This movie, or first knight, or any other contender?
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CDN_Dragon — 13 years ago(July 13, 2012 01:12 PM)
After Excaliburit has to be this one:
http://www.imdb.com/board/10071853/
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TheGingerReview — 13 years ago(September 12, 2012 08:55 AM)
For my money, it's Excalibur, the only film to capture the camp fun of the early years and the dark Bergman-esk world of Arthur's last years.
Though, I certainly wouldn't mind a truth behind the legend kind of deal from someone like Ridley Scott, if he followed the Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. I'm a big Arthurian Legend geek and those books are among the best in my opinion (I know this seems like shameless plugging, but you guys really seem like lovers of the legend, so I hope you'd get a kick out of my review of the books:
http://ginger-review.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-warlord-chonricals-rev iewgushing.html
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ozymandias312 — 13 years ago(September 14, 2012 11:59 PM)
Here's the thing about this movie and me: I didn't like it when I saw it in the theater back in 1981. I was 24 then. Not only was I both a history and a fantasy buff, but I was sooo serious and literal-minded.
I took this movie much too literally at first. I was all annoyed and outraged at what I took to be the historical inaccuracies and anachronisms.
What I missed on the first viewing was that they weren't even trying to accurately portray whatever actual underlying historical reality there might have been.
They were trying to do justice to the legend, the myth, with all its otherworldly mysticism. And they did that very well.
With repeated viewings this started to soak in on me, and the movie started to grow on me. The more I "got" it, the more I liked it. I finally came around to seeing it as the definitive film interpretation of the story, to date.
Ozymandias312
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drjettrink — 13 years ago(October 22, 2012 02:59 PM)
Without a doubt I think the best adaptation of the story of Camelot is Monty Python's Holy Grail.
In fact, I cant watch this version without comparing it to the Holy Grail.
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giygas-12533 — 9 years ago(April 07, 2016 04:00 PM)
Ridley Scott's past few movies have sucked. Balls. The "realistic" Moses adaptation from the bible was the biggest POS joke of a film I've ever seen. In my opinion Scott hasn't made a decent film since Gladiator.
