All the Commotion Provokes a Bullsnake
Ooooh glory, Ring of the Nibelungs is painful to watch. It's painful because there are good qualities to it that lull you into complacency and then it just SPRINGS some awfulness on you, generally in the form of the guy playing Siegfried. I've seen Benno Furmann in stuff before and never thought he was glaringly bad, but between the awful, awful hair and the inane smile and the halting accent (when everyone else has British accents) I was almost immediately ready to wash my hands of him. Death to that hair though. Even Robert Pattinson's mullet was mocking that awkward mop.
Yet there was some stuff I liked about it too. The music was actually rather good. Sam West looked younger and handsomer than I'd seen him in a while. Robert Pattinson, for all his awkward mullet, was rather likable and sweet, and was rosy cheeked and bright eyed enough to make me want to get a time machine to warn him of things to come. Even Kristanna Loken didn't make me want to punch her as normal.
So you had an unholy combination of some good acting, some pretty sets and some awful acting and plodding action. The Nibelungs is a hard legend to transfer anyway considering there's a certain roughness to Norse legends doesn't seem to translate well to modern film. People tend to not like movies with heroes who are sort of jerks and where everyone dies in the end.
So, here's Robert without the mullet, just to end the post on a better note.
Yet there was some stuff I liked about it too. The music was actually rather good. Sam West looked younger and handsomer than I'd seen him in a while. Robert Pattinson, for all his awkward mullet, was rather likable and sweet, and was rosy cheeked and bright eyed enough to make me want to get a time machine to warn him of things to come. Even Kristanna Loken didn't make me want to punch her as normal.
So you had an unholy combination of some good acting, some pretty sets and some awful acting and plodding action. The Nibelungs is a hard legend to transfer anyway considering there's a certain roughness to Norse legends doesn't seem to translate well to modern film. People tend to not like movies with heroes who are sort of jerks and where everyone dies in the end.
So, here's Robert without the mullet, just to end the post on a better note.