The fourth of July used to mean that summer had reached its apex.

[paisleycat]

For my family it always meant that it was time for us to start transitioning out of summer, to start thinking about school starting and fall and those harvest time, Indian Summer, crisp shadowed days. Now that I live in Florida I don't feel like the transition happens for at least another month or two. I miss it.

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[marchenland]

When I got thrown headlong into teaching a b-term Brit Lit class, I made my students watch Excalibur while I was still attempting to get my shit together. (I was probably the least prepared grad student for teaching this class, except maybe some maths students out there....) I spent the rest of the classes trying to make up for it. I wanted to give them pop culture examples of the lit -- Loreena McKennitt's Lady of Shalott, and the Waterhouse paintings, and Coil's Love's Secret Domain, which went over like a lead balloon.

It really is bad.

[chasingtides]

I had to watch Excalibur in my class on Arthurian Legend in college, toward the end when we were covering it in pop culture. (The prof had something of a burning hatred for Mysts of Avalan, so Excalibur was our exposure to "crappy pop culture mythos.")

I mean, it's pretty awful, but watching it with a group and knowing that it's bad helps a lot. There's a highly amusing scene later in the movie when Arthur first encounters Lancelot and there's this whole song and dance about "the sword that cannot be broken" and kneeling to kiss the sword held out directly from Arthur's crotch. And I think Percival lives in trees and eats squirrels.

[quiet_light]

Ack, I'm glad I haven't seen that film yet. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is on my hold list from the library though, and I'm excited to get it. That and Zombie Haiku.

[thedooz]

we watched Excalibur in my 11th grade German class with my teacher, Mr. Harvey, turning the tv around during the half-naked sex scenes. LOL

[glengarry]

Somehow or other, I saw that movie in theater when i was, I dunno, seven. I am proud to say that I knew it was crap, even then, the first movie I ever felt disdain for. Your fantasy geek card is safe.