What is the greatest sword and sorcery movie ever made Cinemaphile? Outside of Conan of course.
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Fire & Ice. Poster is Franzetta kino too
The guy with the dagger looks like he has huge tumors
>WHY ISN'T HE A SOFT DOUGHY SOIBOI!!!??
Because the appeal of the setting is guys like you died two minutes outside the womb.
now i know where scavengers reign stole their art style from
they stole the art style from moebius.
If you rotoscope everything, why not just make a movie?
Easier to draw a Castle than build it, this b***h is probably writhing on a cardboard box
don't have to worry about sets, locations, costumes, lighting
Absolute kino
Goddamn, that looks awful.
Teegra must have been an awakening for so many young boys.
Where's the one where she crawls into the log?
> Our hero must save le sexo from hordes of brown monkey-men and this almost white satanic sorcerer with mommy issues.
Based.
Apparently Frazetta didn't like the poster due to creative constraints by the studio and had a way cooler idea, probably had actual breasts in it
His granddaughter runs a company Frazetta Girls that sells prints and merch related to his paintings, like his absolutely b***hING Lord of the Rings stuff
>His granddaughter runs a company Frazetta Girls that sells prints and merch related to his paintings
Damn, thank anon, this shit look really cool
Is she going to be alright?
>Frazetta Girls
For all the garbage on this site, occasionally, I learn about something awesome. Thank you anon. If I had psychic powers, I would use them to learn your favorite kind of pizza and order delivery to your home.
Wow Jesus Christ, that Eowyn is divine. Beautiful face, israeliteellery, thighs, bunda...
His Granddaughter seems pretty cool.
Dernhelm's got a nice ass
What a racist piece of shit poster
You sound insecure. What "race" is it racist towards? Primordial fantasy cavemen?
have a nice day you worthless troony gutter-rat homosexual.
LOL this homie can't draw feet!
Why tho? it isn't that hard
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come on, it was just a simple question
Yes he could, twerp. He was a classically trained painter who could draw the human figure (from all angles) in his sleep.
He was famous for procrastinating though, and blasting through his commissions in the last night of the deadline. Which gave him that dynamic later style where he didn't sweat the peripheral details or over-work the piece.
He wasn't some IMAGE pouch-guy idiot and he wasn't some dumb monkey who thinks value comes from autistic detailing of minor elements.
>and blasting through his commissions in the last night of the deadline
Holy shit he's literally me
I wish this had a sequel or just something in that general style
>Frazetta
this ain't fantasy related but it's commercial fine art related and I had nowhere else to share it
the dude that did all the Santa Claus artwork for Coca Cola did one final painting before retiring in the 70s, which was commissioned as a pin-up cover for the Christmas 1972 issue of Playboy
he painted a nude playboy model wearing the Cola Santa's coat
This is definitely in the top 5.
Most people miss that Nekron is Darkwulf's son by Julianna. Which is why he's the only person able to kill him. The blond kid is DW's adoptive son by archetype, who is able to mark Nekron in an unbalanced fight through a clever feint, thus proving his adoptive father-figure's faith and earning his high-born waifu's favor through his own bravery and cunning and also the stoic approval of a powerful old-school Mega-Chad.
If you read or listen to any Robert E Howard stuff, it's almost entirely in the hands of witches and sorcerers to be the prime movers of plot. And witches are all about accruing power through bearing the children of powerful men, then claiming either their kingdoms or gaining control of their genetic legacy. Even the Conan movie has a cut scene where a witch attempts this on Conan and he throws her into a fire. Even Excalibur uses it with Morgana attempting to usurp Arthur's authority via Morded.
Before current year anti-natalism, everything was about bloodlines and legacy. It's framed as sexism etc, but unattached modern women have only re-enforced the archetype of the creepy sexual schemer attempting to lock down Chad's seed for the social buff it gives.
I'm watching it right now it's really good anon, thanks. The animation is impressively good
Just finished it, was really impressed. How did animation look so good back then but today it's not that great?
Rotoscoping, the same thing Bakshi did on the first LotR cartoon. Seeing animation move naturally like that can be very unnerving but has its own charm.
