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A Knight's Tale
2001 · Film · 133 min
Directed by Brian Helgeland
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.
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I liked the movie a lot. It felt like a fresh, original entry in the genre of comedy fantasy, next to beloved entries like The Princess Bride, Ladyhawk, A Knight's Tale, and Shrek. It was well-written and directed, even if some of the action sequences (e.g. the dragon cave) were a bit tropey.
They should have called it something else. There's clearly a market for fantasy, as has been seen with the popularity of Netflix's Witcher series (which treads very similar ground), but the Dungeons and Dragons brand has been thoroughly devalued over the years, and doesn't have the same kind of mass-market appeal.
Does this story remind anyone else of David Manning?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning_(fictitious_writer)
Cause he was a fake 'expert' meant to shill products too. In that case, a fake movie critic created by Sony to sell its worst movies.
As it turned out, misleading customers that way was illegal, and hence as mentioned on the wiki page:
> On August 3, 2005, Sony made an out-of-court settlement and agreed to refund $5 each to dissatisfied customers who saw Hollow Man, The Animal, The Patriot, A Knight's Tale, or Vertical Limit in American theatres, as a result of Manning's reviews.
Wonder if something similar could happen here?
A Knight's Tale can be streamed on:
* HitBliss
* XFINITY Streampix
It's available for digital rental on:
* Amazon
* iTunes
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* HitBliss
It's available for digital purchase on:
* Amazon
* iTunes
* Google Play
* Vudu
* Redbox Instant
It's available On-Demand with an Encore subscription.
There's no ethical reason to pirate this movie in the US. "Cannot watch it now without paying for it" is NOT the same as "cannot get streaming".
All of them.
Try watching A Knight's Tale on Netflix streaming. It is an average movie from over a decade ago.
There are a ton of average movies from 3+ years ago that I cannot get streaming, that was just the first one that came to mind. So please, please stop using such arguments when 25% of the time I can't find the movie streaming when I look for it.
EDIT: I probably should add they also revoke access [e.g. the Disney Christmas movie story from a week ago] to stuff that was specifically purchased, not merely bundled with a streaming service. So, as a group, they are pretty uncooperative because they don't want to have to follow the radio model of pricing/licensing which is what they should be doing [especially for movies over a decade old!]