Shake

As I was replying on this thread, I quoted the movie Dragonslayer, a film which I greatly enjoyed. As I was waiting for my post to appear, I started thinking about the movie and how xianity starts to invade the kingdom of Urland. I believe it was one of the men who had originally travelled to see the wizard (Ralph Richardson was very good), becomes a priest and is leading a prayer session near the final scenes where the dragon (Vermithrax - what a cool name!) is wreaking havoc.

I'm also reminded of the earlier scene where a priest is left near the lair and is yelling at the dragon: "Get thee down!" and other sort of things one might say towards an agent of Satan. The dragon of course, pays his words no heed and turns the priest into a charcoal briquet! Yup. Prayer is once again no help!

Anyone else see this film? Yes, I know I'm dating myself by saying that I even saw it in the theater! 'Course I know the fundies probably couldn't watch it ... what with all of the magic and such.

MortalWombat

I saw this at the theater too. I was about 12 or 13 at the time. I remember liking it. If I remember, it had pretty good special effects (Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, Ken Ralston, and Brian Johnson were nominated for Best Visual Effects at the Oscars for Dragonslayer that year).

Dark Jedi

Good flick, and a trendsetter for it's time. Worth viewing even today.

Wanna see how old you are? Start watching AMC... This is on there.

beoba

Phone modem I assume?

butswana

The mini-series "Merlin" with Sam Neal has Christianity muscling in on the old ways(magic) as well.

Shake

I love that AMC and TCM are showing some older movies (sometimes uncut even)! I've taped several, including: the original Ocean's Eleven, Rollerball, and Casablanca. I think I taped this one as well, but I'll have to look for it.