The entire time I was watching Fire & Ice I couldn't stop looking at Teegra's arse
Somebody posting these webms is the sole reason I watched it. Pretty decent film on top of that too.
Imagine being the person who had to animate that. He'd probably only get 20 minutes work done on any single day.
F&I is available on YouTube for free too. I think the link was posted in the last S&S thread, if anybody else got it from there.
I didn't get into fantasy until my 20s because of aesthetics like this. Why did everyone in the 70s/80s like these swimsuit bimbos and ripped men with horse faces? Honestly, this looks like 90% of furry porn, just buff animal-headed meat monsters buttfricking each other.
> Zoomer wants women that look like 10 years old
Many such cases
Yes. Except I'm not a zoomer.
This looks like porn
Also Excalibur
/thread
Just old video game ad art
booba
She's so hot bros
>late 80s booba
Pretty good game, Way of the Exploding Fist/International Karate but with swords. Introduced the decapitation "finishing move" before Mortal Combat. If you managed it a little goblin walked on and kicked the head and dragged the body off the screen.
Maria Whittaker. Take it from a veteran pervert.
Remarkably she is married to Rebel MC.
Krull
I LITERALLY attended the Hollywood red carpet premiere of The Avengers and thought "I'd rather be at home watching Krull". Yeah, I was pretty burned out on the grind by then.
KRULL!
check out the hooters on that broad
Maria Whittaker was God tier. Married a nog though
>horror anthology tv show
>scifi anthology tv show
>animated anthology tv show
>no sword & sorcery anthology tv show
What the FRICK
The genre is perfect for the format and with how big fantasy is right now you'd think studios would be all over it. It's fricking bullshit frick hollywood stupid morons
S&S might be hard to do profitably in the 2020s film industry. Audiences wouldn't accept the dirt cheap special effects that the 80s movies were known for, but middle-budget fantasy movies from original or unknown IPs don't do so great these days. Also Hollywood would want to sanitize it; they are obsessed with making all fantasy family-friendly even in movies that desperately need a bit of edge. A S&S movie or show doesn't strictly need to have the same level of violence and nudity as Spartacus, but it does need to have the option to include that sort of content when it's appropriate for a particular movie.
One of the defining features of S&S over high fantasy is how little 'fantasy' there is in it. You have wizards casting spells, but that's it. Otherwise it's all muscles and axes and blood. Remove the scenes with spellcasting and they can often pass for a standard mediaeval setting. This means there's very little need for special effects, and what is needed can be done with practical effects.
Nah, there almost always must be some kind of giant evil monster at the end, which was the weakest point of many of those movies back then - the tech just wasn't there yet.
No, that role can just as easily be filled by a powerful warlock. It's been a LONG time but I don't remember Conan having any magical beasts at all, besides some ghosts.
>no sword & sorcery anthology tv show
what was Xena? or Hercules? or the D&D cartoon?
or the Conan cartoon
and Blackstar and Thundarr the Barbarian
>what was Xena? or Hercules? or the D&D cartoon?
Not an ANTHOLOGY you dumb frick. Good shows, but OP was right. And all of you plebbit tier ass clowns rush to "muh whataboutism" without grasping the very basic premise of what was fricking said.
D&D Cartoon was a high fantasy isekai not really sword & sorcery, they also ran a lot more than they fought.
2011 Conan unironically is the better of the two official Conan movies.
Forgot pic related.
D&D and Tolkien explain that bit honestly.
>they also ran a lot more than they fought
Just like 1E...
D&D is more Vancian than Sword & Sorcery solely and more high powered in terms of fantastical elements.
I strongly disagree, I think with a mix of animation/AI and shit, something akin to Xena with a strong visual style would really work.
Think Sin City/Scanner Darkly/live action mix. Shouldn't be too hard to pull off with a good script/cast. Go heavy on the green-screen and don't try to make it "realistic".
There's still the D&D series coming, but I don't hold much hope.
I think it could be done quite well. S&S doesn't need as high a budget as the epic fantasy type movies and shows they make today since the adventures are smaller and can even be contained to one location. An anthology of 8 60-70 minute episodes would actually be pretty cool.
Not really what he's so eloquently talking about I think but still worth noting
Not just sword and sorcery, midbudget adaptations of classic paperback fantasy.
