Krull - The Glaive

Colwyn finds the Glaive

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  Film & Animation

[john smith]

I remember this scene from my preteen years. The way the soot crumbled away revealing this beautiful weapon...I was in awe. Swords have been way way over-used in fantasy films. The Glave was truly unique. I love it.

[yellowcougar18]

Me too. The idea of a weapon that could be controlled using the mind was really wicked. God, I love 80's Fantasy and Sci Fi, far more imagination than the overly CGI'd films we get now.

That is why, I think, so many people loved the LOTR films,because Peter Jackson used every single effects technique, from CGI, to puppets, to stop motion animation, to scale models. Hollywood did not learn from this, and now produces CGI packed rubbish.

[germanicelt]

Please explain?

[KesselRunner606]

ATTTTTTT SUNRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIISE!!!!

[KronnangDunn]

"This is no D&D, boy,

no D&D...".

[KronnangDunn]

I saw this when I was an 8 years old kid. This scene was pure magic for me... very very epic stuff.

[KronnangDunn]

Because it sounds cool... and looks and works waaaay better than the real thing.

[Draco109]

I hear ya' man, but at that point you just gotta' go "I've traveled more in the last few hours than most do in their lives. My world is upside down in a ballerina dress. I gotta' stick my hand into molten rock and hope I'm not gonna' die from it in order to set things right. Yeah, it's worth the risk."

[germanicelt]

Yeah you got it. I feel this too, and in keeping with the dark age European theme they should've had a dragon guarding the Glaive, or maybe it lay in it's belly and Colwyn had to slay the dragon to get it. If they do a remake one day I hope they add this.

[germanicelt]

Yeah, I've never seen this film on tv - ever. I saw it first when it was new on video when I was 11, then I never saw it again till 26 only cause I saw it in a video store. Ten years on from that and I just had to buy the DVD.

[jstephenj]

I liked how Peter Jackson took a more old school approach in how Gollum was implemented in Fellowship of the Ring. They kept him in the shadows and never revealed his face. Kept him enigmatic. Too bad there was no buildup to his reveal in Two Towers. That moment should have occurred from Sam and Frodo's point of view. Still, props to Jackson for taking that more disciplined approach.

[dan240393]

Why on earth did they call this thing a glaive? A glaive is a type of bladed spear.