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LuciferSage posted...

Krull was terrible, and I loved it as a kid.

I enjoyed Krull, but I recognize it was really bad. However, I can enjoy it while being okay with its lousiness because it starred Kevin Sorbo who literally just did that with H:TLJ. And it's a fucking shame that Sorbo's career was effectively cut short, first by illness when it was taking off and then allegedly because of his religious views although, honestly, it was really more the illness costing him time when he was his peak relevance.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I was a big fan of that film as a kid. It probably helped that I was always into Greek myths in general.

Sam Worthington can choke to death on a sack filled with 1000 dicks, though. The remake is trash.

I loved the original and I'm strangely impressed how the remake can take a much larger budget and make such a worse movie. The design choices were goofy and the story was somehow more of a mess than the original. The special effects were kinda neat, though.

I haven't watched the remake in a while. I might give it another go. The sequel was so kinda forgettable that there are times I'm not sure I even watched it.

Part of the overall problem is that the remake came out at a time when they were doing a LOT of dicey things with fantasy. We also got that Egyptian Gods and Monsters movie around the same time, which I don't think I've seen the full thing but I kinda want to at some point for the setting and effects.

The general problem with the remake is that there was no real sense of magic or mystery. The original mutilated myths like crazy, but there was a sense of lore that so lacking in the remake, probably because it went so barebones with the story so it didn't feel like you were stepping into a different world.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I kind of stopped doing that sort of stuff once I got older, though I did have a moment about 10 years ago when I made all the rings from Green Lantern/Blackest Night out of plastic piping and a wooden bezel (which I still have displayed in my "gaming lounge").

I geeked out a little when they were selling the cheap plastic ones years ago. I kinda want to get either a legit-looking SC ring or an OL ring, but I hate wearing rings so it'd probably be a waste.

I almost bought the large SC lantern replica, but I finally settled for one of the smaller $30 versions with a matching light-up ring.

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