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Speaking of Eric Stoltz, I finally got to see the costume epic LIONHEART the other night. What an awful, inept movie. Absolutely, astonishingly bad, especially in that it was directed by the great Franklin Schaffner.
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I have the two companion valumes of the OS, though I think it's rather tedious and one of Goldsmith's lesser efforts.
A lot of the film's problems stem from Menno Meyjes's rather inept screenplay, but the direction is also quite pedestrian in terms of the way the scenes are "covered" and the bland performances the actors were allowed to give.
Since the film was financed largely out of millionaire (and ex-husband of Talia Shire) Jack Schwartzman's pocket, it's almost forgivable that the film's physical production is rather cheesy (the "castle" where the film's climax takes place looks as though it had been cobbled together from scenery flats left over from high school productions of "Camelot").
Its most correctable flaw is in the editing; were the film to be re-cut to sharpen the pace and tweak various emphases (a not-impossible task), LIONHEART would, perhaps, be a tad more watchable.
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