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But seriously, Eric Flint, David Weber, S. M. Stirling and Elizibeth Moon get no love at all on i09. It's like they don't exist. In any event the whole 1632 series is just great fun and should be read by one and all.
Eric Flint has a whole series of novels set in 1633 where an entire twentieth century town is deposited in Germany during the 100 Years War. Lots of anachronistic fun ensues. Does this count?
@Annalee Newitz: It's definitely required viewing for anybody who enjoys goofy self-aware horror movies.
The plot is flimsy and most of the dialog is terrible, but the time travel gimmick is great fun, especially the B/W 50's horror movie and disco zombie world. Plus it has extended cameos from both Bruce Campbell and Patrick Macnee, which instantly makes any movie better!
'bout Lest Darkness Fall there: that's a really really really massive stretch to call it medieval considering that ole Martinus gets blipped back to Rome 'round about 535 AD. It may be in a sense the Dark Ages but de Camp pretty much picked the time specifically to *avoid* being part of the whole medieval thing.
@capnrob: It's the Dark Ages, and Medievalists would call it the early Middle Ages. In England, the Anglo Saxon era begins around 400, and that's the start of Medieval culture in many ways. But I agree - it's arguable.
No Highlander? I mean it's not as classic and sci-fi as say.. Black Knight where a guy finds a glowing amulet that takes him back in time but since the Immortals are aliens I figure it would count for something.
@Belabras: Now I've seen it once and it was when it first came out and I was relatively young. All I really remember were lots and lots of sparks. But is it really THAT BAD?!
@MinervaAlpaca: I was just going to point that out. What is going on with the lack of research? One visit to IMDB takes care of this and one visit to The L Word website takes care of the other.
And nice of you to set "special" rules for this so you have to leave out Underworld: Rise of the Lycans as in that movie series but vampirism and lycanism are the results of a mutating virus and nothing supernatural. Nonetheless how could you leave out the famous story wherein Iron Man and Dr. Doom go back to Camelot? It was so successful and popular they did yet another sequel to it just last year.
@NotArthurPDragon: I just saw Underworld Rise of the Lycans and I am still pondering whether there is enough backstory presented in the flick for it to be definitively "virus" and not just "breeding."
@sir_eccles: I thought about Highlander, actually, but I decided that Medieval characters who live in the present because they are immortal shouldn't count. They aren't going back to the Middle Ages - they just aged unnaturally from the middle ages to the present. That's why I also didn't have various vampire tales either.
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True the "medieval" setting is about as realistic as the one in Army of Darkness but you've got to love the bad-ass swordfighting sequence at the end.
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The plot is flimsy and most of the dialog is terrible, but the time travel gimmick is great fun, especially the B/W 50's horror movie and disco zombie world. Plus it has extended cameos from both Bruce Campbell and Patrick Macnee, which instantly makes any movie better!
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'bout Lest Darkness Fall there: that's a really really really massive stretch to call it medieval considering that ole Martinus gets blipped back to Rome 'round about 535 AD. It may be in a sense the Dark Ages but de Camp pretty much picked the time specifically to *avoid* being part of the whole medieval thing.
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No Highlander? I mean it's not as classic and sci-fi as say.. Black Knight where a guy finds a glowing amulet that takes him back in time but since the Immortals are aliens I figure it would count for something.
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They had to fill their once a year quota of mentioning Martin Lawrence or something.
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We are all trying our hardest to forget how Highlander 2 made it into a sci-fi franchise.
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You didn't miss anything. Joan of Arc was nowhere in TIMELINE.
Not the book. Not the movie.
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And nice of you to set "special" rules for this so you have to leave out Underworld: Rise of the Lycans as in that movie series but vampirism and lycanism are the results of a mutating virus and nothing supernatural. Nonetheless how could you leave out the famous story wherein Iron Man and Dr. Doom go back to Camelot? It was so successful and popular they did yet another sequel to it just last year.
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he used magic fights demons and even going back in time in time is the result of a magic book.How the choclate covered christ is that sci fi?
love the film though
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The gauntlet alone qualifies not to mention the mad max st
Besides I'd argue Army of Darkness transcends genre boundaries via it's hefty helping of kickass-ness.
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where all the Aliens sound like Sean Connery.... and there's the classic military plans of :
"Right we send 300 men up the left 300 up the right and 300 in the middle...."
[www.imdb.com] (just don't expect the book.....)
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Read Doomsday Book.
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