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Title: Excalibur. Post by: Svengoolie 3 on July 25, 2019, 05:32:19 AM I loved this, thought it was a very beautiful movie and stuck fairly close to the original source material.
you? Title: Re: Excalibur. Post by: indianasmith on July 25, 2019, 06:03:52 AM Wonderful screenplay, a very faithful adaptation of the Arthurian legend.
HORRIBLE acting! Title: Re: Excalibur. Post by: RCMerchant on July 25, 2019, 12:52:55 PM I seen it at the theater when it first came out! Lots of swinging axes and swords and body parts flying- yeah I liked it! :cheers:
Title: Re: Excalibur. Post by: ER on August 22, 2019, 01:52:57 PM YES!
On my all-time best list. I've even been to a couple places where it was filmed in Ireland, and they have signs up marking various shooting locations, almost like a scenic trail. And that German dude who does the soundtrack wasn't bad either. Dick Wagner, I think was his name? Somebody should hire him again. Memory of my first viewing at fourteen..... We were in my best friend's downstairs family room, she and I were on the couch and her younger brother was on the floor below us, and when they got to the scene of Arthur's conception she whispered to me, "Are they actually....doing it?" Her brother flipped up from the floor and said to her, "No, but they actually do kill some people in the battle scenes later for realism." She got up and walked off and said, "Then I can't watch something like this." He hopped up onto the couch and told me, "That was one way of getting her seat." Title: Re: Excalibur. Post by: Allhallowsday on August 22, 2019, 03:44:09 PM I seen it at the theater when it first came out! Lots of swinging axes and swords and body parts flying- yeah I liked it! :cheers: I also saw EXCALIBUR in the theater when it was new. I loved it. Still do; the same actor who plays Arthur played John in LION IN WINTER... NIGEL TERRY. Title: Re: Excalibur. Post by: Allhallowsday on August 22, 2019, 03:45:35 PM Wonderful screenplay, a very faithful adaptation of the Arthurian legend. HORRIBLE acting! Sorry, NICOL WILLIAMSON is still memorable to me. I think it's underrated. Title: Re: Excalibur. Post by: Svengoolie 3 on August 22, 2019, 03:51:02 PM Fun fact:Excalibur was going to be the first live action version of LotR. Corman had the rights, bought props, was getting ready to film when a lawyer oozed under his door and said " Waitaminute! I represent someone who lived near JRRT and feels entitled to a share of the profits! Gimme money or I file a restraining order against the movie! Money! Money! Money! "
At this point corman had had "EeeeeeeeeNUFF! " of lawyers and copyright BS and just said "Xxxx it! "He told the lawyer to go to hell, threw out the idea to do LotR and threw together something based on "La'morte d'Arthur" to use the budget and props he had. It was originally going to be called "knights", then about halfway thru changed to "merlin". Finally as the movie was just about ready to go out the door they decided Since it began and ended with the sword it was given a last second change to "Excalibur" and rolled with that . Title: Re: Excalibur. Post by: Allhallowsday on August 22, 2019, 04:36:22 PM http://youtu.be/XAIeh0YarFs (http://youtu.be/XAIeh0YarFs) http://youtu.be/_dV_HaaQfLU (http://youtu.be/_dV_HaaQfLU) |