Welcome to episode 31. Today, we discuss the 80′s fantasy outing, “Dragonslayer”.
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wasnt a bad flick..I got my brother to watch as well. Hopefully I’ll get him hooked on the podcast!
“She was 30? Man, she looks great!”
…guys, seriously. Since when has 30 become the new 70? Most 30 year old women I know don’t look haggard and terrible. It’s not like she looks like she’s 16 or anything- she looks late 20′s or so.
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Caitlin Clarke died on Sept. 9 2004. And yes I agree she looked great.
Tarp: She just didn’t look 30. She looked 17. That’s all we were saying.
I’ve been shot! But I can still talk!
Love the podcast. Been listening since the first one. Great stuff throughout.
A few thoughts:
(1) Yes, Caitlin Clarke was HOT, HOT, HOT!!! Kind of an old school Maura Tierney. But, yes, she died about 6 years ago, so you guys might want to bring in an IMBD or WIKI page on the movie when you get ready to discuss it? Yes? Hell, there ARE four of you dudes.
(2) Around the 17:29 mark, one of you silly knuckleheads (I think it was Brian) actually made the statement: “It didn’t look anything like a real dragon.” And no one called him on it. Seriously? A REAL dragon, huh? (*Insert Film Sack-like clever remark here*)
(3) This movie wasn’t as bad as three out of the four of you thought. It actually holds up remarkably well for a 30-year old film. The dragon was AMAZING for the time… and actually, I loved it more than the CGI crap that we see so much nowadays.
Thanks for the continued podcasts, guys. You truly are a highlight of the week. It’s great fun following along and laughing at the silliness that you bring to the podcast and reviews every week!
Another good episode, sirs! Good work! I had not seen this movie prior, and I kind of ended up liking it more than you guys did. I actually thought that the dragon looked fantastic in the scenes in the cave, especially when it looms up from the lake. It was the shots of the dragon flying during the final battle that I thought hadn’t aged well.
I was sort of surprised by the sudden religious element in the movie, because I thought it was pure fantasy at first and then WOAH, it’s actually set in the real world. Ultimately, I think I have to go with DragonHeart as the dragon movie that like I more, but this was pretty fun too.
Has anyone watched The Spectacular Spider-Man? Peter MacNicol voices Dr. Octopus in it and it’s totally my favorite role from him!
I loved the movie and the special effects. I thought the close ups of the dragon parts were incredible. The baby dragons were ugly as sin though.
Can you all just call each other Brian to avoid confusion. Then the show can close with “For me, for Brian, for Brian, and for Brian…”
At one point the complaint was made that the dragon looked like a Skeksis from the Dark Crystal. I don’t think you can really hold that against the movie, Dragonslayer was released in June 1981 while Dark Crystal was released Christmas 1982.
I totally didn’t recognize Peter MacNicol was the same guy as Ghostbusters 2 and the rest, I think it was the hair.
Thanks for doing this movie, guys! When I suggested it I thought it was a long-shot for the show (and Netflix) because it’s fairly obscure.
Watching it again before the podcast brought back memories for me. I saw this flick when I was 11 as a double-feature with Clash of the Titans. Best damned movie experience for an 11-year-old evah! Funny thing is, I now have an 11-year-old daughter and I don’t know if I’d let her watch this movie…..
Y’all keep these podcasts coming and, as the 11-year-old in me would say “You guys are rad!!”.
This is only a quick comment, so I’ll cut the praises. You know you’re great.
But! I really think Scott’s a little too harsh with the poor boy when he calls him stupid for asking the blacksmith if he’d done any weapons.
I don’t really know how it is in the english language, but we do have seperate words for different “smiths”. Isn’t there a “weaponsmith” in english too? No?
Blacksmith is really only the guy for the rough stuff, I think, like horseshoes and pans and such.
Ok. Not that quick after all…
Flattering Bonus Round:
Scott, you’re doing awesome stuff with your mighty FrogPants.
