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The Drunken Review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Jay here. It's Friday night. I've had a glass of red wine, three Rum and Cokes and a bunch of beer . . . and I just watched King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. How does all this come together? Stick with me! First off, I'm convinced lamestream film critics and the general movie audiences are a bunch of idiots.  How did Guy Ritchie's take on the King Arthur legend only gross $140 million worldwide and run a deficit. That's just stupid to me!

Mike S tweets Excalibur

Once a week our mad twit Mike S from the Corner of Terror will shanghai The Basement's Twitter account and tweet along to a non-horror movie, all for your Internet pleasure. Cool, yes!?! We think so.   On Oscar night he decided to give the self-congratulatory mess that is the Academy Award's the middle finger and travel back to the age of King Arthur with John Boorman 's Excalibur . Below are his thoughts in 140 characters or less. Hey, folks- ready for some mad # Excalibur tweets? Let's get this movie started, eh! Wow... I haven't seen the Orion Pictures logo since 1998. They made some decent movies. # Excalibur   The opening font reminds me of that Beatles cartoon "The Yellow Submarine" for some reason... # Excalibur   Shadowy figures in armour hacking and slashing at each other in a forest = great way to start a movie. # Excalibur   Merlin kinda looks like Peter Sellers... # Excalibur   Interesting reason for being king: "...