>Most faithful adaption of the King Arthur story in film >no stupid talking dragon >Dragon is actually the spirit and magic of the land >All the important characters such as Lancelot and Merlin are in it >Top-tier and slightly over the top acting that fits the mood of the film perfectly >Proudly displays masculine virtues like honor, strength, and wisdom >Scenes that show man at his most primitive and then how they rise up with the rule of King Arthur to make it the time of Man instead of Gods >Beautiful imagery with vibrant colors that aren't too in your face about it >Using O Fortuna in film way before it was ever a thing
I don't know OP. Today, special effects make the movie. I got my qt friend to watch Excalibur with me but she found it old and boring, much like myself.
Ryan White
I avoid Boorman like the plague.
Owen Sanchez
>I got my qt friend to watch Excalibur
Women will never understand movies like this and especially scenes like this
Hell in the Pacific and Point Blank are certified kino
One of the best Arthurian adaptations is a French comedy called Kaamelott, are any Britfags familiar with it? Started as low-budget 5 minutes Monty Python-like comedy skits with a fixed camera and low on plot, but became so popular it kept evolving to 30-min then full-blown hour-long drama dealing with Arthur's fall. There's a prequel season set during Arthur's youth in the Roman Empire, which reuses HBO's Rome sets. All written, directed, scored and starring by the same guy. He's now working on a big budget movie trilogy to finish his story.
Jeremiah Carter
I watched it for the first time last week actually. It was great. I liked how the movie didn't insult my intelligence with "10 years later" captions whenever there was a time jump.
Isaac Richardson
I dunno. I liked Camelot better.
Jason Cooper
how many dicks have you sucked this week faggot?
Jason Cruz
Whenever this came on TV, I had to watch it. It was one of those kinds of films.
Noah Lewis
What's wrong with musicals?
Oliver Turner
just go back to sucking dick user.
Daniel Rodriguez
I have, and it's great The movie does a phenomenal job of showing magic and mysticism without having it be overblown and in your face, it's just sort of a tone that permeates the whole movie
Isaiah Collins
>Proudly displays masculine virtues like honor, strength, and wisdom This has to be the most unintentionally hilarious and retarded talking point on the entire fucking board. You cant seriously be watching a movie and think to yourself, "woah so masculine! AWESOME!" lmao
Benjamin Bennett
Are you slow or something? Are you trying to say that the film is not at least trying to display these traits?
Jayden Scott
No, I think its stupid that someone would value those traits representation as such a good thing it needs to be pointed out. It sounds like something a closet gay man would say without realizing he's giving himself away
Asher Wood
Spotted the Disney-watching numale.
Ryder Smith
>tips reddit
Alexander Foster
Compared to watching a movie nowadays and thinking "what a faggot, or what a gay thing to do" yes.
Julian Hill
Perhaps you can rally against the evils of toxic masculinity back on tumblr.
Tyler Kelly
It is a good thing to be pointed out because men`s behaviour is many films today is unnatural and femenine. The fact that you find it weird just shows how much brainwashed you are.
Michael Perez
I have 2 copies of this movie for myself because my mom keeps accidentally rebuying it for herself and sends me the extras. I have still never watched it
Thomas Myers
So what you're trying to say is you are a homosexual man and feel the need to point out when someone says something positive about male attributes that he is being gay so people do not suspect you of being an ass bandit?
Because if that's not the case then you're just a retard.
Cooper Evans
I can see that, but I try to form my opinions and not conform to what anonymous people tell me I should be valuing in a film. Part of why its so funny is because I can picture people praising masculinity (praising masculinity, kek) only because they know it conforms to like minded people on Sup Forums. Like how people didn't criticize certain movies heavily until there was daily HAHAHA threads telling them to.
Not responding to shitposters above.
I am an openly homosexual man
Ryan Jenkins
Lancelot is a french fanfic character who should be removed
Brayden Young
I understand.
You are confusing your lust for man ass with the common themes of medieval and fantasy narratives, and think that there is something weird and out of place about it.
Try putting yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't want to suck golf balls out of garden hoses and consider how these traits in a platonic relationship between men and how they can be appreciated.
Kayden Jenkins
For fucks sake the film is based on the French fanfiction.
Then it can't be the "Most faithful adaption of the King Arthur story in film" can it (protip: none of them are accurate)? It just happens to be the best King Arthur movie
Matthew Russell
Go fuck your sheep you hairyass Welsh savage
Asher Evans
No one cares about most faithful, although this is still the most faithful adaptation while also being the best. Most Arthurian movies are pretty shit.
Ethan Scott
t. Nouveau-Algerie
Ryder Cruz
what was King Arthurs tax policy?
Blake Bennett
Well he was a feudal lord who had to maintain an extravagant lifestyle so he probably taxed the lesser gentry for grain and other products, the gentry in turn taxed the peasants.
Sebastian Sanders
Underrated Kek
Nathaniel Murphy
I agree, you are definitely old and boring.
Daniel Nguyen
I have and its just the way magic should be depicted in films. Not cgi light show but something wrapped in mysticism and unknown
Colton Turner
wtf then Dont you think their characters are manly? Or you dont think that is a positive thing to be shown on film?.
While the former is objectively true the latter could be your preference for being a numale homo.
>Dragon is actually the spirit and magic of the land. Thats the gayest shit ive ever heard. Who thought that up? A fucking twink?
Also fantasy as a genre cannot be masculine. It is inherently by its nature an escapist excercise. Why dont you watch a real, life affirming film if you want to be honourablr or wise. Or better yet live real life you resentiment filled faggot
Noah Lopez
Lovely looking and shot film.
