The Lion in Winter/YMMV

• Award Snub: one of the many moments Peter O'Toole lost the Best Actor award.
• Crowning Moment of Funny: It builds up slowly but the scene in Philip's room involving increasing numbers of people behind tapestries is so absurd it's hilarious. But that's what tapestries are for...
• Crowning Music of Awesome: The use of Gregorian chanting is very well done here. As is the Orchestral Bombing.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment/It Will Never Catch On: Henry sets off for Rome because "that's where they keep the Pope." Um, check back in 126 years.
• Hollywood Homely:

Alais: How is your queen?

Henry: Decaying, I suppose.

• Magnificent Bastard: Henry. "I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be alive, king, and fifty all at once."
  • Not to mention Philip, Geoffrey, and Eleanor.
    • In a whole family of them, "merely" being inventive and well-educated makes John look rather thick, to his great frustration.