I had no intention of viewing Romero films two weeks in a row, but Knightriders happened to catch my eye as I was browsing through the Science Fiction section of my local Hollywood Video. A movie about a traveling Renfaire on motorcycles written and directed by the father of the modern zombie? Yes please, I am a fan of the absurd, and Knightriders looked absurd enough to go beyond bad and back into good.
I will admit, I was utterly wrong in this assumption. Knightriders is not 'so bad its good.' Its just good.
Knightriders is the first movie I've seen in years to actually make me care about what happens. Its also the first movie I've seen in a similar amount of time where I didn't spend the movie operating under the assumption that good will triumph over evil, the lead male will get the girl, and everything will be happily ever after. Partly because I wasn't entirely sure who was good and who was evil. With the exception of the big city publicist. Publicists are always evil.
The movie elicits a good mix of emotionsl. I laughed, I didn't cry (but I definitely heard some heartstrings go 'twang'), I cheered, and I really hoped those stunt men were okay.
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