Druids

[Andrew]

This incoherent mess of a movie has been discussed before, but I just finished watching the thing and feel the need to vent.

My first problem was the location:  Gaul.  I know that the Druids were a Celtic religious sect, but I do not think of Gaul when I think Druids.

The second problem is that this movie is trying very, very hard to be "Braveheart."  It does not quite make the grade (not even close), but watch a couple of the scenes and try to put some bagpipes in.  Yup, it wants to be "Braveheart."

An absolutely HUGE problem was that the movie seemed to jump from major plot point to major plot point with no good reason.  Even though it was about 2 hours long, I have a feeling that 50% of this movie ended up on the cutting room floor.

Hey, were we to believe the relief army was deadlocked on who should be general for a month?  Also, the great warrior woman is stupid enough to turn her back on the Romans?

Oh, and why were all the city's women baring their breasts?  Talk about gratuitous breasts shots.

Lastly, when the movie ended, I read the text and cried out, "What was the point?"

[Gecko brothers]

Wow! I say we find the people who thought this was a good idea and choke them

[Evil Matt]

As far as the indecision on the part of the relief army goes, I can say that we had a hard enough time finding the right personnel to do inventory on our toolboxes on any given day in the motor pool at Ft. Bragg, but yeah, I kind of see your point.

[FearlessFreep]

Yeah, Christopher Lambert's last gasp to be Mel Gibson, I guess.

A lot of the whole 'Druid' backstory didn't seem to make much sense to me, or be fully thought through.

And his final plan seem fatally flawed, depending on all the armies to act united without prior evidence they could agree on what side of the plate to put the soup spoon.  Not attack without *knowing* they were not to attack.  He gave them zero strategic direction and then counted on them to do something highly counterintuitive and against their own nature

[Alex]

What do you mean, shocked by druids in Gaul?? They're as much as part of Gallic culture as the pyramids are of Egypt! Caesar and other Romans are constantly going on about them. Don't you have Asterix in the US?

[Neville]

It must be truly bad if it has Christophe Lambert as the lead and you didn't even have to criticise him in order to demolish the movie.

[FearlessFreep]

I tend to like Christopher Lambert; I usually don't critcize a movie because of his involvement and, in fact, sometimes that's the best part of the movie

[The Burgomaster]

Christopher Lambert is on my list of "Most Aggravating Actors."

[Flangepart]

Yeesh...i feel your pain, Andrew.
The thing is so...stupid! And Lambert is a glaze eyed loon through out.
Except for the breasts...well, most of them (Granny...put...the shirt...on!), there is little to redeam this travesty.
Better to read Astrex the Gaul....thats a good comic book, and its loads better then this load!

[Andrew]

I do not have any big problem with him as an actor.  He certainly was not very good in this, but I would blame the director for a great deal of that.  One thing you do not have Christopher Lambert do is yell loudly and stride around like a king.  He sounds terrible when he tries to yell, but there he is - walking on a table and yelling about only leading the people if they want him to be their king.

Bloody awful...