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Message: <blockquote data-quote="horacethegrey" data-source="post: 3235001" data-attributes="member: 40123">Because it's a bad movie? :\ Seriously, while I do appreciate what the makers were trying to do with the flick, especially since it was the 80's, that doesn't excuse the lame product they ended up with. I first saw Krull when I was a kid, yet all I could remember of it was how cool the visuals and some of the characters were. So it was a blessing to find it on DVD so that I could relive those childish memories, or so I thought.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> The acting was wooden, the pacing was excrutiatingly slow, and the plot was straightforward and contained very few surprises. I'm not gonna rag on the special effects, since this was the 80's, and the production design of the flick was pretty good for the most part. But my main beef with Krull is that SPOILERS the Glaive, the bladed frisbee that appeared in all the movie's advertising, turns out to be completely and utterly useless.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> SPOILERS. Not. Cool. At. All. Anyway, back to Eragon, while it's good that some of you found some worth in the film, I strongly disagree with the notion reapersaurus made that just because I'm not a kid, I can't enjoy the flick. PLEASE. I loved The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was as kiddie as a fantasy film can get, yet was still an excellent movie. The last two Harry Potter flicks were also good (though in truth, those were more aimed at teens). Don't presume to think that I dislike a movie just because I happen to bring some "adult baggage" with me. I dislike a film because it's a bad film. End of story.So I'm gonna have to agree with some of the posters here on their stance on not supporting bad fantasy on film. Why should we settle for stuff that's more likely to play on Cinemax or an MST3K marathon (Eragon, Krull, Hawk the Slayer, Star Wars prequel trilogy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )? When we could have stuff that can enthrall us and stick with us for years to come (The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars original trilogy   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> )?</blockquote>

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