 September 19, 2011 - 5:23pm | http://www.hawkthehunter.com/ Yeah, the original was a real cheese fest but being 12 years old when it was released --- it was awesome!<!-- m --> |
September 22, 2011 - 8:06pm | What, NOBODY here was a pre-teen fan of Hawk the Slayer?! NOBODY here was playing D&D when Hawk the Slayer came out? |
 September 23, 2011 - 5:10am | Sorry I just don't remember this. Of course it could have been out when someone in the catholic church put a bug up my mother's but about censoring what her teen was into which led to all sorts of illogical crack downs like when she looked threw my album collection and settled on the Asia album to have an issue with or sat down to watch MTV for 10 minutes to find something and settled on Bryan Adam's video for Cuts like a Knife - his cutting up a paint canvas with a knife was somehow objectionable. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 September 23, 2011 - 9:21am | I just started D&D 2 years ago. :-P The only memory of a show like this was with a warlord type who had a magic user that always wore a metal-type hat the shape of his head, as-if it was part of his skin. One time the warlord asked him to remove it but refused. The hero and this warlord were bound together at some point and had to defeat some large creature, the only way to kill it was to strike it behind the ear. Anyone remember that? |
September 23, 2011 - 1:26pm | Sounds like The Sword & the Sorcerer, another big D&D cult film. That and Hawk were the bomb back then. |
 September 27, 2011 - 5:33pm | Love it! Own it! Watch it every now and then when I need something to go with crackers. Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Edwin Louis Cole |
September 28, 2011 - 2:01pm | Whew, I was starting to think I was alone in this boat! |
 September 29, 2011 - 5:00pm | It looks worse than I remember |
September 29, 2011 - 6:00pm | No doubt, it was bad. Worse than your typical B-movie bad. Mechanical acting on behalf of Crow the elf, a lead character that looked like he was stoned on Ambien, techno-disco musical scores, Silly String as a deadly magical weapon, and other poor visual graphics like reverse film/gravity etc... ...but to a twelve year old who was cutting his teeth on Moldvay B/X D&D boxed sets in 1980, it was the coolest thing since ice! |
 September 29, 2011 - 11:15pm | OK I checked it out. The bad guys didn't really fight. Beastmaster was better. Sorry SS.  -iggy |
September 30, 2011 - 4:53am | OK I checked it out. The bad guys didn't really fight.
Anything with Tanya Roberts was better.Beastmaster was better. Sorry SS. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 September 30, 2011 - 1:12pm | I remember "Hawk the Slayer"... I saw it on Showtime when I was about 15 (1982), and a budding 8mm film-maker/animator. It was actually inspiring to watch... I walked away thinking "heck, I could make a movie like that"... so, my pals and I spent the next couple of weeks filming "spectacular" swordfights in the woods near our high school. And when we premiered our masterpiece for our friends and families... well, we found a new appreciation for "Hawk". I actually did like the movie. It was lots of fun, and it inspired a lot of our early D&D games... I liked Crow the elf, and he became the inspiration for my first elf character. I remember Crow running (in slow-motion) through the woods, and his rapid-fire archery. Good stuff. |
September 30, 2011 - 3:20pm | Sure, like I said --- it was bad. The giant wasn't very tall, the dwarf wasn't very short. Crow could have used a better dialogue. The actor playing Hawk was just boring. The grizzled guy who portrayed Ranulf wasn't too bad, the constant bickering between the dwarf and giant was mildly entertaining, and Jack Palance obviously had fun with the role of Voltan without taking it seriously. I actually mapped out an entire setting based on the movie. I called it "Hawk World" --- yeah, pretty original for a twelve year old...but I had the players journey across the land to gather the various heroes in a quest to topple Voltan. They basically took the place of the blind witch woman --- rather than teleporting Hawk everywhere they had to go the old fashioned way and recruit each hero to lead the battle against Voltan. I did a lot of pausing/rewinding with the ol' BetaMax back then.  The thing is, we're all grown up now and can see the movie as the terrible movie it really was. The new film generation has also matured, and hopefully they will do this one right. It's actually one of those rare possibilities where the remake/sequel can be better than the original for a change. Which makes that twelve year old portion of my psyche excited |
 October 17, 2011 - 6:51pm | Yeah, I remember this as well. My best friend at the time made a character named 'Hawk' after the main character in the movie. Only the name transfered to the game though because at the time, we were playing Star Frontiers. Never got into D&D much frankly - just never cared for it and still don't. Back in those days we played SF and Champions exclusively. Then I went to college and well, no one wanted to play SF or Champions. :P Ended up playing an awful lot of Rolemaster...but that's a different post. Anyway, yeah - I liked teh flick even though it was pretty crummy by my current standards. Back then it was pretty snazzy! I don't have to outrun that nasty beast my friend...I just have to outrun you!  |
October 21, 2011 - 6:09am | More cheese? Better pour your self a glass of wine for these: Star Crash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzfuNSpP0RA&noredirect=1 Galaxina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbfkdfUip1E&feature=related I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 October 22, 2011 - 9:31am | Was that w00t that I saw in the Star Crash clip? |
December 23, 2011 - 7:05am | Hey, Anyone else remember Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