Gavin Johnson
Oh shut up you soppy tart.
John Lewis
>ranting about honor and wisdom >Nietzsche
Nihilism is without a doubt the philosophy of cowards and degenerates without propriety.
Easton Wood
Man i love it when plebs comment on shit they have no clue about
>>Most faithful adaption of the King Arthur story in film Disagree. Go see the french 2h long Lancelot du Lac. It's the closest to the original source I have seen so far. If you d'on't speak french, then that's a shame really. Excalibur is Excalibur, a movie about sword: starts when Merlin gives it to Uther, ends when it is discarded into the water. Not much similar to its source, Le morte d'Arthur, thought. >>All the important characters such as Lancelot and Merlin are in it NO GIRFLET NO SEE. >>Top-tier and slightly over the top acting that fits the mood of the film perfectly Just like muh books! :') >>Scenes that show man at his most primitive and then how they rise up with the rule of King Arthur to make it the time of Man instead of Gods More like the time of nobility and courtenousness instead of barbary and dishonour. >>Using O Fortuna in film way before it was ever a thing The symphony uses as its basis a poem from the middle ages, so it's only fitting.
Zachary Taylor
>heh... time to show these Sup Forums nerds how much of a mans man i am...
Evan Gomez
Death of Arthur is THE Arthur tale, you can't get more authentic than that.
Michael White
>What is the Mabinogion?
Gabriel Taylor
Absolutely fucking dreadful, as expected of the Welsh. Utterly devoid of beauty or wonder and full of more moronic over the top feats of stupidity that even the Greeks would consider this shit too far fetched.
Ethan Cooper
>its a tv pretends a bad movie is good episode
you fuckers tricked me with BvS and MoS. and you recently tricked me with this movie. I sincerely went into Excalibur wanting to like it. The poster, the practical effects, everything looked fantastic. I forced myself to watch 45 minutes before I gave up and accepted it for what it was; A boring, dated, ugly, piece of shit with dreadful hammy acting, cringe worthy dialogue, awfuk pacing, and a story that is virtually no existant.
Ryder Thomas
Then what about Historia Regum Britanniae? It's got Merlin and everything
Leo Collins
Dumb frogposter.
Evan Watson
And don't forget
>contains a very hot sex scene featuring the director's own daughter
Connor Collins
Agreed.
Ian Sullivan
That's fine, and obviously it was probably the most historically significant work since it kind of launched Arthur and Merlin into the popular imagination, but Geoffrey kinda wrote Arthur like a tyrant who delighted in terrorizing Europe for some reason.
Dominic Thomas
Also Helen Mirren, Patrick Stewart and a relatively young Liam Neeson
Aiden Hernandez
She was hotter in Caligula
Blake Foster
>lmao nice b8
Jordan Kelly
Arthur wasn't feudal, he lived in a period before feudalism and was a wealthy land owner himself, so he probably didn't levy taxes of any kind.
Lucas Cook
Excalibur is the best fantasy movie I've ever seen. Lord of the Rings got nothing on it, it didn't even have magic rape.
Ethan Campbell
>much like myself
It's your fault for being old and boring .
Connor Morgan
Lame. If you had watched it and hated it I could respect that.
I thought this movie was decent. Certainly the least absurd sword/sorcery movie of the time.
Anaal Nakrath!
Matthew Wright
Life affirming film? You mean like Garfield?
Carter Young
>that fight with lancelot >Arthur's face when he says "I'm nothing" Great movie.
Camden Torres
>bloom lighting on the swords and armor
Please, stop. My dick can only get so erect.
Gavin Gomez
*blocks your path*
Alexander Sanders
It has to be seen to be believed.
Andrew Taylor
I hate talking about Excalibur because nobody seems to get that the first 1/3 of the movie is cheesy and hammy on purpose and write it off immediately after.
John Boorman is a genius and his masterful understanding of narrative progression and tone has yet to be rivalled in a mainstream film.
Andrew Mitchell
>shiggy diggy may I use for educational use?
Liam Morris
>still no tv series of the warlord chronicles
It would have been hundred times more interesting than the same old knights in shining armor type arthurian story.
Charles Sanders
What level do you have to be to get armor like that?
Jace Richardson
It's not a faithful retelling, but it's not meant to be. It examines Arthurian myth through the lens of Jungian ideas and themes. Honestly, that's what gives it its dream-like quality and what sets it apart from other fantasy movies in general and Arthur movies in particular.
It's a great movie, not disagreeing there, but its just false to call it a faithful adaptation.
Logan Stewart
Watched half an hour or so and acting felt very unnatural. The atmosphere is very otherworldly and acting kind of adds to it but the way the story itself is told falls flat for me. There is definitely a lot of value in this movie, especially as far as visual aesthetics is concerned, but right now i can't say it's a good movie. Hopefully someday I will find myself wrong.
Caleb Mitchell
>Also fantasy as a genre cannot be masculine Pic related would like a word with you
Ryder Murphy
I did. Well, I watched the superior remake. Great film. I never understood the hate Zack Snyder gets
Brayden Thomas
Funniest post I read in a while. Thank you.
Gavin Miller
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Colton Turner
capeshit of its time
Cameron Rivera
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Gavin Foster
Kaamelott is top tier comedy. i pity anyone who doesnt speak french for missing out on this.
Owen Evans
So did I, Most likely.
Jeremiah Wood
truly GOAT.
Eli Rodriguez
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Angel Davis
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Christopher Perry
One of My favorite visuals.
Jason Price
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Samuel Rogers
Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson had been former lovers but had a tremendously bitter break up after they starred together in Hamlet. When they were shooting Excalibur she was in a relationship with Liam Neeson.