Zack Snyder's Favorite Movie Is One of Liam Neeson's First

Filmmaker Zack Snyder is known for his comic book-inspired films that often combine highly stylized visuals with graphic sex and violence. It should come as no surprise, then, that Snyder’s personal favorite film is an epic fantasy with its own distinctively expressionistic visuals and more than its fair share of sex and violence: John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981).Snyder has described this condensed retelling of the legend of King Arthur as “incredibly poignant” and “the perfect meeting between movies and mythology,” and has emulated its style throughout his own filmography.