Is this what kino looks like?

>>81136910
No

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Yes

depends
what's your name?

>>81137048
Why is that important?

>>81137048
Zack Snyder

>>81137048
Joss Whedon

>>81137033
damn this really is kino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Hp2WANepc

Merlin: STAND BACK! Be silent! Be still!... That's it... and look upon this moment. Savor it! Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You are One, under the stars. Remember it well, then... this night, this great victory. So that in the years ahead, you can say, 'I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!' For it is the doom of men that they forget.

>>81136910


I usually file this one under 'flawed masterpiece'


There's a lot I like about the film, and I have some personal nostalgia for it, but there are a couple glaring flaws that prevent me from really calling it great.

There is some really weak acting in here, the sound design is fucking horrible and dated, and hazy blooming soft-focus is way overused.

Script almost works but ultimately has to cover way too much material in way too short of a time. The only reason it even comes close to working is because we're already familiar with the story.

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>>81137756
Percival's bits are really great too.

Nobody shall wield Excalibur...

BUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>81137927

Everything in the movie is great. Merlin is just the best character in the movie. Saw it first time when I was 10 years old. Blew me away.

>>81137106
yes

>>81137402
no

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>>81137756
Is that from memory? Imma try the knighting scene. I've wept to this scene:

>In the name of God, St. Michael and St. George, I give you the right to bear arms and the power to mete justice.
>That duty I will solemnly obey. As knight and king.
>Rise King Arthur. I swear allegiance to the courage in your veins, so strong it is, its source must be Uther Pendragon. I doubt you no more.

Prob not 100% but close.

Fantasy kino in its best with original Conan the Barbarian and Sword and the Sorcerer.

>>81138148

Not from memory. Have almost whole script in txt. Just took it from there because I like Merlin.

>>81138151
>Conan the Barbarian
I an 100% with you there. I consider that and Excalibur the best of the S&S subgenre by a wide margin. But The Sword and the Sorcerer is a 5/10. Can't support you there.

>>81136910
It's beautiful, it's smart, it's perfectly scored.

Yes. Yes it is kino

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>>81137905
That weird haziness was unavoidable since it rained constantly during filming and left weird look over everything. But that just heightens the mystical and ethereal quality since it's like we're peeking back in time to the imaginary era where King Arthur really existed. That final meeting between him and Merlin gives me such a weird feeling I can't put my finger on just from the way that scene is set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE9fN89Jc0Y

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>>81138148
>>81138241
Damn, I was so close!

>>81136910
no. it's a fucking awful movie I was meme'd into watching by you guys.

There is no structure or plot. I found myself so fucking bored only 10 minutes in and believe me, I TRIED to watch this shit hoping it would get better because from all the pictures and grids I've seen, it looks fantastic. But no, it's terrible, the story isn't there, the acting is LAUGHABLE. I was literally laughing out loud during scenes. Cringe worthy. Shitty, bad. Don't waste your time. Just admire the beautiful post and grids and leave your mind in mystery about this movie. It's not worth a watch.

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I was really glad it didn't follow Malory and White's cuckery. It was good how it was Guinevere's betrayal that triggered the Grail hunt.

>>81138352

you must think Drive, Gravity or Inception is greatest movie ever made...

>>81138352
go watch Harry Potter (aka the dullest franchise in film history) you fucking piece of shit

>>81138352
Me too, I started laughing at how bad it was, decided to take it as comedy.

By the end I was weeping, moved by sheer beauty.

>>81138289
>>81137905
It helps to know that Excalibur wasn't going for either a faithful 1-1 retelling of the myth or something historic. The acting and setwork were intentionally done with a dream-like, mythic cast. That's why you've got the super stylized armor even though it makes no sense for the period. That armor is used, and many shots are the way they are, because it's mean to make you think of the archetype and the myth of Camelot and Arthur. Excalibur is the Arthurian myth through the lens of Jungian theory: archetypes, birth, death, rebirth.

When you keep that in mind while watching it, it adds another level of enjoyment to the film.

>>81138352
t. atheist, post-modernist materialist

Must listen for anyone who likes Excalibur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Ro73vofC8

Really dives into the Christian and traditionalist themes of the film

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WHERE IS THAT FUCKING DOCUMENTARY

KIKESTARTER CUNTS HAVE HOARDED IT FOR YEARS NOW WHERE IS IT

>>81136910

somewhat like bladerunner influenced scifi films for several decades, excalibur influenced jackson's lotr and tv shows like game of thrones in both visual presentation, thematic content and tone

the symbolic complexity of the movie, and its christian references, without being heavyhanded is rare

its one of the most underrated and underappreciated movies

>>81138481

At first it was going to be Lord of the Rings, but Boorman didn't got the rights, and I am glad, because without he wouldn't make the masterpiece what we got....

