Tristan and Isolde

[chthonic-gnome.livejournal.com]

Well???

Has anyone seen it yet?! I'm planning to see it on Tuesday.

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[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Nope not yet but i am planning on monday

would you like me to post some stills i have found?

[chthonic-gnome.livejournal.com]

That'd be great! :)

[scottishwitch.livejournal.com]

I just got back from seeing it, and I must say it was far better than I hoped. It was in fact good. Even my boyfriend liked it and the only reason he took me is because I payed. It was a very loose adaptation, but when a story is over one thousand years old that hardly matters. The romance was very well balanced with intrigue and violence -- a good thing in my opinion, I like my romance as much as any other girl, but I like it liberally dripping with blood. Perhaps the best part was that they had the insight to make Mark a sympathetic character -- forget the pretty Tristan, I'll take Mark, thanks all the same.

I really sympathized with Melot

[witchsmacked1.livejournal.com]

And, admittedly, I was drooling a little too. *grin*

I do like that Mark was portrayed in such a way, and how cool was it that for once, Rufus Sewell was not a bad guy? Very refreshing.

I almost did not recognize David O'Hara as Isolde's father (I can't spell worth a lick right now so I won't mutilate his name). I could not stop thinking through the whole movie about his role as Crazy Stephen in Braveheart and thinking, "Well...I guess it really *is* his island!"

Re: I really sympathized with Melot

[chthonic-gnome.livejournal.com]

Now that's a shocker...Rufus Sewell not a bad guy. Haha! I gotta see this!

[chthonic-gnome.livejournal.com]

Wow...I can't wait to see Rufus Sewell in this movie. I always love it when they portray someone as a sympathetic character. It makes the movie that much more interesting!

[volterraread.livejournal.com]

Looks like I wasn't the only one who'd take King Mark over Tristan. *grin* I liked it -- it was a darn sight better than "King Arthur" (and you have no idea how that pains me to say that for despite KA's inaccuracies, I had enjoyed it), even though it was making Mark out to be a bit of a King Arthur himself. Needless to say, the Angles and the Jutes (not to mention the Saxons) didn't give a rat's rear about the Irish raiders, so a union was unlikely in the extreme.

And I still haven't found my copy of Tristan and Isolde, so my memory of the legend is pretty vague, but it didn't end the same way, did it? -- I liked what they did with it, even though Mark came across as a bit *too* soft.

I think I'll be seeing it again -- and it's a darn sight better than Memoirs...

Saw it yesterday

[witchsmacked1.livejournal.com]

I absolutely enjoyed it. James Franco exceeded my expectations (I was a bit skeptical at first). I thought it was well done, and I can't say there was any one person that ruined the movie for me.

I am just happy to see knights, battles, horses, swords and epic romances on the big screen again. There just are not enough.

[orphic-euphoria.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to see all these good reviews here. I can't decide between seeing it versus Memoirs of a Geisha... :-/

[chthonic-gnome.livejournal.com]

Memoirs has got to be one of the best movies I've seen in quite a while...see both of them if you can!

Make it a day

[witchsmacked1.livejournal.com]

I was torn between Tristan and Isolde and Brokeback Mountain, so I saw them both.

I do want to see Memoirs, though. Looks really good.