made 18 Ant Man helmets because things would break nearly every time Paul Rudd wore them. (It was a talent problem).
I think it’s still the only movie I have seen multiple times in the theater. Is that because the girl I had a huge crush on was a massive Heath Ledger fan? Who can say??
Knights Tale is most medievalist favorite medieval movie. I did a really fun HATM podcast on it with @herberthistory.bsky.social, @tlecaque.bsky.social, and @waymack.bsky.social earlier this year.
Obviously the magnitude of the of the acting talent we have lost is unfathomable, but on a superficial level he was such a good looking man and I just know he’d have aged like a fine wine 😭
I want to have a serious talk with everyone involved with telling us Will’s backstory in such stupid, delayed, random increments, but it’s a delightful movie overall.
it's one of those wildly ridiculous and yet GREAT movies. I think about the "your entrails will become your extrails....PAIN LOT OF PAIN" probably once a week.
My husband and I have been together for nearly 30 amicable years some of which is because we enjoy about a 40% overlap of films. I have films and he has films and the now grown up kids have films but there are lots we both enjoy. A few we all enjoy. (Jurassic Park, original Star Wars, Jaws)
One of the best movies ever. I remember watching it in the theatre and thinking “wow. This is amazing” and I was convinced from that point on that only Heath Ledger could ever convincingly play Alexander the Great.
I watched this film nearly every day for a year, and many more times since. I'm still not tired of it.
If you can find a dvd copy it has a great commentary from the director and Bettany, who were friends before filming (iirc, Helgeland wrote the part of Chaucer for Bettany).
So does his concept of “Talia movie” boil down to a movie he thinks is good that you haven’t seen yet? I had to stop recommending movies to my wife after the Swing Kids debacle
He's the king in Uwe Boll's atrocious and yet weirdly compelling "In the Name of the King". Not a single role cast in that movie makes a single iota of sense. I cannot overstate how terrible the film is. I've watched it (entirely voluntarily) three times.
I recently watched it with my 17-year-old daughter, it was a blast. Way more fun than I remembered, I think I was too hung up on the silly no-shield jousting the first time. Daughter is absolutely in love with Heath Ledger after watching this and Ten Things I hate About You.
Oh god, do I have to watch this now? I rolled my eyes at the promos when it came out & was never interested. But in the last few years, I've been seeing a lot of people talk about it again.
It’s honestly one of the most fun movies about sports out there. Much of it is a parody of sports fan culture, It has an insanely charming cast, and the jock jam soundtrack hits perfectly.
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I groused the first five minutes my late husband asked me to watch one of his favorite movies.
He asked me to just watch. I did.
I exhaled.
I love, love, love this movie.
It is Peak Cinéma.
As with Bill&Ted's Excellent Adventure, being a dumb movie in no way detracted from it being a great movie.
A Knight's Tale
Lion in Winter
in that order I think.
https://cinemattire.wordpress.com/2019/08/25/knight-day-fine-and-less-fine-finery-in-a-knights-tale/
I just feel bad knowing that it gave Heath so much anxiety to be marketed so heavily.
*Yes, I'm old.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/historians-at-the-movies/id1658432453?i=1000651370897
Lmao when I started dating my husband, my walls were covered in the Heath Ledger Knights Tale vanity fair spread.
There’s a penis next to his head!
He looks cool with a smoke!
Maybe he would have grabbed my butt, had we ever met and fallen in love?
You know that nothing has actually changed.
This scene does not fail to make me tear up.
If you can find a dvd copy it has a great commentary from the director and Bettany, who were friends before filming (iirc, Helgeland wrote the part of Chaucer for Bettany).
"i like violent homoeroticism and noir"
ok now I imagined excalibur but with added burt reynolds and i do not know if it is better or Worse