Escape to the Movies: Your Highness
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I have to say, Moviebob, up until this movie review...I kinda trusted your opinion. Yes I saw some movies you said sucked and enjoyed them. Yes I saw some movies you said rocked, and hated them. But I have to say. This movie. No interest in seeing, ever. Your recommendation
(of this movie) smacked of an extra paycheck you did not expect to receive whilst you were halfway through editing the review.
If it were not for knowing that you had already done an April fool's day prank; I might have
been willing to let this slide. Please. I beg of you.
Patiently await the ban hammer.
(of this movie) smacked of an extra paycheck you did not expect to receive whilst you were halfway through editing the review.
If it were not for knowing that you had already done an April fool's day prank; I might have
been willing to let this slide. Please. I beg of you.
Patiently await the ban hammer.
i'm sorry, bob but what part of "directed by kenneth brannagh" don't you get?! if that movie sucks i'll eat my hat!!!
great review as always. i'll check out hercules if i'm bored and in need of a stupid laugh. but your highness doesn't look too enticing to me... that kind of gratuitous stoner comedy just comes off as pretentious to me... and i smoke weed! kevin smith has managed to pull it off in my mind and that's because when i see it i'm given the impression that he knows how stupid the jokes are and, like with seth macfarlane's dirtier okes, does it with just enough irony to make it funny to me. anywhere else and i get the feeling that the makers are thinking "this is actually genuinely clever humour!" and i just don't think it is (though, as i said, it can be funny with the right use of it).
great review as always. i'll check out hercules if i'm bored and in need of a stupid laugh. but your highness doesn't look too enticing to me... that kind of gratuitous stoner comedy just comes off as pretentious to me... and i smoke weed! kevin smith has managed to pull it off in my mind and that's because when i see it i'm given the impression that he knows how stupid the jokes are and, like with seth macfarlane's dirtier okes, does it with just enough irony to make it funny to me. anywhere else and i get the feeling that the makers are thinking "this is actually genuinely clever humour!" and i just don't think it is (though, as i said, it can be funny with the right use of it).
Heh, that doesn't suprise me; they both have a fantastic, un/mis-directed exuberance about them. Shame the Razzies didn't arrive till after the release of Starcrash.MovieBob said:
I saw insidious, jesus that first half scared the hell out of me. It is just constant tension. See it.
I like the 80s Conan the Barbarian rip offs, can't find any clips for "Sorceress" or Barbarian Queen as they are too rude. I do still have one of them on VHS (it probably won't even come out on DVD.)
Your Highness reminds me of the Princess Bride for some reason.
Your Highness reminds me of the Princess Bride for some reason.
I liked Your Highness. It was starting to wear a little thin towards the middle, but the second half it turned from a movie about the least likable protagonist ever set in the middle ages, into a full-blown High Fantasy parody smothered with cussing and dick jokes, and honestly, it was WAY more enjoyable that way.
If someone were ever to make a decently-plotted movie about knights fucking shit up in humorous ways, and talking like Duke Nukem the whole time, I'd see it in a heartbeat. Basically, someone needs to make a 14th Century Bulletstorm.
If someone were ever to make a decently-plotted movie about knights fucking shit up in humorous ways, and talking like Duke Nukem the whole time, I'd see it in a heartbeat. Basically, someone needs to make a 14th Century Bulletstorm.
I was talking more about the massive fuck off ship that sucked up thousands of people like a big blue vaccum.Akalabeth said:
Rainbow Fire Sword would be a great name for a band.
Funny how more people are commenting on Hercules than the film under review.
Those interested, the Ferigno Hercules movies (yes, he made two of them! And also a Sinbad movie which is nowhere near as good) are actually the tail end, of a long line of Hercules movies that were made in Italy for about forever going back to at least the fifties and the Hercules film staring another muscle man, Steve Reeves. The sword and sandal movies are what Italy made before they started making spaghetti westerns. Often the hero was not called Hecules but Maciste. This name derives from the name of Hercules' home town. So this is essentially Hercules in all but name, at least as loose as they were with the character, anyway. The Maciste movies date all the way back to 1910. Good lord!
I've watched several of these Hercules movies on a budget DVD pack of cheesy sci-fi and fantasy movies. In the 60's they were shown on television as part of a series called "Sons of Hercules." My dad remembers watching this stuff when he was a kid They're cheesy good, but the Ferigno film appear to put them all to shame.
The Ferigno movies were made in the very early 80's/late 70's when Star Wars was riding high so they pulled out all the stops with the effects and inserted robots and such because robots were popular at the time. Yor: Hunter From the Future is another cheesy Italian epic from this same period.
I have, unfortunately, not been able to see these movie as of yet, but the clips and trailer make it look like one of the best movies ever. Right up there with Star Crash. They were followed by the above-mentioned Sinbad of the Seven Seas and it is no where near as good as the clips from Hercules. Not anywhere near as insane. Kind of boring, actually. And forgettable.
Fortunately, the two Hercules movies are available in a single DVD pack like all good epics. Soon as I scrape up the cash, this shalt be mine.
Funny how more people are commenting on Hercules than the film under review.
Those interested, the Ferigno Hercules movies (yes, he made two of them! And also a Sinbad movie which is nowhere near as good) are actually the tail end, of a long line of Hercules movies that were made in Italy for about forever going back to at least the fifties and the Hercules film staring another muscle man, Steve Reeves. The sword and sandal movies are what Italy made before they started making spaghetti westerns. Often the hero was not called Hecules but Maciste. This name derives from the name of Hercules' home town. So this is essentially Hercules in all but name, at least as loose as they were with the character, anyway. The Maciste movies date all the way back to 1910. Good lord!
I've watched several of these Hercules movies on a budget DVD pack of cheesy sci-fi and fantasy movies. In the 60's they were shown on television as part of a series called "Sons of Hercules." My dad remembers watching this stuff when he was a kid They're cheesy good, but the Ferigno film appear to put them all to shame.
The Ferigno movies were made in the very early 80's/late 70's when Star Wars was riding high so they pulled out all the stops with the effects and inserted robots and such because robots were popular at the time. Yor: Hunter From the Future is another cheesy Italian epic from this same period.
I have, unfortunately, not been able to see these movie as of yet, but the clips and trailer make it look like one of the best movies ever. Right up there with Star Crash. They were followed by the above-mentioned Sinbad of the Seven Seas and it is no where near as good as the clips from Hercules. Not anywhere near as insane. Kind of boring, actually. And forgettable.
Fortunately, the two Hercules movies are available in a single DVD pack like all good epics. Soon as I scrape up the cash, this shalt be mine.