It's criminal we've never had a movie/tv version of Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD!
yeah I've wanted this forever, I remember when GoT dropped and I thought there was a chance cause I didn't know how unmagical it was, then there was the warcraft movie which was OK but obviously came too late to have a bunch of sequels, LotR isn't fantastical enough either
Conan(obviously) > Excalibur > Beastmaster > POWER GAP > Dragonslayer > Ladyhawk > Krull > the rest
Probably missing a few decent ones but a good portion of S&S are straight to VHS schlock which can still be fun.
Wanted to add
Can't believe I forgot Fire & Ice. Also Clash of the Titans is top tier.
I’d swap Dragonslayer and Beastmaster
Me too.
>ladyhawk > krull
frick off
>Ladyhawk
Make way for the superior Rutger Hauer fantasy film.
That's not fantasy.
Ty bro
>a good portion of S&S are straight to VHS schlock which can still be fun
For me, that's The Warrior and the Sorceress. So many S&S just feel like Conan knock-offs that just want to be a little bit sexier or a little bit hammier. The Warrior and the Sorceress does its own thing completely, not necessarily for the better but enough that it feels fresh after my deep dive into the barrel of S&S. But it's also a movie that's hard to recommend because it's schlock.
Bit of trivia: the guy who wrote the first draft of the script is embarrassed to have his name attached to the movie because of how the director rewrote his script to be a beat for beat copy of Yojimbo. A Fistful of Dollars did the same thing and nobody cares, so I think he's overreacting, but it's disappointing that we didn't get the original script was supposedly much crazier.
I wish you didn't tell me this, because now I wish to see that too.
>The Warrior and the Sorceress
I just watched it a few weeks ago and while I applaud the attempt at doing something different with the S&S genre, it simply fell flat. Carradine seemed bored out of his mind, and so was I. Having seen Deathstalker 2 just before it I was really expecting more.
Whoa there, toyboi. A power gap between those and Dragonslayer? Lad, Dragonslayer is the best movie after Conan. Sit your ass down.
Linda Lusardi and Wolf from Gladiators. The 80s were mad.
It's another 80s Page 3 Girl, Maria Whittaker. Dunno who the guy is.
>Dunno who the guy is.
Michael Van Wijk, aka Wolf from Gladiators.
>it's a Wolf gets a telling off from referee John Anderson episode
KINOOOOO
I didn't know Ronnie James Dio was on Gladiators.
>that buldge
That's Richard Lewis, who invented the phrase "the x from hell"
What is the historical inspiration for Conan? His style doesn't actually seem barbarian.
Everything. REH created the hyborian age as a mishmash of all sorts of ancient cultures so he could have varieties of every flavor of barbarian. Conan specifically is proto-Celt. The barbarian title refers to Howard's themes of barbarism vs civilization and doesn't mean Conan is supposed to be the now archetypical loincloth-wearing berserker all the time.
Conan is set in the Hyborian age, a mythical age of ancient civilizations that were destroyed in the great flood iirc, and most of the civilizations depicted in the stories are ancestors to and basically copies of later famous civilizations, like a not greece, a not egypt, a not kush(literally called Kush) etc.
Conan was from an isolated land called Cimmeria that would eventually become Ireland and he's proto Irish. The land is isolated and full of violent tribes and crazy animals and stuff, most of the major civilizations rarely/never interact with Cimmerians so he's considered an oddity wherever he goes. He is kind of a barbarian but the whole point of the stories was that he wasn't dumb or inferior for coming from a savage place and living a savage life, he just had a very different lifestyle and way of thinking. He put on a tough guy front but he was actually very intelligent, well read, and philosophically minded, he even listened to poets and thinkers debate in his spare time for entertainment.
At least thats what the original Robert E Howard stories were, once he died and other people got the rights Conan did just became a big moronic savage because they didn't understand the point of the originals.
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Not painted by or designed by Howard. Thats just a bad interpretation to be honest, he's supposed to be very tan and disheveled
Thats more accurate.
