Someday I'll review EXCALIBUR quite thoroughly for RRA'S VIDEO BIN REVIEW....now Snake, I think it didn't do better for the following reasons:

*FANTASY - While LOTR was the first such fantasy pictures to actually make massive amounts of money and win many Oscars, that genre still has a stigma of sorts...though arguably, the stigma is gone with HARRY POTTER and other stuff making money as well.

*NO STARS - Boorman intentionally casted relative unknowns in EXCALIBUR inorder to concentrate the audience's attention on the story more so than the actors...which he did.

*TIME - Over-time, EXCALIBUR is pretty well-respected by film fans over the last 25 years or so...I rate this and John Milius' CONAN THE BARBARIAN as the two great mythological fantasy epics of the 1980s.