What are your favorite King Arthur or Knight movies?!


Question: I'm a huge, huge, huge, OMG HUGE fan of King Arthur stories, and I've always been fasinated with the medieval peroid! :D

I absolutely love Arthurian movies of this day and time, and other movies with knights!

These are my top favorites:

A Knight's Tale (I loved Heath Ledger! Miss him already!)

Merlin (TV Show) - One of my personal favorites! :)

First Knight (Richard Gere was so hot!) :D

A Kid in King Arthur's Court (It's an absolutely funny and heart warming classic of the origonal tale, and I love Thomas Ian Nicholas; he was so cute back then! I actually have the soundtrack to the movie!) :D

Excallibur (Just a classic!)


Answers: I'm a huge, huge, huge, OMG HUGE fan of King Arthur stories, and I've always been fasinated with the medieval peroid! :D

I absolutely love Arthurian movies of this day and time, and other movies with knights!

These are my top favorites:

A Knight's Tale (I loved Heath Ledger! Miss him already!)

Merlin (TV Show) - One of my personal favorites! :)

First Knight (Richard Gere was so hot!) :D

A Kid in King Arthur's Court (It's an absolutely funny and heart warming classic of the origonal tale, and I love Thomas Ian Nicholas; he was so cute back then! I actually have the soundtrack to the movie!) :D

Excallibur (Just a classic!)

A Knight's Tale is fun, love the soundtrack, so original

Excalibur is definitely the gold standard for King Arthur adaptations.

The Princess Bride -- "My name is Inigo Montoya. You kill my father. Prepare to die."

The Kingdom of Heaven -- Takes place during The Crusades. Beautiful cinematography. Great cast. Epic.

Dragonslayer is another good one. Peter MacNicol as the reluctant hero. Priceless!

Knights Tale is good cheesy fun.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a classic.

I'm a fan of Medieval stuff as well, but I find the books are a lot better than the movies :)

But I do like First Knight, Kingdom of Heaven and King Arthur with Keira Knightley. And as the first answerer has said; The Holy Grail. That really is hilarious, I recently saw it on stage it was fantastic.

I love films set in medieval times, whether it's the Arthurian Legend (marked with*) or the Crusades. Since the Fifties, I've gathered many favorites:
*Camelot
*Excalibur
*First Knight
Lionheart (1987)
The Court Jester
Kingdom of Heaven
*The Black Knight (1954)
*Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
King Richard and the Crusaders
*Morte d'Arthur (1984 TV movie)
*Arthur the King (1985 TV movie)
*Knights of the Round Table (1953)
*The Sword in the Stone (animated)
*The Adventures of Sir Galahad (1949)
*Merlin of the Crystal Cave (1991 TV movie)
*Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Gawain and the Green Knight aka Sword of the Valiant
*Sword of Lancelot aka Lancelot and Guinevere (1963)~~The leads are played by husband and wife Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace. Someone tagged this "'A Knight's Tale' taken seriously"!
*Merlin (TV miniseries)~~I'm not too fond of the sequel, but it's watchable.
*A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (musical)~Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming

As for Richard Gere in "First Knight": According to a Behind the Scenes special that I watched, he was the ONLY person except for the stunt director who could traverse that big contraption with which they tested the knights! Sadly, they should not have had the knights chanting for a kiss; that wasn't at all appropriate I thought. Sorry to say, I could never make it through "A Knight's Tale" because of the use of modernisms throughout; it totally ruined the film for me. If they'd made it a comedy, perhaps that would have worked. I'm a Heath Ledger fan, but I haven't been able to watch this at one try. Too bad they didn't play it straight.

Many historians, especially medievalists, wouldn't like most of these, but they're colorful and entertaining. We're not watching them for history lessons after all!

I see that dragons are being listed, which might fit in medieval times but not Arthurian Legend. But, I'm willing to list some purely fantasy medieval films:
Dragonslayer~It's THE best dragon film ever made! There are no knights, only a wizard's apprentice tackling a major task. They used natural light throughout the film, which takes place in such wonderful settings. Vermithrax Perjorative soars far above the rest of cinematic dragons.
Dragonheart~Not even a dragon based on and voiced by Sean Connery can defeat VP! But, I do like this film.
The Last Unicorn~A dragon makes a brief appearance, only to be slain by the king's son, who tries to be a heroic knight for Lady Amalthea (the unicorn in human form).

I would choose the one with Clive Owen as King Arthur and "Dragonheart" (still a Knight movie, right?)

i loved A knights tale (i miss him too :[ )
and first knight (i have the movie ! i love it :] )



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