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One week before Uni. It’s been a while. It goes without saying that an ideal life would involve some kind of never ending switching between home and various exciting but not-too-threatening foreign locales. Still, life’s pretty good currently and if I could just motivate myself to achieve some things, that’d really help.
Has anyone seen King Arthur? Currently, Jess likes it and the rest of the world thinks it’s kind of average. Personally I think I’d enjoy a bit more myth and magic. Still, Excalibur is a hard act to follow. Have they released a good DVD of that yet?
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Jack
July 19th, 2004 at 12:29 am
Exaclibur is crap. I think you’ll find that ‘First Knight’ is almost universally accepted as the definitive version of the King Arthur tale.
You can’t seriously like Merlin, or enjoy all that excalibur mumbo jumbo. As if a lady could live in a lake. Stupid.
Jess
July 19th, 2004 at 1:54 am
Just remember that I’m so not a good person to base seeing a film off of. I like really weird films.
Though I was right about Harry Potter.
Tom
July 19th, 2004 at 3:27 pm
Jackson: You’re right, what was I thinking? How could a film without Richard Gere’s flowing brown wig possibly compare?
Jess: You’re pretty reliable normally. You knew ‘13 going on 30’ / ‘suddenly 30’ was good before you saw it. I feel you’re easily swayed by rugged men and lame romances however :)
Jess
July 19th, 2004 at 10:50 pm
Ah, and what a wonderful lame romance it is. And such wonderfully hot, foreign rugged men. Gotta love Arthur and Lancelot, and Gallahad for that matter.
Jack
July 20th, 2004 at 6:14 am
While perhaps obvious, the possibility that Richard Gere was wearing a wig hadn’t actually occured to me before just now.
I’m devastated.
Tom
July 20th, 2004 at 10:31 am
Paul McGann was wearing a wig too. And, everyone in Lord of the Rings bar one. I hope I’m not shaking your world’s foundations.
Gotta love Guinevere, in skimpy leather. But I digress. You don’t want to review this film for us do you Jess? :)
Jess
July 20th, 2004 at 11:11 am
Tom, my entire review would be about the 101 things I would love to do with King Arthur, followed by the 75 with Lancelot…so, I don’t think it would be very worthy of Grapefruits. Entertaining, but not worhty. :)
Jack
July 20th, 2004 at 1:48 pm
Don’t be silly! I’d love to read your thing Jess :) Put it up!
Tom
July 20th, 2004 at 3:11 pm
Another vote here! If it doesn’t feel like a review we can always put it into the fiction section – some erotic fiction is just what Grapefruit needs to get the hits up!
Andy
July 21st, 2004 at 12:59 am
wait, back up a moment. Surely that was Ian McKellen’s real hair?
IMDB.com doesn’t seem to have an entry for Scouring of the Shire yet. I’d better write to them about it.
Jess
July 21st, 2004 at 12:45 pm
Well, um…I’ll think about it. :o)
Shannon
July 26th, 2004 at 10:35 am
I’m trying to figure out the wigless wonder. I’ve rattled off lots of characters in my head whom it cant be… the only possibilities for non-wig-ness i can think of would be one of the girls… miranda otto perhaps, or liv tyler.. ?
Tell me, dammit. I have an annoying itch to know. Please. Pretty please.
Tom
July 27th, 2004 at 10:42 am
Ah, you’ll be upset. The wigless wonder is… one of Peter Jackson’s kids, listening to Bilbo’s story in Fellowship.
So you probably wouldn’t have gotten it. :)
Shannon
July 27th, 2004 at 2:58 pm
PffftTT!!! Why would you lay down such a hopeless challenge? There’s no way I could have gotten that! Grr..
Tom
July 29th, 2004 at 2:08 am
I never phrased it as a challenge. I take no responsibility.