Honestly, even though absurd Schwarzenegger type builds weren't exactly common in fiction back then its pretty reasonable to imagine him that way, he's meant to be so ridiculous buff and broad that anyone can immediately tell even when hes wearing heavy clothing and people constantly feel fascinated or uneased around him like hes some sort of circus animal
quads of steel
cimmerians actually existed though somewhere in the north of caucasus mountains and have nothing to do with ireland. they were nomadic people.
they raided southern caucasus a lot too.
there is even georgian word for "hero" - გმირი (gmiri) which obviosuly comes from "cimmer".
Yeah, thats just where he got the word from though. He also mentions picts but they're weird native american tribal types, and theres a couple other situations like that. Cimmeria was definitely Ireland, it has irish traits, Conan is an irish name, and howard himself said so
> the QUADS of STEEL
I kneel
such a kino setting
What you wrote isn't really in Howard's books, though.
Conan is more about primal savagery. He's a man that didn't grow up knowing the luxuries of living in a walled city and eating prepared meals. He was a man whose senses were prepared through years of saving his life from beasts in the dark every day, a life of danger and combat. I can't think of a single story right now where he ever needed to put on an 'act'. He was confrontational, coarse, easily-baited, easily seduced, and absolutely refused to step down from a fight. He was completely uncivilized, at odds with a world that was becoming civilized, and winning.
this is how Conan looked like in the 1940s
this is 1934
Basically everything from bronze age Egypt to Renaissance Italy but everybody has medieval technology and steel weapons and tools aside from the Picts that are like the plains indians.
Hyperborea/Thule
>What is the historical inspiration for Conan?
History. It's remarkable how much of the worldbuilding is actually just our real history, imagined one step further back in time. REH himself also established his setting this way, with essentially his first work just being a bland history book of how his ancient races turned into our familiar races over time, giving a seamless flow of history and culture that he can use to project retroactively.
>doesn't actually seem barbarian.
To REH, "barbarian" is just "uncivilized," as in "outside of civilization". So with the great marble cities of Aquillonia and gleaming Stygia being "civilization," then the mountainous tribes of cimmerians and nomadic hyrkanians are then barbaric, because they aren't members of a civilization. That doesn't make the unga-bunga rage machines of D&D barbarians, nor unwashed savages as the word is commonly used for. It is essentially the same way that historic China used the word "barbarian," which meant "anyone not part of China." Even as China acknowledged that Great Britain was a powerful nation with strong culture, their letters were to Britain's "Barbarian Queen." The term wasn't meant to be insult, just a status. That is similar to REH's use of the word.
Is that fricking Wolf from British Gladiators?
Jet has just recently married another (older) woman.
Imagine getting powerbottomed by her
I remember when she was the 'Gamesmistress' on Games World and wore leather dresses to give out cheats and tips. Good times.
happy days indeed
I miss when nerd shit was all coom bait male fantasy.
Watched Conquest last night. Was ok. I liked the dream quality it had and the naked woman.
Looks like Simon in that poster
True
nice, it's the wall to wall beastmen fighting that gets me
I love this movie but I don't think anyone on Cinemaphile feels the love for it that I do.
Sorceress (1982) is pants-on-head moronic and has lots and lots of tiddies. Highly recommend.
Mentally linked twins. One jerk offs while the other gets fricked miles away...
I started taking finasteride as soon as I learned this dude played Eddington
Maria Whittaker is 18 years old on that cover. Nice pair of boobs.
Ah yes, the good old days of Page 3, when 16 year olds could get their breasts out in a national newspaper.
yes
>No Red Sonja
You had one job, Cinemaphile
Yeah the old Red Sonja is a fun movie. Cheesy, some bad acting, whatever... but some pretty OK costumes, set designs, etc. Fun scenery. Swords and magic and shit. Good music honestly. Not "Conan" good but it's by Ennio Morricone.
>You had one job, Cinemaphile
I love her so much bros
The Head Hunter
ZX Spectrum 128k+2
Maria Whitaker is an underrated pinup model.
I bet his boner lasted for weeks.
Beautiful movie.
Ruined by theatrical overacting.
>Ruined
More like enhanced.
To each their own.
It takes me out of it, something I don't like when trying to enjoy a story.
Is it just me or this movie looks like it's AI generated?
