I would like a three-hour director's cut

Last night I rewatched Excalibur for the first time since I was a child. Going into it, I remembered almost nothing from my first viewing all those years ago, but one thing I did remember was that I didn't really understand the movie.

Upon my re-watch, however, I found it to be one of the most interesting films I've seen in a long time, though also kind of a weird one. The narrative does not really play out like a conventional movie and the whole thing has an almost fever dream-like quality to it. But if you can fall into the film's rhythm and vibe, it's easy to get mesmerized.

The visuals are amazing and the way that director John Boorman brings the middle ages to life is very interesting. You get the sense that it's not really the medieval world as it was, but as he dreams it to have been.

My one real complaint, however, is that things happen a little too fast, with none of the usual connective tissue to tie the various segments of the movie together. Like, one moment Arthur is finding Lancelot and Guinevere together and then three scenes later that episode is completely forgotten and it's time to go find the grail, which has not been mentioned at all in the movie up to that point. There's just a sense, at times, that there were scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor. I'm not sure if that's actually true, but while the movie is already fairly long at 2 hours 20 minutes, I'd love to see a three-hour director's cut that fleshes the story out a little more.