Line #21 YMMV/Krull


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51vdPsLHal4 main theme]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwQZ9UrnyJw music]] during the scene where the group rides the Fire Mares to the Black Fortress. Really, what would you expect from Music/JamesHorner?
2	* CultClassic: Stands alongside ''Film/TheBeastmaster'', ''Film/{{Flash Gordon\|1980}}'', ''Film/HawkTheSlayer'', and ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' as example of cheesy '80s cinema.
3	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
4	** Ergo briefly turned into a goose and tries to chase off Colwyn.
5	** While the heroes try to tame the Fire Mares, one of them tries to jump on one only to fall off.
6	* FridgeHorror: So, Colwyn and Lyssa's son is prophesied to rule the galaxy... but how is this to be achieved, exactly? Will he simply show up on planet after planet and have the natives instantly proclaim him as their ruler just {{because\|DestinySaysSo}}, or, rather more likely, will it be achieved through [[GalacticConqueror a galaxy-spanning campaign of bloody conquest]]?
7	* HoYay: Perhaps there's a little between Ergo and Rell. Certainly there's something about the way Rell looks at him upon that first encounter. Not to mention that [[spoiler:when Rell stays behind to die]], Ergo is the only one who shakes his hand, with a dejected "We had no time". No time for ''what''?
8	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The film has its moments.
9	** The ride of the Fire Mares.
10	** [[spoiler: Ergo's tiger transformation.]]
11	*** A crowning moment made even better by the (admittedly) {{Anvilicious}} {{Aesop}} that comes with it: whenever Ergo tries to use his magic for selfish ends, or as a ForcedTransformation to punish others, [[LaserGuidedKarma it immediately backfires on him]]. The only times it works as he wants are this moment, and when he provided Titch with a puppy for a while--in other words, when he was selfless.
12	** The Beast having his "love is fleeting, power is eternal" maxim tossed back in his face when it's the ''Beast's'' minion who betrays ''him'' instead of Colwyn who cheats on Lyssa. It'd be one for Lyssa and Colwyn too, if her retort and his rejection of Vella's advances wasn't so blandly-acted.
13	** Rell's [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice. His people were cursed by the Beast to know how they will die; defying this fate only curses them to suffer a more horrific death. Rell accepts this and holds open the Black Fortress long enough for his friends to sneak inside, before the gate crushes him.]]
14	** The huge, translucent spider was supposed to feature in an action sequence that was cut from the script. You can tell they really wanted to do something cool with it (it ''is'' a rather badass-looking stop-motion puppet), but unfortunately, it mostly just kind of hangs around and makes a slight nuisance of itself while the music [[MundaneMadeAwesome keeps trying to sell its barely-existent danger]] as Ynyr visits the Widow of the Web:
15	--->'''[[Podcast/RiffTrax Mike Nelson]]:''' "''Calm down'', music."
16	* NarmCharm: A big reason a lot of this movie is SoBadItsGood.
17	* NightmareFuel:
18	** The Cyclops standing in the dark, where you only see his one eye. This freaked out Ergo enough to agree to join Colwyn and Ynyr.
19	** When the Slayers are killed, they shriek, spark, their heads split open, and you can briefly see wet, dark red ''things'' slipping out of their skulls and burrowing into the earth...and it's ''[[TheUnreveal never explained]]''.
20	*** Up to eleven with the [[spoiler: fake Emerald Seer's death]].
21	* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The coin-op arcade game was one of the best in the mid-80's. The Platform/Atari2600 version is also pretty sweet, and one of the best licensed games for the system.
22	* RetroactiveRecognition: Look! Creator/LiamNeeson! Creator/RobbieColtrane!
23	%%%* SoBadItsGood:
24	%%%* SoOkayItsAverage:
25	* SpecialEffectsFailure:
26	** The Beast is shown with obvious camera tricks. According to the ''Podcast/EightiesAllOver'' podcast this was due to the expensive animatronic proving unable to function as intended, forcing the filmmakers -- including a director who simply didn't have fantasy experience -- to work around it.
27	** When the heroes are riding the Fire Mares, it couldn't be more obvious that they're in front of a green screen.
28	** The illusionary wall hiding the Emerald Seer is a composite shot with a thick, obvious line between the two halves.
29	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Critic Drew [=McWeeny=] points out in the July 1983 episode of ''Podcast/EightiesAllOver'' that the SignatureSong from ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', "Remember Me", is this to this movie's love theme. He chalks it up as "a horrible coincidence."
30	* TearJerker: The HeroicSacrifice by the Widow of the Web. Her BackStory makes it sadder, as well as the UnrequitedLove.
31	* TheWoobie: Rell. His entire race, really. They asked for the power to see the future, and got it...but all they can see is their own deaths.
32	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The Emerald Seer is introduced as an important character who will offer valuable insight and advice to Prince Colwyn and his band on their journey... then he is killed by a shapeshifter mere ''minutes'' after his initial appearance, contributing nothing of significance to plot.
33	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Krull's CultClassic status is in part due to the number of unique ideas the movie contains. The plot is about a StandardFantasySetting that gets [[AlienInvasion invaded]] by a GalacticConqueror flying a space-worthy EldritchLocation, with the OutsideGenreFoe starting off the movie by completely [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] the sort of EnemyMine alliance that fantasy stories often culminate in. It's perhaps most known for the ImpossiblyCoolWeapon in the Glaive, and has brief but evocative backstories in the cyclopes and the Widow of the Web, not to mention several imaginative set pieces. Unfortunately, many of these things are told rather than shown, underdeveloped, or not connected very well. For instance, outside of the castle in the opening scene, no evidence of civilization is ever shown, even in ruin, undermining the apocalypic situation the world is said to be in. Even the iconic Glaive goes unused until the climax only to be upstaged in the final battle by an EleventhHourSuperpower.

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