Cheap B Grade Fantasy Flicks...

[The Fool]

Just some others...

Here are some id like opinions on
Thes might be BAD BAD more than BAD GOOD

Deathstalker I-IV
Barbarian Queen 1 & 2

I do remember Deathstalker I [that was a fav]
but the others i dont even remember what they were like

Also anyone remember the 'ATOR Movies'
God they were horribly bad

Also id like cool Martial Arts/Medieval - Fantasy flicks list as well

Movies that ive seen and liked:

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon [A fav]
Once upon a time in China 1 & 2

There is anew movie called 'Hero' anyone know whats that like?

Thanks in advance


The Fool

 

[Ranger REG]

"Cheap B Grade fantasy films"?

Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie
Deathstalker films
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Beastmaster films
Red Sonja
Conan the Destroyer
Kull the Conqueror
Krull
Labyrinth(?) (starring a young flat-chested Jennifer Conelly and David Bowie)

 

[Brown Jenkin]

More info you requested:

Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des loups) - This is a french film with subtitles. It is not fantasy in the strictest sense, but is more of 18th Century horror (I'm sure someone will disagree with me on this point). While definitely bauetiful in look some (including myself) argue as to the quality of the story. If you don't mind subtitles it can be enjoyable.

A Knight's Tale - *The movie with Heath Legder as a Jousing Knight*I haven't seen this as it has a couple of things that I hate in movies. First it pretends it is historical while rewriting history and secondly it takes a historical period and has the locals singing rock and roll songs. Now these are my personal pet peaves and I will acknowlege that many people liked it.

I am not familiar with these at all:
Deathstalker I-IV
Barbarian Queen 1 & 2
'ATOR Movies'

As for martial arts that is a subject that deserves its own thread.

A few more things I have though of:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: A different take on the Arthurian legend. One of my favorite movies of all time and probably the best of the Monty Python bunch. You either love it, or hate it because you just don't find them funny.

First Knight: Come one, come all, come see Richard Gere and Sean Connery butcher the story of King Arthur. truely you better think bad=funny if you are going to enjoy this one. An A budget with a B feel.

Merlin: The NBC mini-series that tells the story of Merlin's life. It has some good effects and an all star cast. I found it average. Not great, not bad, just average.

Jabberwocky: Another Monty Python film, this time a somewhat more serious look at the middle-ages (this doesn't mean not a comedy, just not as campy as Holy Grail). It has my favorite death scene of all time, even better than the one in Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.

Army of Darkness: A much darker comedy version of A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. This one stars Bruce Campbell transported to medeval England where he fights a horde of Zombies with a gun and a chainsaw. You got to like camp(bell) if your going to like this.

A few things that Ranger REG pointed out:

Red Sonja: Many who love Conan the Barbarian hate this film. I liked it (go ahead and flame me). This probably will suit you fine in the bad=funny catagory. As a bonus it stars Arnold as a barbarian exactly like Conan but with a different name.

Conan the Destroyer: A B film with an A budget if there ever was one. Destroyed the Conan franchise for 20 years.

Krull: I could have listed this as well in the bad=funny list, but I personally just found it bad. Here's a chance the see Robbie Coltraine and Liam Nieson in a film they would probably like to see burned.

More to come later as I think of them.

 

[jdavis]

Barbarian Queen 1 is basically softcore porn, the titty torture device was quite funny. The story hinges on a woman who is off to save her husband to be from a evil guy. I'm going to assume Barbarian Queen 2 is much the same.

The Ator movies are real bad, one of them got the MST3000 treatment I believe.

A knight's tale was goofy, it basically turned jousting into the middle ages version of pro wrestling and used Heavy Metal music as a soundtrack. It was actually fun to watch just for the fact that it was so goofy.

Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des loups) was a great movie, I saw it in english on DVD (which I think has a different cut). I loved the movie although it would be easy to shoot holes in the storyline, the fight scenes were choreographed in the Hong Kong action movie style, and everybody in France apparently knows Karate, but it was very well made.

First Knight "Camalot is Blue and there is nothing we can do" The automatic knight testing machine was really funny (basically a big machine that people ran through and got the crap beat out of them by). It is one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life.

Some Anime

Lodoss War has already been well covered here.

Historic Legend of Arslan was very good but I don't think they released it all (in America).

The Slayers is supposed to be good but I have not seen it.

Princess Monoke was good if a little hard to follow at times.

If you liked Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon then you want to see Ninja Scroll. It was great.

 

[Sagan Darkside]

Versus- a japanese action/horror/fantasy movie that is very B.

Two prisoners escape to meet up with the Yakuza in a dark forest that just happens to be a gate to hell. Lots of zombies and kung/gun-fu.

The way the hero removes his charge from danger is pretty funny.

The movie is just too long.

SD

 

[Sagan Darkside]

The Ator movies are real bad, one of them got the MST3000 treatment I believe.

That had to be one of their funniest roasts, and it is the only way to watch Ator. Those movies are just bad.

I just wish I could remember which movie MST3K roasted that had the forklift song in it.

SD

 

[Mallus]

A few things...

A Knight's Tale - *The movie with Heath Legder as a Jousing Knight*I haven't seen this as it has a couple of things that I hate in movies. First it pretends it is historical while rewriting history and secondly it takes a historical period and has the locals singing rock and roll songs.

I can understand disliking A Knight's Tale {most of my friends thought I was insane for liking it}, but it isn't fair to say it pretends to be historical. From the opening sequence it makes it clear you're in for a wildly anachronistc movie, as the peasants drumming morhps into a Queen song. I think that's the movie's chief pleasue {along w/ Paul Bettany as Chaucer the ring-announcer}. It revels in historical innacuarcy as a way of slyly commenting on the inaccuracies of historical films.

I'd bet a lot of people would consider Boorman's Excalibur pretty accurate, except all the knights go running around in armor that won't be developed for 6 or 7 centuries. By comparison, A Knights Tale is off less than 500 years.

Now, more movies...

From HK: The Heroic Trio and The Bride with White Hair. Both awesome.

And another comment: The funny thing about Casablanca is that it is a B movie. A cheap production starring --at the time-- studio contract players. The fact that turned out to be amazing doesn't alter the fact that it was the very defintion of a B film, as the studio was making it...

 

[Assenpfeffer]

Re: A few things...

I'd bet a lot of people would consider Boorman's Excalibur pretty accurate, except all the knights go running around in armor that won't be developed for 6 or 7 centuries. By comparison, A Knights Tale is off less than 500 years.

I havn't seen A Knight's Tale, so I'm speculating here, but what many may dislike about the film may not be the fact that it contains anachronisms per se (as you note, Excalibur has at least as many, but is often touted as "more realistic" than AKT,) but that the modern elements which it does contain seem incongrous with its nominally medieval setting. In contrast, Excalibur is unabashed fantasy. So it may not be a question of accuracy, but of feel.

 

[Mallus]

Re: Re: A few things...

--snip...but that the modern elements which it does contain seem incongrous with its nominally medieval setting.

That's what I really responded to. For a silly film, it made me think quite a lot about the representation of history in movies. The difference between realism and versimiltude {sp?}. The way a Queen song is just as out of place in the 1500's and full plate armor is in the 900's, but so few folks register that so as to make it unimportant.

I liked the way it poked fun at realism , which as Inigo Montoya liked to say "does not mean what you think it means"...

 

[Mistwell]

Ladyhawk is a fine film (not B-movie) worth getting in this genre. It too had odd music for the theme, though it was part of the background soundtrack and not something supposed to be played IN the movie and heard by the characters.