The Reel Rejects - KINGDOM OF HEAVEN MOVIE REVIEW – AN UNDERRATED RIDLEY SCOTT’S EPIC! - FIRST TIME WATCHING

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Starting point is 00:00:31 More on them in just a bit. Let's go to that kingdom of heaven. Citizens of Reject Nation, we just experienced. We didn't watch, we witness, we lived through the Kingdom of Heaven theatrical cut, which was what an experience. I'm having a really weird moment where I've heard only legend of the director's cut. And as we said in the intro, I love that we've only seen the abyss theatrical cut. And now likewise, I'm so glad I saw this one first because I have something really epic to look forward to and maybe even here reacting if you guys want.

Starting point is 00:01:10 But like that was so epic and that's the like shorter one. Yeah. No, I completely agree. By the way, Prepper, thank you so much for editing down this video. If you are able to watch this, it's because of Prepper and also give us five stars if you are listening on Apple or Spotify. I completely agree with you. Look, everyone that I know that's close in my personal life who adores, this movie says, you need to watch the director's cut, forget the theatrical cut. Fair enough, but obviously I don't know. Well, I can't say fair enough because I haven't seen the director's cut. I really enjoyed the theatrical cut, but I really do want to watch, and this also applies

Starting point is 00:01:46 for the Abyss as well. Yeah. I want to watch the director's cut for both these films, so I'm hoping we get the opportunity to come back for both these films to do this, but I like that we now have context to these things, and we have these scenes, and now we can see the contrast and the differences. I think, again, that made me, and I'm sure. sure I still would have loved, again, I said this on the intro, I'm sure I would have loved the Daredevil director's cut no matter what, but seeing what they did, it's like, it also shows

Starting point is 00:02:11 you like that a lot of these, a lot of these production companies, they really like, they slaughter their own film, so to speak. This didn't feel slaughtered, which is what I'm enjoying is because if I watched the other one first and then watch this, I'd be like, oh, that was missing, that was missing. Instead, I was like, we watched this with full experience. To me, this felt like a complete film. It didn't feel butchered. agree with that. The only thing I would say to that, and again, I don't know anything other than this film coming into it

Starting point is 00:02:38 other than Orlando Bloom and Ridley Scott and Harry Gregson Williams because I listened to the score so much before, because of Pandora, but I did feel the ending was a little abrupt. I thought and I understood it, but I thought that we were going to go back and we were going to take over Jerusalem in terms of Orlando Bloom,

Starting point is 00:02:54 but also I did kind of like the ending there too. Having said all that, it did not really feel as butchered either. So I'm curious because so many people have always told me director Scott forget the theatrical so again I really do want to see what the contrast and the differences

Starting point is 00:03:10 are I'm really curious but I'm not talking about the cuts because I do I do you know this movie uniquely has that hanging over it as far as like you know the differences and stuff but talking about the movie itself yeah as of this moment what's on my screen it says William Monaghan did not know this was the great William

Starting point is 00:03:26 Monaghan what yeah dude one of those writers that is just such a force of nature It totally makes sense. I kept calling out how no good the writing was. So many lines had so much resonance. So many moments had so much more to say.

Starting point is 00:03:39 But also, in addition to the writing being about great dialogue, Orlando Bloom acting the silence. Like all of the writing that wasn't dialogue writing, the writing that was the arcs and the journey and all the storytelling stuff that you need actors of this caliber to convey. I also want to give that writing, it's love. I feel like a lot of people don't. Like, you have to write silent films.

Starting point is 00:04:01 Like a lot of people don't give flowers to the narrative and the arcs and those structure things. So what William Monaghan did here, I'm like a huge departed guy, but very, very incredible. Do we think it was Ed Norton? Because I think it was. We haven't checked yet. I'm going to just go with you. I'm not a lot of times I hear someone. Sometimes I'm good at picking it.

Starting point is 00:04:20 Sometimes I'm really bad. It's the softness. There was times I'm like it does sound like Norton. I'll just go with yes. I will agree with that. We're going to find out. Oh, are we going to just look right now? I want to know, man.

Starting point is 00:04:29 It's driving me nuts. Produced by Ridley's Sky. I was going to say when we get to the IMDB. No, no, no. We need to know now. It's like we're sitting in the theater. This is the theatrical cut. I want to know theatrically.

Starting point is 00:04:39 We will see amid credits and a post credits along the way. Yeah. When, you know, the King of England comes to recruit them into his Avengers. Yes. This, by the way, also was so masterfully edited. The war scenes, the tension, what they were able to do with the production design. But that doesn't work unless the editing keeps it taught. Like this scope was insanely loved.

