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redfiona99The case for the prosecution:
Given that I said The Punisher wasn't too grimdark, I probably shouldn't be allowed to complain that Solomon Kane was too grimdark. But it is. The nice characters exist only, and obviously only, to suffer horribly. All is mud and pain. Admittedly, this does lead to the scene were Kane uncrucifies himself to rescue someone which is awesome, but it does mean it's a hard slog of a film.
The scene itself:
Is on Youtube for once.
Why the scene is so good:
The reason I love this is it's James Purefoy does one of the best bits of terrified I have ever seen, especially as he's working against a green screen and only a green screen for most of it. It's damn good acting!
The CGI is a bit ishy, but the acting isn't. Which is pretty much true of the rest of the films too. The acting is the best bit of the film. Which might be why it feels so bad when terrible things happen to everybody.
The scene sets up the problem with the ending, that if evil hadn't informed Kane that they were after his soul, he wouldn't have repented and then they would have got it, but evil has to be hoisted on its own petard and I can cope with that.
The scene also showcases the best bits of the film, which is the set design. Everything is well done and horribly plausible, especially the honest West Country mud which covers most of the rest of the film.
Given that I said The Punisher wasn't too grimdark, I probably shouldn't be allowed to complain that Solomon Kane was too grimdark. But it is. The nice characters exist only, and obviously only, to suffer horribly. All is mud and pain. Admittedly, this does lead to the scene were Kane uncrucifies himself to rescue someone which is awesome, but it does mean it's a hard slog of a film.
The scene itself:
Is on Youtube for once.
Why the scene is so good:
The reason I love this is it's James Purefoy does one of the best bits of terrified I have ever seen, especially as he's working against a green screen and only a green screen for most of it. It's damn good acting!
The CGI is a bit ishy, but the acting isn't. Which is pretty much true of the rest of the films too. The acting is the best bit of the film. Which might be why it feels so bad when terrible things happen to everybody.
The scene sets up the problem with the ending, that if evil hadn't informed Kane that they were after his soul, he wouldn't have repented and then they would have got it, but evil has to be hoisted on its own petard and I can cope with that.
The scene also showcases the best bits of the film, which is the set design. Everything is well done and horribly plausible, especially the honest West Country mud which covers most of the rest of the film.
