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Offline JackCrafty

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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2011, 06:12:59 pm »
There are exceptions.   ;D
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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2011, 06:41:47 pm »

Archery is also used in that recent remake of 10,000 BC (the one without Rachael Welch).


Raquel Welch was in "One Million Years B.C."  the film "10,000 B.C." isn't a remake or related to it in any way - except that it has numbers and letters in the title  ;)

"The 13th Warrior" has some bow scenes in it - but it's not a Molly or Holmey, as far as I can remember - more of a longbow style.

"Beowulf & Grendel"  (AMAZING movie!!!)  ALSO has some bow scenes in it and AGAIN...  they don't appear to be Moll's or Holm's...

Stallone's last Rambo movie has him using his tactical bow - not sure if I recall he closed one eye when aiming...  I know I've seen a few people do that in different flicks over the years.

I notice a LOT of things in programmes and movies that, while not ruining it for me, they definitely cause me some disappointment - such as Season one of Stargate SG1 - priest characters supposedly on a primitive type world - and the soles of their combat boots could be seen as they walked away from camera.  Also in the pilot episode for season one - the Goa-uld come through the stargate at the beginning and there's a split second shot of their feet marching from the gate and you can see AGAIN, the combat boots under the strap-on armor pieces.

I'm just pedantic like that :D

While we're on the subject of Stargate...  the episode titled "The Nox" (episode 7) has the guys get their weapons taken from them so Jack O'Niell "makes" a bow and some arrows to use.  It's about as freshly cut and scraped as the handle on my dad's 25 year old spade out in the shed.

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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2011, 07:48:14 pm »
just thought of another bow shooting movie
its a movie about inbred,canableistic rednecks
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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #18 on: February 22, 2011, 08:37:08 pm »
Last of the Dogmen has a bunch 0f cool and believable bow scenes.

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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2011, 09:19:50 pm »
My all time favorite Army Of Darkness.
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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2011, 11:00:40 pm »
Most of the time when I see archery in a movie, I get a headache.

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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2011, 11:00:57 pm »
There are exceptions.   ;D

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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2011, 02:53:42 am »
Yall remember Bo & Luke Duke?   They used to shoot dynamite at Roscoe P. Coletrain,,,,,,I know,its not a movie but TV is the same thing to me.......
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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2011, 04:21:39 am »

     The original Robin Hood, with Errol Flynn, has a lot of archery.  By the way, Errol Flynn could have been an Olympic champion in fencing.  I am with you Hatch, I get too involved in what the movie characters are using, if it is correct or not.  Like The movie with Errol Flynn, about John Brown, when he raided the armory.  This was before the war between the states.  They were using cartridge pistols, and rifles !  The good, the bad, and the ugly.  Again using cartridge pistols.  They were all cap and ball!  However the Spanish Starr, which was quite popular with the south, when they could get them, was double action ! The Le mat had a 20 gauge shotgun barrel under the pistol barrel, and you moved a lever, and it would fire the shotgun barrel.  I always got a kick out of the bias, and outright bullcrap of Hollywood, when in war movies, the German grenades blew up very little, but the American grenades, blew up jeeps, houses, and would blow a dozen Germans into the air.  Yeah, right.  Also the Americans would hide behind a little eight inch thick log, and the German 7 and 8 mm bullets would not go through, but the American bullets, went through big trees, and all kinds of stuff.  Uh huh, sure.  Oh, and it was by international agreement that the machine gunners, had to shoot at your feet only, or in a curving pattern on the walls of buildings.  Anywho the original Robin Hood is my all time favorite.    Didn't the little fairies in Willow, carry tiny bows?  One of them had a mouse head hat, and skin.  OK, here's one you might have missed......Hiawatha.  Cartoon, but still had a bow and arrow in it...... And the Indian in the cabinet.......I thought it was a compound that Burt had......Shoot, I have a Bear Grizzly....... ;D  Well who shot Cock Robin, I did said the sparrow, with my little bow and arrow.  I knew those sparrow eggs weren't supposed to be blue! :o ;D ;D

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Re: Bows in the movies
« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2011, 09:15:57 am »
favorite archery scene is in the last samurai, when the young samurai is defending the narrow bridge so his father can escape
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