Starting point is 00:05:01 Costum designer also a lot of love for everything feeling so lived in. Something is going on in the background, the foreground, the foreground with the extras. Yeah. Every scene just feels. Zein casting. I recognize that name. Orlando. Orlando Bloom confirmed.

Starting point is 00:05:15 I'm so excited to find out this way. Eva Green, man. I got to imagine Liam Nees is there? He was only in the beginning, Jeremy Irons. Yeah, he had like 15 minutes of screen. I thought Jeremy Irons was coming back. Maybe that. I got to imagine Jeremy Irons and the director's cut.

Starting point is 00:05:28 I don't know if it would. I felt like he said bye, man. He was like, I'm out. I gave Jerusalem my life. And now I'm good. David Thuleas was such a scene stealer, as he always is. Brendan Glees is one of my favorite actors in the game. Martin Sokis, I definitely know, was one of those faces.

Starting point is 00:05:40 Michael Sheen. What a snively little Michael Sheen performance. Five minutes into the film. Liam Neeson gets the and. That's so the 15 minutes of screen time. He gets the pedigreed and was it him? I feel like he would have been in the open in the first names. Was that just wrong?

Starting point is 00:05:54 Kevin McKid was the guy that looked really familiar. It might not have been him. Nick Collage pre-game of Thrones. Oh, that was the. The guy that was coming to recruit him. That wasn't, all right, I was wrong. It sounded so much like him in like certain softnesses. We'll see when the cast comes up.

Starting point is 00:06:09 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But let's just, yeah, we'll lower it as we watch it come up. As we discuss. I was hoping, man. I do agree with you, though. This, again, I really enjoyed Orlando Bloom as Legolas, iconic in that role. I did like him in the first Pirates the Caribbean. I, again, was the point to dislike him in Troy, which came out a year before this. I really dislike him in that film.

Starting point is 00:06:31 He did Wolfgang and Ridley back-to-back and sword and sandal picks. Oh, really? Well, no, trolle. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry. That's a character, Wolfgang Pierce. Yeah, yeah, Wolf King Peters.

Starting point is 00:06:40 I'm so sorry. I thought you were talking about another Ridley film. No, no. But yes, you are correct. It's commendable. Yeah, for sure. Good cardio. He's like, I just want to stick in this type of war for the next couple years.

Starting point is 00:06:50 Exactly. But I really just did not know or, and I knew he's a good actor, but to go to this level of depth and range. It's just, it really showed me how nuanced he can be in his performances. And again, there were so many times, like even the first five, seven minutes of his screen time, you don't hear him say a word, he's emoting, he's expressing himself, but I knew what he was thinking at the same time. And that's a really tough thing for an actor to be able to do. And I just, I thought it was just a beautiful way to just show just who he is as a character and just connect with him.

Starting point is 00:07:23 I was immediately hooked to his character, like instantaneously in the first 10 seconds of seeing him. I knew right away he's a hardened individual. something tragic has probably befuddled him in his life. And like, once we got that dialogue explaining that, I was like, okay, yeah, but Orlando's performance in the first 30 seconds just told me all that without even needing a snippet of dialogue to tell me that. And then, you know, Greg always talks about the why and the motivation for a character. And I actually thought, like, I was, again, connected to his why.

Starting point is 00:07:55 And his whole thing was, again, his son had, you know, I forgot if they said what happened to his son. No, it was just in the therapy, he died. Yeah, yeah, okay. But then, and then obviously as a result of, I would assume depression, his wife took her own life, understandably so in that type of situation. But God does not forgive, apparently, in that situation, okay? And now, you know, he finds it in his heart that, okay,

Starting point is 00:08:23 now I have to go on this redemption type of quest so that I can, so that my wife will be, you know, okay in heaven. and that one day when I go to heaven, I will see here. And I thought that was, you know, there's something beautiful and cathartic about that for him as a character and us as the audience just watching him go through this journey. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:40 I thought there's something beautiful in that. And again, I really, really, like, I know we talked about this a few times, you and I, that the decision not to take the kingdom when he had the chance of Jerusalem, I get it. It would have been a little evil, if you will, even though this man had committed

Starting point is 00:08:59 it's so many atrocities because he's a man of conviction. He's a very noble human being. He's a man of peace. He only takes life when his life is in balance or the or lives of of innocent individuals are. But so many innocents were killed by that decision. That's why I was like, yeah, because of this,

