80s Sword and Sandel / Sorcery / Scandal - 80s fantasy guilty pleasure goodness

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Chukzombi

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i alluded to this earlier, but the story i heard about Red Sonja was this was supposed to be Conan 3(the Conqueror) , but they didnt get the rights to the Conan franchise. they reworked the script and made it about a ginger chick named Red Sonja with Arnold showing up randomly to play a Conanesque barbarian named Kalidor. the result was a really shitty movie.
 
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I watched Time Bandits a few weeks ago because it was mentioned as an Ultima influence. Was pretty good! Has Jon Irenicus as the villain, and Bilbo Baggins was Napoleon.
 
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Chukzombi said:
i alluded to this earlier, but the story i heard about Red Sonja was this was supposed to be Conan 3(the Conqueror) , but they didnt get the rights to the Conan franchise. they reworked the script and made it about a ginger chick named Red Sonja with Arnold showing up randomly to play a Conanesque barbarian named Kalidor. the result was a really shitty movie.
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I liked it ok for what it was. What's truly awful is that almost 40 years later....I'd watch Red Sonja multiple times in a row before I'd watch Damsel.
 
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Chukzombi said:
i alluded to this earlier, but the story i heard about Red Sonja was this was supposed to be Conan 3(the Conqueror) , but they didnt get the rights to the Conan franchise. they reworked the script and made it about a ginger chick named Red Sonja with Arnold showing up randomly to play a Conanesque barbarian named Kalidor. the result was a really shitty movie.
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He-man was created because they had a bunch of toys made for the Conan movies but couldn't sell them or something. So they rebranded and created He-man.
 
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Chukzombi said:
would Evil Dead 2 qualify as sword and sandal kind of fantasy? or just a horror story?

if not. here is another cool one.
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Chukzombi

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Chanur said:
He-man was created because they had a bunch of toys made for the Conan movies but couldn't sell them or something. So they rebranded and created He-man.
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yup. Midnight's Edge has a whole series of videos based on the Heman/Conan situation. Mattel tried to pull a fast one.
 
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when they redid the ratings to add pg-13 in 1984 bare female breasts disappeared from all but r movies. i do not remember a pg-13 movie that actually has them in it and as i am looking this up, Titanic is about the only movie i know of that was pg13 and had nudity.

we can blame lucas and spielburg for pg13...indiana jones and the temple of doom temple scene- the heart being cut out scene i believe- was deemed too violent for pg yet the movie itself was too tame for R

hey can we list Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom here ? cheesy- check- not great- check- 1980's? check. of course i'd watch it over a lot of the movies here, but....
 
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Lenardo said:
when they redid the ratings to add pg-13 in 1984 bare female breasts disappeared from all but r movies. i do not remember a pg-13 movie that actually has them in it and as i am looking this up, Titanic is about the only movie i know of that was pg13 and had nudity.

we can blame lucas and spielburg for pg13...indiana jones and the temple of doom temple scene- the heart being cut out scene i believe- was deemed too violent for pg yet the movie itself was too tame for R

hey can we list Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom here ? cheesy- check- not great- check- 1980's? check. of course i'd watch it over a lot of the movies here, but....
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Probably. It had at least one sword and some sorcery.
 
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Yeah...but it wasn't a B movie... even dragonslayer was not a B movie really...

Really, Conan was an A level, as was Conan the destroyer, but it was slipping into B... then all the mimics and even red sonja were solidly B class...

Deathstalker has to be the best series, you can play find that re-used footage and other such fun games
 
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