The Lost Legion

[bunn]

This movie just goes to show that a selection of excellent ideas and well known actors in an interesting setting (the fall of the child emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476) can none the less produce a truly appallingly pants film. 

Also that Ben Kingsley should under no circumstances ever EVER be allowed to try to do a Welsh accent. 

Also, that trees are so combustible, they burn immediately all over as soon as you throw fire at them!  Who knew? 

I wish I had peanuts to throw at the screen.  I feel that would help.   However, I had the lurgi today and have mostly been asleep, so it was pretty much the kind of thing I felt able to cope with... 

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

Philmophlegm alleges that the first Dungeons & Dragons movie was worse. I think he was wrong...

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

*winces at the thought of Ben Kingsley's Welsh accent*

Still, it sounds like exactly the sort of film to watch when you have a lurgi, seeing as you're feeling terrible anyway. Hope the lurgi does not linger.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

It was an epicly terrible accent (is epicly a word? It is now...) vaguely reminiscent of Fluellen the comedy Welshman in Henry V...

Feeling mostly better now though, so at least the lurgi didn't hang about (maybe it was afraid I would make it watch more terrible films if it did). Hurray!

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was Greek fire that got thrown instead of regular fire...