1980s sword and sorcery movies

[jwyblejr]

guess we could add Beast Master. cheese factor at it's finest. the sequels in the nineties are not even worth mentioning

No but the Robot Chicken skit is.

[MysteryWho]

I'm a fan of genre films and exploitation films of all sorts, as well as "legit" cinema and arthouse. So, pretty much everything
Anyhoo, I know what you mean when you are watching movies of this type and something goes over your personal line.
It was actually something I looked for once, now I can't really stomach a lot of excessive fare. Also, the line changes over time.
I don't think it reflects the larger culture generally, since these films tend to be less accessible to a mainstream audience anyway.
I find myself cringing often when I watch low budget exploitation made in places like Asia and Spain/Italy. I might get sucked in
thinking it's just a zombie movie and then I end up seeing something I can't un-see.

[torgospizza]

I've recently watched Gor and Outlaw of Gor (a.k.a. Gor II), as well. They're pretty chintzy, but entertaining enough. I heard they did well in Europe. They have very little to do with the John Norman books apart from names, and are just really nerdier, no budget knockoffs of the John Carter sword & planet genre.

[Werewolf]

I liked Walt Disney's Black Cauldron. I think it's very underrated. The Horned King was a truly menacing villain. Also, unlike Disney's later 80s animated movies, it wasn't a musical.

Legend was almost great. Beautiful to look at and Tim Curry was brilliant as Darkness but I feel Tom Cruise was miscast as the hero Jack.

Willow was fair. But ripped off/borrowed everything from LOTR, SW and Disney.

[TomStrong]

oh yeah, I forgot Excalibur and Clash of the Titans, how could I forget those?

God I loved Excalibur and Clash of the Titans! When Arthur returns at the end an flowers bloom at his passing, I was floored as a kid. I loved all that kind of stuff as a kid and teenager, certainly not something I shared with my peers. Man, now I'm going to have to watch it.

[Nostalgiabuff]

guess we could add Beast Master. cheese factor at it's finest. the sequels in the nineties are not even worth mentioning

[Nostalgiabuff]

true, but that was a cartoon. I was thinking live action movies

[Hedji]

Fire and Ice was pretty cool.

[Nostalgiabuff]

oh yeah, I forgot Excalibur and Clash of the Titans, how could I forget those?

[Nostalgiabuff]

there really weren't that many good fantasy movies in the eighties.....Sword and the Sorcerer, Krull, and Conan the Barbarian are the only ones that actually come to mind

[ZombieJimC]

I liked the Sword and the Sorcerer.

[Werewolf]

I can't recall the name but Richard Lynch was the bad guy, with a godawful curly blond wig.

The Barbarians.

[JediJaida]

They couldn't ALL be as good as the first Conan movie, which is what started the whole genre. Does anyone remember the one with the two identical twins that were big in wrestling? I can't recall the name but Richard Lynch was the bad guy, with a godawful curly blond wig.

The movie itself was such garbage, I couldn't sit through it! But then, most of them were.

[Werewolf]

wasn't Reb Brown in the Detachstalker movies?

Reb Brown was in Yor.

when I saw this thread I thought it was to talk about the good movies of the era, LOL

The 80s were an odd time for the Fantasy genre. It was popular, but not respected and it seemed like for every Dark Crystal, Krull or Dragonslayer we'd get a half dozen zero budget Deathstalker type movies.

[Nostalgiabuff]

wasn't Reb Brown in the Deathstalker movies? I remember watching some of the in my early teens and thinking they were so god awful I could not sit through the whole thing
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when I saw this thread I thought it was to talk about the good movies of the era, LOL

Sword and the Sorcerer anyone? I was always bummed we never got the promised sequel