Starting point is 00:09:16 like, innocence will be, yeah, that's why again, I won't talk about the, after, I will only say one more thing about the director's kind of. Again,

Starting point is 00:09:24 I'm curious if there's any changes because I did struggle with that a little bit too. Yeah. innocence will be taken, but again, you are on this redemptive quest, so I guess that kind of spits in the face of that and you're afraid now your wife, but also too, you said that line earlier, too, in terms of are you in hell if you are with me in my heart? So can you throw a little ladder? I mean, is there a little gray area here? I'm wondering if, like, how much of this is based on a true story and it's, and it's something that we don't have the context for about the real person. I just ordered another batch of Huell ready to drink for the office, because every

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Starting point is 00:11:34 So I think that also kind of informed my experience of judgment of him because it felt like this was a time of peace, reluctant peace, but peace because of, you know, this. And now we are still, you know, 10 generations later, people are dying still because this one guy was like, I've got this little thing, this little clause, this little morality clause. and so like I wish that felt a little more lived in and I wish that felt a little more justifiable because he's a smart enough person to know the hundreds of thousands of innocence even in his time and I know the million and I said millions during the film because I know in my head millions of lives have been caused by that decision so it was hard for me to

Starting point is 00:12:11 and then the guilt obviously that she felt Eva Green's character I feel like he should have felt more guilt like I feel like he was just like I have been somber and stoic and will continue to be like the guilt that was apparent to her, he made the decision that led to all that. So that was my struggle,

Starting point is 00:12:28 but that also is, I'm not saying that makes the movie lesser. It makes it interesting that I'm having such a hard time. Like I gave this, I think for me, this is like a four out of five star film, which is like I,

Starting point is 00:12:38 my average rating is like three and a half to four, fours on the higher side. This was so full of scope, so full of wonder, so full of awe, but I couldn't get through that choice and I love that I'm torn up by it. Like I love him,

Starting point is 00:12:52 finally got to the cast. because this movie is so epic there's all of this um it would be king right i imagine yeah let's see is it in order of appearance maybe because it looks like king baldwood edward yes you called it you called it wasn't even in the opening credits i was like it must him on one of those guys i didn't know edward nor i'm proud of that because that was a very after you said that tune i was listening very clearly and i did i turned the member and i turned you i turned you i said it does sound like ed norton it did but you call i will give you credit because right when The crow descends by Graham Reveh.

Starting point is 00:13:26 Did I call that? Nicely done. Did I call that? Do I know my music scores? Flowers for music, flowers for actor recognition. That's why we're the geek jokes. We hear sounds and we know. I know that sound.

Starting point is 00:13:38 I'm telling when I heard that score, I've listened to the Graham Revell the Crow score 10,000 times. I know that score. It's impressive. Yeah, that's why I go off my references, tangents. It's not just to sound like a know it all. It's because I know it on. I'm just kidding. But yeah, no, I do agree with you.

Starting point is 00:13:56 I would have liked to see a little more struggle in that decision because I, again, it was. Or a precedent for why he would make it so clean. Like, I liked that they set up the, uh, what's a God to a king layup of like if a king tells you to move and you don't. That is on you and your soul. I love that that was pre-established. But in the moment, that delivery of the line felt like it was serving. We need this to have been a payoff for that earlier moment. But I needed the weight of after.

Starting point is 00:14:23 made the decision or right before making the decision to feel like he recognized the scope of he's a smart of man to know what that meant yeah no i agree with you and again i feel like to your sorry play it again yeah let's watch the whole movie again yeah and i feel like to your point too i i still like seeing the the the shame of guilt from eva even uh even green yeah and again i don't know what she could have done yeah yeah and i get that but i don't know what she could have done because she tried to give it to Orlando Bloom's character. Why do I still not know his name by the way?

Starting point is 00:14:57 Baylan. Is that just, that's his name? I don't, okay. I still don't understand because if she tried to give it to Baylon and he rejected it and then what is she to do at that point because she has no choice. There has to be a king, right? So if she doesn't give it to Gee,

Starting point is 00:15:14 so. Yeah. Yeah, and again, I thought her acting was so powerful in there because I felt for her, even though she She, again, from her, my interpretation, and I think it's the obvious one, she feels guilty for everything that's happening. But I kind of wanted to see a little more struggle on, on Baylon, rather, to see that. But also, too, I wanted more justifiable reason besides the, hey, I've got this morality clause. You said, I've got my Batman.

