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Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (2016)
What were they thinking?
Is someone getting paid to come up with ideas like this? Surely, over a coffee the stupidity of the idea might have sunk in?
I one good piece of news is that there won't be a second series...Because, someone had to pay for this and now they've seen where their money has gone.
Perhaps in the future they could ask some tramp in the street for ideas, surely that's cheaper than paying the morons who conceived this?
There doesn't seem to be a plot. The actors clearly know the script is poor and when not speaking just mill around a lot. CGI is OKish (should be better).
Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion (2015)
Just dreadful...
Rarely are low budget films great...but sometimes they can be good. This offering is neither.
A script that was surely written by an able 10 year old, acting that will embarrass the actors for years to come and locations chosen by a blind illiterate moron with no sense of History or Geography. Where are the bloody mountains in Northern France? What were they thinking...Or were they?
(Just watched Vikings Season 4. They sail up the Seine and haul their longboats up cliffs and then pull them over 'the mountains' - WHAT cliffs, WHAT mountains!)
I managed just under 30 mins. There is a simple obvious rule. If you have a low budget, stick to themes that you can afford. Mass battle scenes are clearly out. Spend the money on the script...Or did the actors just make it up as they went along?
They did manage to save some money by not having a Director, well it appears that way.
All in all - a shame. A great idea for a movie...It just needed a budget, a director, a script, actors and basic intelligence choosing locations.