09.15.09 CHRISTOPHER LLOYD IS DOING GREAT
Christopher Lloyd co-headlined one of the most successful film franchises of all time, so it only follows that 10 years later he’d be starring in a two-part, made-for-Sci-Fi Channel movie called “Knights of Bloodsteel.” It premiered this April, but it looks like it’s out on DVD now. Makes a perfect gift for any niece, nephew, or non-native English speaker.
The four-hour, two-part movie tells the tale of Mirabilis, a mythical land chock full of humans, elves and goblins in which the only thing of value, apparently, is a magical metal called bloodsteel. What little remains is controlled by the awful and horrible Dragon Eye. You can watch it on Sci Fi, but only if you literally have nothing else to do. “Knights of Bloodsteel” is so bad it’s not even good-bad, it’s just bad-bad. [LA Times]
Oh well, as my wise old drunken molesty uncle used to say, you hit some, you whiff some. And I have faith Christopher Lloyd is headed for a career resurrection. After all, he does have a starring turn in Santa Buddies: The Search for Santa Paws this winter. (awesome trailers below)
Knights of Bloodsteel
Santa Buddies
“Sproing”? “SPROING”?!? What kind of bogus excuse for a record scratch is that?! I DEMAND RECORD-SCRATCH SOUND EFFECTS! A CHEAP IMITATION SIMPLY WON’T DO!
[thanks to morenojoblo for the tip]

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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD IS DOING GREAT
Dragon Eye is Dragonballs’ more successful cousin.
Don’t you mean SyFy?
It’s sad how the one network devoted to science fiction does more than practically anyone else to make the genre look bad. With the exception of BSG, of course.
he must be out of flux
Yeah, you see we have to take this uhhh… bracelet! to a big volcano to defeat a gigantic evil eye while hordes of ugly sub-humans try to kill us. Don’t worry, we brave members of this
fellowshipbrotherhood, the man, the weird looking little guy, the other weird looking guy, the magic guy, and the elf won’t fail.Lloyd’s character is named Ripalf
TyBo, *Ahem*
MANSQUITO
That is all.
You know, this isn’t beneath me. I watched Zooey Deschanel rape the Wizard of Oz last month on the SciFi, I can watch Christopher Lloyd rape… whatever he’s rapity-raping here.
I think Lloyd forgot the bring extra plutonium and is trapped in an alternative 1985 where Biff Tannon is Mayor and Christopher Lloyd is trapped in a life of appearing in direct to video movies and Baby Geniuses 2: Super Babies.
Also apparently the poor guy is 70. Shouldn’t he be retired somewhere living off of the sweet sweet Star Trek III: The Search for Spock royalties?
Bloodsteal is what I call my new virgin reclamation project.
Red Wings are made out of Blood Steel.
Bloodsteel Nights is an awesome name for a medieval porn.
I…have had…enough…OF YOU!
I had high hopes for Warehouse 13 but they pooped the fridge episode 2 : (
In movie news…has anyone seen Troll 2? Is it worth netflixing?
Christopher Lloyd was also one of the best tv characters of all-time on Taxi, plus he was in the Addams Family “franchise” and Roger Rabbit … he must have one hell of a coke-habit
Every time I go to the mall in December I get Santa Paws all over me.
*spoiler*
Best line of the movie:
“Roooow-gz? Where, we’re going… we don’t need rooow-gz.”
I’m a little surprised Martin Short isn’t in this.
Bloodsteel is a horribly dirty trade.
Leo DiCaprio: In Rohan, it’s bling bling. But in Mordor it’s bling bang.
at Late80s: I forgot he was in Roger Rabbit. Judge Doom was such a bad ass character. Your right, how the hell does he need money? maybe he’s gotten all hipster in his old age as does these movies “ironically”
You know, movies’ depictions of what wizards look like is doing shit for my desire to give money to homeless people. You’re hungry, asshole? Why don’t you just conjure yourself up a fucking cheeseburger, Merlin of the alley between 127th and 128th?
Porn version: Starring Christopher Lload… Nights of Cocksteel… it seems the only thing of value is a magical substance called cocksteel… and it’s guarded by the evil One-Eyed Dragon… the only way to defeat the evil One-Eyed Dragon is by DP-ing twin lesbian sisters and by Deep-Throating the One-Eyed Dragon until the cocksteel is money-shotted onto the luscious full lips of the awaiting, newly 18 year old virgin
elle0-Troll 2 is tha shiznit
Sonny – I just got hard. Nice work.
I second Fek on that. Troll 2 is one of the best bad movies ever.
Why I love Eric McCormick @ Comicon: “what’s the deal with the Syfy thing? Why’d they do that again?”
I actually caught part of this by accident while channel surfing one day. I was trapped by the rambling wannabe Tolkein bullshit for nearly an hour.
My favorite part of Troll 2 was Eiwob Divad as the Gnik Nilbog.
Donk, ecin.
I will watch this because the only other Sci-Fi Channel straight-to-DVD-before-being-broadcast-on-TV production I saw was delightfully awful…Sands of Oblivion.
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