>>81138148
It was about 35 degrees F when they filmed that scene. You can see them both shivering like crazy.
Also this was right after they both got stepped on by a pissed off horse because Arthur jumped on it to knock Uryens into the water.

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>>81138352
>the story isn't there

Is this the level of criticism to be expected from anon? Surely this must be bait.

>>81138545
I heard about this, can somebody fill me in?

>>81138583
Man, you are a fucktard. The first film was pretty fucking good. The others, meh. Boorman would have produced a masterpiece akin to Excalibur. He directed Deliverance you fucking cocksucking jackass. Kill yourself and rid the world of one more insignificant cunt.

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>we will never get Boorman's Lord of the Rings Kino

Excalibur is a good replacement though

I fucking love Excalibur.
I remember when it came out,I went to the theater every night for a week to watch it. Aometimes I'd sit through both shows.

>>81138610
>shivering like crazy
It totally worked to showcase Uryens' internal struggle.

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Morgana: Your eyes never leave me, Merlin.
Merlin: Can't I acknowledge beauty?
Morgana: Can't you acknowledge... love? Perhaps you ache for what you've never known.
Merlin: Perhaps you lust for what you cannot have.

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>>81138567
You're right but Excalibur most if not all modern mainstream fantasy just heightens and forces ugliness but never the beauty or mysticism Excalibur did, the movie is of course super violent but Arthur's last talk with Guinevere at the end drives home the "dream of what could be", Arthur's dream of the better world that will come again one day. That's really just a big running thing with a great deal of Arthurian myth that modern fantasy just ignores in favor of tits and violence and shitting squatting in the grass and tax policy.

>>81138679
>I remember when it came out
lmao how old are you grandpa

The music is fantastic.
Also Nichol Williamson's Merlin is wonderful. He has that mystic/eccentric/frightening thing going on.
Also...Morgana.Helen Mirren was so fucking hot.

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>>81138771
Why does that picture always make me so somber?

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>>81138628
A few years ago there was a kickstarter project to make a documentary about the movie, involving all the surviving actors including Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson etc. It was successfully funded and made but has NEVER been seen outside the backers. At least I haven't fucking found it anywhere. What's even more insulting to me is that the Blu-Ray has fuckall on it too about how the movie was made.

>>81138771

I think the new directors pushed the modern realism too much. Of course, if its HBO, its gonna needs tits and whoring also. Otherwise they'd lose the millenials.

Astute observations about the mysticism.

>>81138983
Don't they release them for regular people to buy after they fund it though? Some anons posted about Merlin and Morgana hating each other on set, would be interesting to learn more about production. Phaggots man...

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>>81138788
Safe to say I'm the oldest person you'll talk to today on /tv/!

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Forgot it got Neeson, but I never forgot it got hot Helen Mirren. Have to watch it again someday...

>>81138983
I'd shank a motherfucker for a copy of that.

>>81136910
>>81137033
One of the best British films ever tbqh.

>>81139061
Some of the first movies I remember seeing in the theater were Star Wars and Saturday Night Fever.

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>>81138947
>Also...Morgana.Helen Mirren was so fucking hot.

Yes.

Someone have that webm of Percival returning Excalibur?

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>>81139286

>>81139229

If I would've been Arthur, I'd done Morgana too... Actually, I still would...

>>81139286
>>81139308
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ll4qS4anGo

literally my favorite film ending of all time

>>81139308

Kino

>>81138766
Damn, Helen Mirren looks like THAT?

>>81136910
No, but it's breddy good fantasy

>>81139346
Go watch it again. She is amazing in that movie.

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>>81139308
Beautiful.

>>81139052
They did. Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson were lovers, and they went through a nasty breakup while working together on Macbeth. Which had a whole other set of issues that caused them to really start hating each other.
By the time Excalibur started shooting, she was involved with Liam Neeson (Gawain).

>>81139195
Youngster.
The earliest I can remember is seeing 2001, and Patton with my dad.

>>81139346
>Damn, Helen Mirren looks like THAT?
She DID. She was a hot piece of ass back in the day.

