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Comment on Swords and sorcerers, boobs and barbarians 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!)

Comment on Well, SOMEONE has to review Beastmaster by supersonic

supersonic — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:11:57 +0000

Back in the day, I actually considered Beastmaster a better film than the overblown Conan.

I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t still think so if I were to watch it again now.

Comment on Well, SOMEONE has to review Beastmaster by supersonic

supersonic — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:09:47 +0000

The technique of a miniature castle in the foreground was regularly used back in the black&white era…

Comment on Swords and sorcerers, boobs and barbarians 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.

Comment on Swords and sorcerers, boobs and barbarians 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…

Comment on Well, SOMEONE has to review Beastmaster by Elizabeth the Ferret

Elizabeth the Ferret — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:24:57 +0000

Ah, Beastmaster. I watched it a lot when I was a bitty little ferret, and I loved it. I still do, and I have the overwhelming urge to go rent it now.

Comment on Defective detective movie by lyzard

lyzard — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:18:32 +0000

Robert Forster pretty much went the distance in the respect of nudity in his screen debut: in Reflections In a Golden Eye he’s the object of Marlon Brando’s lust, mostly while horseriding naked.

So it might just be a case of him being comfortable with that kind of scene.

Comment on Defective detective movie by Brian

Brian — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:24:31 +0000

$5!

I don’t suppose I should laugh, that’s more than I’ve ever gotten….

Comment on Defective detective movie by Greywizard

Greywizard — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:55:33 +0000

Yes, you read that right. He gets five dollars from the customer he’s seen with at the beginning of the movie. Forster also shows off some nudity in this scene, so maybe the conclusion from all this is that Forster the director thinks that Forster the actor is some hot Hollywood stud.

Comment on Love me tender by The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:24:02 +0000

Ms. Kingsley: I do tend to ramble…sorry about that. Especially ’cause I fear I’m about to do it again…

I didn’t have the DVD; I DVR’d a whole bunch of movies off of my new favorite channel, TCM, back around Hallowe’en and am slowly working my way through them. I got to see some Corman/Price Poe movies, a few silent horror films…but the highlight was a full day of Karloff. Sadly, I didn’t have room to record everything I wanted to see, but I got the ones the B-Masters (and others) have raved about, plus a couple that looked interesting (The Ghoul and The Man They Could Not Hang, for example).

I’m with you on the Karloff/Lugosi vs. Karloff/Daniell scenes. I’m also with his co-stars; some early scenes in TWD with Ellman on the street, and later in the courtroom, there are moments where I’d almost say he had puppy dog eyes. Which makes his subsequent eye-acting all the more wonderful…