Kingdom of Heaven

yep. watched it last night. IMDB rates it really high on its charts and it had Orlando Bloom starring. plus there was nothing better to watch. Options included Chinese film, Divergence , House of Wax, something called Wet Dreams (don't even ask what that was!) .. yeah so this was the most decent sounding movie in town and we decided not to listen to the people who had seen it before, and go make our own opinions. My verdict : the movie was alright. not as fantastic as stated by some of the reviews. not over the top mind blowing stuff. not a Gladiator 2. no way! but fairly passable. you could sit inside watching it throught the 2 hour plus duration of the movie. the crusades have been depicted fairly. the muslims have not been depicted to be horrible man slaughterers like in some other movies. the Christians, they show them as the good god fearing Christians and the good blind faith believing Christians, some to the extent of being fanatics. at the end of it, there seemed to be no right or wrong. my only question being, to make truce, to come round to peace, why war in the first place? why the blood shed? why the killings? had the same realisation that struck saladin after he saw the bodies of his dead people struck him earlier, so much blood would be saved. same goes for the world scenario today. why cant we make peace with each other and live happily? peace.

p/s this movie dint particularly tug at my heart like it did for misty. may be its bcos of my non believing nature. may eb that's why i dint enjoy the warring for jerusalem so much. i found it quite pointless honestly, despite excellent visuals and dialogues. misty was so touched by the movie, she couldnt talk for an hour after it was over. may be the christian in her took over for smtime.