It became blatently obvious when I looked at the trailer for this film, that I haven't been to see an action/boy movie in ages. When Alex offered me to hop along with him, Paul and Sian I had noo idea what this film was.
I got linked to the trailer, which, in all fairness looks pretty solid as far as trailers go. Made by the same people as Conan (so I'm told) I was naturally excited.
Over the road the 30 seconds to mars gig was settling a might queue around both sides of the local arena. Seriously are they that big? They're kind of irritating. Naturally thanks to all the parents waiting for their kids to come out of the gig, there was no parking spaces. Apart from my completely illegal, after hours, pavement spot that Alex took great pride in occupying.
We got Large popcorn and drink (coke freakin' zero because Fanta is NOT vegan :( ) and headed in. The screen was actually full, which hasn't happened since the midnight showing of New Moon.
Luckily we got saved prime spots!
So the film started pretty well. Action - cheesey taglines - death - destruction, pretty much what you'd expect. Nice and loud. Then off into the story line. Again, what you'd expect - although the near turning of Kane into a peace ridden hippy was not cool. I didn't come to see no peace (yeah sometimes I like a bit of brutality - just the fake kind). But thankfully all faith was restored. Some parts were ludicrously hilarious. Really, I wish I could remember, but we couldn't help but mutter alternative ends to sentances that had that, y'know, false, "dramatic" pause. Again, I had guessed the 'twist' from about a 1/4 of the way in, so everything else was just being scrutinized. Especially the part where Meredith had made Kane new clothes. INCLUDING a snazzy leather jacket (check topshop).
The other hilarity was the religious propaganda. The film was obviously made by a Christian/fantasy fanatic and it clearly shows in the film. Using God as the 'saviour' for those who deserve to be redeemed for their evil sins and making worth life of those who are "good souls". It's probably unfair to call it propaganda seens as the film is based on a book/graphic novel of some kind. Probably the same era as The Crucible. Although, Christians were painted pretty badly there too.
In all honesty, the film isn't so bad. It is one of those films we love cause they're slightly laughable. The creature at the end though. OH GOD. Awful.
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The film was based on the work of Robert E. Howard, though really, the only similarities it has with the film was that Kane was a swordsman born in Devon who lived in Elizabethan times... and that's it. Just about everything else was made up by the director Michael J. Bassett, including the bit at the end. Weirdly enough, Bassett's an atheist.
ReplyDeleteI read that somewhere about how the character is nothing like that of Soloman Kane from the book.
ReplyDeleteAhh, it's clearly part of the books history in which case. But at most points christianity was brought in as the 'saviour' and all the Jesus references were getting irritating. Especially the crucifix part.