Brian, love your attitude with the “Guy in a bush”. Thankfully I’ve still not started my webcomic or I would end like you ^_^
Brian, you managed to get me interessted in music again. For a while there was not a tune in my life until I travelled into your Ville. (Does that sound pathetic?)
Randy, your great too. I’m not into WOW so I never got to know you except from filmsack.
Btw: I loved Fletchers “Windows 7″ joke at the top of the show. Hilarious!! Totally cought me off guard. And I made his “Oh Sure” my new message sound. He’s the greatest “off-voice” ever.
Pardon my rant. Keep going, but be sure that we’ll hear your wrongs and rights!
At first, I actually didn’t know that the girl was supposed to be disguised as a man.
So when Galen was about to jump in and swim with her, I was thinking “Now this guy’s a real dick”
Let me reiterate what others have apparently said; you guys simply have to do “The Legend of Billy Jean” on Film Sack. It was made for that very purpose, I am sure of it.
Otherwise, you all were spot on in your criticisms. The lead (Gaylin or whatever) was written in such a way that he seemed cocky and inept at the same time. I felt nothing but disdain for the character. That is not good especially in a two-plus hour movie so my resentment of him has more time to boil up.
Keep on keepin on, boys.
I kinda thought there would be a bit of blowback on this one. I had a SERIOUS crush on Caitlin Clarke after I saw this film. Yeah, she was 30 when it was made – so what? She was seriously beautiful. . . now, I forget which one of you said it, but , whoever it was, you definitely did NOT see any “recent pictures of her”, and if you had, she would not have been looking “pretty good.” So, please, a little bit of research before you go shooting your mouths off, please?
Yeah, Scott, it wasn’t a recent pic of Caitlin Clarke you saw. I was really disturbed when I found out she had passed. She was a Yale theatre graduate yet said she learned more with her time with Ralph Richardson (Ulrich, the old sorcerer) while doing this film than all the time in school. Other than that, everyone denies having anything to do with this movie. As for the Princess Bride coming up… did you notice how many of these characters could have been extras in that gem?! I had to check to see if the king (or his advisor) was played by Christopher Guest.
This movie has been seriously bashed as ripping off Star Wars. And Disney did get a backlash for producing it. It was a contributing factor for them founding Touchstone, on branch of theirs they use to produce more mature features.
Anyways, not having seen the movie before I assumed Valerian was supposed to be a 15 year old boy. I was totally surprised at the reveal in the lake. The only better female-pretending-to-be-a-man award goes to, of course, Just One of the Guys. Another great reveal. I remember thinking how Valerian was feminine, assuming an older male actor (in twenties, say) I thought it was a method to convey a younger man. And I was really watching this film! I was as surprised as Galen was!
I’m bothered no one commented how Galen looked like the Greatest American Hero. No man looks touch with curly blond hair. Perhaps that could be on the checklist, protagonist looks like William Katt.
I found it odd that a blacksmith would have forged weapons, actually. I was under the impression they were separate skills. Woodworking and leatherworking factors into making weapons where a blacksmith forges steel and iron. So a blacksmith could be a weaponsmith but it’s not a sure deal. They were definitely different skills in D&D.
There was a novelization of the movie which gave more background into Ulrich and Valerian’s family. In the novel, not only virgins were fed to the dragon and Valerian’s mother had been sacrificed; that was the reason the spear/lance was forged (seriously, why else would one forge a weapon and hide it in the river?).
Another movie I’m glad you guys made me watch. I’m only saddened that my crush on Caitlin came too late.
Question, maybe you asked it. What happens if the Dragon eats a girl that not a virgin, does he spit her out?
Loved the movie. I know how you guys feel about the dragon, but how was it compared to the other effects heavy movies of that year. By today’s standards it does not hold a candle, but was it considered great for its time?
Happy to see this, I am happy to find this great