Comments on: Swords and sorcerers, boobs and barbarians

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:52:39 +0000

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lyzard : This seemed the most appropriate place… I watched Lone Wolf McQuade for the first time the other night, and had a good guffaw over the following, tucked away in the end credits: Spiritual advisor…John Milius

Glad to see I'm not the only person who cracks up over that film. Cabal: If your name is either John Milius or Chuck Norris, I'd say yes. Scarily enough, it does.

By: Cabal

Cabal — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:12:11 +0000

*G* Does “shoot ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out” count as spiritual advice?

By: lyzard

lyzard — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:14:38 +0000

This seemed the most appropriate place…

I watched Lone Wolf McQuade for the first time the other night, and had a good guffaw over the following, tucked away in the end credits:

Spiritual advisor…John Milius

By: Cabal

Cabal — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:15:29 +0000

Eminently sensible! Ah, but what are such small concerns as practicality, stability or tensile strength against the boundless power of imagination? *G* Loony it is, but the triple-bladed sword certainly is memorable! I’d gladly take it over, say, the switchblade-starfish from “Krull”, or “Excalibur”‘s weird disc-and-pointy-stick contrivances.

(Given my druthers, though, gimme the beee-yootiful two-hander Rutger Hauer used in “Ladyhawke”. Now that was a proper sword!)

By: lyzard

lyzard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:07:30 +0000

What I love best about that sword is the very, very careful way that Talon carries it around balanced at 45 degrees. It is wonderfully obvious that if he held it forward a bit more, or back a bit more, he’d end up losing a foot or a shoulder.

By: Cabal

Cabal — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:04:48 +0000

*delurks*

Quick confession: years ago, after a “fighting for film” class I was teaching, I spent what felt like a solid hour explaining to an eager young man exactly why a triple-bladed sword wouldn’t really work very well (just the blade arrangement, mind you; the sword-jectiles and the blade-within-a-blade were off the table!). I felt almost bad about it; he wanted sooooo badly for something That Cool to be real! In the years since, when in a puckish frame of mind, I’ve occasionally toyed with whether it might be possible to create a more practical version of the idea…

By: supersonic

supersonic — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:34:46 +0000

That’s him, all right. I’m kind of surprised that you remember him so well, given how tiny his onscreen time is. But in another way, it’s not surprising, because he’s not a forgettable guy.

Did you know that he now has a book out about organic vegetable gardening, and has found a niche as an “edible landscape designer” to the stars?

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:55:57 +0000

Thank you, Overlords! *geneflucts*

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:46:52 +0000

I have no idea what I did to my tag around Dollman there. Sweet mercy. I can reply/quote, but I don’t seem to be able to edit. (I imagine the Overlords are the only ones that can do that.)

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:44:32 +0000

I can’t quite match Ms. Kingsley…but not a bad effort:

The Sword and the Sorceror
Alien from L.A.
Cyborg
Dollman
Nemesis
Brainsmasher: A Love Story
Arcade
Heatseeker
Blast
Mean Guns

I didn’t know/forgot that Alien from L.A. and Dollman were his.

I was too old when I first saw it to be all “oooo-aaah” about the sword. Although I did appreciate the originality, I was too busy trying thinking about how clumsy such a weapon would be, where he gets his replacements blades, etc. Ah well.