Back in the 1960s the Italian film industry made a ton of cheapie "Sword and Sandal" movies.  Later on they got (poorly) dubbed, bundled together, and shipped over to the US as the "Sons of Hercules" series, complete with cheesy music.  Some of them are on Youtube, and the beginning and ending music definitely is.

Quote from: urbwar;1003973And it's on youtube!

No ones gonna take it down, no one wants to take responsibility for making it!

Oh, yeah!  Another movie to watch is "Alexander Nevsky."  It's not really bad, it's just a bit odd; much like 19th century Bel Canto opera, the movie assumes everybody knows the story and the film is the "good parts" version.

I liked the movie when I was young, but I know it's a bad movie:

Critters. The good guys are faceless alien bounty hunters that happen to take the semblance of a hillbilly yokel and a hair metal rock star. Not too much to steal from this universe, but definitely something you can steal and combine with a more robust setting.

The Final Sacrifice is a 1990 movie that is only really notable for being a Mystery Science Theater 3000 subject and being worth studying if you're taking a film class because the production value is actually pretty spectacular given that the whole film was made for $1500. However, it has a great cheesy aesthetic that I'd love to port to a deliberately campy adventure.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1004115Oh, yeah!  Another movie to watch is "Alexander Nevsky."  It's not really bad, it's just a bit odd; much like 19th century Bel Canto opera, the movie assumes everybody knows the story and the film is the "good parts" version.

Uh, that's a classic of Russian cinema. Hardly a bad movie.

Quote from: Dumarest;1004188Uh, that's a classic of Russian cinema. Hardly a bad movie.

Yes it is a classic.  But it's structured more like an opera than a documentary, is my point.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1004046"The Vikings" with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis.  The best part is Earnest Borgnine having WAY too much fun as Ragnar the Viking Chief.

No kidding. His final scene is badass, and makes the movie worth watching.

Quote from: darthfozzywig;1004212no kidding. His final scene is badass, and makes the movie worth watching.

Odiiiiiiin!!

I just want to go on record here by stating that Krull, Sword & the Sorcerer and Willow are really GOOD movies.  This has been scientifically proven.  

Now carry on.

Quote from: JeremyR;1001455Krull has a 6.1 rating at IMDB...it's not Citizen Kane, but it's hardly a really bad movie.

It's pretty bad.

It's also pretty awesome.

That Glaive weapon blew my mind as a kid.  I do, at this point, realize the complete impracticality of such a weapon, but it has the Rule of Cool going for it.

Quote from: Thornhammer;1004311That Glaive weapon blew my mind as a kid.  I do, at this point, realize the complete impracticality of such a weapon, but it has the Rule of Cool going for it.

I assumed the fancy spinny knive thing was some sort of advanced magic/technology... not JUST a spinny knife thing.

I loved playing the Krull video game way back

Quote from: Schwartzwald;1004068Fuck this board. Goddam typed a long reply and this fucked up board lost it!  Lemme guess, sjw fasicsts and feminazi  hackers, right?

The fault is not caused by the RPGSite. It is not actually the BBS Software fault. It's the web browser fault. Same deal here, yesterday I lost about two hours writing the Bladerunner post. I had eight pages typed in, and the browser general memory chuffed and lost everything, including a automatic backup it was supposed to perform, so I went about to finding the actual source of the problem and filed a bug report & trouble ticket with Firefox/Mozilla. Turns out there is a fault with the way that the web browser handles memory, and if it crashes, sometimes everything stored in RAM memory that you are in the process of working on (That hasn't actually been sent to the RPGsite yet) is lost when the browser recovers because of the way the browser handles the file that is open and being worked on.

Anyway re-typed the Bladerunner article then re-posted it, then one of the Mozilla code team emailed me with instructions for creating a new trouble ticket. I have also requested access to the Mozilla Codebase, so I could submit a patch to fix the memory problem (Basically, I don't care about the problem, I want to write a special save function that saves whatever I'm working on every five minutes or so, that I can use to copy/paste into a new post if the browser takes a dump). They want the trouble ticket, so they can put a team on fixing the crash problem permanently.

I basically requested permission to patch their web browser, or fork it, so I can create a more fault tolerant browser. This is a work-in-progress and If I end up patching the Mozilla code to add a new auto-save function, or forking the entire codebase out of GitHub and creating a new web browser, I'll post an update into this thread. I already know how to fork the codebase and build a new browser without asking their permission, however would rather work with them to solve the problem first, rather then work in competition with them.

Also, I totally liked the sword/blade launcher in Sword & The Sorcerer. I'm pretty sure I want to run a cheesy game in "The Land that Time Forgot" complete with scientists, dinosaurs,U-boats, and Nazis.

If I am going to write an involved post, I switch to a notepad program. It'd be nice if it were unnecessary, so best of luck to GameDaddy.