narrow of purpose and wide of vision
I have to check old reviews of movies I'm watching from years ago because, having grown up with these things, it is impossible to be entirely objective. Like, I know Staying Alive is awful but I love it anyway. Krull , on the other hand, has gained a cult following even if it was initially a box office failure. Siskel and Ebert gave the film two thumbs down and purportedly [the YouTube clip of their show is gone] called it "one of the most boring, nonsensical, illogical fantasies in a long time." I like Lawrence Watt-Evans' description from Starlog --because it sounds like a defense I might make, arguing for the good regarding a detail that is obviously bad: Krull is not a real place. Although we're told that the Slayers have been burning villages, we never see a village, burned or otherwise. We never see a farm; the White Castle is surrounded by scenic, empty landscape, not by the crowd of peasants who clustered around any real castle. Nobody ever appears o...