EXCALIBUR (1981)

EXCALIBUR (1981)

directed by John Boorman


This movie has to be someone's favorite drinking game. The pacing is scattershot, the dialogue is dreadful, the acting consistent only in the fact that it's over-the-top, and the special effects are typically banal for a lower-budget film that contains the music. The music is obvious and awkward and... it's almost hilariously awesome in its awkward bravado. This is the Autherian legend(s), stripped of their poetry, squeezed into a running time, and... god, I dunno. I think it says something that every main female character in this film shows her breasts at some point. It wasn't a good film, but sorta like a bad team that shows up and at least makes the better team work for it, you can't help but root for the damn thing, even while endlessly making fun of it. The grail sequence is one classic "WTF?" moment after another.

7.00/10