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Guilty pleasure movie

posted 10 years ago by residentevil6901
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This was released when I was 10 so at that age I loved it of course. I was always disappointed the Glaive didn't get used much until the end against the beast, that aside I still love the movie and watch it often. It has become a guilty pleasure movie for me along with Hackers, Poolhall Junkies, Kelly's Heroes & What Love Is. When I watch it now I can still see it with my kid eyes since I saw it as a kid but can see the cheesyness so to say of it more so now. Is this anybody's guilty pleasure movie also? If so what are some of your other guilty pleasure flicks?

"And now *you* understand. Anything goes wrong, anything at all... your fault, my fault, nobody's fault... it won't matter - I'm gonna blow your head off. No matter what else happens, no matter who gets killed I'm gonna blow your head off."

[–] SeussMeTub 10 years ago

I watched this with my cousins when I was around 8 or 9 and we thought it sucked then and it still sucks now- the ending was an idiotic letdown since it made all of the quests and deaths pointless since Colwyn could have easily killed all the bad guys with his flamethrower hand in the beginning but he was too stupid to figure it out.

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[–] grendelkhan 10 years ago

To each their own. I loved it as an adult then and still enjoy it as an adult now. Ken Marshall is a pretty bland hero; but, the superior supporting cast makes up the difference. I did think that finding the Glaive so early in the film was kind of backwards. That should have been a major element of the quest. Also, since he finds it so early; but, doesn't use it to fight the slayers until the end, it kind of makes it's early discovery even dumber. I tend to agree about the fire though; except, it required both people to generate the fire, so it's not like he could have figured it out earlier. I do think it should have been their combined power energizing the Glaive, to destroy the Beast.

Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!

[–] residentevil6901 9 years ago

If you think Krull is dumb go watch Space Raiders from the same year 1983 and get back to me how good Krull is compared to that one.

[–] richard.fuller1 9 years ago

I was 17 when this came out, if I heard about it, I don't recall, but I do remember Ken Marshall in Marco Polo and how all the tv miniseries back then had to have an 'introducing' as if that made the program special.

As well as it was always obvious the 'introducing' was based on looks more than anything else.

By the way, I didn't watch Marco Polo.

But now, well over thirty years later, I am learning to watch these things and enjoy them in an offbeat way, reflecting the period in music, effect, attempts at humor and dramatics.

AMAZINGLY ENOUGH, the noise made by those creatures when they die, that was borrowed from '76's At The Earth's Core, THAT is MY ten-year-old guilty pleasure, seeing it on tv one Friday night before the new Saturday morning cartoons and enjoying scifi totally endeared the movie to me.

So now I am watching YOUR guilty pleasure and yes, I am enjoying it very much.

[–] residentevil6901 8 years ago

Yup and I love that At The Earth's Core as well.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18135) 4 years ago

It has its redeeming qualities. The mood is light and it's meant to be fun. The score is one of James Horner's best. The villain and his castle is creative in its design. But the lead actor Ken Marshall(?) is godawful and very wooden.

[–] Owlwise (1536) 4 years ago

This is one of those films whose obvious flaws are actually rather charming & somehow make it more enjoyable than some "serious" films with bigger budgets, better effects, and an all-star cast.