I got tears, but I'd rather spare them

[sovay]

LJ crashed earlier this evening, making it impossible for me to record my quote of the day at the time:

schreibergasse, breaking off halfway through an attempt to describe Excalibur (1981): "God, I did some weird shit at Oxford!"

(Background: he has never seen I, Claudius (1976). I feel we should remedy this situation as soon as logistically possible. The conversation continued naturally through Patrick Stewart from there. For additional reference, I have never seen Excalibur.)

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I blush to say that I haven't seen I, Claudius either. This must be remediated.

Excalibur is one of the daftest things I ever saw--bonking in armor!--with islands of great and unexpected beauty. And Nicol playing Merlin as Tim the Enchanter. And Helen Mirren as Morgana radiating cold fury. The subtext of her every scene was, I'm going to hunt my agent down like a rat, and kill him. Then I'll make a cyanide pie of him and feed it to Williamson.

Nine

[larryhammer]

That is a better quote of the day than mine. ("My Daddy has Daddy pants.")

---L.

[gwynnega]

I, Claudius is the best.