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I always thought Excalibur was way better than that craptastic King Arthur movie.
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Josh Feltman said:
Couldn't agree more, better sets, action, and acting, and Nicol Williamson's portrayal of Merlin is, in a word, memorable.
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It's not a movie, but the Deadwood series on HBO is pretty heavy-duty with the shankin'. Way more people get offed on that show with a blade than by a gun. Pretty brutal! I'd like to have some of the knives they have on that show, beautiful old-school pieces.
24 sees its share of people getting stuck with blades as well. Kiefer Sutherland's a whiz with the old Microtech (at least on TV).
Not very many movies with knife parts in them. "Red Eye" has a goofy Ka-Bar scene, "The Long Kiss Goodnight" has some good knife scenes. (Though the scene with Gena Davis discovering she's a bad-ass assassin while chopping lettuce is ridiculous) "Point of No Return" has Harvey Keitel angrily swinging a Spyderco, "Mission Impossible" has some cool scenes with a pimped out Microtech Halo. "The Hunted" has Benicio Del Toro doing silly things with a TOPS. I've always liked "Rob Roy" for the swordplay. I forgot Yojimbo- and all the other Mifune movies. He's pretty tough. Kill Bill is a good knife movie- I imagine SOG has sold a lot of Desert Daggers because of that one- though they inexplicably discontinued it right around the time of the movie's release. "Ichi the Killer" has some knifing- with weird giant needle things. And let us not forget "First Blood". I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.
24 sees its share of people getting stuck with blades as well. Kiefer Sutherland's a whiz with the old Microtech (at least on TV).
Not very many movies with knife parts in them. "Red Eye" has a goofy Ka-Bar scene, "The Long Kiss Goodnight" has some good knife scenes. (Though the scene with Gena Davis discovering she's a bad-ass assassin while chopping lettuce is ridiculous) "Point of No Return" has Harvey Keitel angrily swinging a Spyderco, "Mission Impossible" has some cool scenes with a pimped out Microtech Halo. "The Hunted" has Benicio Del Toro doing silly things with a TOPS. I've always liked "Rob Roy" for the swordplay. I forgot Yojimbo- and all the other Mifune movies. He's pretty tough. Kill Bill is a good knife movie- I imagine SOG has sold a lot of Desert Daggers because of that one- though they inexplicably discontinued it right around the time of the movie's release. "Ichi the Killer" has some knifing- with weird giant needle things. And let us not forget "First Blood". I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.
Gladiator was horrible. Maximus was along the Danube in Central Europe, mostly up in what is now Austria, when Marcus Aurelius dies and Commodus tries to have him killed. He then gets on a horse, very wounded, and somehow gets to Southern Spain or to North Africa, the film is not clear on that, in time to find his only just killed wife and kid. This is a physical and geographical impossibility.
I won't even go into the armors and equipment of the Danubian Legions or of the bizarre combination of Hitler's SS and Darth Vader that they dressed the Praetorian Guard in. But they must have emptied out every junk shop in Hollywood to get armors for the gladiator scenes. I even saw a 16th Century Spanish Morion helmet on one of the guys. Look, the munera were very stylized and even quasi-religious. The Romans would not have screwed around with them that way.
Finally, the concept that Marcus Aurelius wanted to reinstitute the Republic and not leave the Empire to his son is just plain ludicrous. Please study the history of Rome's "Good Emperors" and you will understand why I say that.
There was a film, The Fall of the Roman Empire made some years back that covered the same basic plot, the death of Marcus Aurelius and the succession of Commodus, with a much better touch, even if it was no more accurate. At least it had Sophia Loren in it. The ending was ultimately silly, however, with Commodus and the hero, played by Stephen Boyd as Verus, duelling with pila the heavy javelins of the Roman legions. Silly. But the rest of the film was fun.
As to Excalibur when Uther bedded Ygraine while dressed in full plate armor, my wife and I nearly fell out of our seats we were laghing so hard. It was difficult to take the film very seriously after that.
I won't even go into the armors and equipment of the Danubian Legions or of the bizarre combination of Hitler's SS and Darth Vader that they dressed the Praetorian Guard in. But they must have emptied out every junk shop in Hollywood to get armors for the gladiator scenes. I even saw a 16th Century Spanish Morion helmet on one of the guys. Look, the munera were very stylized and even quasi-religious. The Romans would not have screwed around with them that way.
Finally, the concept that Marcus Aurelius wanted to reinstitute the Republic and not leave the Empire to his son is just plain ludicrous. Please study the history of Rome's "Good Emperors" and you will understand why I say that.
There was a film, The Fall of the Roman Empire made some years back that covered the same basic plot, the death of Marcus Aurelius and the succession of Commodus, with a much better touch, even if it was no more accurate. At least it had Sophia Loren in it. The ending was ultimately silly, however, with Commodus and the hero, played by Stephen Boyd as Verus, duelling with pila the heavy javelins of the Roman legions. Silly. But the rest of the film was fun.
As to Excalibur when Uther bedded Ygraine while dressed in full plate armor, my wife and I nearly fell out of our seats we were laghing so hard. It was difficult to take the film very seriously after that.
As to Excalibur when Uther bedded Ygraine while dressed in full plate armor, my wife and I nearly fell out of our seats we were laghing so hard. It was difficult to take the film very seriously after that.
I think that was the director's daughter... so the full plate mail was mandatory ahem
oh yeahhhh.. what about "Rebel Without a Cause"?