Yes, because excalibur is one of a bunch of those sort of "dark fantasy" films of the late 70s and 80s that the AI parses from. Especially the "dark souls as an 80s dark fantasy" generations. I did a deep dive on this because I wanted to watch what it was "taking inspiration" from
This is an old image, the list is much longer here. I gave up on the edits of the Hobbit. I hate watching it as three movies, but for some reason all the edits are in like 240p, so I caved and swapped it with 2160 versions of the three films even though I think they're bloated and awful and ruin what was a wonderful book.
Every time this list is posted some *genius* goes
>LOL he put Star Wars on there! hahaha STAR WARS! That's not fantasy homosexual!
The Force is literally magic. They fight with energy swords made of light. It contains both swords and sorcery. Fantasy can contain futuristic technology, robots and space travel. Plenty of the good ones do.
star wars is space fantasy so idk what theyre on about. theres no science in the series so it isn't science fiction
Having two movies of the same franchise on the same list is pretty mid
You really don't need to defend Star Wars being fantasy. Do yourself a favor and stop rushing to defend problems you've invented yourself. And if someone gives you shit, ignore them.
It's a Plex library so it's probably just sorted by genre.
>ghibli shit
you can frick off too
Science fantasy and science fiction used to be considered the same thing.
It was called Speculative Fiction in those days.
Sure was nice when men could make nice things for a medium catering to men, without fat-ass xirs and ham planets being shoehorned in to poison the well by israelites in suits
did you see that new trailer for the movie with Eisenberg and Brody? it’s supposed to be like “incel white man falls prey to evil far right extremism group for white men,” and the whole first half of the trailer is just him expressing feelings and getting comradery, set to forboding music. It’s already saying how terrible it is before it even shows anything incriminating.
any level of male comradery or support is automatically evil now. it makes me think of that buzzword, “centering” which is basically used to say it’s evil to have any focus or relatability given to white males. really creepy shit.
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Imagine being such a loser homosexual that you can't even handle being alone and seek companionship with a bunch of other loser homosexuals. Men who can't handle being alone are women and women are useless. Truly pathetic and disgusting.
I miss hair like this
So floofy.
You gotta settle for plastered down black girl hair & like it
Of all the hairstyles work by blacks that's the most moronic. Bring back Afros.
Those little plastered down curls at the front they use to cover their bald hairline is absolutely stupid.
it's thoroughly disgusting
lel
Who balds worse, white guys or black girls?
Black chicks do it to themselves by wearing tight ponytails/cornrows all the time. It's called 'traction alopecia'.
I don't
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Anyone collect these? Great art on them
What are these
Hyborian Gates. Packs are pretty cheap on eBay
I had never heard of Frazetta but recognized the art and now I'm going down a cool rabbit hole. hell yeah Thanks, Cinemaphile
Ral Partha, Boris Vallejo. There's a glut of good classic artists in the style if you search
I long for a properly cast & directed Tower of the Elephant.
Barbarians is a movie I don't see a lot of people mention, it stars two doofy body builder twins who save their mom from a harem, kill some monsters, & save the gypsies.
Not the greatest obviously, in fact it's pretty cheap and bad, but I find it pretty entertaining nonetheless.
Based
This movie is fricking stupid.
The actors are shit.
Story and continuity is moronic.
The creature effects are laughable.
I enjoyed it.
It's no Hawk the Slayer, but the great Jack Palance can't be everywhere.
Hawk the Slayer is not a great movie. It takes itself far too seriously, has a cliched story and a scenery-chewing villain. But I love it so much, the characters are typical D&D cutouts but likeable and it doesn't outstay its welcome. The 80s synth soundtrack and cheap effects are so endearing.
Additionally an official comic-book sequel was published earlier this year so I'm very happy more people are getting exposed to it.
>but the great Jack Palance can't be everywhere.
That's where Richard Lynch comes in (RIP)
>Two stupid roidheads frick shit up
Quintessential Cinemaphile kino
The part where they are holding the dog creature's head and barking at each other had me laughing my ass off
I asked last time, I'll ask again.
Any Swotd & Sorcery (or close enough) films where the main character is a wizard, as opposed to a sword/muscles guy?
maybe you should stop being a nerd and start lifting.
If they ever did a decent adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea.