Starting point is 00:15:38 I don't kill rule, you know, type of thing, unless I'm Michael Keaton or Ben Affleck. I wanted to see more of that. Like, this has got to be more justifiable because he's a smart enough man to know what's going to, what the consequences. the ramifications are going to be if I turn down being the king here. Like there was a reason you were chosen and there was a reason why they didn't want Guy to be because Jeremy Irons, Eva Green, and Edward Norton knew if we allow Guy and the Templars to be, we're finished, we're done. There's going to be a lot of slaughter as a result.

Starting point is 00:16:10 But also this is based on truth. So I'm curious. You can't change history. Like you can't, you know, spoilers for a movie from five years ago. You can't once upon a time in Hollywood this. Oh, what? You don't know? I haven't seen.

Starting point is 00:16:22 I'm going to react to it one day. Then I will end it there. But you can't do that. So I think there's a trickiness with doing something that's based on on true trotry without giving us a little bit more of the why. And to speak to Greg's point, like the why, the why, the why, the why. I get that this is the narrative. I just wish I'd felt the justification for his intelligence.

Starting point is 00:16:42 Yeah. Not having that. And maybe it's because of the hell thing. But like you said, she's not in hell, she's in his heart. So I kept trying to find rationales. That said, that's my only flaw is just wanting, because like, I love the mad king, Brendan Gleason, like, wanting war and like the fact that he's so evil, but they leaned into it. I loved snively boy having his reasons and his bigotry leading to, like, the decisions made.

Starting point is 00:17:04 I love the scope of like the movie opens with some fairly epicish and then it only accelerates to the point where by the end, like, I'm physically tired. And I really enjoyed the fact that I feel like I've like seen the war. Like we went out and like lived this thing. all of that is a testament to William Monaghan and Ridley Scott who like what a duo together. The fact that that's my only flaw in something of this scale and scope is commendable. Like usually in something of like, you know, the scope, a villain is too mustache twirly or not poorly enough. You've got, you know, in this case, we've got real life consequences.

Starting point is 00:17:37 To this day, you know, Muslim culture and Christianity and the things at odds in 2025. I learn nothing. As a not religious person, I struggle with understanding even those concepts. And this movie actually did a really amazing job giving my perspective its flowers and also giving credence to the people that do believe in those things. I really enjoyed the holiness versus religion concept. This film is obviously very aware of religion's flaws, but it never demonized the Christians in my opinion or the Muslims in my opinion. It made it very clear that these two were. worldviews are this is your God and God is what is bringing you.

Starting point is 00:18:19 And I personally love that the last sentence about God was from the perspective of a Muslim to a ex-Christian. The God, you know, was with you or you wouldn't still be here. How do you not see that? And he's like, you know, I just don't believe in that anymore. And they're both like peace. Like, I like that because I think that is the only hope we have as society and culture is to go like, hey, you believe that ish. You believe that is. I'm over here with my stuff. As long as it doesn't harm the other type. like I get fighting over land I get fighting over money

Starting point is 00:18:50 I think it's all dumb but at the end of the day at least those things to me my brain goes okay land is is to me non-fictional to me money is non-fictional when fighting over something that to me doesn't make any sense

Starting point is 00:19:06 I love that the film can justify that for all parties and not demonize any of them true very good points I also thought it was interesting as well how that one character, I assume he was a Templar or whoever he was in Jerusalem, very snivly type of character as well.

Starting point is 00:19:22 He really didn't learn the errors of his ways and what led to this entire mess. He kept on, you know, the guy who was like, this is blasphemy, we'll never be this. And then he always saw like the negative side and everything in terms of from, you know, the Muslims there. And it's incredible. Like, dude, look at the situation right now and look at everything that's happening. And you still have this chaotic belief in. everything that, you know, you are holier and greater than everything else around you.

Starting point is 00:19:51 And it's incredible when, you know, again, how you can't, some people just can't be humbled to see the errors of their ways. Right. Or see the forest for the trees. Like, you are having the same beliefs as them that they are wrong. Yeah. And again, I really, really did like, and I had a feeling, and maybe it was obvious or not, I don't know, but I really like that friendship that is struck and the parallels between or bail in the other guy that he let live and then

Starting point is 00:20:18 again he would you know the line that said you will see the enemies if whatever the line was is a great line of dialogue by Monaghan but I really like that friendship that even though we were on opposing sides of this war you know at the end of the day there's a mutual respect here right and

Starting point is 00:20:33 there's some some great moments there between those but also too I love the parallels that a single decision by the both of them have some dire consequences you know Obviously, you got Baylon's character having the choice to take over the kingdom. Probably going to have a lot more peace. And then you got the decision by the other guy who, again, great performance by that character.

