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Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:12 am
by geneweigel
Heh, this is exactly the show COVINGTON CROSS (1992) with the same scene from the advertisement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bk57Sz ... re=related
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:53 pm
by AxeMental
geneweigel wrote:Wheggi wrote:Okay, re-watched Excalibur and I had totally forgotten that King Arthur looks just like Alan Parsons. Good thing he didn't do the soundtrack, huh.
- Wheggi
That guy has lingered on and he resurfaces from time to time. I recall seeing him in TROY as a bearded slightly effeminate noble. There was an late 80's (90's?) TV show with him about a castle, I can't even remember but it wasn't bad at the time I liked it. The advertisement had him yelling at swordsmen "No FIGHTING IN THE CASTLE!". Like I said it wasn't bad but who knows how it aged? There was a lot of shit on TV back then.
Gene, do me a favor and see if you can track that down. I'm a big Alan Parsons fan (at least the earlier stuff). I didn't think they did much touring in the USA (I know of only one national tour with Kansas I think back in the 90s. I remember because my two brothers went to it...said it was awesome). Gotta love that "Turn of a Friendly Card", "I Robot", "Amonia Avenue", etc.
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:49 pm
by Juju EyeBall
Alan Parsons did the Ladyhawke soundtrack and it's AWFUL
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:00 pm
by LanWarder
I loved this movie, it made my imagination run wild, a more recent movie that inspires AD&D in me is Flesh and Blood with Rutger Hauer... it is very gritty, and somewhat sick, but it evokes the image I have of D&D
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:24 pm
by thedungeondelver
DungeonDork wrote:Alan Parsons did the Ladyhawke soundtrack and it's AWFUL
The Ladyhawke soundtrack causes cancer.
It has been proven.
Otherwise it is a good flick.
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:54 pm
by geneweigel
I'm referring to the guy who played King Arthur the actor Nigel Terry, of course.
I know next to nothing about the Alan Parsons Project.
I wish somebody would suggest some mood music without it being "progressive rock"...
Runs out the door...
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:45 pm
by TRP
Depends on the mood.
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:48 am
by AxeMental
geneweigel wrote:I'm referring to the guy who played King Arthur the actor Nigel Terry, of course.
I know next to nothing about the Alan Parsons Project.
I wish somebody would suggest some mood music without it being "progressive rock"...
Runs out the door...
Haha, thought you meant there was a TV show with Alan Parsons walking around in a castle. Yeah Nigel Terry was great as Arthur but didn't seem to do much afterward. I always thought Excalibur had a great Merlin (Nicol Williamson) also seemed to mostly disappear. Yet a couple of the extras seemed to make it big (Liam Neeson, Gabrial Byrne)
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:39 am
by geneweigel
What about Helen Mirren? I swear she's in everything these days and I'm always like, "Hey its Morgana! Whew, she got old..."
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:44 pm
by LanWarder
Isnt Patrick Stewart in this, as one of the knights, I am thinking of a scene in which the newly drawn sword is in the young arthurs hands in a moat....
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:51 pm
by AxeMental
How did I forget about him (perhaps blocking out the entire existence of Next Generation from my head). Of course he's great in Dune.....so.
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:11 pm
by T. Foster
LanWarder wrote:Isnt Patrick Stewart in this, as one of the knights, I am thinking of a scene in which the newly drawn sword is in the young arthurs hands in a moat....
He plays King Leodegrace, Guinevere's father.
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:19 am
by rredmond
T. Foster wrote:
He plays King Leodegrace, Guinevere's father.
I always remember the screaming quotes (which I'm sure may be off a bit):
"Are you with us or against us?!!?"
"AGAINST YOU!"
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:49 am
by thedungeondelver
geneweigel wrote:What about Helen Mirren? I swear she's in everything these days and I'm always like, "Hey its Morgana! Whew, she got old..."
I still think she's good lookin'.
Could just be me though.
Re: Excalibur (1981)
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:03 am
by Matthew
thedungeondelver wrote:
I still think she's good lookin'.
Could just be me though.
Well, she ain't as bad lookin' as she was in her last scene in the film, but she probably has a few years yet anyway.