Dragonslayer.
>main character is a wizard
>as opposed to a muscles guy
just lift and do both you homosexual
this game has the most impressive music I've ever heard on the NES
this is just the title screen
give it 10 seconds
?si=S_TnTeHzOMhOmZAL
sounds like some sweet fantasy metal. for me, it's...
?si=bfYtSi5fU8emt6OL
I'm old enough to remember those stupidly long passwords on that game
Compile also made one of the most underrated SNES games that happens to have a good 90s dance/club type soundtrack as well
>whole gaming state saved in a string of numbers and letters
Couldn't do that these days.
no they always have sex
It's a show, but Merlin (2008) centers on young Merlin.
Seriously
Got it right. Dragonslayer is literally a wizard and NOT a muscle/sword guy. Try it, it's awesome with the GREATEST dragon design ever filmed.
VERMITHRAX PEJORATIVE
For some reason The Last Unicorn comes to mind. I thinks the sense of traveling a strange where anything can happen, and dealing with ancient monsters unknowable by man.
One of my favorite S&S flick centers around a computer programmer who is kidnapped and challenged to a duel by a warlock who mistakes technology for sorcery. Not quite a wizard, but a tech wizard and he's not the buff barbarian archetype character.
Thanks!
The sorceress was camp kino.
No love for Sinbad, or the Argonauts/Clash of the Titans? They shit all over "The Barbarians".
That's all technically Sword & Sandals
MUCH love for those. Clash is one of my top 4k wants, the old blu ray looks like ass. I enjoy the older Harryhausen films too. But Barbarians exist for when I'm in the mood for fun cheese. Honestly, these threads get redundant because there just isn't enough Sword & Sandal flicks. I wish there had been more made in the 80's.
No love for "spaghetti" swords and sorcery?
Ironmaster, Throne of Fire, Gunan - King of the Barbarians (yes, really), Attila, The Ator trilogy, the list goes on.
This is the reality of renting VHSs btw.
Asia of course has an even longer list of Sword and Sorcery flicks.
I know this translates as "the throne of flame" but it amused me that for a second I read it as "the flaming troony."
>No love for "spaghetti" swords and sorcery?
No, not really. Most Italian films seem to be just money laundering schemes where most of the film's budget goes to cocaine. Some are decent to ok, but the majority are just boring slogs to sit through.
>still no Imaro movie
You'd think a black African Conan would get a movie pronto
Because it's set in not-africa and the societies are all tribal bronze agers. Not nearly woke enough, because there's no wakanda tech or white women to fawn over the capital B Black lead.
Personally i like Dragonheart the most. It´s a bit on the naive side but Sean Connery made for a great dragon. It was my personal favorite until LOTR came along. Chris Lambert 1999 Beowulf was neat too. Layla Roberts as Grendel´s mother just made me diamonds.
I haven´t seen Ladyhawk nor The warrior and the sorcerer yet but i doubt those could top Legend or Excalibur anyways. I wish the genre had not died out...
this part of the original Power Rangers movie
Early boner material for sure.
why did they stop making high fantasy movies?
Because feminism became more mainstream and masculinity was seen as evil.
No, that was Chuds. Chuds are evil (in a pathetic way), masculinity is fine.
Shut up homosexual troony, no one was talking to you.
Yeah, because Dungeons and Dragons, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Fantastic Beasts were all what? 20 years ago?
>what do you mean they don't make high fantasy anymore? what about one dogshit high fantasy film and these other two films that aren't even in that genre?
All three of those are high fantasy tho. You don't need a guy in a fake beard and robes to be High Fantasy. You might be able to make an argument against EEAAO, but Harry Potter and D&D? And there's never a year with a whole pile of high fantasy flicks, however much you whine about how it's not like the past.
>High fantasy is set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world, rather than the "real" or "primary" world.[2] This secondary world is usually internally consistent, but its rules differ from those of the primary world. By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set on Earth, the primary or real world, or a rational and familiar fictional world with the inclusion of magical elements
words mean things
>Wiki tells me only Lord of the Rings is High Fantasy!
