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Fundamental problems with Krull


This is one of those sword and sorcery movies in which the past meets the future. These movies are basically ridiculous. I mean You just know a horse can't outrun a spaceship. Krull is one of the most boring, nonsensical illogical fantasies in a long time.

Now where does the enemy come from, those soldiers that look like Star Wars vs prince valiant? Well, they're representatives of the mind of the Beast, who can make anything materialize, and the Beast is the inhabitant of a gigantic mountain that moves through outer space and lands on planets, wehere it blends right in with the scenery and serves as headquarters for his conquests - because nobody notices an extra mountain.

This is some mountain. We see it land with rockets like a spaceship, yet later in the movie it reveals the power to dematerialize and teleport itself to other locations on the planet, just like that. When we're asking questions about the mountain, one more question might come up.

since the movie says that everything in the movie is foretold in ancient prophecies, then why is everyone in suspense?

I sat here with so many questions. Here's another one: we see them on horses, and the horse are riding across sort of a wheat field, and the horses are riding so fast - this is sort of a neat special effect - you can see all the flames: the wheat is burning. Then is jumps the mountain, and it's still burning! I mean what's burning, the air, the horse? I don't know what's going on.

If you have an omnipotent villain, what good does it do to fight him in the first place?

There is no way these people can beat this villain; this villain can do anything.

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Krull did have script problems, but Alan Dean Foster tightened up the narrative and actually made the story somewhat less nonsensical in his novelization. Like Star Wars, Krull is a hybrid of sword and sorcery and planetary romance with some space opera thrown in. These kinds of books and movies never delve deep into realism or logic. Their point is primarily to dazzle the audience and advance the story. (I actually like Krull because of its original handling of some its ideas even though I realize it's far from perfect.) In the film narrative though, Krull doesn't create a compelling enough world to lure the audience in as, say, the original Star Wars does. (As noted, the novelization greatly improves on this shortcoming.) That's why it didn't succeed at the theaters even though it's no more superficial or grossly illogical than Star Wars, Harry Potter, Terminator, or any other would-be SF or fantasy franchise.

Requiescat in pace, Krystle Papile. I'll always miss you.

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The problem is I am watching the film not reading the novel.

Its that man again!!

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Looks like you are quoting from the Siskel and Ebert review..



















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If you have an omnipotent villain, what good does it do to fight him in the first place?


Maybe because it's the right thing to do?

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Clearly the villain isn't omnipotent.
I've often thought about becoming omnipotent myself, but as I don't like strong cheese what's the point?

...here is little Effie's head
whose brains are made of gingerbread

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