{"id":30,"date":"2006-05-24T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/30"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:27:04","slug":"kingdom-of-heaven-2005-ridley-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/30","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom of Heaven (2005, Ridley Scott)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extended director&#8217;s cut!  I didn&#8217;t start out paying too much attention, and I ended up paying even less attention, after less than halfway through I decided the movie definitely sucked.  Performances fine, cinematography fine, story even fine, but screenplay silly and overall kinda crappy.  Full of those <em>Gangs of New York<\/em> &#8220;blood stays on the blade&#8221; recurring moments of extreme character poignancy that mean very little to us, the audience.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m not sure that it even matters, but Orlando Bloom is a blacksmith whose wife killed herself after their kid&#8230; died&#8230; somehow.  Liam Neeson rides by, claiming to be Orlando&#8217;s dad I think.  Orlando doesn&#8217;t want to go with him on a crusade to redeem his wife&#8217;s unholy death, but after killing his assistant and burning down his own shop, he decides maybe he&#8217;d better.  Neeson dies soon, I&#8217;d venture.  Orlando hits Jerusalem, where mighty king Ed Norton in a fancy leper-mask is always being betrayed by evil &#038; scarred Jeremy Irons.  Orlando is maybe in love with Norton&#8217;s sister, then I stopped caring at all and a whole lotta shit I already don&#8217;t remember happens.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; from the writer of Martin Scorsese&#8217;s very star-studded <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/179\">Infernal Affairs remake<\/a>.  And the director of <em>Gladiator<\/em>, I should&#8217;ve remembered.  Katy didn&#8217;t like it either, to say the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extended director&#8217;s cut! I didn&#8217;t start out paying too much attention, and I ended up paying even less attention, after less than halfway through I decided the movie definitely sucked. Performances fine, cinematography fine, story even fine, but screenplay silly and overall kinda crappy. Full of those Gangs of New York &#8220;blood stays on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,723],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-ridley-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}