[Elfsea] OT---movie review---'King's Guard'

Jane Sitton lymadelina at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 4 13:11:20 PDT 2002


I think by calling it a "B" movie, Cian meant:

"Main Entry: B movie  Function: noun  Date: 1948: a
cheaply produced motion picture" -- Merriam-Webster
Online Dictionary

Madelina

--- kristid2001 at yahoo.com wrote:
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> ouch. I ranked it a 5, for the wince factor alone. I
> think giving it a grade "B" is generous. It was
> better than Kull, though. :)
> Cairistiona
>
>  The Hermit wrote:Do you buckle your
> swache's..............?
>
> Have you ever wanted to fire an old match-lock style
> gun...............?
>
> Do you like shows where bad is bad and good is
> good..........?
>
> And you dont have any trouble telling them
> apart...........?
>
> Are you a fan of B movies.................?
>
> If you answered YES to any or some of the above then
> I would like to
> reccomend a movie called 'King's Guard'....starring
> Eric Roberts, Ron
> Perlman, and Lesley-Anne Down.
> Dont go by the dust jacket's synopsis, there are no
> castle attacks, all
> the action is played out as the Guardsmen escort a
> princess and her
> dowery to wed the King of Sassinia. Naturally they
> ARE attacked by
> 'bandits' led by Perlman and Roberts.
> Dont expect any magic or sorcery, nor buckets of
> blood, no demons,
> mutants, witches or warlocks,.....just a good
> rousing tale of duty to
> your King, interesting badguys and a few odd
> characters(the rehash of
> Shakespear given while entertaining the Princess is
> almost worth the
> cost of the movie alone) and the out-takes after the
> end credits are
> well worth watching.
> This movie plays out like a very good SCA event told
> as a story, lots of
> decent swordplay, good swordsmen and ONE very good
> swordsWOMAN, almost
> everyone fights Florentine, and with some very
> interesting second weapon
> combinations, and believable matchlocks.
> This movie will never win any Oscars, but for the
> cost(I paid $5.00 and
> change) you will not go far wrong having a copy in
> your video library.
>
> All in all, with "The Lord of The Rings" ranked as
> an obvious 10, I
> would rank 'King's Guard' as about a 4 to 4.5 or
> higher if you dont like
> magic and sorcery.
>
> Rapiers Up
>
> cian

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