You and I seem to similarly gobsmacked by so many things: from the character arc of the Cyclops who MUST DIE to the strange way that the "Power of Love" gives us the chance to shoot fire out of our hands.
I have a vivid memory of watching some really creepy scenes of The Beast on a big-screen TV in a shopping-mall electronics store window while my parents were shopping. The imagery so troubled me that I went home and wrote a fantasy story with a very similar monster in it. When my mother discovered the drawing of the monster on the cover of the story, she was troubled and asked me to give the monster a different face.
Yes, I love your review, as it points out so much of the film's flawed logic. Why didn't he use the Glaive on the Slayers who attacked them in the swamp? Seems like he could have saved many lives in the process. Oh well.
So, I haven't seen Krull either, but I HAVE seen that red-headed actress in a film I'd happily put in your #3 category. It's a version of "The Emperor's New Clothes," and it's so lame, but it's so much fun, and we've watched it multiple times. Must be of about the same era: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142260/
Wow! Good to know....other than Freddie Jones in DUNE, and of course Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane, I haven't seen much of the cast in anything else.
GLAIVE POWER.
I revisited this movie a little more than three years ago and posted these thoughts on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/j_overstreet/film/krull/
You and I seem to similarly gobsmacked by so many things: from the character arc of the Cyclops who MUST DIE to the strange way that the "Power of Love" gives us the chance to shoot fire out of our hands.
I have a vivid memory of watching some really creepy scenes of The Beast on a big-screen TV in a shopping-mall electronics store window while my parents were shopping. The imagery so troubled me that I went home and wrote a fantasy story with a very similar monster in it. When my mother discovered the drawing of the monster on the cover of the story, she was troubled and asked me to give the monster a different face.
Yes, I love your review, as it points out so much of the film's flawed logic. Why didn't he use the Glaive on the Slayers who attacked them in the swamp? Seems like he could have saved many lives in the process. Oh well.
So, I haven't seen Krull either, but I HAVE seen that red-headed actress in a film I'd happily put in your #3 category. It's a version of "The Emperor's New Clothes," and it's so lame, but it's so much fun, and we've watched it multiple times. Must be of about the same era: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142260/
Wow! Good to know....other than Freddie Jones in DUNE, and of course Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane, I haven't seen much of the cast in anything else.