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Roger Hooper
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Behold this haughty hottie - Kate Beckinsale from Van Helsing
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Anders Backlund
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What, no Princess Bride pics? For shame! 
| Jeroen Zuiderwijk wrote: | Kristanna Loken, by far the most beautiful woman to have ever wielded a sword  |
Interesting look, where's it from?
| Eric Myers wrote: | | Madmartagan is still one of my favorites, though this isn't the best shot. |
You speak the truth. Madmartigan was made out of awesome and win.
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Jeroen Zuiderwijk
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| Anders Backlund wrote: | What, no Princess Bride pics? For shame!
| Jeroen Zuiderwijk wrote: | | Kristanna Loken, by far the most beautiful woman to have ever wielded a sword |
Interesting look, where's it from? |
The TV movie "Ring of the Nibelungs". The movie isn't all that great, except for Kristanna, she's absolutely amazing!
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Alex Oster
Location: Washington and Yokohama Joined: 01 Mar 2004
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Lets not forget the worst movie of 2004
Keira Knightley with a little photoshop help...
still kind of a cutie...
The pen is mightier than the sword, especially since it can get past security and be stabbed it into a jugular.
This site would be better if everytime I clicked submit... I got to hear a whip crack!
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Steve Grisetti
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| Jeroen Zuiderwijk wrote: | | ...The TV movie "Ring of the Nibelungs". The movie isn't all that great, except for Kristanna, she's absolutely amazing! |
"Ring of the Nibelungs" was quite a bit less than great.
Here is Gerard Butler as Beowulf. IMO, Beowulf and Grendel was also not the greatest film (but way better than Ring of the Nibelungs). However, the Icelandic scenery is spectacular!
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"...dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly."
- Sir Toby Belch
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Mikko Kuusirati
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| George Davidson wrote: | | I always hated the music for that movie. The film itself is great but the cheesy 80's synth music just grates on my nerves. Some atmospheric music like Name of the Rose would have made it dark and infinitely creepy. |
Well, yeah... but then, this was the '80s.
| Quote: | | Also the ending was all wrong. Navarre walked in, killed the 'good' bishop without the curse being shown to the witnesses. How long was he going to live after that.He murdered a good man of the church! |
"An evil man and powerful man, hated and feared, rejected even by Rome herself," actually... and unpopular enough to fear that one escaped little pick-pocket would spark a rebellion, at that.
PS. And he died while trying to stab a woman in the back, in plain view of everyone present. Seems kinda damning, you know.
"And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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Mike Arledge
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| Steve Grisetti wrote: | | Jeroen Zuiderwijk wrote: | | ...The TV movie "Ring of the Nibelungs". The movie isn't all that great, except for Kristanna, she's absolutely amazing! |
"Ring of the Nibelungs" was quite a bit less than great.
Here is Gerard Butler as Beowulf. IMO, Beowulf and Grendel was also not the greatest film (but way better than Ring of the Nibelungs). However, the Icelandic scenery is spectacular! |
I thought it was a great film honestly.
But, all it needed was a "Geats, prepare for glory!"
Mike J Arledge
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Chuck Russell
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hmmmm cant find a pic of sheena easton from highlander
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Micha Hofmann
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Hmmm... Why only Christopher Lambert. I liked him way better... 
Clancy Brown just rocked as the Kurgan. Even after I found out that his swordplay wasn't that great. He's just such a cool movie villain...
Edited for an afterfthought: This is a great thread. It reminds me of movies almost forgotten. I really feel the urge to see Willow an Ladyhawke again. Thanks.
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Jared Smith
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Russell Crowe, Seems convincing!
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Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence!
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Shahril Dzulkifli
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| Posted: Thu 03 Jan, 2008 10:59 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrities With Swords |
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Liam Neeson as Godfrey of Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven.
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Craig Johnson
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Michael York (second from left), Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain and Frank Finlay in The Three Musketeers
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Alex Oster
Location: Washington and Yokohama Joined: 01 Mar 2004
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Lets not forget hollywoods favorite creepy actor...
The pen is mightier than the sword, especially since it can get past security and be stabbed it into a jugular.
This site would be better if everytime I clicked submit... I got to hear a whip crack!
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George Davidson
Location: Glasgow Scotland Joined: 01 Mar 2004
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How about the many sworded antonio banderas...
Zoro
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad - 13th Warrior
Puss in ze Boots - Shrek 2
I really enjoyed 13th Warrior. If it wasn't for the dodgy armour worn by the warriors it would be a classic. The other discrepancies I'm willing to put up with.
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Shahril Dzulkifli
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| Posted: Sat 05 Jan, 2008 5:05 am Post subject: Celebrities With Swords |
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British band Franz Ferdinand. Hey, there's Alex Kapranos (with sword).
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Mikko Kuusirati
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| George Davidson wrote: | | I really enjoyed 13th Warrior. If it wasn't for the dodgy armour worn by the warriors it would be a classic. The other discrepancies I'm willing to put up with. |
Hell, it's a classic despite that (and the sword grinding, that hurt). "Lo, there do I see my father..."
"And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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Jonathan Hopkins
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| Posted: Sat 05 Jan, 2008 7:46 am Post subject: Re: Celebrities With Swords |
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| Shahril Dzulkifli wrote: |
British band Franz Ferdinand. Hey, there's Alex Kapranos (with sword). |
Great photo! It looks like a British classic--the 1796 Light Cavalry Sword!
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Eric Meulemans
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Nigel Terry in Boorman's Excalibur as Arthur.
Who also played Sir Thomas Grey in the short-lived TV series Covington Cross.
Wherein he again played opposite Cherie Lunghi (Guenevere, Lady Elizabeth), who also appeared in The Mission starring Robert De Niro.
In which also was cast Jeremy Irons, who has had numerous recent appearances with a sword, including The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Dungeons and Dragons (2000), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Eragon (2006).
Which also starred John Malkovich, who played the Dauphin in the astoundingly poor production of The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) starring Milla Jovovich.
We could go on and on...
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Jonathan Hopkins
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Luciano Pavarotti!
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Corey D. Sullivan
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Don't forget this one.
Graham Chapman as King Arthur, and John Cleese as the Black Knight, in that classic, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
" 'Tis but a scratch!"
"He had scantly finyshed his saienge but the one armye espyed the other lord how hastely the souldioures buckled their healmes how quikly the archers bent ther bowes and frushed their feathers how redely the byllmen shoke their bylles and proved their staves redy to appioche and loyne when the terrible trotnpet should sound the blast to victorie or deathe."
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This is a standard topic