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(1/6) Happy long weekend if you have it! To keep you busy here now a mini thread of movies to binge in anticipation of the King Arthur #podcast, which we are putting the last touches on. Shown: Excalibur the sword, the grail quest, the Winchester fake table, and Tintagel Castle. 
(2/6) The first movie on the list, Excalibur (1981, imdb.com/title/tt008234…) gives a fantasy rendition of much of the entire Arthurian cycle as it was known in the High Middle Ages. Very epic and kitschy, a bit adult and some gore, with uneven acting.
(3/6) Next is the attempt to fit the myths into "real" history, with the 2004 King Arthur (imdb.com/title/tt0349683), a Romano-British commander of Sarmatian cavalry at the time of the Saxon invasions into Britain. Best acting, of course, by Stellan Skarsgård.
(4/6) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, (link: imdb.com/title/tt007185…) imdb.com/title/tt007185…) finally gives an honest reckoning of the violence inherent in the system - and provides an alternative location for the grail. You have already seen this many times.
(5/6) The best movie in the set is probably The Fisher King (1991, imdb.com/title/tt010188…), with a very good, bittersweet performance by Robin Williams as the mythical last in a long line charged with keeping the Holy Grail updated to be a deluded homeless man in NYC.
(6/6) ...and we end the binge with this, which is not the best in the set. Rutger fell asleep to it. You will be fine if you do the same. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017, imdb.com/title/tt197259…)
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