I'm confused. Did anyone understand anything that went on in this movie?
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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.
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shawneuser — 12 years ago(June 08, 2013 12:50 AM)
The OP is high on crack.
This is a great fricking movie and one of my favorites of all time.
The acting is incredible, highlighted by I think one of the greatest performances of all time in Nicol Williamson's Merlin. Just the guy's voice is spellbinding. He makes every other Merlin ever played a fraud, though Joseph Fiennes in Camelot is pretty good.
I think some people think this movie is supposed to be shot in reality when it isn't. It is a legend shot in a mystical world. It is fricking brilliant.
"Good and evil. There never is one without the other."
"Always where you least expect it. Always."
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Caractacus23 — 14 years ago(June 12, 2011 12:23 AM)
"I'm English and patriotic, yet not given to repulsive acts of jingoism merely because a film is shown?"
An ordinary, healthy level of ethno-cultural pride & appreciation for one's own heritage, constitutes "repulsive acts of jingoism?" England is doomed, because of the huge prevalence of people with that sort of attitude, amongst the populace of your once-great nation. I'll bet if this film were a tribute to the culture of Gambia or Bangladesh, you'd be tenting your pants. Yet another self-hating English (or otherwise British) socialist. How boring. You English are so filled with self-loathing, the rest of us are beginning to wonder if perhaps you might not be correct. -
jh66 — 14 years ago(August 24, 2011 10:51 AM)
A couple of you morons are way off the mark in your third-rate psychology.
I was attacking other's jingoistic attitudes, not making a statement on my own patriotic attitude, nor am I socialist, thanks. Neither do I care whether you criticise my opines on the topic.
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Caractacus23 — 14 years ago(August 26, 2011 01:34 PM)
"A couple of you morons are way off the mark in your third-rate psychology.
I was attacking other's jingoistic attitudes, not making a statement on my own patriotic attitude, nor am I socialist, thanks. Neither do I care whether you criticise my opines on the topic."
Then perhaps the fault is yours, for not successfully communicating what you meant? If I had intended to impart the meaning you claim to have meant, no one would have misunderstood me.
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Balthazar_Bux — 14 years ago(June 12, 2011 08:30 AM)
Shut your lying trap, servant!
A superb movie, with superb actors [apart from Merlin] and superb music [Wagner, Orff]. Just superb. 10/10.
"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."- Friedrich Nietzsche
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gallileo60 — 14 years ago(October 29, 2011 05:59 PM)
This freaking movie is awesome, I saw it 4 times when it came outLoved it every timeown the DVDThe acting is fine by me, the film work is incredible.AND Merlin??? What can I sayMade me get a bad a$$ Wizard tat on my armTo me truly one of the best Arthurian tales ever.Now slave as you were told, back to the kitchen
You Have a Hard Lip, Herbert..
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Rockhound6165 — 13 years ago(May 10, 2012 08:53 PM)
Just another who's attention span is so short that they need pew pews every 6 seconds in order to pay attention. The only people who don't understand what's going on in this movie are people like the OP. Stick to Transformer movies kid.
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sfla — 13 years ago(October 08, 2012 12:39 AM)
Well 'Shakespearean acting style' has absolutely no place in normal movies aimed at humans. This is not the god damn 1500-1600's. This is the 21st century.
If i wanted to watch a bunch of cross dressing, stocking wearing, girly men prancing around screaming like girls, I'd watch some sort of . girly movie.
This is not an epic fantasy movie, it's camp garbage.
