The Stars and the Cookie Jar

Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, they didn't have arquebuses then. And Saladin attacked the wrong wall. And it all could have been about forty minutes shorter. And WTF stop-and-go! cinematography. You can go on and make your cynical list of what was wrong with this historical epic, and be sure to mention the use of Patrick Cassidy's Vide Cor Meum, which they lifted cue for cue from Hannibal for Chrissakes, and how Jerusalem looked heckuva lot like Helm's Deep there at the end -- I'll be right there with you.

But.

Orlando Bloom did it for me in a way that Jeremy Irons and Liam Neeson did not, in this film. He was a believer -- he was damn convinced of his ideal and his duty. And that was his entire job in the film, and it worked.

Unrelated to Saracens, congratulations to sovay for her brilliant PW review. Great minds?

ETA: Thank you, Sophie, for allowing me to scratch the Hannibal quite nicely and conveniently, as my Hannibal CD somehow got a hole in it. No, I don't know.