My dad was a media collector, so our house had a library of content & all the premium TV, meaning lots of recordings of our favorites. My dad died 10 years ago yesterday & this reminded me of him. RIP Daddy!

I haven’t seen Krull in years but I still think about how the cyclops chose to break from his preordained path to help them. That part moved me as a kid and I still get a little choked up thinking about it as an adult.

Your absolute delight about the Glaive is the sort of content that will carry me through these dark times.

I have never seen this movie but I’m stunned that the female lead’s dresses haven’t become absolutely iconic. They’re stunning! Watching this video, I’m reminded of how overly attached I am to some stories. I love with all my the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I grew up with it and am still growing up it with seeing as Rick Riordan is still releasing books in his world of demigods and monsters. Something strange that happened to me when I went back to read the newest series with the final book coming out in a few months, Trials of Apollo. I didn’t remember the world the way the author intended. I had spent so much time with it in my head between middle school and the Heroes of Olympus books to now as an adult in college that my childhood favorites didn’t feel like mine. Even though the style and tone of the books have remained consistent since I started reading in 2008, I had re-sculpted the world to fit my childhood imagination. So when I went back I found the text almost unrecognizable even though nothing had changed. It was a bizarre experience and something I thought I should share

Turns out that childhood nostalgia is not a substitute for critical thinking

I watched Krull and Beastmaster more times than I can count.

This is how I feel about Beastmaster. It makes absolutely no sense, but I watched it every opportunity I had.

Krull was a staple of 80's cable.

Dude, I love Krull. As a reader of high fantasy, krull was a joy to watch.

Whenever I see a review of this movie, I make it a point to let anyone reading the comments know that this is my real last name.

While it isn't a classic, Krull does continue to have influence, even if only aesthetically. For example, the extremely popular game Warframe (and its spiritual predecessor DarkSector) has a class of weapons called "glaives" which, unlike actual glaives, are clear homages to the Glaive in this film.

As someone who only saw Krull as a nearly 30-year-old adult and had very little foreknowledge going in, I think my read on it was pretty similar to yours. However, even without childhood nostalgia (bleed-over Star Wars nostalgia notwithstanding), I genuinely enjoyed it for what it was- a fun fantasy adventure that was just doing its thing and like you said, had some fantastic design and aesthetic choices. Thank you for making this!

Our tastes have to start somewhere.

Krull, a movie with Robert Coltrane and Liam Neson as thug #1 and thug #2.

I used to love "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and often mentioned to my husband how great it was. I had completely forgotten Mickey Rooney's disgraceful performance as the Japanese neighbor. Well, I finally rented the video and we sat down to watch. And there was Mickey Rooney doing his thing. The look my husband gave me was truly beyond description. I have almost never been so embarrassed. I still cringe when I think about it.

The Slayer death sound still haunts me.

My mother wanted to see The Last Unicorn with us but we ended in the wrong cinema. My mother, who never was interested in movies at all, only noticed way into the movie. My smallest brother, the baby of the family, had nightmares for months. After we finally watched The Last Unicorn he had nightmares for months also!

It's weird watching Krull and seeing Michael Eddington running around on a fantasy planet with the Glaive. I wonder if he brought his Lucky Loonie.

My two favourite movies as a kid were a VHS of Jurassic Park that had scratches and skipped over part of the final battle and a taping my grandmother made of transformers the movie that ended right _before_ the final battle.

My favourite film when I was a child was ‘Accattone’, a 1961 Pasolini film. I’m half Italian and my mother wanted me to be able to practice the language but it was hard for her the find children’s films in italian here in the UK at the time. We didn’t have the luxury of the internet. So instead she had me watch an extremely bad quality vhs tape, recorded form the telly, of post war Italian neo-realist cinema. Unexpectedly, I really enjoyed it and would ask to watch it all the time 😂

Two of my favorite topics - acknowledging that Krull is a likable movie despite it being a pretty clunky overall and telling 30 & 40 something chuds to get over the self importance of their nostalgia.

Dude, I loved Krull (and Willow) as a kid, even had the card game. My dad was an AV buff, so instead of VHS, it was LD and BetaMax.

Maybe they've mislabeled it love and really they mean duty.

I’ve never felt more called out by the opening of a video 😭

I remember the Krull novel sitting around our house when I was a kid. When I saw trailers for it in the theater I wanted to see it but my parents wisely declined: I was a sensitive kid, the muppet-show gave me nightmares XD.

80s fantasy movies are the best (even the b and c movies). I highly recommend watching the Rifftrax edition of Krull too; it's one of their best.

