LOTR vs. TROY/KING ARTHUR - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

***Mister Underhill*** · 02-19-2004, 09:36 AM

What's to worry about? As a fan of epic quasi-historical adventure pics, I hope they're both great.

Wolfgang Petersen is an excellent director, so I have high hopes for Troy. On the other hand, King Arthur is directed by Antoine Fuqua, a former music-video director who now makes music-video action pictures (The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun), and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, who has made a load of money, but not, frankly, by making artistically ambitious movies. So my expectations for KA are, shall we say, a bit lower.

Neither film will stir the kind of mania that LotR has. I think both projects owe more to the success of Gladiator than to the success of LotR.

02-19-2004, 09:36 AM	#2
*Mister Underhill* Dread Horseman Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Behind you! Posts: 2,744	What's to worry about? As a fan of epic quasi-historical adventure pics, I hope they're both great. Wolfgang Petersen is an excellent director, so I have high hopes for Troy. On the other hand, King Arthur is directed by Antoine Fuqua, a former music-video director who now makes music-video action pictures (The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun), and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, who has made a load of money, but not, frankly, by making artistically ambitious movies. So my expectations for KA are, shall we say, a bit lower. Neither film will stir the kind of mania that LotR has. I think both projects owe more to the success of Gladiator than to the success of LotR.