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Bows in the movies
Dane:
You guys are missing a few.
The Hunt is a cool, little fairly recent low budget horror film about a bow hunt gone very bad. They use compounds, which don’t help them. At all :) Oh, don’t trespass either in creepy fenced off areas deep in the woods. It could end badly for you.
The Lost Boys: The Tribe – you only see it for a second, but Edgar Frog has a strung recurve bow just inside the door to his mobile home. I think they used a bow and arrow to kill a vampire in the original Lost Boys film, too.
Diary of the Dead, the last good George Romero zombie movie has a scene where the professor character pins a zombie kiddie to the wall with a fiberglass recurve.
Predator has Arnold making and using a bundle bow, if I remember right.
A bow and exploding arrow is featured in the sequal to Rambo.
There are fantasy arrow firing catapults in the sequel to Underworld. Even if you don’t like vamps vs. werewolves, just watch it for Kate Beckinsale in skintight outfits.
Van Helsing is not wonderful, but kinda fun, and the Hugh Jackman character uses a crazy rapid fire crossbow against harpies.
Hero has some amazing archery sequences. An amazing movie, period.
The remake of 13 Ghosts doesn’t have a bow per se, but, one of the evil ghosts is a little boy in a 1950s cowboy outfit who had the misfortune of having a broadhead tipped arrow shot through the back of his head to end his life, with the bloody head and shaft protruding from his forehead. Definitely the coolest of the ghosts in that movie.
Dane
NTD:
Book of Eli
Dane:
Oh, a bit of trivia related to these movies that just came to mind.
The Scorpion King is indeed a prequal to the Mummy movies, but barely related. If you have seen Gladiator, you may recall the big gladiator who helps train Russell Crow after he is enslaved. He plays an evil henchman to the main villain in Scorpion King, the guy who stabs The Rock with the poisoned weapon. And indeed, Tim Baker built the king’s bow. (Tim seems to have dropped out of sight lately, as well – anyone know why?).
There is also some archery in that crusader movie (can’t think of the name of it) that the elf from Lord of the Rings stars in. One guy gets a French crossbow bolt in the throat in an early scene, and later, I think there is archery used by both sides in the movie.
Archery is also used in that recent remake of 10,000 BC (the one without Rachael Welch).
In the remake of House of Wax (by the same guys who made House on Haunted Hill and 13 Ghosts, and in this one you see Paris Hilton get a pole driven through her head), the hero uses a crossbow from an abandoned sporting goods store to shoot one of the bad guys. As always in these kind of movies, they never make sure the bad guy is really dead, like cutting their throats, and so regret it later.
Quite a bit of archery in the recent movie Centurion.
No one mentioned that not only are their bows and arrows in King Arthur (with the lovely Kiera Knightly), but the Saxons use the gastrophetes or belly bow. That is how one of the main knight heroes dies in the final battle. I think a belly bow is used to kill the guy who was Titus in the HBO series Rome..
Dane
Matt S.:
I was getting the Scorpion King and the Mummy Returns confused. I've seen the latter, but not the former and was thinking "where the heck is there a bow in this movie?" Now I'll have to see the Scorpion King if for no other reason to see Tim Baker's bow!
If you include the Rambo bow, you can't forget the Hot Shots Part Deux bow (that shoots a chicken no less).
10,000 BC: I haven't laughed so hard in a long time while watching that movie. Or maybe I should say laughing at the movie. That's probably why I don't remember any bows in it, I just remember that the pyramids were made by woolly mammoths ;D
Val Kilmer's (sp?) character in Willow used some crossbows in an ambush, but I think that movie was rather devoid of archery in general.
I love the list of all the movies people are coming up with. Gives me movie watching ideas.
JackCrafty:
Most of the time when I see archery in a movie, I get a headache.
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