I'm not saying we should go back to the times when playing D+D was seen as an unspeakably embarrassing pastime for adults, but grown men throwing tantrums over entertainment media intended for children should not be socially acceptable, online or otherwise. Saying that, grown men throwing tantrums, destroying property and beating their wives over some guys kicking a ball around shouldn't be a thing either.

Krull is the reason I was afraid of quicksand way longer than I should have rationally been afraid of quicksand.

I used to watch this on repeat as a kid. I got chills seeing the flying horses again. Thank you for doing a video on Krull.

I had Beetlejuice, Harry and the Hendersons, Willow, Top Gun, and The Woman in Red (Gene Wilder). 😂👍 Edit: Oh, how could I have forgotten Princess Bride, The Last Unicorn, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth?!

It's very annoying when people attach their ego to their favorite media as you said, so they take any negative criticism as an attack on themselves. This makes it impossible to have a reasonable dialogue since they feel personally attacked and refuse to accept even the most obvious flaws of the media in question and manage to create and cling to even the most weak of justifications for them. I've seen this recently in the Pokémon community, where hardcore fans refuse to accept that the latest games were underwhelming and had an extreme amount of missed potential, but they refuse to accept any of the obvious flaws and shield themselves calling any deserters "haters". You cannot have an honest discussion with people like that since they act like children who refuse to accept or seriously consider any argument contrary to their firmly held belief that the games are perfect and should never change.

I keep thinking this is Star Lord in the video. It's the same body doing the same motion in a similar outfit silhouette.

Lucky for me, the princess bride has been my favorite movie since I was 5. So my favorite movie doesn't have any baggage because it's the best movie

Krull should have been a De Laurentiis film. It fits in with Barbarella, Flash Gordon, Dune, and Conan the Barbarian. They seem to be able to elevate this kind of film somehow.

I haven't seen the movie, but I got James Horner's complete score from La-La Land Records and it's MAGNIFICENT

You made my day. My favorite movie that no one has seen.

My Nostalgia favorite movie since age one was The Princess Bride, so I don't have this problem.

"Krull is perfect you goons!" -My childhood that is clearly being criticized by a new, unknowable, internet nemesis. Seriously, I hope people take this commentary to heart. I honestly avoid almost all movie channels now. Heck some channels have managed to find success they never had by embracing the negativity of their nostalgia and feeding echo-chambers purposefully. Subbed.

Who else tried to incorporate the world of Krull into their D&D game?

I'm surprised you left out that Liam Neeson is also in this movie. Obviously Krull isn't perfect, but I still love it. It's just a fun movie.

I was born in 75 and before Blockbuster, there were a lot of mom-and-pop video rental stores in the mid-80's. I distinctly remember the beaded curtain that separated the "adults only" section in one of them.

Literally just watched this 2 days ago and adored it! Edit: just finished watching the video, very interesting point. I’m someone who tends to enjoy action movies and stuff that’s a bit more juvenile, Krull being a perfect point. It’s simply that these films do more for me than an avant- garde film, that the meanings of love and heroism are just something that click and keep me honest, give me joy and make me want to be better. Because of that, I tend to feel like I’m defending my enjoyment a lot, that people look down on me for my juvenile tastes. I need to get better at just not caring and loving what I love! Great video and interesting point, love your stuff!

Always loved this movie, although most of the friends I showed it to thought it was garbage. I still think there are parts that work really well, and I think this is one of the movies that could need a remake by people who care. The core has potential, although you really need more chemistry and dialogue between Colwyn and Lyssa. Great video, thank you. Now I'll watch the movie again. Just one thing: I think the main theme kicks ass.

It has its flaws, but nostalgia aside, I would still say it's better than some people give it credit for.

I'm 48. You nail all of the greatness and issues with Krull. And as a former English teacher, I appreciate your spot-on observations about fandom, the potential problems of nostalgia and criticism, and the themes and narrative of Knull.

I was just talking about “Krull” a few hours ago, as I was watching “Seventh Son”...and yes it was a childhood favorite! Along with “Big Trouble in Little China” and “Raiders”

I was lucky growing up because my mum ran the local video rental shop so I got to see a lot of films as a kid (some maybe I shouldn't have like Helraiser) but my favourite kids film is never ending story but yes, I know it has some major floors but I still like it and I too like Krull, its just a nice fantasy romp and theres nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned

Growing up, it seemed too adult for me and so only got to watch it once, but I remember it being truly surreal for its mixing of sci-fi and high fantasy elements. Star Wars claims the thrown of bringing fantasy to the realm of science fiction, but aside from the extremely limited and legendary users of lightsabers, it is almost entirely just a hero's journey merely set in sci-fi universe. Not saying that makes it worse, just drawing comparisons. Anyway, I'm going to have to rewatch Krull now. Hahaha! Thanks for the analysis.