>>81138352
>There is no structure or plot.
Whenever someone like you doesn't like a movie, they always spout this criticism. It's completely retarded, because there was a clear plot. You just had too short of an attention span to focus on the movie and notice it.

>>81139370
It took them 3 days to get that shot of the crow pulling out the dead knight's eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YOL-Cm5RmQ

I must have her.....

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>>81139373
Didn't know all that, thanks.
>Macbeth
Is it any good? I've seen Polanski's and the latest was also pretty great.

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>>81139470
Lovely buttocks.

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>>81139558
Lovely blonde legs.

>>81139535

Fassbender's Macbeth is pretty good, in same vein with Valhalla Rising. Absolutely watchable but doesn't have the magic.

>>81139308
>>81139332
Goddammit I didn't need to cry twice today.

>>81139558
>>81139602
Post her tits, gents.

>>81139606
>Absolutely watchable but doesn't have the magic.

I don't know if you're talking "fantasy" magic or "movie" magic, but I thought it was a fantastic adaptation, visually as well as story wise, with the creative changes from the play. Haven't seen Valhalla Rising.

>>81139642

Merlin: Looking at the cake is like looking at the future, until you've tasted it what do you really know? And then, of course, it's too late.

>>81139445
Bad ass. Rock on, brother!

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Now once more I must ride with my knights, to defend what once was... and the dream of what could be.

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>>81139470
Still would.

>>81139666
Too late.

Now that I think of it, there is quite a bit of cuckoldry in this film.

>>81139666
What did Satan mean by this?

>>81139719
It's part of the original legend.

>>81136910
Ugh. Even that fucking poster looks amazing.

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>>81139719
There's no where near as much cuckoldry as there is in Malory's version. Fucking french self-inserting into the story.

>>81139796

Mordred: Come, Father. Let us embrace at last.

>Zack Snyder says it's his favorite movie
>Now everyone calls it kino
You're all sheep

>>81139796
Practical effects done right.

>>81139844
I've loved this movie since I was a kid, so you can fuck right off with your Snyder memery.

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>>81139796
>mfw I was thinking someone was gonna post Helen Mirren's tits.

>>81136910
>>81139797
Why was Orion absolute kino, are there any studios like this that make big budget epics like this? Pretty sure they went out of business a long while ago. This is another kino flick from them.

>>81139844
Who?

>>81139844

Like'd it before I knew who Hack-snyder was...

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One of my favorite shots from ANY movie.

>>81139894
hurr, the posters made me think they were the same production company. I'm thinking of Cannon. They made some good flicks too.

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I would have been cuck if Lancelot would have been my Bro and Guinevere my Queen.

>>81139894
The ayy woman in that has one of the best bodies in cinema.

>>81140005
>Lancelot
Motherfucker can't keep it in his pants and brings down the the best kingdom of all time.

Douche.

>ITT: manchildren

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>>81140071
>Lancelot
Perceval was a true knight.

>>81140093
>in this post: not even a semblance of an argument concerning the quality of the film.

>>81136910
Nearly 50,000 people have reviewed this on RT? I've never heard of it.

>>81140093

manchilds would like Superman vs Batman and Watchman....

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>>81139844
Excalibur has been one of my favorite films since I was a kid - grew up in the type of family that watches films like this all the time - but it's only more recently, since I've become obsessed with BvS, Jung and hero mythology that I've fully appreciated Excalibur.

>>81140130
>Perceval was a true knight.
He was the true knight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzLfJvHlQmo

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Boorman has that breastplate on display in the foyer in his home.

>>81140135
>manchilds
Idiot.
Try manchildren next time, Paco.

>>81140266
Is Boorman's other stuff worth looking into? I've perused his filmography and it doesn't really seem appealing to me outside Excalibur

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>Conan wanted the score to be Wagner but Excalibur had already secured the rights to the music and they couldn't get it

Holy shit

>>81140266
>you will never be invited through Boorman's foyer to admire Helen Mirren's breastplates.

>>81140297
Deliverance is definitely worth a watch, and Zardoz is a lot more than you think at first glance.

>>81140207

Grail Figure: What is the secret of the Grail? Who does it serve?
Perceval: You, my lord.
Grail Figure: Who am I?
Perceval: You are my lord and king. You are Arthur.
Grail Figure: Have you found the secret that I have lost?
Perceval: Yes. You and the land are one.

>>81140311
That isn't public domain?

>>81138391
>malory and white's cuckery

oh fuck you

>>81140346
It is. He's being retarded.

