Excalibur (1981)

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Should be a top five best overall movie of all time.

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Definitely the best movie I've seen about the King Arthur legend.

I watched this when I was a little kid.

Didn’t realize until recently that the now seemingly 102yr old Liam Neeson has been in my life the whole time.


And Patrick Piccard

I haven't seen this movie probably since I was in middle school. I remember thinking it was totally bad arse. I wonder if it holds up.

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We watched it during English class in 9th grade

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Even the part where Boorman directed his daughter through a rape scene?

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Didn’t realize until recently that the now seemingly 102yr old Liam Neeson has been in my life the whole time. And Patrick Piccard

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The list goes on and on. I thought I’d never seen Ciaran Hinds before Rome on HBO.

Definitely my favorite King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table movie.

I was overseas when it came out, living in Italy, and saw it in English on post and then off post in Italian with my girlfriend. Place was packed, it was a hit world wide.

Everybody was in love with Cherie Lunghi back then ... she did this MTV music video for Level 42, a big hit in the day. LINK: https://youtu.be/tz2szRFTp60

That cast was plagued with bad luck. The guy who played Lancelot died at a very early age. I forget what Nigel Terry went through afterwards. Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson went on to big careers of course and Helen Mirren was a smoke show back then.

It was a well done movie, way ahead of its time. We always watch it when we see it on. My girls would all watch it as kids and loved it.

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Even the part where Boorman directed his daughter through a rape scene?

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Yep Mrs. Parrish was cool as shite. And there were many boners in the classroom that day

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Liam Neeson has been in my life the whole time.

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And Patrick Piccard

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And Helen Mirren.

Nigel Terry and Helen Mirre. Hated each other if I remember correctly

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I forget what Nigel Terry went through afterwards.

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He was cast as Cogliostro in that awful live action Spawn movie. A fate worse than death.

And according to IMDB, he and Mirren had an affair.

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He disliked actress Helen Mirren, with whom he had had an affair when the two had appeared in a Royal Shakespeare Co. production of Macbeth (1983) in Stratford-upon-Avon directed by Trevor Nunn in the 1974-1975 season. The feeling was mutual. John Boorman, the director of Excalibur (1981), purposefully cast them as rivals "Merlin" and "Morgana", against both of their protests, because he thought their real-life disdain for each other would generate more tension on screen.

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