Konterr Brilliant and touching

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Rainey Dawn I have not watched very much actual television over the last few years so I never know what is coming on. But one bored evening I was flipping through channels and I accidentally caught the movie on from the beginning of the film... needless to say I stopped on the channel to watch this movie instead of turning off the TV and finding something else to do as usual. I was completely impressed and captivated by The Mists of Avalon (2001).The Mists of Avalon (2001) is an impressive made for TV movie. I found myself engrossed in a soap-opera like story of Avalon/Camelot. The relationships between the characters where intriguing to me. I've never seen a more detailed story of the Arthurian legend. This movie is worthy of watching to anyone that enjoys tales of Camelot.9/10

fandmorgaine What's immediately clear in watching this mini-series for anyone's who's carefully read the book is the moment MZB passed and the producers got full control of the film's direction. Part one adheres loosely to the book. Part two departs from it entirely and reverts to the typical telling of the tale. It looses completely the threads of the women's story to the point where the only way to get Morgaine back into the action is to put her on a horse, give her a sword, and send her into battle. Important sub-plots which would tell us more about MZB's character's are dropped ostensibly due to time constraints, but others are created which add nothing at all to the story. In effect, Part one is recognizably MZB, though it loses all its profundity. Part two is NOT recognizable as MZB's story. Anyone who had read the book and was shown only Part two would have no reason to connect the two at all. Yes, lovely costumes, sets, and actors... a nice pageant, but that is not what Bradley wrote. What a shame! What it needed was someone with the dedication that Peter Jackson had for LoTR. Clearly that is not what it had.What I might have thought had I never read the book?... Having spent 22 years in professional theatre, likely I would not have finished watching it. I would have shut it off about 20 minutes into Part two. Let us hope one day to see the treatment this magnificent story deserves, but this is not that day.

Jessica Carvalho When I watch ''The Mists of Avalon'', I always try to think that this is a movie version, and all the reasons why the story was changed was because of it would be impossible to tell all the story from the books in just one movie. (It would be better if it was a trilogy, like Lord of the Rings in my opinion)The movie itself is good. Not great, but good. The main theme is about the ''Old Religion'',more know as Paganism, trying to resist the big amount of people becoming Christians in the old times. The end of the movie,does not have much in common with the end of the books, as well as many facts and even characters doesn't have a significant importance or even are not mentioned in the film.In the Mists of Avalon,different from many classic versions of the Arthurian legends like ''Merlin'', we have a good Morgaine, a pagan Uther,an annoying and detestable Gwenwyfar(Guinevere), as well as different facts, like Lancelot being Morgaine's and Arthur's cousin, the lady of the lake is Morgaine's aunt and the existence of Morgause, a real villain of the story. Looking more real in some facts, the Mists of Avalon has women having a real power,specially concerning the priestesses. I think the movie is worthwhile,but the books are much better.aka "As Brumas de Avalon" - Brazil

redlippedqueen I'll admit readily that I am a bit of a purist when it comes to books and their film counterparts. However, this film was in my opinion a horrible mishmash that left out enormous chunks of crucial information from the book. I also thought that the casting was off. Morgaine is supposed to be short and of dark complexion. It is frequently noted in Marion Zimmer Bradley's excellent novel that Morgaine is taunted for being short and dark, "Like one of the faeries." Viviane is also supposed to be short and dark. I think that Angelica Huston is a wonderful actress, but she's simply too tall and pale to be Viviane. Story and casting aside, the costumes were all wrong as well. In the book the priestesses only wear three colors: black, blue, and white. It was just too colorful. Overall, I thought that this mini-series did the book no justice and was a horrible botch of what was such an amazing and enchanting novel.