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"If I could ask God one thing, 
it would be to stop the moon. 
Stop the moon 
and make this night
and your beauty
last forever."
 

If ever there was a movie I was glad I heard about before it totally left the theaters it's A Knight's Tale.

I was sick in late April and the first three weeks of May -- if you can imagine, I felt so horrible I barely even turned on the TV!  So there was a month long period in which I might as well have been in the middle of the ocean... actually, I watched more TV when I worked in the middle of the ocean than I did in May, but that's a different story.

I never saw a preview for A Knight's Tale.  Did not know it was a movie title, and was utterly clueless what I was looking at when I saw the bright red logo for it on the Sony site a few nights ago.  But, thankfully, there was a good website that said enough to peak my interest, and it had a link to local showtimes!

The only theater to still be showing it, in early August, was the discount cinema 8.  Okay, I sacrificed Stadium Seating, convenience (the discount cinema is so far out of town I think it may be in another town) and a few other things, but for $1.50 it's really hard to complain -- especially when you are treated to such a fun experience.

There are only a few movies that I would say are truly best seen in the theater.  It's not because the actors are lifesize (or bigger) like in the church scene where you feel as though you are peering in on two young lovers from across the aisle, but rather it is more of the jousting scenes, where you are looking over the heads of other live audience members, and cinematic audience members down into the arena!  (Gladiator is another example of creating this effect well.)  I felt as though these other moviegoers and I were in the arena!  What fun!  (And yes, I do believe the couple in front of me was chanting Ulrich at one point!)

The movie doesn't take itself too seriously -- the opening credits are accompanied by "We Will Rock You" complete with the actors stomping and clapping to the song, and yet it immediately pulls you in to see these hundreds of extras having such total fun.  You are instantly a part of the crowd, and you are ready to be entertained along with them.

I give every actor in the film credit -- never once did I see something that made my mind pull out of the movie.  They were all in character and interacting with one another so wonderfully that I was constantly being pulled further in.  (It is rare for me to come out of a theater quoting dialogue, and yet my friend and I did that for most of the ride home.  Click here to see some of the quotes that the Internet Movie Database has posted.)

This is a movie I will pick up on DVD when it comes out later this month, as it is a truly fun ride that I look forward to going on again.

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Prior to having her first novel, A Life to Di For, published author Kay Kellam enjoyed a variety of jobs that helped to shape her outlook on the world, and her profession.   more...

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