men with swords Archives - Alternate Ending https://www.alternateending.com/category/men-with-swords Discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:03:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.alternateending.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/favicon.png men with swords Archives - Alternate Ending https://www.alternateending.com/category/men-with-swords 32 32 125815950 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924) https://www.alternateending.com/2022/07/die-nibelungen-kriemhilds-revenge-1924.html https://www.alternateending.com/2022/07/die-nibelungen-kriemhilds-revenge-1924.html#respond Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:04:38 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=119054

Every week this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. This week: at a sufficiently far remove, Thor: Love and Thunder...

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Every week this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. This week: at a sufficiently far remove, Thor: Love and Thunder...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2022/07/die-nibelungen-kriemhilds-revenge-1924.html/feed 0 119054 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) https://www.alternateending.com/2022/07/die-nibelungen-siegfried-1924.html https://www.alternateending.com/2022/07/die-nibelungen-siegfried-1924.html#respond Mon, 11 Jul 2022 02:39:49 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=119052

Every week this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. This week: at a sufficiently far remove, Thor: Love and Thunder...

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Every week this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. This week: at a sufficiently far remove, Thor: Love and Thunder...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2022/07/die-nibelungen-siegfried-1924.html/feed 0 119052 The Northman (2022) https://www.alternateending.com/2022/04/the-northman-2022.html https://www.alternateending.com/2022/04/the-northman-2022.html#respond Tue, 26 Apr 2022 08:00:53 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=117462

I'm always a sucker for films that tell us early on how we are to approach them, and The Northman - the third feature film directed by Robert Eggers after 2015's The Witch and 2019's The Northman (2022) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

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I'm always a sucker for films that tell us early on how we are to approach them, and The Northman - the third feature film directed by Robert Eggers after 2015's The Witch and 2019's The Northman (2022) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2022/04/the-northman-2022.html/feed 0 117462 The Last Duel (2021) https://www.alternateending.com/2021/12/the-last-duel-2021.html https://www.alternateending.com/2021/12/the-last-duel-2021.html#respond Wed, 15 Dec 2021 07:15:01 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=115125

If I may risk dipping my toes into The Discourse, I would like to offer a thought. It is possible for two things to be simultaneously true: first, that smartphones and social media have absolutely turned the brains of everyone under the age of 45 into mashed bananas, and left us a society unable to ...

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If I may risk dipping my toes into The Discourse, I would like to offer a thought. It is possible for two things to be simultaneously true: first, that smartphones and social media have absolutely turned the brains of everyone under the age of 45 into mashed bananas, and left us a society unable to ...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2021/12/the-last-duel-2021.html/feed 0 115125 The Green Knight (2021) https://www.alternateending.com/2021/08/the-green-knight-2021.html https://www.alternateending.com/2021/08/the-green-knight-2021.html#respond Fri, 06 Aug 2021 06:27:27 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=52633

It's missing the point, I know, but the question I feel compelled to start with is: did we need a revisionist version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? The 14th Century Middle English poem is a timeless favorite of medieval literature buffs, but how many of us can there possibly ...

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It's missing the point, I know, but the question I feel compelled to start with is: did we need a revisionist version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? The 14th Century Middle English poem is a timeless favorite of medieval literature buffs, but how many of us can there possibly ...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2021/08/the-green-knight-2021.html/feed 0 52633 Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984) https://www.alternateending.com/2021/08/sword-of-the-valiant-1984.html https://www.alternateending.com/2021/08/sword-of-the-valiant-1984.html#respond Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:12:50 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=53249

Intermittently throughout the summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to a major new release. This week: David Lowery and A24 have brought us a moody art-film versio...

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Intermittently throughout the summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to a major new release. This week: David Lowery and A24 have brought us a moody art-film versio...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2021/08/sword-of-the-valiant-1984.html/feed 0 53249 Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) https://www.alternateending.com/2021/07/gawain-and-the-green-knight-1973.html https://www.alternateending.com/2021/07/gawain-and-the-green-knight-1973.html#respond Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:09:48 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=53217

Intermittently throughout the summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to a major new release. This week: David Lowery and A24 have brought us a moody art-film versio...

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Intermittently throughout the summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to a major new release. This week: David Lowery and A24 have brought us a moody art-film versio...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2021/07/gawain-and-the-green-knight-1973.html/feed 0 53217 Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) https://www.alternateending.com/2021/02/prisoners-of-the-ghostland-2021.html https://www.alternateending.com/2021/02/prisoners-of-the-ghostland-2021.html#respond Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:39:39 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=50646

"Lunatic visionary cult director Sono Sion makes his English-language debut with a post-apocalyptic samurai Western starring Nicolas Cage" is a collection of words that feels like it was lab-created to end up with a kind of heavily self-aware "Weird"-in-square-quotes example of something too knowing...

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"Lunatic visionary cult director Sono Sion makes his English-language debut with a post-apocalyptic samurai Western starring Nicolas Cage" is a collection of words that feels like it was lab-created to end up with a kind of heavily self-aware "Weird"-in-square-quotes example of something too knowing...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2021/02/prisoners-of-the-ghostland-2021.html/feed 0 50646 Gladiator (2000) https://www.alternateending.com/2020/08/gladiator-2000.html https://www.alternateending.com/2020/08/gladiator-2000.html#respond Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:28:53 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=44759

I do not like to start reviews with the most obvious possible statement that hundreds of people before me have already pointed out, but sometimes it doesn't pay to be clever. And so: the 2000 ancient world epic Gladiator is quite clearly w...

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I do not like to start reviews with the most obvious possible statement that hundreds of people before me have already pointed out, but sometimes it doesn't pay to be clever. And so: the 2000 ancient world epic Gladiator is quite clearly w...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2020/08/gladiator-2000.html/feed 0 44759 Ninja Scroll (1993) https://www.alternateending.com/2020/04/ninja-scroll-1993.html https://www.alternateending.com/2020/04/ninja-scroll-1993.html#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2020 04:52:18 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=41296

Back when Westerners had only the vaguest idea of what Japanese animation was all about, and the very notion of an animated film that was intended for an adults-only audience was unspeakably radical in and of itself, three movies were primarily res...

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Back when Westerners had only the vaguest idea of what Japanese animation was all about, and the very notion of an animated film that was intended for an adults-only audience was unspeakably radical in and of itself, three movies were primarily res...

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