Starting point is 00:20:55 I really was connected with him as well. But his decision to let Baylon live created a lot of mayhem and destruction for a lot of his people as well. So again, that single decision, even though they're both men of conviction, they're both noble, they're both peaceful, they only defend themselves. And when prompted, lots of consequences happen from their actions. It's just, I love that parallel. It's just really, and it was, again, it was a really unique friendship as well that I appreciated. And it's great. I loved it so much.

Starting point is 00:21:27 I also, you know, I joked, not fully joking, but I love the casting of this where nobody felt like they were out of place. I wasn't around in the 1100th. But everyone felt like it fit the world, the tone. Like, obviously the acting was great, but also just everything felt really. wonderfully authentic to the characters they were playing. And I think that's also a really essential part of if your production design is good and your costume design is good, everyone feeling of a certain way in the world. And I find that I don't, I don't feel that as often with this current era of casting.

Starting point is 00:22:01 Sometimes I'm like, that guy's got a cell phone face. Like, you know, that guy's opened an iPhone to this face. This, you know, Orlando Bloom, notwithstanding just being so pretty. But there's a, there's a Crusader era Ness. and like him in a knight's outfit didn't feel out of place and like everything felt so authentic which obviously is the Hollywood version of authentic

Starting point is 00:22:20 I wasn't again I wasn't really living in him but it felt so immersive and I really love what Ridley Scott does to make a world feel like every single detail feels like they focused, they cared about it they lived in it so I was really impressed with the nuances of the writing and the directing but also with

Starting point is 00:22:37 everyone being at the height of their powers as far as production design I love when movies build sets and when movies edit and when movies take every single thing to an 11 and this is one of those examples with the theatrical cut that I was like everything feels so like this is movie making like this is a film. No for sure.

Starting point is 00:22:56 I mean the... See why dads love it. Yeah, yeah, for sure. No, I also love the locations that they went to. Like again, like you said, we weren't around in the 1100s, but I really felt like we were in this time period just from where we shot, the scope of everything, all the extras.

Starting point is 00:23:14 I think this is one of the biggest thing I talk about. I mean, you said they probably did multiplying in terms of you can't have that many people. Well, I'm fair enough. But again, because you have so many people really there, and then if you do the multiplying thing, it still feels real. Whereas you see GI, everyone,

Starting point is 00:23:28 I get taken out of the illusion immediately, kind of going to the Hobbit, for instance, versus like Lord of the Rings. But it really had that epicness feel to it and that time period piece. And I just appreciate when films can do that. And also the battles, too. I mean, again, we're so emotionally invested in the characters.

Starting point is 00:23:45 Now we got action drama, but it too, it's so visceral. Every hit you just really feel. Like, I don't imagine what it must have felt like in the theaters when people are watching this. So, like, it's absolutely epic. I'm hoping and knowing Christopher Nolan, it's going to have that same type of feel when we see the Odyssey. Yeah, I'm obviously to the Odyssey. Oh, I can't wait. I max.

Starting point is 00:24:06 I'm seeing it every time. I'm probably going to see it three or four times a minimum, but every time. I'm going to hunt it down. Oh, yeah, for sure. Really quick. Should we do a little? Let's do some trivia. Yeah, but hold on.

Starting point is 00:24:16 I want to do one thing before we get into trivia. I want to see what this got, budget-wise, and also I want to see what it got box office and see if you can get that. I'll get box office if you want to get trivia. Well, no, you're the one guessing, so I got to do it for you. Oh, oh, I can't look. You cannot look. You cannot look.

Starting point is 00:24:35 Kingdom of heaven. Kingdom of heaven. Budget. And also rotten tomatoes, I will look up for us. All right. So what do you think the budget of the film was? Okay. This was 20 years ago, 2005.

Starting point is 00:24:49 We didn't make $250 million movies then, and also money was worth way more. So I'm going to say not adjusted for inflation, $200 million. $130 to 135, no. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to do adjusted for inflation. I'm curious what that's today. What is 135 mil?

Starting point is 00:25:14 From 2005. 2005. Adjusted. Adjusted. All right. Rividing math, guys. Is equivalent to $221 million today. Okay.

