My parents rented Excalibur one evening when I was a kid.  I was excited to watch it because it was a movie about King Arthur.  After half an hour I couldn’t take it anymore and left to play with my action figures.

I rented it this week because I wanted to give it a second chance, now that I’m an adult.  I still despise it, and for about the same reasons.

Sure, the costumes and cinematography are good, but otherwise it’s a shitty b-grade movie.

The mythology of King Arthur is multifaceted and chock-full of meaning.  This movie isn’t.  It is King Arthur, the completely emasculated edition.