Krull

Alan Smithee · April 08, 2006, 01:18:24 PM

One of my favorite bad movies from the 80's. Saw it on HBO (I think) initially. The year it came out, it had to compete against Return of the Jedi. I just found the acade game of the movie at some third rate Chuck E. Cheese's wannabe. This movie, essentially, is a "remake" of Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope.
I can't believe Peter Yates directed this thing! The same year, he directed the GREAT and MASTERFUL
'The Dresser'.

Neville · April 08, 2006, 02:54:56 PM

Not my favourite sword and sorcery movie by any means, but still pretty good. Yates direction is absent-minded, acting so-so, but the settings, FX and music alone make it almost great, and the script is clever enough to borrow all the ingredients you may like to find in this kind of films, and in the exact doses.

Plus you gotta love the ride of the fire mares scene. Never cheese was played with a more straight face.

Ash · April 08, 2006, 04:34:04 PM

I own Krull on DVD.
It's a fun movie! (even though it is kinda cheesy)

Andrew has reviewed it HERE

ulthar · April 08, 2006, 04:49:28 PM

I always liked Krull - have a VHS copy. I saw it in the theatre when it was first released and thought it was a lot of fun. It's a good one for a game of 'spot Liam Neeson.'

akiratubo · April 08, 2006, 07:45:15 PM

Krull is a good movie. It has, quite literally, everything. Space ships, robots, monsters, lasers, swords, volcanos, caves, swamps, deserts, good, evil, heroism, cowardice, manly men, buxom women, Eric Idle, bad blue-screen effects, gooey latex costumes ...

Never will its like be seen again.

Alan Smithee · April 08, 2006, 09:13:03 PM

Are you sure we saw the same movie? Robots? Spaceships? Eric Idle?!?!

plan9superfan · April 09, 2006, 06:52:42 AM

Does this have anything to do with "Kull the Conqueror"?

I always mix the two movies.

Neville · April 09, 2006, 06:56:08 AM

Nope, but they probably took the title from that character, you know, to cash in for the whole "sword & fantasy" trend.

akiratubo · April 09, 2006, 04:09:18 PM

Alan Smithee Wrote:
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> Are you sure we saw the same movie? Robots?
> Spaceships? Eric Idle?!?!

I thought the bad guy's soldiers were robots. The "castle" was shown flying through space during the opening credits (at least I remember it that way). I would have sworn Eric Idle played the shape-changing amateur wizard, but the IMDB says no.

Oh, well.

Alan Smithee · April 09, 2006, 05:40:29 PM

The henchmen always seemed to be aliens, that's why when they were killed, a slug would pop out of its head and burrow into the ground. That petrified log/fortress never struck me as a battleship. But there isn't any outer space action in this movie.

Neville · April 09, 2006, 05:44:36 PM

Alan Smithee Wrote:
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> The henchmen always seemed to be aliens, that's
> why when they were killed, a slug would pop out of
> its head and burrow into the ground. That
> petrified log/fortress never struck me as a
> battleship. But there isn't any outer space action
> in this movie.

I saw the movie just a few weeks ago, akiratubo is right about the space mid-credits scene. It's not that weird if you think that the whole action seems to take place in another planet.

ulthar · April 09, 2006, 05:53:06 PM

Neville Wrote:

>
> I saw the movie just a few weeks ago, akiratubo is
> right about the space mid-credits scene. It's not
> that weird if you think that the whole action
> seems to take place in another planet.
>

Wasn't the idea that everyday the castle appeared in a different location? Did it 'fly' from one place to another, or just appear?

(Though I've seen it bunches of times, it has been several years since my last viewing).

Neville · April 10, 2006, 03:48:46 AM

Yes, when it was on a certain planet, it would move from place to place, just by appearing / disappearing. But at the same time, it is implied on the prologue that Krull is not the first planet it attacks, and i think this is also mentioned at the beginning of the film.

trekgeezer · April 10, 2006, 10:02:50 AM

The only two things that I remember about this movie are the cyclops and the Budweiser horses.

Gerry · April 10, 2006, 10:30:13 AM

I always figured they added the "flying through space" credits as an afterthought to appeal more to the Sci-Fi audience. For all intents and purposes, it is just a Sword & Sorcery film with a few Sci-Fi trappings.

Ergo the Magnificent: "Short in Stature, Tall in Power, Narrow of Purpose, and Wide of Vision" is played by David Battley has appeared in many movies/TV shows, but I always associate him with WILLY WONKA in which he plays Mr. Turkentine, the school teacher who asks the children how many Wonka bars they've eaten to illustrate a math problem.

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