Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: fishfinder401 on October 12, 2011, 04:22:38 pm
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i was wondering what movie everyone thought had the best scenes as far as archery goes
i personally would have to say lord of the rings, but robin hood is a close second
what does everyone else think
noel
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If you are referring to the Kevin Cost-more Robin Hood film, I will have to disrespectfully disagree! But if it is the Errol Flynn version, you got a valid point. Of course, as most of us know, that was Howard Hill making the shots in the Flynn version.
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Not an archery scene, but I love the ending of Last of the Mohicans. I started on a couple of those warclubs this spring. I hope to finish them this winter.
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I like the shooting demonstration in James Clavell's Shogun mini series.
Where the seated samuri fires three quick arrows from inside the house through paper pane in the door
leaving a single hole in the paper and the arrows in a tight group in the gate post out in the yard.
Blackthorne (the current resident of the house) is so impressed that he decides to leave the arrows in the post in memory of the event.
The Lord of the Rings is good to.
-gus
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Deliverance. ;)
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Jonathan you are a sick man :o
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Ha! ;D
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Better than half the time I am in here reading posts I can hear banjo music in the background. I just check my broadheads and keep paddlin'.
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Now I'm gonna have "Dueling Banjos" stuck in my head the rest of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8
-gus
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Robin hood with Russel Crow has good archery scenes and the book of Eli has pretty good one as
Specially since I don't like cats much here kitty kitty >:D or buzzards
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I liked the scenes in the Last Samurai when the son was holding off all the Imperial soldiers with guns while Tom Cruise's character escaped with the Daimyo, and when the guy driving the wagon with Costner in chains got drilled through the chest with an arrow in Dances with wolves.
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I liked the scenes in the Last Samurai when the son was holding off all the Imperial soldiers with guns while Tom Cruise's character escaped with the Daimyo, and when the guy driving the wagon with Costner in chains got drilled through the chest with an arrow in Dances with wolves.
Agree.
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I saw this movie about cannibals I can't remember the name they were chasing one guy through the woods and one of the cannibals had a crude looking home made bow with arrows that were just as crude lookikng he fired one of the arrows at the guy he was chasing and the arrow was porpoising wildly but he still hit the guy dead center between the shoulder blades and you could see the stone point sticking out his chest and before he fell the cannibal hit him with another arrow with same results. Didn't care for the movie as a whole but the archery scene was OK. Ron
P.S. Do I hear banjo music in the background.
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No one votes for Rambo?! ::) ;D
Actually, the last one was cool where they showed him bowfishing.
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I liked the scenes in the Last Samurai when the son was holding off all the Imperial soldiers with guns while Tom Cruise's character escaped with the Daimyo, and when the guy driving the wagon with Costner in chains got drilled through the chest with an arrow in Dances with wolves.
How about the scene where the Native American keeps riding around and around the guy lying on the ground shooting arrow after arrow into him? Fish-in-a-barrel combined with fish-outa-water kinda shooting! As a side note, the agony of the guy on the ground wasn't faked. They just happened to have picked a spot where there was a red ant nest. He was getting his entire backside munched all thru the filming! Sheesh, method actors!
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O my, I'd rather have 10 fire ant stings than 1 red ant. And, it usually works about that way too. I hate ants down here.
George
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I like the scene in Apocalipto where they turn the guys loose, then start taking shots at 'em, Bub
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Definitely King Arthur with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley. When the Saxons are chasing them and they get to the frozen lake and stop. The Saxon archer tries to hit the knights but his arrow falls way short. The knights pull out their bows and start dropping people. Nothing like a half dozen guys with bows holding off a couple hundred with swords.
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I can think of a few, Noel.
Hero - fantastic, beautiful movie. Some impressive mass archery scenes.
Diary of the Dead - the professor zaps a zombie kid and pins him to the wall. Always satisfying.
Predator - Arnold builds a panda bow.
Daybreakers - tons of archery, mostly crossbows to kill vampires and for vampires to capture humans to use as food.
The Lost Boys - I think there was some archery in the original movie. You see bows occassionally in some of the direct to video sequels.
The second installment of Underworld (can't recall the name, but Kate Beckinridge is in them, and that alone is worth watching for. :) )
Van Hellsing (sp?). A kind of fantasy repeating crossbow. Dumb but fun, and Kate Beckinridge is in this movie too.
Lord of the Rings - varous archery throughout the three films.
Rambo II - Rambo zaps this evil NV officer with an exploding arrow. Boom.
Road Warrior - lots of punk mauraders and punk good guys with bows of various designs.
The Hunt - a small budget horror movie. Compounds, but the hungry, deadly aliens are fun.
Archery in the Resident Evil set in the desert around Las Vegas. Alice zaps a zombie nicely with a small crossbow.
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And don't forget 300, when the sky turns dark with arrows and the Spartans hide under their shields.
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Not one mention of the buffalo hunt in Dances With Wolves, yet? By far my favorite...
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Braveheart's got some awesome ones, too. As well as all the previously mentioned.
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Apocalypto was very good with a lot of primitive weapons and bows. The Chronicles of Narnia hasa good bit of archery also. I to liked The Last Samurai.
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Rambo II
Hero
the old Robin Hood movies with Errol Fynn.
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Or the Space buffalo hunt in Avatar. Identical to Dances With Wolves but cooler.
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Ants remind me of ant man and it is a good movie. I didn’t watch the second part though but I am planning to do so because I have exhausted all the shows by Andy Yeatman (https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/eddie-vedder-sia-pink-cover-beatles-for-netflix-animated-series-195270/) available on Netflix. I don’t know why he left working with Netflix. The new content is boring.
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It's a kid's movie, but Brave is pretty darn good. Also War of Arrows, especially if you are into eastern archery. I like realistic archery in movies.
Kyle
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Just saw The Revenant on TV last night. Some good NA bows and arrows doin' their stuff.
Really made you fee how you wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of an NA arrow!
Del
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Del, I thought someone that posts on here made all the bows and arrows for the movie Revenant
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A little late to the game here, but... I also think that scene in The Last Samurai is outstanding. The King Arthur movie with Kiera Knightley had a couple of good archery scenes. On a more recent note, and not quite a movie perhaps, but there were some good scenes thru the Game of Thrones series. In particular, when Theon and his band raided a guarded ship to rescue his sister.
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This thread was started by fishfinder401. I kinda miss ol' fish-face! He always carried a long handled spoon in case he came across a pot to stir, but I liked him.
He has not been back since 2013.
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It's a kid's movie, but Brave is pretty darn good. Also War of Arrows, especially if you are into eastern archery. I like realistic archery in movies.
Kyle
Yes, and yes! The animation of the slow motion release of the arrow in the girl's bow is really well observed. War of the Arrows (Korean, but excellent) is worth watching and rewatching - lots of archery :)
Cheers, Bob