Frick off, Harry Potter has kids going to a school reached through a magical train, and and has children who can time-travel for shapechange as a matter of convenience. It's higher Fantasy than most of the shit listed in this thread.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or genuinely moronic
I have zero doubts about your moronation however.
definitions aren't what you want them to be you fricking moron.
Wikipedia is not the Word of God.
>The basic defining tenet of high fantasy is that a fantasy story is set in an alternative fictional world, typically with magical elements. High fantasy is sometimes called epic fantasy, and some of the hallmarks of this subset of the fantasy genre include a high page count, lots of characters, usually a quest, and, most importantly, an alternative or secondary world as opposed to the real or primary world. With high fantasy, there are usual global stakes involved—you know, good versus evil, saving the world, and all that.
ok
>and some of the hallmarks of this subset of the fantasy genre include a high page count
I stopped reading there, we are discussing movies, and "page count" is a pant-on-head moronic definition of a genre.
Is your Ma aware you are being a pedant on the computer again?
glad to see strawmanning is alive and well in 2023
>we are discussing movies
>but I don't get it, why call this type of film named giallos? it means yellow in Italian even though they are not just yellow
you're just a fricking retarted homosexual
>AUTISM has entered the chat
Sperg harder, nuggie boy
>Fantastic Beasts
wait what ? harry potter is sword and sorcery now ?
He said "High Fantasy", not swords and sorcery.
If you want to refine it down to that, add Northman and Dragonheart movies from the last few years.
Sword and Sorcery was never a prolific genre, half the shit mentioned in this thread is low budget schlock. I could probably add another 20 from the last 10 years if I started listing schlock or low tier animation like Fire and Ice.
>harry potter
>High Fantasy
>plebbit tier shit films
frick off.
Deathstalker II
Are the other 2 just as good?
If I recall correctly, Deathstalker I was a somewhat serious fantasy film with nudity, whereas Deathstalker II was straight soft core porn with a self-aware tone that was borderline comedy
Compared to your posts, I look like Christopher Motherfricking Langan , mate.
By your stupid definition, The Martian is High Fantasy and a movie full of Wizards fighting basilisks and giants is not.
how is she so attractive
qt.
On that day a young boy awakened to a fetish.
>this kid knew what he was doing when he volunteered to be the footstool
That is not a boy but a man in training.
I think my puberty began when I happened to see Golden Voyage of Sinbad on TV one day when I was flipping channels in the middle of the day, and she walked into the scene.
The Spine of Night (2021) is pretty kino
Greatest breasts I have ever seen in my life. Damn, the 80s were peak female aesthetic. That floofy hair, tan, and hoop earrings. I bet they had to tape that dude's boner down so it didn't rip the loincloth off.
The 80s was the last great era of western civilisation. The last time where we looked towards the future and fought to improve ourselves, rather than wallow in self-loathing over past transgressions.
I remember loving this as a kid even though I always thought the shooting sword was weird as frick.
I haven't seen it ages but looking up pictures the aesthetics are still awesome.
yo the triple sword
Middle character red demon was Richard Moll who died in the past week. I watched this in his honor.
This any good?
I wouldn't be a man if I said I wouldnt sit down and watch this movie
No, but its got plenty of rape and breasts so if that sounds appealing you'll find it entertaining.
We will never see new material like this again. It's sad.
Sadly. But pic is her 4 years ago!
I still would.
Maybe someone should do some fantasy pics with her? Maybe Conan-esque queen or witch?
Incredible genetics at work there.
She could pull it of like the Mortal Kombat Sonja actress?
She looks better than a lot of women in their early 30s.
She looks better than most milf porn actress!
it would be like throwing a sausage down a train tunnel
>still would though
How do you know that? My knowledge says nude model, no porn. This means mileage should be low.
A Dog with a Pussy Tattooed on Its Forehead
The Barbarians
It is a movie akin to two jocks playing D&D with their nerdy friend and going all-in
I watched this a couple days ago. Surprisingly fun. Lots of focus on midriffs with that belly gem too.
Feherlofia may or may not fall into Sword & Sorcery, it is worth at least one watch though
I made my family watch Beastmaster with me this week after I hadn't seen it in about 35 years.
It certainly aged. Not as well as Conan, but better than many other Sword and Sorcery films.
