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View Poll Results: What's your favorite swashbuckling film? Why? | |
Hamlet(1948)
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Yojimbo(1962)
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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% | 
08-25-2006, 03:44 PM
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| Swashbuckling Films
Goodday! Here are some great movies with great fencing stars.What is your favorite one?
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08-25-2006, 03:50 PM
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| Ooops! Forgot the poll....
P.S. - we get it, you're reading "By the Sword", most people on this board have also read it.
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08-25-2006, 04:08 PM
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| this poll is most definitely flawed because "Scaramouche" is not a choice. 
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Originally Posted by IHateMrPotatohead I can't think of anything to put down there! |  | |
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08-25-2006, 04:28 PM
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| This poll is flawed more than any other poll....
Where is the princess bride? Robin Hood?
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08-25-2006, 05:04 PM
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| The Great Race.
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08-25-2006, 05:36 PM
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| The Scarlet Pimpernel
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08-25-2006, 05:49 PM
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Trust me fencers i gave you my very best options. 
wordriderTerrance
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"Steel true/blade straight"
~Inscription on the gravestone of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,by Robert Louis Stevenson~
"If you can't hit your friends with swords,who can you hit?"
-The University of Calgary Fencing Club 2002-
"Ye have feared the sword;and I will bring a sword upon you,saith the Lord God." Ez.11:8 B.C.
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08-25-2006, 06:30 PM
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| Star Wars!!!! Yay!!!
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08-25-2006, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! Where is the princess bride? Robin Hood? | And Robin Hood: Men in Tights! 
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08-26-2006, 03:16 AM
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| I like The Princess Bride. Not only does it have passable rapier fencing, but it a princess (LIKE ME! *skips*) and locations (sp?) that are very clearly sets which just makes it funnier. Oh, I also like The Seven Samuri, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The House of Flying Daggers, Hero, ect.
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08-26-2006, 09:05 AM
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| So mant missing films ...
Scaramouche
Fanfan La Tulipe
Le Bossu
Cyrano De Bergerac
etc
This poll is clearly flawed. | |
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08-26-2006, 10:09 AM
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| The Prisoner of Zenda final fight scene is very entertaining.
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08-26-2006, 03:47 PM
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| Flawed not!
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Originally Posted by Gav So mant missing films ...
Scaramouche
Fanfan La Tulipe
Le Bossu
Cyrano De Bergerac
etc
This poll is clearly flawed. | Do not get mad Gav 4 Star Movies listed.Yes i could have included the above as poll options but for 10 options sakes.
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"Steel true/blade straight"
~Inscription on the gravestone of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,by Robert Louis Stevenson~
"If you can't hit your friends with swords,who can you hit?"
-The University of Calgary Fencing Club 2002-
"Ye have feared the sword;and I will bring a sword upon you,saith the Lord God." Ez.11:8 B.C.
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08-26-2006, 05:07 PM
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| Favorite fencing movie - Sunshine. Not erally a swashbuckler, though. | |
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08-28-2006, 03:34 AM
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Originally Posted by qatet Favorite fencing movie - Sunshine. Not erally a swashbuckler, though. | Neither are about half of the films in the poll. Not every film with swordplay is. Probabaly most aren't, in fact.
My favorite: The Duellists.
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08-28-2006, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by WordRider Do not get mad Gav 4 Star Movies listed.Yes i could have included the above as poll options but for 10 options sakes. | I am not mad I am just poking fun at the poll options; I mean - you actually included Braveheart...
And Spartacus, while being a great film, is not what I would term a swashbuckler. | |
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08-28-2006, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by scrapinpeg The Great Race. | I watched this movie over the weekend. While it doesn't have a lot of swordplay in it I must admit it was some of the most realistic fencing combat I've seen in a film! Also a very funny movie!
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08-28-2006, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by IHateMrPotatohead this poll is most definitely flawed because "Scaramouche" is not a choice. | Agreed! Have some rep while you're at it. I love that movie.
EDIT: Damn, unable to rep you.
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08-28-2006, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by IHateMrPotatohead this poll is most definitely flawed because "Scaramouche" is not a choice. | I haven't seen Scaramouche in forever, but it definately should be on the list!
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08-28-2006, 09:10 PM
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| Cyrano De Bergerac
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