So this movie is where that weapon is from

I love Krull. I’ve learned that a person can enjoy a thing and still be critical of certain aspects of it.

Growing up, we used to rent a lot of videos from local video stores, so I got a lot of diverse exposure to different things. If there was stuff my mom wouldn't let me watch, I would invariably see it at a friend's house. And then my mom and aunt would always buy the Disney movies because they loved Disney, while none of the men in my family cared enough about movies to buy any (though my dad would rent all the Star Trek movies (there were only 6 of them) and we'd watch them every 6 months like clockwork), so we watched a lot of Disney movies on repeat. I ended up hating a lot of them from overexposure.

As a family, we have Krull on VHS, and I have since bought the dvd for my own collection. The 'flying horses' scene always made me laugh lol

Krull was my first drive through movie theatre experience as a young child.

I grew up with Krull too, taped off the TV. I think this might be the first time I’ve seen some of those scenes in widescreen. Very nostalgic video for me, thanks for making it.

I recently watched Krull for the first time, and while it's not perfect, I actually enjoyed it very much.

I feel this reflects a lack of purpose and community in daily life. I am not religious so I see little separating Star Wars from religious texts in so far as them being morality plays/texts that have created a community . I few toxic fandom as a parallel to religious zealotry and it is just sad. People cling to these stories because they can become their only guiding narrative through life. Why else would all these adults scream and cry at Star Wars and Star Trek conventions when a new trailer is shown. It is reminiscent taking Genesis literally and making a museum where cavemen ride dinosaurs. These stories are meant to entertain you and to help you grow into a culture, not trap you in debates about minutia

Oh man. I watched this movie over 100 times as a kid. Every day I would get home from school and out it on. You read my mind.

It’s such a shame that Ghostbusters became entangled with anti-SJW bullshit. The original Ghostbusters is one of my favorite movies, but it’s no longer fun discussing it because of all the “controversy” surrounding the 2016 reboot. Sure, the reboot was not exactly a good movie, but it did not warrant all the extreme vitriol it and the cast received.

When Lysette Anthony first appeared on the screen in Krull she looked so striking and unearthly she looked like a anime character in the flesh.

Oh look it's Michael Eddington before he joined the Maquis and went undercover in starfleet. Wonder if the Glaive would've helped in the guerilla war with the Cardassians.

I absolutely adored this movie as a little kid. We didn’t have it on tape. We had cable and they played many movies over and over. It’s how I got into Cloak and Dagger too :p

Ok but those effects look freaking amazing

Now, i wanna see that big trouble in little china review ;). As always, a great video. I wore out my Willow and Legend (tangerine dream cut/which im totally guilty of being attached to and shitty about vs Ridley's cut) VHS's.

As a child of the 80s, Krull illustrates another lesson I learned young. Do not take movie critics word for whether a movie is good. Watch and make up your own mind.

I love those old 80s fantasy and sci-fi movies. Even if their not technically good, I always find things to love about them. Just because something isn’t a world class Masterpiece doesn’t mean you can’t love it.

I think the the point about not attaching one's sense of self to the media of one's youth is really important - thank you for making it!

I think it's very fair of you, to take your most beloved movie and see it for both it's successes and failures. It's a good thing to remember, that what makes a person happy need not be perfect.

I just watched Disney's Robin Hood, Jungle Book, and Lion King over and over again

I love Krull, never get bored of watching it.

We must always combat nostalgia! I did the same experiment about 2 years ago -- rewatched KRULL. What I loved about it as an adult were the color palette and sets.

One of my favourite movies of all time is a four part French/German adaptation of Treasure Island from 1966, which is a classic in Germany that is still shown on TV every year during christmas time. It's very flawed, for one it's way longer than it needs to be, many scenes serve no purpose other than to artificially prolong it (because it had to be a four-parter). The language used, specifically towards women and people of colour, is... outdated. Most of the "action" scenes are pretty boring, sometimes even laughable. The cinematography is uninspired and boring. A really funny flaw is that the shanty that functions as the title song is sung in German, but the people who sang the song were Czech and didn't speak German, they had to learn the lyrics phonetically and as a result the song is very hard to understand. The actor who played the main character sustained a life threatening injury on set, when he fell into his knife (he survived), and the scene where it happens is in the final film! I could go on, this movie has many flaws and quirks, and despite being a classic in Germany, it's pretty unknown internationally. I saw it on TV every year as a kid and about a year ago I bought it to watch it again (since I don't have a TV anymore). It's sometimes weird, sometimes pretty boring, some of it hasn't aged well, it's definitely very flawed, but I still love it. Don't know why I wrote all of this. If you read all this, you're awesome, have a nice day.

