Hey, the Spam Song is sung by Vikings, right? Tah dah, Beowulf connection.

[ealgylden]

Anyway... Headline at DavisDVD: "'King Arthur' slashes its way onto disc in two editions." Heh. No kidding. You know, I never did see that movie. What a lousy summer.

They also have a preview of the cover art for Troy. Surely I can't be the only person out there who finds Brad Pitt not only unattractive but actively repellant? I did see that movie, though only once. Maybe it'll improve on the rewatch? If not, well, I can always pick on it. On the score, at the very least. Euch.

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[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Surely I can't be the only person out there who finds Brad Pitt not only unattractive but actively repellant?

*raises hand*

And I don't find very many people ugly, much less actively repellant.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Oh good, I was starting to wonder about my taste. Or about the rest of the world's taste, really, since I know it can't be me. Heh. I just don't get the whole Brad Pitt thing, I guess. And in Troy he looked like a piece of buttered toast, which is yummy but not so sexy.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

The beauty of the DVD is that I can fast forward to all the stuff with Sean Bean the stuff I'm interested in and skip all the rest (which would include many of the loving profile shots of Brad Pitt's Achilles ;)

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's the only way to do it, I think. Avoid the excessively oiled pinup boy and head right for Odysseus. At least there was something about that movie worth all the effort. Not nearly enough of him, though. Pity it's unlikely we'll see him in the Odyssey.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

. At least there was something about that movie worth all the effort. Not nearly enough of him, though.

No, THAT'S true - although from still shots, it looks like they filmed more Odysseus than they showed (couldn't detract from those multiple closeups of Brad, after all!) So I'm hoping there's SOMETHING extra in the DVDS. If not, I'll just watch Bean's thighs smile thighs over and over again ;)

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Wah! Why for cannot this site work?

Hmm, mixing archaic English with Internet terms. Oh, it's been a great day.

But whoo!! Did the site happen to mention when the DVD would be released. The editors/studio did a criminal job on the film's release, so I'm much looking forward to the Director's cut. And dude! Joan! You must see this movie. It's so so so so slashy. The slash runneth free! You expect Lancelot to push Arthur up against the nearest flat surface every fucking minute of the movie!

And I'm sure you'll appreciate this: I have to read Beowulf for one of my classes. Not that this is new; I've read it before. But your comments always remind me.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

You've probably gotten the site to work or seen the blurb elsewhere by now (I'm slower than slow on comments these days, damn computer), but here 'tis, from DVDAnswers.com (whose heading does not mention slashing, alas) rather than DavisDVD, since they won't let me copy and paste, the jerks:

Title: King Arthur
Starring: Clive Owen
Released: 21st December 2004
SRP: $29.99

Further Details
Touchstone Pictures has announced King Arthur which stars Clive Owen and Keira Knightley. The film will be available to own from the 21st December this year, in separate rated and unrated editions. The PG-13 rated edition will include the theatrical cut of the film, whereas the unrated edition will include a never-before seen extended Director's cut of the film. Both discs will include an audio commentary with director Antoine Fuqua, deleted scenes with optional director commentary, an alternate ending with an optional director commentary, a new Blood On The Land: Forging King Arthur making of featurette and a Round Table Video Commentary with cast and filmmakers. Completing the packages will be a Knight Vision pop-up trivia feature, a playable X-Box video game demo as well as producer Jerry Bruckheimer's personal photo gallery. As for the technical specs, the theatrical cut will be available in separate 2.35:1 widescreen and 1.33:1 full screen releases, whereas the director's cut will be available in widescreen only. All will carry an English Dolby Digital 5.1 track.

I must see this movie. I'm so bitter that I missed it on the big screen. Life is cruel and deprives me of slashy boys with swords and armor, sob!

And I'm sure you'll appreciate this: I have to read Beowulf for one of my classes.

Yaaaay! For your British History class? (Which also gets a yaaaay from me because dude! That's my field! In part anyway. 9th-10th cen. England! Yaaay!) Heh, you can be snarking along with me when the movie opens. "Hey, what are they doing? That's not right! That's not Beowulf!" Nah, I'm staying upbeat about it, for now anyway. It can't possibly be worse than Christophe Lambert's futuristic post-apocalyptic version, after all. ;)

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Speaking for myself, I'm really looking forward to the director's cut, because I'm hoping the deleted scenes make more sense out of the movie - it wasn't cheesetastically bad like "Troy" (the "port of Sparta" - hee!) just plain old bad. But pretty! But bad. But ...

Meh, I'll still buy it :) 'Cause Ioan and Clive are GORGEOUS and I picked up a couple of NEW scruffy boyfriends too...

[aithine]

I'm hoping the "alternate ending" they're saying is supposed to be included would be the one where Gwen and not Lance is the one that ends up with an arrow in the chest and Lance & Arthur end up living happily ever after.

Hey, a girl can dream. *vbg*

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Hee! Wouldn't that be a nice surprise? You know, we really should be in charge of Hollywood. It's only logical. *g*