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April 21, 2014: Ben-Hur (1959)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Biblical Epic, Drama, Epic, Movie of the Day, Naval, Period Film, Revenge, Sword and Sandals Tagged Best Actor, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Effects-Best Special Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor, best writing nominee adapted screenplay, chariot race, Charlton Heston, galley slave, Jesus, leper colony, Rome, William Wyler

March 4, 2014: Troy (2004)

Mar4 by bellabone

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Poem, Drama, Epic, Revenge, Sword and Sandals, War Movies Tagged Achilles, Brad Pitt, CGI, epic, Eric Bana, Greece, Hector, Homer, Iliad, Julie Christie, Orlando Bloom, Peter O'Toole, Priam, Sean Bean, Trojan War, Troy, Warner Brothers, Wolfgang Petersen

September 23rd, 2012: Hercules (1983)

Sep23 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Robots, So-Bad-It's-Good, Stop Motion Animation, Sword and Sandals, Sword and Sorcery Tagged bad animation, bad narration, bad rear projection, bad special effects, bear, Cannon, cash-in, Classical Mythology, Drive-In, gods, Hercules, Italy, killer robots, Lou Ferigno, low-budget, Luigi Cozzi, Menahem Golan, quest, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Sybil Danning, terrible bear suit, Yoram Globus

July 30th, 2012: Hercules in New York aka Hercules Goes Bananas aka Hercules -The Movie aka

Jul30 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Comedy, Fantasy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Bad, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spoof, Sword and Sandals Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, before they were famous, Classical Mythology, Drive-In, father, father-son relationship, Hercules, James Karen, low-budget, Michael Lipton, mobsters, New York City, wicked stepmother, wrestler

August 12th, 2011: Clash of the Titans (1981)

Aug12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Event Film, Fantasy, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, Sword and Sandals, The Original Tagged Athena, Britain, Burgess Meredith, Classical Mythology, gods, Greece, Harry Hamlin, Hephaestus, Kraken, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Medusa, MGM, oracles, Pegasus, Perseus, prophecy, Ray Harryhausen, Thetis, Ursula Andress, virgin sacrifice, wrath of the gods, Zeus

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