As the 1980s trundled on, fueled by Miami Vice, swatches, and Duran Duran videos, the fantasy films should have gotten better, but they didn’t. After such a promising start, the rush to make more of the same spawned a host of shittier and shitter sword and sorcery movies, each one worse that the last. The genre had split into two tracks: cheap-o boob-grab exploitation nonsense, or big budget ham-fisted embarrassments, and both of these new movie styles served to give Sword and Sorcery a bad name.
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From the Vault: The Movies of Dungeons & Dragons, Part 2 – the Harryhausen Playbook
Second in a 5 part series about the sword and sorcery movies of the 1980s as they related to our Dungeons & Dragons games.
From the Vault: The Movies of Dungeons & Dragons, Part 1
First in a 5 part series about the sword and sorcery movies of the 1980s as they related to our Dungeons & Dragons games.
Operation: Greco-Roamin’, Entry 007
With most of the driving behind us, the rocket-powered tour bus zoomed us, at way-too-early-in-the-morning, to the docks, and we boarded a medium-sized cruise ship, for a… Read more “Operation: Greco-Roamin’, Entry 007”
Operation: Greco-Roamin’, Entry 006
Dateline: Athens. After a whirlwind drive through the countryside, at breakneck speeds, up and down two-lane roads that a mountain goat would have balked at transversing, we… Read more “Operation: Greco-Roamin’, Entry 006”