[OT] I just saw "The Sword and the Sorceror" for the first time...

[Mark]

Can't help it if the story was so good he wanted to read it a few times, can he...?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Tisk tisk

 

[TiQuinn]

If it didn't feature Matt Houston wielding a three bladed sword that shoots out its blades like my old MechaGodzllla toy then it wouldn't be quite as bad as it was.

It still remains one of my favorite 80's chesse movies.

 

[WizarDru]

Best movie ever. In 1982, I think I saw it 5 times. Yeah! Lich-tastic.

"Oh mighty warrior with big shiny sword,
What are you doing nailed up to that board..."

Some movies I love because they're so good, and so movies are fun 'cuz they're so bad.


This movie is one I loved as a kid, even though I eventually realized it was the second, not the first. I love it still. Oh, sure, it's pretty campy...but IT'S FUN! Laugh out loud fun, IMHO.

And hey, the Lich (played by Richard Moll, iirc) was loads of fun. I'm sorry, but I think this film captured more than one D&D game spot-on....that may be why I liked it so much.

 

[Halivar]

The worst part was the trailers... oh, the trailers...

"DUNGEONS... and DRAGONS...

... and sorcerors and wizards and adventure blah blah blah..."

Not even an attempt at "Hey, we're not trying to hit that niche geek market!" Worst part was... there were no dragons!

Although the highlight of the evening came during the scene when Cromwell and his kewtie-pie Swedish concubine Elizabeth were torturing that one dude. Somebody in the room fed Cromwell the line, "Elizabeth, kill him with sex!" "NOO!!! Not that! Not anything but... oh ok."

After that, we assumed that all the killing in the movie was really done by all the half-naked serving girls that swarmed in the middle of every fight scene.

Oh, and the black dude's wig was good for comedic value.

 

[Villano]

One of my favorites as a kid. Even today, I'd still rather watch it than the over-hyped, overblown, boring Fellowship Of The Rings. Bleech!

And, when you get down to it, it is really one of the best fantasy movies of the '80s. Seriously, you've got Conan, Dragonslayer, and The Sword & The Sorceror. After that, then what do you have? The Ator movies? Deathstalker? Granted, both can be fun in the right frame of mind, but I don't think anyone would argue that Ator's hang gliding scene was a sign of quality filmmaking.

 

[Halivar]

Ator... oh my gosh... to this day, in my gaming group, any time we see real hammy acting, we quote:

"Yes... Ator has discovered... the theory... of flight."

The worst acting job EVAR!!!

 

[takyris]

See, this is why D&D folks get a bad name. Too caught up in your own little genre, not willing to explore other arenas, other time periods, other systems of magic and exploration. It's for reasons like this that you flock to tired, conventional tripe like S&S instead of examining some of the older classics.

Like "Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter".

(1974 -- stars a Michael York wannabe with FABULOUS hair who runs around being far cooler than anyone else in a time period that is apparently historical despite everyone having 70's hair. And he has a katana. You know, just because. In ADDITION to his cutlass. And according to the movie legends, the way to discover a vampire is to bury a dead frog in a box in the middle of a road, and if the vampire walks over the road, the vampire's mysical necromantic energy will bring the frog back to life. So you've got a lot of frog-burial and frog-digging-up going on. Also, the movie steals awkwardly from every fighting style the director had ever seen, including heroic knightly fighting, fencing, and even the old Samurai movies that led to spaghetti Westerns... Great movie.)

 

[Sirius_Black]

If it didn't feature Matt Houston wielding a three bladed sword that shoots out its blades like my old MechaGodzllla toy then it wouldn't be quite as bad as it was.

It still remains one of my favorite 80's chesse movies.

Somewhere in my parent's home there probably still is a videotape of this movie. I watched it numerous times as a teen.

Whatever happened to Matt Houston/Lee Horsley? Isn't he running for Governor of California now too like every other actor?

 

[Villano]

See, this is why D&D folks get a bad name. Too caught up in your own little genre, not willing to explore other arenas, other time periods, other systems of magic and exploration. It's for reasons like this that you flock to tired, conventional tripe like S&S instead of examining some of the older classics.

Like "Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter".

(1974 -- stars a Michael York wannabe with FABULOUS hair who runs around being far cooler than anyone else in a time period that is apparently historical despite everyone having 70's hair. And he has a katana. You know, just because. In ADDITION to his cutlass. And according to the movie legends, the way to discover a vampire is to bury a dead frog in a box in the middle of a road, and if the vampire walks over the road, the vampire's mysical necromantic energy will bring the frog back to life. So you've got a lot of frog-burial and frog-digging-up going on. Also, the movie steals awkwardly from every fighting style the director had ever seen, including heroic knightly fighting, fencing, and even the old Samurai movies that led to spaghetti Westerns... Great movie.)

I actually enjoy all types of movies. Except chick flicks, of course.

That doesn't take away my enjoyment of S & S.

And the star of Kronos is German actor Horst Janson (Jansen?). IIRC, he didn't speak english and was dubbed for the film.

And the reason he had a katana was that the creators had the idea of making him "unstuck" in time, hence the name "Kronos". They were planning on making a series of films with him in different time periods and places. Since the studio that made this film was Hammer and they did a co-production with Run Run Shaw called Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires, it doesn't take much of a leap to guess that he would have ended up in Asia somewhere.

Some people might think that having the character appear in different time periods is stupid, but I think it could work. Sort of like the stand alone feeling of the Bond movies.

BTW, they were actually planning on having him meet Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein, most likely played by Chris Lee and Peter Cushing.

And I, for one, thought the fights were good in Kronos.