A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
Rutger Hauer Jennifer Jason Leigh Tom Burlinson Jack Thompson Susan Tyrrell Ronald Lacey Brion James John Dennis Johnston Bruno Kirby Fernando Hilbeck Marina Saura Kitty Courbois Simón Andreu Jake Wood Hans Veerman Héctor Alterio Blanca Marsillach Nancy Cartwright Jorge Bosso Mario De Barros Ida Bons Jaime Segura Bettina Brenner Siobhan Hayes Susan Beresford Mònica Lucchetti Anne Lockhart
Juan Maján José Panizo Solier Fagundez Camilo Vila Javier Piementel Joaquín Olías José Sacristán Victoriano Terrón
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"Oh Lord, give me a sign that I am following you and not a man."
Verhoeven's medieval THE WILD BUNCH, only not an elegy for a time of idealized masculinity or old codes of honor but an incredibly skeptical story of superstition & tradition giving way to pragmatism & capital. Money, religion, love, sex, class; spoiler alert: power is power, everyone's full of shit, survival is the only cause. Rutger Hauer's Christ halo FTW.
Sleazy, nasty, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful, and bleakly hilarious — in other words, a Paul Verhoeven film.
(RIP Rutger Hauer, the only guy who could have found a way to make you root for Martin even at his worst, and loathe him even at his best.)
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"Fighting is for fools."
Deranged medieval historical fantasy, loaded with so much filth that you can practically smell the blasphemy, and a fascinating dichotomy of religion and progress. A world shifting from ancient roots to commodified desires. Would pair well with Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Hard to Be a God, take your pick.
Family friendly swashbuckler....or at least it would be if it didn't have the great Paul Verhoeven at the helm! Instead we get a dirty cynical plague-ridden bloodbath, complete with sex and blasphemy. Filmed in Spain, the plot involves a band of mercenaries on the run after being stabbed in the back by their former commander. The atmosphere really sets the tone - it's thoroughly down and dirty and that is reflected in the plot and characters. The film tanked at the box office - with the director blaming studio interference, mainly down to the inclusion of Jennifer Jason Leigh as a love interest. The character is much more than that though! Her part certainly cuts down on the drama between…
Full of rape, pillaging, murder, and baby death all within the first 20 minutes, Verhoeven sure knows how to make a family classic.
Verhoeven and the psychosexual wet dream: go and depict the depravity of humanity. go get that middle age mud moloch mayhem.
a world where mass rape is a peccadillo, where procreation is a by product, where violence and death is daily business, don't mention it. a world where you can smell the nastiness and dirt through the screen. a world where religion is all you can hold onto, and still the smartest will just make use of the naivety of the others. a world where opportunism is sometimes the only thing you can go for, especially when you're a lady. a world where everything is pretty horrible yet the dance has to go on and finally the only thing to…
on paper, this reads like Verhoeven doing an Excalibur riff but in actuality it's more of an exceedingly, almost grotesquely, horny exploitation movie that just so happens to be set in medieval times -- understandably reviled by many as it may very well be Verhoeven's most intensely off-putting film: full of vile characters, exceptionally brutal violence and sweaty sex, the result of which is 128 minutes of Rutger Hauer maiming and fucking his way to victory; sign me up
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this documentary about what will happen if Donald Trump becomes president should be seen by every American
"Listen, Shakespeare. My name is Paul Verhoeven. I'm from the future. I need to take you to the year 1985 because I want to watch Straw Dogs with you and then we're gonna do coke and write a medieval AIDS movie. You in?"
Kinda shocks me that more people dont discuss Verhoeven’s raunchy, grimy, dirty, sexy and very mean FLESH + BLOOD as his first English language film over ROBOCOP.
This movie feels like it was made by a madman (and for all intents and purposes, it was).
It’s hard sometimes to NOT think of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL when watching this though; clearly Verhoeven and his cast are trying not to giggle through the armor, tattered frocks and ever present smoky atmosphere…and then some fucked up shit happens and you forget its not a comedy.
Jan De Bont’s use of anamorphic lenses is a curvy delight, some shots making people on the edges look like bent noodles.
Love how everyone…
"Fighting is for fools"
Elite douchebag Arolfini (Fernando Hilbeck) promises Martin (Rutger Hauer), the leader of a band of mercenaries, and his men the spoils if they can take back his city for him. Once they accomplish the task he immediately betrays the sell swords and sends them on their way empty handed. In the chaos of a retaliatory raid that follows, Martin seizes Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the fiancee of Arolfini's son Steven (Tom Burlinson). As Steven comes for her, Agnes finds herself torn between the excitement and danger of Martin and the upper class security Steven represents.
Nobody does illicit, unsettling desire on screen like Paul Verhoeven. Agnes still getting hot for a rapist piece of trash like…