Starting point is 00:25:26 Yeah. And what did you say originally? I said, I bet it's about $200 million. Okay. So my math was, I wasn't as good at inflation math, but it felt like a $200 million movie. Yeah. And then so for box office worldwide, we're not doing domestic or

Starting point is 00:25:40 International Worldwide. Worldwide. 480. I wish. 2.18. All right. Let's go to rotten. This movie lost so much money with marketing. Yeah. Let's go to Rotten Tomatoes.

Starting point is 00:25:52 Let's go to critics first. Critics. This is the theatrical cut, not the drivers. Oh, 81. 39. Yeah, that's shocking. This got a 39%? 39. Audience.

Starting point is 00:26:06 71. Woo. Hey, 72. You were right on. that one. Yeah. Right on that one. This got ripped apart. They ripped. Wow. All right. From what I was told from a couple people about the director's cut, if that would have been the cut that was originally chosen, it would have

Starting point is 00:26:25 been nominated for Academy Awards. That's what I was told. Guys, comment. You want us to watch that one? No, seriously, we want to watch the director's cut, and I'm sure there's going to be littered comments. You should have watched the director's cut. This was a conscious choice. We wanted to. to do theatrical first so we can eventually get to the director's cut. We can add down some truth. Yes, exactly.

Starting point is 00:26:46 We want to do the director's cut. Let it, but you got to let us know. Sir Ridley Scott disowned the theatrical cut. He claims that the director's cut is the definitive version. There you go. All right, there it is. Edward Norton was briefly considered for the role of Guy, but upon reading the script, he lobbied for the role of King Baldwin because the king

Starting point is 00:27:06 appears behind a mask. He requested not to be credited, however, his His name was put back in the video releases of the film. That means when you see the theatrical, imagine if we were saying that the era of like, wait, where's the King Baldwin? That's so bad ass to not want to be credited.

Starting point is 00:27:22 To be such a geez, an actor like, I am masked and never revealed. And then not the Christ. And then because when you see the face, the makeup, it's like we can't tell. That's so sick.

Starting point is 00:27:30 In real life, Baylon of Ibaylan, Ibala. Yeah. Was a legitimate nobleman born in the kingdom of Jerusalem. Yeah. So that was true. Yeah,

Starting point is 00:27:40 I'm not reading. That's a lot. Yeah, we'll be here for like two hours. I'll just do like two or three more. The flat, I won't go to the spoilers in case that reveals anything from the director's cut. So we'll avoid spoilers today. We'll do two more. The flag budget for the film was 250,000.

Starting point is 00:27:58 In total, 1,200 flags compromising 650 separate designs were made in Spain, England, Morocco, and India. That's incredible. I wonder what those flags are now. If those, like, museums with, well, this movie didn't do well, so maybe Yeah. U.S. box office returns were disappointing. The film did better in Europe and was a huge success in the Arab world, particularly Egypt. Okay. After being cast in the role of Godfrey, Liam Neeson realized he knew nothing about the Crusades

Starting point is 00:28:30 and began his research with The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades by Paul L. Williams, a book Neeson calls extremely informative. That's fantastic. And then to what you said. said earlier, Orlando Bloom had just completed filming Troy in 2004 when he received this screenplay for Kingdom of Heaven and was initially reluctant to even read the script for another historical epic. Knowing it was being put together by Sir Ridley Scott convinced him to give it a shot. I don't blame. Oh, man.

Starting point is 00:29:01 Well, I wish they had released the other cut, but I liked this one way more than 30%. I gave us 4 and 5. Yeah, oh, definitely better than 29. But again, I'm curious when we eventually get to the director's cut, and we will. Don't worry, guys. I'm curious to see what we're going to think of the theatrical as well. It's going to be fun. And the same with the BIS.

Starting point is 00:29:16 I'm curious what we're going to think. Because I'm going to rewatch both the night before we do the directors and the night for both the abyss and this. Oh, wow. I will watch the theatrical cut just so we can go. Oh, I'm going to go the other way. I'm not going to watch these again until I watch the. Oh, so you'll see the, you'll watch the director and then you'll watch the theatrical. No, no, I'm not.

Starting point is 00:29:36 This will be the only time I see Kingdom of Heaven until we watch the. Okay. we'll have a talk for it. Maybe I won't do that. But I think it'd be interesting to compare it because you'll have a recency and I'll have distance. Okay. Maybe that is the way to do it. Comment below, you lovelies.

Starting point is 00:29:49 That is going to do it for Kingdom of Heaven, a movie that deserves much more love, this version. And I cannot wait to know sometime in the future. What the other version holds? Please let us know in the comments below what you thought of this experience. Please like this video. And please subscribe for now already. It's crazy for now. You're watching the end of the video.

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