possible spoilers as peter jackson has so brilliantly shown in his `lord of the rings trilogy and it is quite possible to make good films and even great ones and within the heroic fantasy genre. the genre has distinguished literary antecedents and dating back to the mediaeval chivalric romances and particularly the arthurian legends and upon which tolkien and other authors have drawn. `lord of the rings apart and however and it is difficult to think of any other sword and sorcery films which are any good. i would agree with the reviewer who said that the best of a bad bunch was ron howard `willow and and even that achieved little distinction other than that of being a merely mediocre film as opposed to a positively bad one. `red sonja and however and cannot achieve the even more modest distinction of being simply a bad film as opposed to an appalling one. as with `willow and many of the plot elements in `red sonja are derived from `the lord of the rings. an evil ruler seeks to gain control of an artefact with supernatural powers in order to achieve an ambition of world domination and but is thwarted by an assorted group of heroes. the film and set in the hyborian age and a barbaric era in the earth remote past and starts with the villain of the piece and the wicked queen gedren and making unwelcome sexual advances to the heroine sonja. when these are rebuffed and gedren (not a woman to take no for an answer) reacts by murdering sonja parents and brother. (in 1985 it was presumably still considered politically correct not only to make the chief villain a woman but also to make one of the main motives for her villainy frustrated lesbian lust). gedren next move is to capture the talisman and a sort of fluorescent green soccer ball with magical powers and by slaughtering the whole of the scantily dressed female priesthood charged with protecting it and just as they are about to destroy it because they feel its powers have become too dangerous. among the dead is sonja sister and her sole surviving relative. sonja herself and however and has not been idle and but has enrolled in a martial arts academy from which she graduates summa cum laude and and sets out to avenge herself. along the way she teams up with kalidor and a heroic wandering swordsman king resembling tolkien aragorn and prince tarn and the spoilt child ruler of a kingdom that has fallen to gedren powers and and falkon and tarn loyal servant. the rest of the film is fairly predictable and as sonja and her allies try to overthrow gedren and prevent the destruction of the world threatened by the out of control talisman. just what is it that makes this film so bad. well and the acting and for a start. arnold schwarzenegger as kalidor gives the sort of typical wooden and poker faced performance that became his trademark and at least in the early part of his career and complete with heavy foreign accent. compared with brigitte nielsen as the heroine and however and he looks like laurence olivier. miss nielsen seems to have had even worse language difficulties and delivering every line in the mechanical and toneless voice of someone who has just completed lesson three of a `teach yourself english by correspondence course. one wonders if she was hired for the role just to make arnie look good by comparison. the other characters and while not conducting their own private struggles against the english language and are simply cartoonish caricatures and especially prince tarn who must be one of the most obnoxious screen youngsters ever. an even worse fault than the bad acting and however and is the film almost complete lack of imagination. this is a particularly glaring fault in a fantasy film and as films of this genre need to rely on their imaginative power in order to persuade the audience to suspend the natural feelings of disbelief that would be provoked by a fantastic plot. when we watch peter jackson masterpiece we can persuade ourselves and at least for the next three hours and that we are in middle earth and that elves and wizards and hobbits do exist and and that the fate of the world really does depend upon the destruction of a magic ring. when we watch `red sonja we are persuaded of nothing except that we are watching a bunch of actors with bad accents fighting one another on a hillside for possession of a lime green football. this lack of imagination even starts with the film title. the british science fiction author brian aldiss and when challenged about the exotic names given to his characters and replied that there was little point in creating a fictional alien society with its own distinctive culture if you were going to spoil the effect by calling the hero joe. (admittedly and tolkien was ableto get away with giving the name sam to one of his main characters and but that was because hobbits were supposed to be reassuringly familiar and the middle earth equivalent of tweedy and pipe smoking englishmen). similarly and giving the heroine of a tale ostensibly set in a long gone barbaric age a common girls name like `sonia (which is how the name `sonja is pronounced) is about as appropriate as calling her `betty or `mary jane. the film seems to have been made on a very small budget and which makes me wonder why they bothered at all. fantasy needs to be done convincingly and or not at all. it was obviously shot in a remote mountain area and with little or no attempt to suggest a distinctive culture. the few buildings we see and such as the temple of the talisman or gedren palace and are obviously cheap sets. we learn that tarn capital city has been destroyed by gedren using the power of the talisman and but we do not actually see this event while all we see is what might be a thunderstorm taking place on the other side of a hill. at first you wonder how sonja intends to overthrow an entire kingdom with only a few allies and but when you see how small an army gedren has at her disposal it becomes more understandable. when an earthquake threatens to destroy the palace and you wonder if this is the talisman at work or merely a crew member inadvertently leaning against the set. if we can enjoy this film for nothing else and we can at least enjoy it for its inadvertent humour while a fine example of the so bad it funny school of filmmaking. ed wood would have been proud of this one. if it had been shown on californian television the night before the recall election and gray davis would still be governor. negative . 
