80's Sword & Sorcery Retrospective, Part 2: 1982-83ish
More tales of black-clad pricks and their endless crusade against thatched huts, and the protein-shake-swilling men who oppose them.
~ 1982 ~
If the first two years of the 80’s were when S&S found its legs, ‘82 was when it found its entire body, in no small part thanks to the, uh, body of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who starred in the single best and ( Read more... )
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THATCHED ROOFED COTTAGES!
...now, where were we...? Oh, right, 80s swords-and-sorcery.
Obviously I'm going to have to put Conan on the list, as this is yet another of those "I can't believe it's not butter you haven't seen that!" films (and it is). Of the others, The Beastmaster should at least be worth a look (as the whole "cow gives birth to a human" is ripped straight out of Norse mythology), I might give Fire And Ice a go (not that I think much of Half Of The Rings, but I think I've come across some of the themes in the film... somewhere else, before) - and Krull also looks interesting.
Four more, potentially, for the pile, then...
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