Lancelot of the Lake (1974) - The best of.
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 Published On May 16, 2022

This movie has literally nothing to offer - aside for the compilation of short clips
that I have edited here for you.

Reason why?

Because they are actually somewhat cool and in 1974 this must have been hardcore gore.
Quite a shocking experience and I appreciate that they tried to portray knights' combat as
"messy" business. I particularly like the hit with a sword into the helmet death.
I wonder whether that would be actually possible and did happen in real.

On the other hand, it all looks too much cartoonish. Almost like comedy deaths, and I particularly
enjoyed the zoom in detail on the obviously inflated arrows "stuck" into the horse, with the actor bending them not once, twice, but three times in his clumsiness and the director still decided to go ahead with it. Not to mention the acting of the knights is some of the worst I ever seen.

Maybe that's why the director opted to do for the most part just "cinematic/artistic" shots of
the knights deaths (still pictures of them dead or dying without any actor movement), which I
actually preferred. Just knight bleeding to his death after combat, him not even fighting it, just waiting for the end to come.

I thought it was worth to share, but be warned, those scenes are literally a compilation of
all "combat" and gore in the whole movie that has nothing else going for it.

Quite a shame since I was excited to watch story about Lancelot - "the greatest knight to ever live."

- in fiction.

Stay clear, I can't recommend this one. After watching this clip you have seen the best it has to offer. All of it.

Couldn't even decide whether to put this clip into Shocking, or Funny playlist category on my channel.
So I put it in both. Maybe you guys can help me out in the comments section where this should belong.

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