I'm confused. Did anyone understand anything that went on in this movie?
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j_money77 — 14 years ago(April 29, 2011 06:49 PM)
Are you MAD?!?!?!
THE ALLIENSHHHHH!!!!!!!!
I think your hatred of the movie is a bit hyperbolic but I understand where you are coming from sfla.
The acting is purposely eccentric, but it is a ploy that I think makes the movie comical in spots where it wasn't intended to be; I disagree strongly with you about the "cheap b grade footage" remark. While some of the sets are dated and very cheap (the cave where Morgan La Fey entraps Merlin for instance, which Boorman himself said was embarassing on the commentary) but a lot of the landscape footage is well shot. The knights armor is a nice detail too, when they are fighting they aren't running swiftly, but are realistically weighed down by their enormous armor.
I don't hate this movie, but don't revere it, it seems it is polarizing around here, people either damn it to hell or praise it like it's on a level with 2001 or Ikiru. I'm just inbetween, I like it actually, but can laugh at its foolishness. -
jh66 — 14 years ago(May 03, 2011 10:39 AM)
"Utherdon'tlethimtakethechiiiild!"
Classic argument for not casting one's own talentless daughter?
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jh66 — 14 years ago(May 04, 2011 10:23 AM)
Her crowning achievement?
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jh66 — 14 years ago(May 05, 2011 07:21 AM)
Uther: Have you seen Merlin?
Knight: I HAVENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN'T!
Ouch- cr4p acting or what?
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Caractacus23 — 14 years ago(June 12, 2011 12:14 AM)
"Knight: I HAVENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN'T!"
I just finished this movie about an hour ago, and I have no idea what you're talking about. I mean titerally, no idea. You see, when you put the word "haven't" in all-caps, and then add fifteen additional letter "N"s, it doesn't tell us anything about the way the word was pronounced. How do sixteen "N"s sound different from one? They don't. -
sfla — 14 years ago(January 07, 2012 06:48 PM)
On the contrary it seems perfectly clear what the capitalised and repeated 'N's represent. It represents the absurd, unrealistic and generally terrible voice acting throughout the entire movie. But in this case, more specifically the completely appallingly unfitting response that the Knight gave. He SCREAMED his response to a normal question, and elongated the word, in particular the "N".
This is exactly the kind of rubbish I'm talking about in this movie. Why do they scream? It's utter garbage. -
pol-edra — 13 years ago(February 05, 2013 06:05 AM)
What period is that? The movie isn't set in any particular year, it is the adaptation of a legend, of a story that never happened at any place in history to begin with. Malory never says when it happened either, there are only a few circumstancial pieces of evidence (in the time of the emperor Leo etc) that don't make sense historically speaking. Filmmakers and costume designers who bring legends to a screen have every right to chose the most unhistorical costumes, armour and weaponry they like.
Of course it would be entirely different if the movie wanted to be a "historical Arthur" movie, but you're on the wrong board for that; I think you should direct your criticism at King Arthur 2004.
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pol-edra — 9 years ago(December 14, 2016 10:28 PM)
You're partly right, but not entirely. The armour and costume of legendary characters in medieval art is rather a maxture of contemporary elements and fantasy elements, inspired by Ancient Times and the Orient (or what the artist identified as ancient or oriental rather). From that POV, a modern Arthur should wear a mxture of fatigues and I don't know, a lightsaber? Actually I'd watch that
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jh66 — 14 years ago(May 06, 2011 07:35 AM)
I'm English and patriotic, yet not given to repulsive acts of jingoism merely because a film is shown? For those with a healthy, balanced sense of self, what's pride got to do with watching Excalibur, other than yet another excuse for those into racial Politics to go all Austrian on us?
Andthis film has nothing in the script or imagery to do with 'England', whom a great many of today's subjects would disagree with you.
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boll-weavil — 12 years ago(April 21, 2013 01:01 AM)
I love this film and I'm usually fairly comfortable with being English but I don't think this film has anything to do with individual countries. The original comment stated that the film was awful but I think it was of its time. If we look at 'The Knight's Tale' we can see more about the need for us to super-impose our 21st century sensibilities onto quasi-historical events.They end up looking rather ridiculous and everyone has to have nice teeth ! Excalibur deals (rather loosely, admittedly) with the sword in the stone as folklore not fact. Its emphasis is on the feeling that there was a closer bond between man and the world he lived in at one time than there is now and the sense that we have lost that since then. It's drawn on a generic canvas of knights and medievalism - the armour and equipment is far too advanced for The Dark Ages but it's painting a picture not portraying itself as historical fact and in doing that, I believe it is successful. It may look overblown but in a world where physical strength and aggression were the cornerstones of domination there might have been a fair amount of shouting going on ! I don't think its about being English because, as is hinted at, it is vaguely set at a time when there were regional kings and kingdoms in the region. Merlin's desire is to create a unified country but that would have been, at best, only most of present-day England from the bottom upwards.