While Dragonslayer wasn't as great as Excalibur or Conan the Barbarian, I still count it as one of the great fantasy flicks of my boyhood. And like Krull or Hawk the Slayer or The Sword & The Sorcerer, I haven't seen it since the eighties.
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It has kind of a weak ending, but -- my, what a lovely dragon!
ReplyDeleteWe've been rewatching older movies (or as my friend says, it's the "Destroying our childhood memories" film festival). We just watched Dark Crystal last night, and all agreed that (1) the story isn't very good, (2) the visuals are pretty cool, and (3) it's just as freaky as we recalled when it scarred us as children. The preceding movie was "The Neverending Story" which at least has the benefit of having a genuinely heroic main character who handles things himself, rather than a lead who needs his flying girlfriend to take care of everything.
ReplyDeleteAnd did you know Atreyu was Boxey? We didn't.
I recall loving the Trial By Stone sequence in Dark Crystal.
ReplyDelete“Big Trouble” is a great movie. I remember Red Sonya as a decent B fantasy movie. Another good one is Labyrinth. Outside Conan, the only movies that stayed true to my early memories were Big Trouble and Princess Bride. I agree with dr-rotwang about Dragonslayer. Oh try to find Willow it is cool too but after a while the little people screaming WILLOW all the time gets annoying.
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There are a few 80s fantasy films that I dust off regularly ... Ladyhawke, for example, owns a little piece of my heart. I like Dragonslayer but I haven't seen it since sometime in the late 90s. Ditto Labyrinth and Excalibur.
ReplyDeleteThere are some 80s fantasy films that I liked fine at the time but that didn't grab a piece of my heart, so I don't need to see them anymore. Clash of the Titans, for example.
And then there are a lot of 80s fantasy films that if I never see them again, I consider it no real loss :) I can die content without again experiencing the likes of Krull, Beastmaster, Ator the Fighting Eagle, Highlander, or Legend (forgive me, Tim Curry, but even you are not cool enough to draw me into watching Tom Cruise cavorting with an elf covered in costume glitter).