>>81140366
What are you talking about? Arthur goes from a spineless to a willing cuckold in them.

>>81140413
in Malory he was going to burn Guinevere to death in accordance with the law

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>>81140315

Zardoz is almost like an LSD-trip. Definitely worth a watch.

>>81140456
But he wanted Lancelot to rescue her, didn't he?

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>>81140463
THE PENIS IS EVIL!

>>81140484
Not that I remember, he was sad he had to burn his wife but the point was the law was the law and two-timing bitches get the torch

>>81140315
I'd recommend Emerald Forest, just for the scenery and music alone.

>>81140522
Does she fuck Mordred willing in Malory's or is she forced? There's one version she does that I believe, I can't remember well.

>>81140315

If you think that Sean Connery is Conan the Barbarian you would get the best adaptation of Robert E. Howard's Conan.

Conan by Milius is not a bad movie and definitely KINO, but it is NOT the best adaptation of Conan.

>>81140413
the essence of the arthurian myth includes arthur being cuckolded by lancelot

in The Once and Future King, T.H. White gives marvelous characterization to Lancelot and Arthur, and makes the reader sympathize with their reasoning for partaking in the charade of arthur's "marriage"

in fact there's a great scene where arthur talks to guinevere and lancelot and gives his tacit resignation to the fact that they love each other, and since he loves them both he accepts things the way they are

>>81140605
I've read the book, I remember the scene. It was really sad and an awful realization to Arthur he was never meant to be loved as his own person. But I can't sympathize with him, I would have done different.

>>81136910
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyCParQTtnE

This scene is pure kino.

>"A NOBLE KNIGHT SWEAR FAITH TO A SQUIRE?!"
>KEEP IT URYENS!
>PATRICK STEWART LOOKING SWOLE
>WAGNER
>SO STRONG IT IS, THAT ITS SOURCE MUST BE UTHER PENDRAGON

Women will never understand this scene.

>>81140551
I need to watch more of his filmography, will try to get on that tonight.

Was Merlin the dragon, o just an aspect/avatar of him? Haven't seen the movie for so long.

>>81140605
Yeah but the big underlying theme is that the cuckholding was a sin of such magnitude it fucked up everything. In Idylls of the King Arthur even visits Guinevere before the final battle and gives her a full verbal thrashing and about how women being whores really does ruin the best-planned efforts of noble men.

>>81140688

Uryenes: I am your humble knight, and I swear allegiance to the courage in your veins. So strong it is, its source must be Uther Pendragon's. I doubt you no more!

I fucking love this film
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>81140794
she looked hotter in motion. would not sacrifice my kingdom for

>>81140779
No I think he was just a wizard / druid and the Dragon was like the Force

>>81140605
White should have stuck to fable. That shit was amazing.

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>>81140827
>>81140794
>everybody posting Mordred
>nobody posting Guinevere

>>81140679
>It was really sad and an awful realization to Arthur he was never meant to be loved as his own person.
Excalibur has that great scene between Guinevere and Arthur where they discuss their marriage and then she returns excalibur to him.

For as much as I love the first acts of that film, the final act, after Perceval heals Arthur, always gets me.

>>81140679
To be honest there's a lot of things in the book (and probably most tragic epics) that somebody could look at and go "well I wouldn't have done it that way" but the great thing about it is that nobody in the book could have done any different. It's just who they were.

>>81140833

I think the same. Merlin is like a Jedi, and the Dragon is the Force...

What's a film that closely follows the plot of King Arthur? I read the books growing up and it would be cool to see something in that vein

>A dream... to some...

>A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS

>>81140800
And Arthur and Guinevere hate themselves for doing such a shitty thing to somebody they both love so much.
Objectively, guinevere shouldn't have been a whore, and lancelot shouldn't fuck his king's/best friend's wife. But she and Lancelot loved each other so greatly that staying apart would have been unbearable for them.

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>>81140940

>>81140867
That's morgana you utter mong.

>>81140940
I love his Merlin. He's so perfect.

>>81140956
lancelot and guinevere* my bad

>>81140927
Oh, definitely the one with Hannibal, Will Graham, and Kiera Knightly as Legolas.

>>81140927
there's like a bajillion king arthur movies

>>81140883
Arthur was a hypocrite though. Everything happened the way it did because he himself didn't believe in his own ideals. He tried to right the birth of Mordred with Might, he didn't punish Pellinore for killing Lot, nor did he punish Gawain for killing Pellinore, he let the orkaneys walk away from killing Morgause and Lomark, he didn't behead Lancelot and Guinevere the moment he knew they were having an affair. He didn't respect his own law.

