Excalibur (film)/YMMV

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Was The King of Cornwall showing off his wife as a way of innocent entertainment led Uther to try and take his wife, or was it a way to provoke Uther into breaking the truce that he had no intention of keeping.
  • It is obvious that his family including Morgana and Mordred cause the major conflicts of the story.
• Complete Monster: Mordred especially when he has a habit of hanging up knights like ornaments when they fail his test of being worthy of the grail.
• Nightmare Fuel: Some sequences can be quite creepy, and Merlin has his moments (look at his eyes), he eventually literally becomes a nightmare.
  • But he's a dream to some!
  • Morgana's death is terrifying.
  • Mordred The Laughing Mad bastard son of King Arthur, going into Uncanny Valley with his armor as well as being a Complete Monster.
  • The Grail scene
• Awesome Music: Let's see: one third of the background music consists of various excerpts from Richard Wagner's operas, another third consists of O Fortuna, and the last third is composed by Trevor Jones (who you might remember as the guy who composed the score of The Dark Crystal).
• Fridge Logic: Naked with armor right up against her bare skin when she's next to a huge roaring fire and Igraine doesn't feel a damn thing??
• Moment of Awesome: Oh boy, where do we start, there's almost one every ten minutes.
  • How about with Perceval going up against Sir Gawaine with no training and no armor, and only reluctantly relenting when his knight shows up and tells him that he'll take over from here?
• Squick: Katerine Boorman is John Boorman's daughter. He directed the scene where she's naked and being raped. For this Troper at least, it's a bit creepy.
  • Most of the imagery and themes surrounding Igraine are pretty creepy, and moreso knowing that -- witness the rhythmic, sexual thumping of tables with daggers during the dance scene, and the following scene of grunting knights slamming a battering ram against the doors of the castle, although this Troper's personal "ugh!" moment is when she's dancing and her dancing alone is said to turn Uther on so much he has to have her. Yes, folks, Boorman turned his daughter into basically the Dark Ages version of an exotic dancer, on film.
• World of Ham

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