Excalibur (1981)
Are there characters as enthralling as King Arthur? Countless tales have been spun with him either as the focal point or as an ominous presence and to this day he manages to captivate audiences. Heck, this has been the case since the Middle Ages. This version, by director John Boorman, takes most of its inspiration from Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur', which is probably the version most people know best. So I hope you are ready for a tale where paganism and Christianity mingle and where the heroes and villains you expect do what they were meant to do, all in a mythical and shiny interpretation. No really, it is shiny. Like bling. The tale is as old as time: Britain is torn apart by civil war and among the fighting warlords there is one who might unite them all: Uther Pendragon. Uther gets some help from a wizard named Merlin, but throws away peace because he has a boner for the wife of his new ally, Gorlois of Cornwall. Brilliant move, Uther. There has been peac...
