Everything you need to know about me can be gleaned from the fact that in 1999 I paid like $30 for the widescreen VHS version of this because goddamn it, a real cinephile doesn’t tolerate pan-and-scan Knights Who Say “Ni!”

Truth be told, even that letterboxed VHS looked like shit; this really may be the worst looking great movie ever. (The print on Netflix is about 10 times clearer and sharper than my old copy from Suncoast Video, and it still sucks.) To some extent though, that works in the movie’s favor. Everything is drab and gray and covered in shit, which suits the Pythons’ demystification the glorious days of King Arthur. But yeah, not exactly the kind of film you need to pay an extra $20 to see in the majesty of 16:9. What can I say? I was a very specific kind of dork.