"You stepped on our school seal! Let's have a knifefight!" LOL
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The Hunted with Christopher Lambert . Not the whole movie . THe fight on the train snd the practice session in the dojo .
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Has anyone mentioned "Big Trouble in Little China?" Great knife action.
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FullerH said:As to Excalibur when Uther bedded Ygraine while dressed in full plate armor, my wife and I nearly fell out of our seats we were laghing so hard. It was difficult to take the film very seriously after that.
Entirely doable, as long as your "dagger" ain't a "sgian dubh".
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Well, there is always the film that got switchblades banned in the US, "Blackboard Jungle" with Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Richard Kiley, and some very young men who later became huge stars such as Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, and Jamie Farr. My parents absolutely forbid me from seeing it so, of course, I went to it the first chance that I got. The scene that I remember best is not the attempted rape scene as I was still too young for that to have attacted me. It is the scene where Ford, as the hero teacher, takes one of those cheap-a** POS Italian steletto style switchblades away from the Vic Morrow character, stabs it into a desk top and backhands it, snapping the blade off. I have always thought that it was a lovely comment on the quality of those knives.
That was the first of a number of teen exploitation flicks that used switchblades as a symbol for, *gasp*, juvenile deliquents. Isn't that a lovely term in our modern world? Well, in the 1950s, the switchblade became what the Bowie knife had been about 100 years earlier, "the weapon that would end civilization as we knew it." It was, therefore, the target of a movement to have it banned. That is how we got the federal ban on the importation and interstate transportation of switchblades for the general public.
http://www.amazon.com/Blackboard-Ju...dbdppd_castcrew_1/002-7227672-7307220?ie=UTF8
That was the first of a number of teen exploitation flicks that used switchblades as a symbol for, *gasp*, juvenile deliquents. Isn't that a lovely term in our modern world? Well, in the 1950s, the switchblade became what the Bowie knife had been about 100 years earlier, "the weapon that would end civilization as we knew it." It was, therefore, the target of a movement to have it banned. That is how we got the federal ban on the importation and interstate transportation of switchblades for the general public.
http://www.amazon.com/Blackboard-Ju...dbdppd_castcrew_1/002-7227672-7307220?ie=UTF8
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OK, the one no one wants to mention. First Blood. Rambo single handedly spawned many people's interest in knives in the first place. Forget about how real or unreal it was, or the acting or the sequals or anything else. This movie promoted the idea of a knife as both tool and weapon. The idea that many of us here hold that as long as I have my knife, I can make it.
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TomFetter said:
Big trouble in little china, escape from NY, Highlander, the Hunted (christopher lambert swordfighting one), Kill Bill 1&2, Rambo, Six string Samurai, the last samurai, crouching tiger, thats all i can think of right now
oh yeah... Conan the barbarian also. lol.
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danielp said:
That's true. (though MacGuyver is a TV show, not a movie). MacGuyver could build a nuclear reactor with his SAK and some baling wire, then enrich uranium and use it to mutate a mouse into a giant walrus like creature who could tusk open doors for him. He was like Rube Goldberg, but with a fierce mullet.
You could put MacGuyver in a shed full of spare parts and five minutes later he would come out in a fully functional mobile armored suit, straight out of Robotech or Gundam Wing. He would then launch net guns at all of the bad guys because killing is wrong.
Imagine what MacGuyver could have done with a Leatherman! He could have built a Death Star out of some old soda cans and a bicycle rack!
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It has always been my theory that MacGyver was the bastard son of the Professor from Gilligan's Isle. That ability to build whatever with what was at hand with minimal tools has to run in the family. Macgyver could have built a boat though, which the Prof never accomplished. I am betting his mom would be Mary Anne and not Ginger.
Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex - 2nd GIG
I know this is really a Japanese animated series, not a movie, but there is one being made right now that will come out in theaters. Based on Masamune Shirow's Comic books of the same name, which have a fair number of knives throughout, for utility use (wedging a door (rigged with a bomb) shut, for example) as well as hand to hand combat (elabourate 3-on-1 knife fight in Appleseed TPB #4 but you guys don't seem like comic book nerds)
Sucker Free City - Spike Lee Movie
Takeshi Kitano movies like Battle Royale, Sonatine, etc.
Underworld Evolution - Improbable scene in drainage tunnel
and then---!
Aliens (1986) Dir. James Cameron with that famous Gerber Mark II "knife trick"
I know this is really a Japanese animated series, not a movie, but there is one being made right now that will come out in theaters. Based on Masamune Shirow's Comic books of the same name, which have a fair number of knives throughout, for utility use (wedging a door (rigged with a bomb) shut, for example) as well as hand to hand combat (elabourate 3-on-1 knife fight in Appleseed TPB #4 but you guys don't seem like comic book nerds)
Sucker Free City - Spike Lee Movie
Takeshi Kitano movies like Battle Royale, Sonatine, etc.
Underworld Evolution - Improbable scene in drainage tunnel
and then---!
Aliens (1986) Dir. James Cameron with that famous Gerber Mark II "knife trick"
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rottwang said:
Huh?? Cameron was the one doing it?? I dont follow..
Ghost in the Shell is a sweet one!!!
Ichi the Killer has a couple of sweet ones in it as it has been posted...Kakihara and his needles kicks BUTT!!!
Watching an oldie but a goodie right now called "Samuraii Wolf"...So far it is pretty good!
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