A good James Horner soundtrack, decent physical effects and a young Liam Neeson #Monsterdon

doesn't seem like exactly my shit but #Rootpost for #monsterdon

RYGAR, for the NES

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Oh, it's the B-D-S-M-M-M logo

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Man, if I was in a space ship spinning that fast, I feel like I would hurl.

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#monsterdon IT'S KRULLING TIME

Glow-in-the-dark ceiling stickers: the final frontier

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Cat's burying something in the litterbox. I think he smells the movie.

#monsterdon #krull

Krull (1983) #monsterdon now playing on https://miru.miyaku.media :miyaku:

@wrog There's also only ONE knife in the kitchen and only the chef may use it. #monsterdon

Also: If the King and the Lord Marshall are the **only** guys with The Key to All of the Handcuffs, that seems like a massive administrative bottleneck right there.

HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS KINGDOM WORK?

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@That_Damn_Frank Not that you needed anyone’s permission. #Monsterdon

Thank you for letting me post.

I had fun!

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@bstacey The Fire-Mare thousand leagues' gallop only good feature is that it let us look at some nice horses. I didn't find it thrilling but just one more step in a path that had all been planned in advance. Just my two cents #monsterdon

And how could I forget Dune??? Even Lady Jessica was there #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe @ohiofi Just looking at that product would get a tort lawyer salivating. And it doesn't look anything like a glaive #monsterdon

@ohiofi @CactuarJoe You speak words of wisdom, friend #monsterdon

My #letterboxd review tries to mention the things the film did well, but ultimately it wasn't the film for me: two and a half stars https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/krull/ #monsterdon

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@GeoffWozniak I hadn't seen it either. Maybe there was a Doctor Who episode where the locals kept yelling "Krull!" ?#Monsterdon

Most of the characters died. What a strange film. #monsterdon

@diazona Seriously, though. My bingo card looks very similar.

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

@jsadow @paco I'm still waiting for the recontextualization to take place.

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The glaive is terrible as a can-opener tool
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@JoeWynne I feel like Liam would 100% accept a role in a sequel if offered. Wouldn’t even matter that he died in the first one. #Monsterdon

I love how the aliens do the R2D2 scream when they die.

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@jsadow @miriamrobern @ryan The princess actress had an English accent and they decided an American accent was needed for marketability, apparently. "They kept my hair", she said bitterly. LOL. #Krull #Monsterdon

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thank you @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for bingo, @JoeWynne for the trivia, and pls somebody must know more about the animals who portrayed animals in this movie because each of them was great!

Oh, and most of all, thanks #Monsterdonian for the fun!

They killed Liam Neeson... the Bastards...!

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The power of love conquers all! #monsterdon

anyway good job team and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting

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@diazona @jonny I am hoping they don't really go ahead with plans to reboot this franchise #monsterdon

@bstacey Only their sounds, when certain bad guys died.

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@miriamrobern But I will say the snippy comments from the princess actress who was dubbed with an actress 15 years older than she, are kind of hilarious, she's definitely got some things to say about #Krull so thanks @ryan for finding the commentary version for your #Monsterdon follow-on!

@wulfric Menacingly "don't use the weapon too early", later... "go ahead, use it as much as you want actually."

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@ramsey @paco Get it right dude otherwise you can't understand the movie because the glaive was lodged in a mountain ON Krull!

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The way they treated the fire horses, I wonder if this is one of that movies that can say "No animals where hurt during the make of this movie"
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@diazona @brooke O'Neill would have many sarcastic things to say.

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@cshlan @miriamrobern I'd be tempted if I didn't have to get dinner and finish my tax return

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@miriamrobern @diazona
God help me, I just might.... #monsterdon

Finally the magic weapon is being used! Also the comic relief guy turned into a badass tiger. Sudden acceleration of interesting events! #monsterdon

Pretty sure I missed a few but this was an epic week for bingo as well

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@ramsey @paco I always assumed it was, like, the hero who was some kind of barbarian, like Conan or something.

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Oh and also Days of Our Lives #monsterdon

@paco I honestly have always thought it was the name of the Big Bad. I never knew it was the name of the planet.

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Everyone's post #monsterdon assignment is to go watch Willow and then Legend and get yer brains melted.

And the conquered shall become the conquerers. 🙃

The End

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@jonny As a fan of fantasy I will say those are generally not the interesting fantasy epics

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You mean that bastard could have unlocked him at any time, but just didn't?! And he doesn't shed even one tear for all the comrades who died along the way? Jerk #monsterdon

#Monsterdon well that was silly fun and very epic

Okay, so I thought I had seen Krull as a kid but no, I did not. Based on the poster art that I saw *forever* in the video stores growing up, I thought for sure Krull was a space movie. #monsterdon

@JoeWynne @RamenCatholic @amyfou Er something about a glaive and the flame between lovers and some horses.

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#Monsterdon big slippery house!!

@brooke I can see O'Neill and Teal'c taking one look at the shenanigans on this planet and just turning around and going right back through the gate

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Listening to the commentary... Did the director do the narration? #monsterdon

But I don't want a king and queen ruling my world, or their son ruling the galaxy.

This movie sux.

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@Configures
They were long gone. Smart horses go home after dropping off the heroes. #monsterdon

That film put me in a mood to watch Star Trek II actually. #monsterdon

But why didn't *she* get a chance to hurl tongues of scorching flame, movie? #monsterdon

I cast Fireball!