Everything was his fault.

>>81140969
Sheit, my bad.

>>81141019
I know it, that's why I'm asking to be pointed in the direction of some quality ones

>>81141023

Merlin: When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

>>81141074
Lancelot du Lac or whatever Bresson's version is called is worth a watch although it doesn't "follow the plot", so I don't know if that's what you're looking for.

>>81141074
Just play Fate/Stay Night.

Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmhe


Serpent's breath, charm of death and life, thy omen of making.

>>81141074
The old disney movie The Sword in The Stone is based on the first half of The Once and Future King, it's pretty good

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>>81141250

Any man who would be a knight...
...and follow a king, follow me.

Was Sir Percival the true Knight of them all?

>>81141348
Did you not watch the movie? He found the fucking grail.

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>>81141348
He was the perfect knight.

>>81141413
No Gala had in this movie?

>>81137033
DAAAAAAAMN
>that red sun
I'm sold

>>81141446
Funny you say that, I had typed Gallahad didn't exist in this movie but erased it thinking that information was not needed. But no, Lancelot went full bananas and didn't make a son.

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>>81141392

Gee I wonder....

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>>81141543
>this nigger on his laptop with some gobbledeegoo language

>>81141619
>its dubbed

>>81141658
>watching a dubbed Excalibur
What
The
Fuck

Turn on the subtitles, friend. The original acting is part of the enjoyment.

>>81136910
It's reddit but there's a market segment for that and they understand this and cater to it. On the plus side British Hollywood is a joke so this is like the top of the retard class.

>>81137905
>I usually file this one under 'flawed masterpiece'

It started out as an adaptations of Lord of the Rings, but they couldn't get the Tolkien estate to give permission so they retooled it into a King Arthur movie.

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>>81141694

its actually in english audio.

>>81141720
What are you blabbering about?

>>81141759
Good on ya.

>>81141759

the second voice track is spain and the third is german. And I don't understand both of them...

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>>81138352
Everyone will shit on you, but I agree. I watched a half hour before shutting it off, in that section there was shit acting, choreography, and set design.

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How does this compare? Never watched it.

>>81141851

Blue! No! YELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWW!!!!

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>>81136910
The poster alone is pure kino.

Where does Sir Eglamore fit into the arthurian stories?

>>81142090
In Gawain's butthole

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>>81140297
Point Blank is awesome. Highly recommended.

I never saw Hell in the Pacific, but I'll pass along a cool story about it told to me from film critic and family friend Joe Morgenstern, who was told this by Boorman. We always talk movies and we both love Excalibur. Anyway:

>Toshiro Mifune was impossible to work with. They fought constantly. Mifune would be late, or not come out of his trailer. I want to say they came to blows even.
>The movie was so far behind schedule and over budget, some studio execs came to the set to fire and replace Boorman.
>Mifune, to Boorman's shock, told them if they fired Boorman, he'd quit too.

Joe tells it much better. But seriously, see Point Blank.

>>81142090
He doesn't. Arthur is ~6th century and Eglamore is ~14th century.

>>81142153
>Toshiro Mifune
Dude was awesome. I haven't seen Point Blank, but if its Mifune and Boorman it's now on my must watch list.

>>81136910
I don't think I've seen a movie that wasn't weird artsy crap that utilises the medium of film and the concept of a narrative to convey a progression of tone as well as Excalibur has.

The props and sets in the opening act are all totally fantastical with strange proportions, while by the end things are a lot more grounded. That simple little touch is wonderful.

Plus John Boorman is like the only filmmaker from that era who's still making decent movies.

>>81140968
>LOOK IN TO THE EYES OF THE DRAGON AND DESPAIR!

>>81142153
>Morgenstein
are you jewish?

>ARTHUR! . . . ARTHUR! . . .

>>81142202
Also the acting in the first act is really hammy and over the top while by the end it's downright subdued.

It was a really ballsy move on Boorman's part and I think for the most part people did get it and it did pay off.

>>81142200
But he's not... Oh well, you'll love it anyway.

>>81142271
The opening and middle acts of the film are so brash, they contrast perfectly with subdued final act and the bittersweet finale.

>>81142202
The film didn't have time to explain it, but Arthur pretty much inherits a lawless land and leaves it the most civilized society in the world. It was great how they captured it so well.