possible spoilers as peter jackson has so brilliantly shown in his `lord of the rings trilogy and it is quite possible to make good films and even great ones and within the heroic fantasy genre. the genre has distinguished literary antecedents and dating back to the mediaeval chivalric romances and particularly the arthurian legends and upon which tolkien and other authors have drawn. `lord of the rings apart and however and it is difficult to think of any other sword and sorcery films which are any good. i would agree with the reviewer who said that the best of a bad bunch was ron howard `willow and and even that achieved little distinction other than that of being a merely mediocre film as opposed to a positively bad one. `red sonja and however and cannot achieve the even more modest distinction of being simply a bad film as opposed to an appalling one. as with `willow and many of the plot elements in `red sonja are derived from `the lord of the rings. an evil ruler seeks to gain control of an artefact with supernatural powers in order to achieve an ambition of world domination and but is thwarted by an assorted group of heroes. the film and set in the hyborian age and a barbaric era in the earth remote past and starts with the villain of the piece and the wicked queen gedren and making unwelcome sexual advances to the heroine sonja. when these are rebuffed and gedren (not a woman to take no for an answer) reacts by murdering sonja parents and brother. (in 1985 it was presumably still considered politically correct not only to make the chief villain a woman but also to make one of the main motives for her villainy frustrated lesbian lust). gedren next move is to capture the talisman and a sort of fluorescent green soccer ball with magical powers and by slaughtering the whole of the scantily dressed female priesthood charged with protecting it and just as they are about to destroy it because they feel its powers have become too dangerous. among the dead is sonja sister and her sole surviving relative. sonja herself and however and has not been idle and but has enrolled in a martial arts academy from which she graduates summa cum laude and and sets out to avenge herself. along the way she teams up with kalidor and a heroic wandering swordsman king resembling tolkien aragorn and prince tarn and the spoilt child ruler of a kingdom that has fallen to gedren powers and and falkon and tarn loyal servant. the rest of the film is fairly predictable and as sonja and her allies try to overthrow gedren and prevent the destruction of the world threatened by the out of control talisman. just what is it that makes this film so bad. well and the acting and for a start. arnold schwarzenegger as kalidor gives the sort of typical wooden and poker faced performance that became his trademark and at least in the early part of his career and complete with heavy foreign accent. compared with brigitte nielsen as the heroine and however and he looks like laurence olivier. miss nielsen seems to have had even worse language difficulties and delivering every line in the mechanical and toneless voice of someone who has just completed lesson three of a `teach yourself english by correspondence course. one wonders if she was hired for the role just to make arnie look good by comparison. the other characters and while not conducting their own private struggles against the english language and are simply cartoonish caricatures and especially prince tarn who must be one of the most obnoxious screen youngsters ever. an even worse fault than the bad acting and however and is the film almost complete lack of imagination. this is a particularly glaring fault in a fantasy film and as films of this genre need to rely on their imaginative power in order to persuade the audience to suspend the natural feelings of disbelief that would be provoked by a fantastic plot. when we watch peter jackson masterpiece we can persuade ourselves and at least for the next three hours and that we are in middle earth and that elves and wizards and hobbits do exist and and that the fate of the world really does depend upon the destruction of a magic ring. when we watch `red sonja we are persuaded of nothing except that we are watching a bunch of actors with bad accents fighting one another on a hillside for possession of a lime green football. this lack of imagination even starts with the film title. the british science fiction author brian aldiss and when challenged about the exotic names given to his characters and replied that there was little point in creating a fictional alien society with its own distinctive culture if you were going to spoil the effect by calling the hero joe. (admittedly and tolkien was ableto get away with giving the name sam to one of his main characters and but that was because hobbits were supposed to be reassuringly familiar and the middle earth equivalent of tweedy and pipe smoking englishmen). similarly and giving the heroine of a tale ostensibly set in a long gone barbaric age a common girls name like `sonia (which is how the name `sonja is pronounced) is about as appropriate as calling her `betty or `mary jane. the film seems to have been made on a very small budget and which makes me wonder why they bothered at all. fantasy needs to be done convincingly and or not at all. it was obviously shot in a remote mountain area and with little or no attempt to suggest a distinctive culture. the few buildings we see and such as the temple of the talisman or gedren palace and are obviously cheap sets. we learn that tarn capital city has been destroyed by gedren using the power of the talisman and but we do not actually see this event while all we see is what might be a thunderstorm taking place on the other side of a hill. at first you wonder how sonja intends to overthrow an entire kingdom with only a few allies and but when you see how small an army gedren has at her disposal it becomes more understandable. when an earthquake threatens to destroy the palace and you wonder if this is the talisman at work or merely a crew member inadvertently leaning against the set. if we can enjoy this film for nothing else and we can at least enjoy it for its inadvertent humour while a fine example of the so bad it funny school of filmmaking. ed wood would have been proud of this one. if it had been shown on californian television the night before the recall election and gray davis would still be governor. negative . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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