Chariot of Carnage
willow
Are any of the Conan games good? Any similar recommendations?
>Any similar recommendations?
Runescape
Might and Magic 6 7 and 8 with the GrayFace patches.
the MMO is supposedly good but it's an MMO so yeah. I played The Dark Axe and it was pretty faithful and in the spirit of true Conan. I enjoyed it. everything else is pretty garbage but I haven't really looked into the 2D Conan games.
Golden Axe. It even uses sounds from the Conan film.
If you're into mst3k, there is a rifftrax episode of The Sword and the Sorcerer on amazon prime rn. Its pretty funny.
It's crazy how there was this huge fad for fantasy movies that came out of nowhere in 1982 and then just disappeared into the aether by 1985
What Sword and Sorcery movie has the girls in the lewdest costumes ever?
Hard mode:
>They have big breasts and ass
>They don't get naked but are wearing scantily dressed clothing the entire time
The Warrior and the sorceress. It stars David Carradine and has features a woman with 4 breasts.
Wasn't there some actress who actually had three breasts and would be cast in movies as an alien or whatever just so they could show her three breasts?
>Sorceress
I remember settling in to watch this expecting high action and it being just an excuse for the director to show breasts.
High titty bouncing action am I right?
Was that the one mentioned in the previous sword and sorcery thread here, with two main female characters being identical twins who go topless?
Yes, they do it a lot. It's great.
Didn't really enjoy this. The plot is barely there and moves incredibly slowly. The lack of dialogue throughout the entire film doesn't do it any favors as it attempts to be mysterious and brooding but really is just dull. Might've been enjoyable and interesting as a short film
>movie features a scene of the bad guy falling down a cliff
>can't put my finger on why but the way he falls feels odd somehow
>dedication in the credits
>get a weird hunch and look him up
>turns out the stuntman in that scene missed his airbags and died
Huh.
holy frick that's pretty dank, did they keep the on screen death?
Obviously they don't show him hit the ground but yeah.
Now that I look at it again it's pretty clear why I instantly felt like it wasn't a regular movie fall, what with the flailing limbs and all. Poor dude.
> Bruh moment.
80s Sword and Sorcery movies are the best because no matter how ludicrous the story the actors seem to be so committed to their role, which kinda elevates even the schlockiest film.
>2011 Conan unironically is the better of the two official Conan movies.
not sure if baiting or cumguzzling drag queen
As far as representing the fictional aspects of Conan from the short stories its the better of the two, now go rope lol even the actor is more accurate to how Conan should look like.
> “Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the israeliteeled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
You don't know shit.
The biggest tragedy is that Arnie didn't play Conan the King when he was old enough.
and you dont know the touch of a woman
No one cares to participate in your non-White worship. Conan is White, afraid so.
a young christian bale gets isekai'd
wait what
never realised that's Christian Bale
Conan.
Never heard of it. Any good?
Beastmaster is pretty good.
Master of the Universe (Dolf Lungren)
Krull is excellent except for the Vigo the Magnificent character, but I think hating him makes you like everyone else more.
Excalibur
Highlander (does this count???)
I'm watching the Gor series on Amazon Prime it's OK.
John Carter of Mars (I think most people hate it, but it has some decent elements)
Maybe even Dune and Flash Gordon have elements of sword and sorcery.
Why does sword & sorcery work so well?
Is it the exotic women?
Is it the glistening muscles?
Is it the malicious magic?
Is it the grit and groundedness?
Is it the sand and deserts?
What is it?
Third and fourth for me. I hate superpowers and I like when the hero is mundane (if exceptional) and the magic is ritualistic and about prep/influence. Real sorcerers work more like Bond villains, summoning minions and sending them after you, making deals with unsavoury gods, etc.
It's a primal male power fantasy. Which is why there's so little of it now. It's very problematic, you see, and is no longer appropriate for modern sensibilities. You may think I'm joking, but this here is exactly what I'm talking about:
See now I don't really know what this dude's problem is, but apparently he does not want to feel powerful and obtain beautiful women. That is where we now are as a society. And if that's a roastie, well then there it is.
Babes, strong men, unicorns and dragons. Something for everyone!
Willow 1988 obv not a titty film but it think its worth a watch.