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View Poll Results: What's your favorite swashbuckling film? Why?

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  • Hamlet(1948)

    0 0%

  • Yojimbo(1962)

    1 6.25%

  • The Three Musketeers (1974)

    4 25.00%

  • The Seven Samurai(1954)

    1 6.25%

  • The Mark of Zorro(1920)

    5 31.25%

  • Spartacus(1960)

    0 0%

  • Excalibur(1981)

    0 0%

  • Braveheart(1995)

    0 0%

  • The Prisoner of Zenda(1937)

    1 6.25%

  • StarWars(1977)

    4 25.00%
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  1. 08-29-2006 05:03 AM #21
    Inquartata
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    And you know, there's actually a ( bad ) film entitled "Swashbuckler". Isn't on the list....
    Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
  2. 08-29-2006 03:43 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inquartata
    And you know, there's actually a ( bad ) film entitled "Swashbuckler". Isn't on the list....
    At least we have similar taste in film
    "Swashbuckler" was a terrible film with really ridiculous fencing (if I may call it such). Gee, thanks for reminding, now I have to again get rid of mental image of a guy in red shirt who could neither fence nor act. Then again, there was that fencing schene on the beach ... just as terrible as the rest, though.
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  3. 08-30-2006 06:52 AM #23
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    Yes. When I want an example of badly-done movie fencing, I always come back to the scene where Shaw, with a smallsword, is fighting Boyle, who has a cutlass, on a staircase. And the former has to pause visibly to give the latter time to wrest his sword around...when he could have run him through about thrice in the time it took him to raise that chopper. And OTOH manages to parry that heavy cleaver somehow with his slender little blade. Ugh!
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  4. 09-01-2006 01:44 PM #24
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    yeah - a bit flawed. We'd have to do a better job of defining "swashbuckler".
  5. 09-28-2006 12:56 PM #25
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    Swashbuckling Films

    I like Star Wars but i have to give it to Douglas Fairbanks for The Mark of Zorro.
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