See above. Oh dear. Dear oh dear oh dear. Where do we start? This production at the RSC is most notable, of course, for the fact that it’s using archery on the poster. I mean, archery is relatively incidental in Peter Pan (apart from Tootles). Clearly, this Wendy Darling-focused production is going to show her … Continue reading bad archery pt. zzzzzz
Well, the DVD of Catching Fire is coming out, and I took this picture of one of the posters on the London Underground: …and she’s still doing that looping-her-finger-round-the-arrow thing in the publicity shot. Ouch. Of course, in the actual filming almost all the arrows are CGI’d on afterwards, because it’s too dangerous to actually … Continue reading oh, katniss
Imagine my joy and surprise on picking up crappy London freesheet newspaper the Metro this morning and finding this headline: Unfortunately when I got to the actual copy all I got was this: BOOO! Still Knightley has several bits of form here – she flung some sticks (not in this clip) in King … Continue reading “I’m good with a bow and arrow”
A man after my own heart. Nikolas Lloyd on YouTube has produced an entire video detailing the bad archery, terrible combat strategies, and nitpicky errors in the 2003 miniseries Helen Of Troy. Regular readers of The Infinite Curve will note that I have frequently picked up on ‘bad archery’ in the media, e.g. here, here, … Continue reading bad archery über alles
This ad apparently came out last year, but I saw it run on some godforsaken digital channel only last night. Strongbow are a cider brand that have long used archery in their advertising, although I don’t remember it being quite as explicit as this. So we have: sight set too high for 60m (or whatever … Continue reading more terrible archery
Oh, Jesus. How many different kinds of wrong can YOU spot? [bangs head against wall in frustration] Continue reading archery FAIL pt.252
There’s a vastly expensive new BBC fantasy drama series called Atlantis premiering worldwide soon, keen to surf on the Game Of Thrones wave, I’m guessing. I don’t know what the budget was, but by the look of the six-second trailer they’ve released, there wasn’t any money left for an archery coach, naturally… (thanks to @SSigurnjak) … Continue reading people shooting badly pt. 262
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