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What are some good Midieval Fantasy movies (like the BG series)

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  • MitchforkMitchfork Member Posts: 390

    @Heindrich1988 There are sorcerers?
    I always thought the one thing missing in many fantasy movies was some evocation or conjuration style magic. I mean Gandalf... was a walking flashlight. The second most magical thing he did in the films with his "magical staff" was hit things. So disappointing.

    Well, Gandalf is only fifth level.

    http://kuoi.org/~kamikaze/RPG/gandalf.txt
  • ImperatorImperator Member Posts: 154
    Not medieval, but it has dragons, Reign of Fire.
  • NonnahswriterNonnahswriter Member Posts: 2,520
    Time Bandits also stars David Warner as Evil. I.E., Jon Irenicus. ;D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OKLgLZHFk
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    @Nonnahsweiter Irenicus is based in Evil, see the ending of Time Bandits and the opening of SoA.
    And if you think of it, all the storyline of SoA is based in Time Bandits.
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  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    David Warner was awesome in Mad Dogs. I didn't know it was him, but after awhile of saying "why is this guy so familiar" he said the word "dare" and I was like OMG its him!
  • Chaotic_GoodChaotic_Good Member Posts: 255
    edited December 2013
    The film Circle of Iron I brought up earlier doesn't have any fly by wire combat or magic in the traditional sense. Bruce lee really had little patience for unrealistic martial arts, but because he was not there to direct the combat resembles something like connan. The film conveys his love for philosophy, but the world and some of the enemies are magical in nature. In my view even with the poor special effect this is one of Bruce Lees greatest creations and one of the greatest films of all time.
  • StuckinMudStuckinMud Member Posts: 45
    The Sword And The Sorcerer 1982

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  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    ^I watched that movie, but it wasn't at all what I expected. There were lots of (.)(.)s
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    lol @CrevsDaak is buying it on ebay as we speak
  • StuckinMudStuckinMud Member Posts: 45

    ^I watched that movie, but it wasn't at all what I expected. There were lots of (.)(.)s


    Well Germans revealed that staring at breasts is good for our health and can even increase our life expectancy!
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155

    ^I watched that movie, but it wasn't at all what I expected. There were lots of (.)(.)s

    But not mines!!! HEHEHEHE!!!!
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    @booinyoureyes I don't know why you've became so random, what did ebay has to do with this??
    No, I was eating an apple and painting a picture of my lego (destroyed) city, it wasn't my chaos, it was my mom who walked over it, and them I did the same, shit, it shouldn't be in the middle of the room!
  • StuckinMudStuckinMud Member Posts: 45
    Deathstalker 1983 A RODGER CORMAN PRODUCTION!!!
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  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    lol
  • StuckinMudStuckinMud Member Posts: 45
    edited December 2013
    @booinyoureyes I know right there are 4 Deathstalkers each one funnier and worse than the last. Not to mention the spinoffs.
  • StuckinMudStuckinMud Member Posts: 45
    Barbarian Queen 1985 "also known as Queens of the Naked Steel"
    *BE WARNED THIS MOVIE CONSITS OF BEWBSimageimage
  • StuckinMudStuckinMud Member Posts: 45
    The Barbarians 1987imageimageimageimage
  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    Okay... some point about two years ago I downloaded all those movies because they were recommended by an imdb list. They were all basically soft pornos. d'oh!
  • StuckinMudStuckinMud Member Posts: 45
    @booinyoureyes I know but the majesty of cheeseball fantasyimage
    TO WATCH OR NOT TO WATCH THAT IS THE QUESTION?
  • StuckinMudStuckinMud Member Posts: 45
    The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984) aka RODGER CORMAN RIPS OFF YOJIMBO!image
    MY WORK IS COMPLETE!
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155

    The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984) aka RODGER CORMAN RIPS OFF YOJIMBO!image
    MY WORK IS COMPLETE!

    WTF!??!? Four bewbs!!?!?!?!? How in Baator and the Abyss.........

  • booinyoureyesbooinyoureyes Member Posts: 6,164
    Yeah, its something else when David Carradine in a silver bikini isn't even the most eye-popping part of a picture!
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155

    Yeah, its something else when David Carradine in a silver bikini isn't even the most eye-popping part of a picture!

    And when four tits aren't enough, you can have a snake fooling around, not to mention that Gandalf-like smokey over there and those ghouls in the background.....
  • StuckinMudStuckinMud Member Posts: 45
    edited December 2013
    @booinyoureyes and @CrevsDaak funny enough you can watch it on youtube it's shlock yes but not that bad and yes you can see the quadruplets in all their glory..you know if your into that sort of thing................(;一_一)
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155

    @booinyoureyes and @CrevsDaak funny enough you can watch it on youtube it's shlock yes but not that bad and yes you can see the quadruplets in all their glory..you know if your into that sort of thing................(;一_一)

    Me no wants so. Me wants gettin' drunk and flyyyyyyyyyy on the skies!!
  • abacusabacus Member Posts: 1,307
    edited December 2013
    The problem with putting stuff like this on screen is that it takes a massive budget to make them even half-way believable... I'm not just talking special effects/ cgi, but things like costumes & sets, balancing dialogue somewhere between Pyrhonesque thous & thees and outright anachronism... It's an instant turn off as it just ruins the audience's immersion in the world.

    And magic is very unsatisfying as a story device... How can you put your characters under real pressure when a twiddle of the fingers & a hocus-pocus can do anything? This is the reason why most good high fantasy (Middle Earth, Earthsea, Fire&Ice makes magic exceedingly rare, difficult or dangerous.
    Supremely and obviously powerful characters are innately boring (except - occasionally - as villains).

    Also, it's a bit rough wailing on Tolkein for using archetypes, when he created or first popularised many of them.
  • DungeonnoobDungeonnoob Member Posts: 315
    Army of Darkness classic.
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