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Wow, I am impressed! What a truly epic performance: at various times exciting, emotional, contemplative, tense; all the brass fanfares you could want.

I guess there was something happening on the screen too but that seems unimportant

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Top-tier experience this week. I don't think I've ever boosted so many toots during one of these. See you all next time!

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Think Legend did the dress-and-crown thing for the bride better, though.

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#Monsterdon As the Castle fucks off into the sky, we thank @Taweret as always for bringing us together to practice our riffing on a really good bad movie!🍿

@blogdiva @combatwombat
AHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahaaaaaaaaWAAAAAAAA!?!?!? Why why? Nooo... I'll watch it.
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@strangefour This is very true. I think the story has a lot of promise. They were just over-ambitious and tried to fit too much into 120 minutes. They weren't able to pull it off.

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I feel that the Fortress had not strictly been built according to code #monsterdon

@helianthropy Well, the plug-ins are refillable? #Monsterdon

P. P. S. If you want a much better "science fiction but looks like medieval fantasy" excursion with actually substantial female characters, I recently read Adrian Tchaikovsky's novella "Elder Race" and quite liked it.

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The one thing missing from the scene where the pink things shoot out the top of the palace is "I Believe It's Magic" by Mick Smiley. #Monsterdon #krull

@paco Now that you mention it, I'm not sure. I think it might have been the kingdom, but that is just a guess.
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@paco

It's the name of the planet.

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And, that's a wrap! Thanks to @Taweret for the opportunity to make it through Krull in one sitting again!

It was certainly a film, with some very pretty sets and physical effects, and a very overperforming but good soundtrack.

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Thanks to @Taweret for hosting! It was a time! :D

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@phooky Speaking of movies I've never seen -- here's hoping the next #Monsterdon will be Dragon Slayer!

@socketwench Were they blue?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_OuTlL6fdw #WrongHashtag #Monsterdon #BaroqueSun

"Sandy the aurora is risin’ behind us
The pier lights our carnival life forever
Love me tonight for I may never see you again

Hey Sandy girl..."

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@TerryHancock trust me, I know. #Monsterdon

I'm sorry @trixter but
Krull > Dune
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@CoachJZ It's one of those movies I've got to take a dump afterwards, and sitting on the toilet I'm all like "What did I just watch?

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Okay. Finally, Lyssa gives Colwyn.

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Goodnight, Monsterdon! Here's hoping I don't have more nightmares of running down those endless anatomical hallways tonight. 😅

#Monsterdon #KRULL

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Okay, some of you have five minutes to go, but I'm clicking on the Babylon 5 button to see how good my memory of it is.

See you all later, and thank you for joining in.

@paco She's fake crabby?! --dad #Monsterdon

@jonny Uh oh you have pissed off the SCA and they are coming for you.

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I mean that fire of hers looks about as convincing as your average electric fireplace log, come on #monsterdon

Well, that was a movie that had a lot of really cool stuff and also a lot of really cheesy stuff and overall desperately needed an editor to trim a good 20-30 minutes. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting and see y'all next week!

#monsterdon #krull

@srol He knew what was up

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Just saw the credits; that's my bad, it is NOT a true story.

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@davesdogmaggie

It was the 80s.
ALL hair looked like that then...

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loved it, super fun swashdorkling flick

haven't seen krull in ages, possibly not as an adult

thanks #Monsterdon

Yikes!

From Wikipedia:

"...The scene involved Colwyn and his men encountering a corridor where the floor opened underneath them via two set pieces "the size of a small house" that were powered by liquid and broke apart before quickly slamming back together.[6]: 53  Marshall explained that doing the sequence gave him nightmares after it was completed. When shooting of the scene began, Marshall took more time to say his lines than the production crew expected, leading to him not making it from the tunnel in the first take. Only one crew member noticed this and was able to stop the machines controlling the pieces, but Marshall "knew that if the machine didn't stop in five seconds, [he] would be dead..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krull_(film)

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A glaive, sometimes spelled as glave, is a type of pole weapon, with a single edged blade on the end, known for its distinctive design and versatile combat applications. There are many similar polearms such as the war scythe, the Japanese naginata, the Chinese guandao (yanyuedao), the Korean woldo, and the Russian sovnya.

A glaive typically consists of a single-edged blade approximately 45 centimeters long affixed to a pole measuring about 2 meters. The blade is secured in a socket-shaft configuration, akin to an axe head, as opposed to having a tang like a sword or naginata. Some variations of glaive blades were even forged with a small hook on the reverse side to better engage mounted opponents, earning them the name "glaive-guisarmes."

In the 1599 treatise "Paradoxes of Defence" by English gentleman George Silver, the glaive is described as being used in a manner similar to other polearms like the quarterstaff, half pike, bill, halberd, voulge, and partisan. Silver considered this class of polearms superior to all other hand-to-hand combat weapons.

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@RobynGoodfellow @Taweret to be fair wasn't that one with the space rocks that crushed a town or something

it's close

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Whey didn't the tiger guy become like a mouse or something?

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There's no world where that's a "good" movie but I had a good time watching it. A real stinker I would not get to the 2 hour mark on #monsterdon

#Monsterdon so i'm pretty sure this movie takes place in the stargate sg-1 universe

@CactuarJoe meh, this movie is full of reused bits of other stories, why shouldn't our commentary be the same. (^_^) #monsterdon

Ergo is the Fflewdurr Flan of Krull

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmWlWcVgYBc

Also, everybody back at their kingdom got killed, IIRC. What's their economy going to be based on?

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