I never got the "whaa, whaaa, my childhood is ruined by something someone said about my favorite childhood thing!"-argument. Like, did they go back in time and kill your parents or something? You still had your childhood, it's still the way you lived through it, chill out, bro. You're an adult now, you should be able to not confuse your whole ego with some piece of media. I believe in you, Brad, you got this.

Back when i was a child of the 80s I preferred this movie to Star Wars. It had a darker more melancholic feel that stayed with me more.

I loved this movie growing up. My only complaint is that the glaive is barely used. It was so badass.

Sure but obviously Krull is objectively the greatest movie that was ever made or ever will be made for all time forever.

I think part of the reason people feel attacked when the media they love are criticized is a function of the internet. IRL if you meet a person who loves the same media that you love, you can have an interesting conversation about your shared love, but in public areas of the internet its all too common to have these types of conversations interrupted by persons who cannot let love for something they dislike go unchallenged. A culture that makes it hard for people to express a love for the things which matter to them is a culture that breeds defensiveness.

love your work

I first saw krull when I was 7 years old. My family had just moved in with my grandfather all the way across the country in Tennessee. I always thought this movie was just a fever dream I had. Weird as it is, I love anyways. I even have the poster from the rif-trax live showing of krull.

This argument is also SO PERFECT id you just replace "movie" with "Video Game"

The Glaive was such a dream weapon. As a kid, I just kept yelling, “Use the Glaive!” “HEY! HE’s GOT THAT AWESOME GLAIVE!!!” As an adult, “HEY! USE THE GLAIVE!!! PLEASE?!?”

I watched Krull after you mentioned how much you loved it in a previous video from a couple of years ago. I really enjoyed it! Krull certainly has its flaws, but they are far from fatal.

Totally enjoyed this flick when it came out actually saw it in theaters 👍☺✌

i loved krull. us fantasy fans didn't have a lot of choices back then.

I loved watching Krull as a kid... till I got my hands on The Beastmaster. I watched that movie till I wore out the VHS and it wouldn't rewind properly anymore.

I was today years old when I finally understood that one gag from that one Homestarrunner Halloween cartoon. Thanks!

This video= what entering adulthood feels like. Thank you!!

Yeah I love Krull and a bunch of other films of that time cause they were what we had. But I can't figure out the obsession of reading this as being something of a gold standard for films. Like take Ghostbusters 2016. I think it's a decent film on its own but it has similar flaws to many modern comedy films (too much ad-libbing being the big one) but it's not a horrible film, just okay and that's fine in my opinion.

At last. The Krull review I've been waiting for since Oliver Harper's.

Kurll! Ah-ah! Savior of the Universe!

"Why did we have Krull? Who bought Krull?" - this was the kind of question you'd ask yourself about at least 20% of any VHS collection.

i remember seeing this movie as a kid. i recognized it from the scene with the one-eyed person getting crushed by the walls closing in. i recall trying to find out the name of the movie once or twice but i never did. i grew up in the 90's in brazil, to me the aesthetics and story were quite exquisite, probably because i had never been exposed to sci-fi or fantasy before that... anyway, it felt strange at the time, and that's what gets me going these days, strange things. i felt something funny when i remembered that i had seen and looked for this film before and i thought maybe i should share it. love your content

I grew up with this film also and this review holds true IMO. While with nostalgia I can still watch the film fondly, but now understanding how arcs should work the film is stunted. It doesn't stop me from being able to watch it with enjoyment, but also doesn't change that recognize the story has flaws.

The spider woman scene was my favorite part...and the creepy blind wizard lol

Ah, Krull. Loved this movie as a kid, though only seemed to catch it at random on HBO.

People should also remember; it doesn’t need to be objectively good to be important on a personal level.

As a big fan of Sword and the Sorcerer, I can't believe that I never saw Krull. I can't remember why I passed on it. Surely I didn't think, "Naw, looks too cheesy!"

Oh, boy. Does this remind me of the gatekeeping some of the fans my age post about fans that are younger at some of the New Wave sites I used to frequent. "You can't possibly be a *real* fan of this band since you weren't born yet!" and so forth. Huh, I always thought folks buying the music and other stuff helped keep the bands and interest alive. Guess I was having too much fun to notice they and I were doing it "incorrectly". :/

Wonderful rundown- you really covered a lot of ground in 9 minutes! I think the only other thing to say here is that movies like Krull or even the almighty Star Wars franchise essentially belong to the children. As we grow up, we should be passing that excitement back to our younger generations and do what we can to let them experience these movies as we did. To hold on to these movies and force them to "work" for our (hopefully) more developed and nuanced eyes is, as you so well put it, a fool's errand.

My Krull is the 1986 Transformers Movie. That is some good stuff, bros.

Thank you! People need to learn it's okay if a childhood favorite isn't perfect or even bad.