Is it the worst thing you can do with two hours? Arguably not, and watch for Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane in one of their first gigs as gypsy ruffians. In that, it is a lot like Dragonslayer or The Dark Crystal. Sure, it is bloated, but it resides in that weird little subsection of fantasy filmmaking that was aiming to be perceived as an event, and in the right frame-of-mind you kind of get swept away by it.
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Colwyn must save the princess, banish the evils, and take his place as the king of planet Krull.Īll the ways it doesn’t work – This movie is all about more, more, more, from Peter Yates’ ( Bullitt) direction to James Horner’s score, to the near-Shakespearean weight the movie has crowned itself with, there isn’t a moment of it that doesn’t scream of desperate import and urgency.Īnd yet… – The movie is kind of fun. Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall) was just about to get hitched to his hot, young princess bride Lyssa (Lysette Anthony) when said evil alien mountain crashes into the planet Krull, and more evil brain-parasite creatures steal her away, all for the pleasure for the even-more-evil squiggly mirror monster overlord Beast. Krull (1983) High adventure! Swash to be buckled! Princes, princesses, space mountains that crash into planets, or just appear and disappear at will, acting, reacting, overacting and the worst frisbee you’ve had the displeasure of trying to catch (they call it a glaive). When it was made years later, it was with Carpenter in the role of executive producer. Originally, John Carpenter was approached to direct the movie but he opted to do Escape From New York instead. and a dude who is technically old enough to be her grandfather.
It’s young love, dang it, between a P.Y.T. Who episode, you still get sucked in to the film provided you’re generous enough to go with it.
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The continuity problems are pretty glaring, not the least of which is Herdeg’s protestations about these weird cars he don’t know how to drive (automatic transmissions, ‘natch) that, apparently, he can drive like a pro later in the flick.Īnd yet… – As dopey as things can get, and as much as the experiment’s command center looks like cast-offs from a ’70s Dr. Also, what’s up with Herdeg’s eyeliner? You never quite buy Pare as anyone from the Forties. And yet, when Herdeg visits old Jimmy (character actor Ralph Manza), none of this seems evident.
Jimmy gets sucked back to the ship and it is up to Herdeg to find out what’s going on, or as it is more often phrased in the movie, “what the hell’s going on, goddammit.”Īll the ways it doesn’t work – The time paradox stuff falls apart pretty quickly, especially when it is revealed that Herdeg’s valiant third-act actions were supposedly already known by his shipmates from the past. Yes, it is just as daft as it sounds.Īlong for the ride is Nancy Allen as Allison, cute and red-haired, with a mousy-behavior and an inclination toward eye-humping Pare every chance she gets. David Herdeg (Michael Pare) and Jimmy Parker (Bobby DiCicco, who was a primary actor in another lovable bomb, Steven Spielberg’s 1941) are being sucked back into a time vortex, on a molecular level, where their ship and a chunk of a town are trapped. The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) Briefly, two WWII Navy guys are swept into the future (circa 1984) when the experiment to radar-cloak warships goes awry. I will leave it to you to decide if these three films have what it takes to be flop-classics, or just plain flops. Sometimes they win you over on merit and other times, it’s just a matter of crying “uncle” and letting the insanity win. I have a soft spot for some of the near-misses from the 1980’s, typically big-concept genre movies that were either too earnest, too cheap, too goofy or too Too for their own good.
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