A Knight's Tale

[aikiMac]

I watched the DVD over the weekend for the first time. This movie rocks! I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Jousting is a wonderful spectator sport. Bless the suicidal fools who participate.

Ok, ok, I know the movie came out in '01, but I was in grad school then and not seeing many movies. I'm a little behind the times. For my mates who are also a little behind, this is a period piece (1370 AD) that incorporates classic rock music and modern speech habits in such a way that it all seems ... effortlessly natural. You'll hardly notice the transitions. They're dancing to Renaissance music, and then, hey, it's David Bowie, and it's all so natural. The opening scene is a stadium full of peasants chanting, "We will we will rock you, rock you" and doing the "wave," in such a way that it seems right for them.

And the jousting. Ooo, the jousting. And Geoffrey Chaucer's speeches. Excellent.

[Grifter]

Yea I saw this movie in theaters when it was released. Watched in many time after that to. I thought it was a excellent movie too.

[Adam]

It sucks, bigtime.

[YODA]

Awesome movie - seem it many times.

Chaucer is da bomb :D

[Greyghost]

"you have been weighed
and you have been measured
and you have been found wanting"

this film rocks.

i watch it every time its on sky movies.

[Maximicus]

Who would have thought that Medievil trumpets sounded like electric guitars?:D

[booksie_girl]

There were some fantastic lines in it, but overall, I didn't like it all that much.

[Freeform]

Super film, I must have watched 4 or 5 times by now!

"Yes, I know. I'm due a good fonging." ;)

[Knight_Errant]

Bloody marvelous film. Seen it 10 times. Somebody should revive jousting as a sport :D

[LilBunnyRabbit]

Jousting is actually still done, althoug mainly just as entertainment (not using genuine lances, etc etc). Still good fun to watch though.

[shuyun3]

Originally posted by LilBunnyRabbit
Jousting is actually still done, althoug mainly just as entertainment (not using genuine lances, etc etc). Still good fun to watch though.

Those portrayed in the movie weren't "genuine lances" either. Lances were spears.

But yup cool movie. I liked Chaucer's character a lot. and a friend of mine liked it because many of the characters were historical. And when there were mistakes in the recording of history the movie flaunted it. Not quite sure which one though.

And by the way does any one here know that the Brits are pushing for the recognition of their Medieval sword style as a legit martial art.

I've seen their manual and it shows their techniques to be a match for Kenjitsu and Arnis/Kali.

so can Lanceot beat Kenshin? probably!

[LilBunnyRabbit]

When I say not genuine in this context, I'm talking about not being the wooden ones they used (incidentally only early lances were spears, most knights would carry several of the later form, since they had a tendency to splinter after kebabing unarmoured infantry.


And by the way does any one here know that the Brits are pushing for the recognition of their Medieval sword style as a legit martial art.

I thought EMAS already had the recognition as a genuine martial art (though British fencing is technically a martial science by royal law).

[aikiMac]

Originally posted by Random_kid
Somebody should revive jousting as a sport :D
I second that motion!

Would somebody be so kind as to tell me what "fonging" means? I even looked it up in my (American) dictionary. It's not there.

[LilBunnyRabbit]

You won't find it in an English dictionary either mate.

[YODA]

Originally posted by aikiMac
I second that motion!

Would somebody be so kind as to tell me what "fonging" means? I even looked it up in my (American) dictionary. It's not there.

I could tell you - but then you'd have to be fonged for it :D

From the word "Fonge" to take between hands

[Poop-Loops]

Originally posted by Adam
It sucks, bigtime.

To the extreme!!!!111

The lance bursting apart every single time turned me off big time.

PL

[aikiMac]

Originally posted by YODA
From the word "Fonge" to take between hands
As in squeeze, throttle, choke, wring?

Is fonge a real word?

[LilBunnyRabbit]

The lance bursting apart every single time turned me off big time.

What, you mean in the way that a wooden lance does actually do when it hits a large mass of metal moving at high speeds?

[YODA]

Originally posted by aikiMac
As in squeeze, throttle, choke, wring?

Is fonge a real word?


Sure it is - FONGE away!

[morphus]

Top film - nuff said