The Beastmaster (1982)'s comments

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monty

Any seven-year-old will love this one.

7 years 11 months ago

moviesmylife875

Loved it as a child and still love it today! A masterpiece!

3 years 3 months ago

My first and most important question about The Beastmaster is how it was allowed to steal a key musical phrase of the Battlestar Galactica theme for its own. Like, how?! My other questions fall into the "huh?!" category and might relate to casting (Marc Singer? Rip Torn?! I thought Tony Todd was in this - ah, only the third one? - well I can't get too made since it's fun to see John Amos playing a barbarian hero), structure (the double-climax, the deus ex machina's set-up), and - this is meant as a positive though - absolutely bonkers story. When you secure the services of Don Coscarelli, weirdness is almost a given, and this movie is full of it. Our hero Dar's origin story has him magically stolen from his mother's womb and implanted in a cow, which has got to be the reason he can assemble a party of animals as an adult. They're all cool, but the real heroes of the film are the ferrets and you can't tell me different. They even get an important kill shot. Ugly witches, gimpy beast-men, kind of sort of the weapon from Krull a year earlier... it's all quite ridiculous and fun, PG-bloodless despite its random nudity (on that score, I need to condemn Dar's initial rapeyness with Tanya Roberts, and I'm still confused, were they kissing cousins or not?). Out of 5 stars, I can only reasonably give it 3 even if I enjoyed its goofy weirdness, so I'd split the difference by at least favoriting it.

2 years 1 month ago

EssexMutant

Bring out the gimp!!

3 years ago

Torgo

New 4K UHD Bluray has a few altered special effects, apparently hardly noticeable.

3 years 2 months ago