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good movie

posted 18 years ago by tana_ricky
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i saw this movie when i was very young. good movie. this was the the 60's and early 70's. this was the era of Spartacus, The Good The Bad and Ugly, Whom The Gods Wish to Destroy, Patton, Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Battle of the Bulge, Sound of Music, Soldier Blue, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day, Bruce Lee movies, etc.

i admit i feel nostalgic for these movies, and the era. I feel nostalgic even for bad movies like Green Slime, Switchblade Sisters, Cleopatra Jones, Terence Hill-Bud Spencer flicks.

[–] aawsmith-1 17 years ago

I liked this film to, it's no Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope or The Godfather, or Gone With The Wind for that matter, but i still liked it despite it's age and budget.

The Joker.

[–] sbirdconliff 8 years ago

I actually loved this movie, just as a movie. When it came out I knew very little about Aelfred but it was partly this movie made made me want to know more. Not an accurate history but still fun.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

At least they tried to make the setting more historically accurate, which was a change from previous medieval movies that depicted everything in a shiny, romanticized and sanitized manner.

[–] huwdj (4571) 5 years ago

An old favourite. First seen when a kid at the Saturday morning matinee in the shabby old cinema built as part of the local miners institute. It seemed big and adult then. Looked quite small last time I saw it - but still loved it.

[–] whynotwriteme (7815) 5 years ago

I was only 4 years old when I first saw this. My mom and I were on holiday in a small town in Ontario near our city and we went to the local theater to see it. It was the first 'grown-up' movie I remember watching. I just loved it. The Danes scared the heck out of me! When we got home, I re-enacted the battles in miniature with my Airfix Ancient Britons as the Danes and my Airfix Robin Hood set as Alfred's army. I never saw it again until it came on PBS or TVOntario when I was in my 20s. I never found a VHS of it, but I finally was able to download an MKV file and burn it to disc a couple of years ago. I think this is the first of the modern style historical epics, with a more 'gritty' feel than the big costume dramas of the 50s and early 60s.