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quite excellent

posted 19 years ago by t-mieczkowski
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I found this film quite excellent. I feel it's Romero's best and most "real" movie with the most heart.

[–] adamantius 19 years ago

The movie is supposedly loosely based on incidents occurring within the Society for Creative Anachronism, an international educational group that recreates aspects of medieval and Renaissance life (although they don't tilt with lances and motorcycles).

[–] thetheeyecreature 19 years ago

I've been in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) for a quarter century; we're not quite as nuts as the folks in "Knightriders", but we do have fun.

My take on the movie is that the central theme is about choosing between artistic freedom and material gain at the cost of compromising your principles. (A conflict that George Romero says he's often felt in his years of trying to make independent movies on whatever budget he can get.)

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[–] fanaticita 18 years ago

REALLY??? This is close to his best? I'm having a hard time getting through this film. It seems to be so amateur with horrible acting, except for some nice moments with Harris.

[–] poe-30 17 years ago

I really liked it as well. There's (I'm not sure if there's a word for it, bear in mind I'm not a film expert) a kind of method you see in some movies in the late sixties up to mid seventies that seems to be attempting a kind of 'natural' acting which might be what you found amateurish. People seem to talk very casually as though there's no script; sometimes the dialogue isn't very smooth. So I'm not sure if that's it or not but it struck me that way.

I really liked the way it was filmed--a good example is the transition from Angie moving a bike to a scene that is mid-fight. I also really liked the characters, the action scenes, and the story.