>>81142231
Not really, but I am circumcised and I am cheap.

>>81142271
I think it ultimately did pay off because of how engaging the movie is but I don't think it's fair to say most people "got it" considering how often it gets criticised for bad acting.

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>>81142351
Kek, is that guy a good critc? Worth reading?

>>81142271
it's because the movie starts with these roid raging Pagan fucking shits waging wars over their dicks full of pride and rage (Arthur himself nearly goes down the same path but cheating against Lancelot humbles him) and goes on to be a peaceful realm. You can see this transition in the armor everyone wears as the movie goes on.

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>tfw Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles will never be adapted.

I want to see and hear the war song of Beli Mawr performed in the shores of Camlann, I want to see the beauty of Ynis Trebes and the flames of Mai Dun...

>>81142456
Why are the covers in portuguese?

>>81142515
that's elfish

>>81142573
Meu pau.

>>81142380
Frankly, I've never read a full review by him, but we generally agree on the films we talk about, so to me, that's the definition of a good critic. Plus, he's a smart, knowledgeable and lovely man.

Was just checking out https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/joe-morgenstern/movies and we're about 85% compatible.

>>81142515
Because I'm Brazilian, and Bernard Cornwell is relatively popular in Brazil.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/24/bernard-cornwell-historical-fiction

>>81141759
Mad respect. I don't even Know what language that is.some sort of Eastern European or former Soviet shit I guess

>>81142596
Mein Schwanz

>>81142612
>but we generally agree on the films we talk about, so to me, that's the definition of a good critic.
>we're about 85% compatible.

I was thinking more about film analysis as compared to just general agreement. I'll check him out though. You should probably finish a review too senpai.

>>81142680
>You should probably finish a review too senpai.
The thing is I don't respect film critics, so I try to stay out of that. He doesn't come to my job and judge my performance...

>>81142660
>Cromwell

Is that also John LeCarre's pseudonym? I guess he wrote some things under that or a similar name

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>>81139149
i have it.

would you paypal me $500 for it?

Wagner makes anything awesome

>>81137033
>almost every shot in this picture obeys photography composition rules
How can anyone say this is NOT kino?

>>81137905
Yeah, by the time they get around to the end I've stopped giving a shit, but goddamn I jacked off so hard to this movie so much as a kid.

>>81142738
but that's the point of a critic though, you read to learn.

>>81139894
Spanked so much to this too

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>>81143155
>tfw no vampiric french succubus gf

All the Wagner in this movie makes me wish there was a big budget film adaptation of Der Ring, maybe even Lohengrin or Parsifal while they're at it.

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>There will never be a big budget adaptation of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
>You will never see Parzival's mother strip herself naked while pregnant with him and fondle her breasts until she lactates allover her own face

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>>81143472
>Parzival's mother strip herself naked while pregnant with him and fondle her breasts until she lactates allover her own face
Tell me more

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>>81143246
>tfw no based KKK gf

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>>81136910
MERLIN WHERE ARE YOU!

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>>81144145
haha

I love the hazy dream-like look of Excalibur. That green glow in some scenes, and red in others. Reminds me I'm watching an actual film and I'm transported into that world

Anything else have this?

>>81142456
thats because his based The Last Kingdom is spreading the light of kino right now

>>81140297
The Man Who Would Be Kimg is amazing, maybe even better than the novel.

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>>81136910
Krull has Kino all the way through, especially in the beast's fortress.

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>>81140297
>Boorman's other stuff
>>81145665
>The Man Who Would Be Kimg

>>81145817
I was going to mention Krull, as it is awesome. However, this is a comfy Excalibur thread. Krull should get its own thread later.

The soundtrack to Krull was based as well. The Ride of the Firemares is a favorite.

>>81145843
Shit you're right, i thought TMWWBK was Boorman for the longest time.

I recommend it anyway.

>>81146090
Well, their names aren't the least similar I've ever heard. And hell yes, great movie. I've only seen maybe seven JH movies, but African Queen is a 9/10 easy.

>>81139844
Calm down you butthurt MCUck. Most people agreed with Snyder on Excalibur being a great film.

>>81136910

I like the movie but one of the problems i have with it is that it just feels like they filmed a theatre production.

I know alot if the actors are from stage but it just doesn't directly translate to big budget movies, at least not when viewing them today

The acting in it is actually good but it's often overly dramatic which again gives it the theatre feel. Maybe this was intentional but it just stands out.