Sword and Bored
Fantasy films in order from Best to Worst. Updates twice a month or more.
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Fantasy films in order from Best to Worst. Updates twice a month or more.
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Oct 12, 2020
Oct 12, 2020
1hr 8 min
Hello! On this special spooky spooky Halloweenish episode, Lars is off, so filling in is the amazing Lillian Boyd of Rank and Vile! The show we shamelessly ripped off for this! We talk about LEGEND(1986) and how it's certainly movie shaped, how we all have a cultural memory of THE WITCHES, Great British Bakeoff and our favorites taken too soon from us, rambles about video games and other things, and the still fantastic MONSTER SQUAD! Enjoy!
Sep 17, 2020
Sep 17, 2020
48 min
Episode 2 of our side quest deep dive into every James Bond is here. DR. NO, the first official Bond movie is on the docket. We talk about how it's still a bit odd but they are finding their feet, iconic bits of cinematic history, 60s kitsch, and how big a step up it was from Casino Royale!
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
46 min
And we're back after a short break! We take a breather from traditionally fantasy movies to talk about THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD and how every scrap of Robin Hood media is directly influenced by that movie, how THREE MUSKETEERS(1993) is such an inexplicable movie, how it stacks up against Prince of Thieves, I make way, way too many Star Wars comparisons, we both neglect to realize that they had three singers on that track for a reason, how A KNIGHT'S TALE is still incredible and what a loss Heath Ledger was!
Aug 15, 2020
Aug 15, 2020
32 min
Here we go! A little Side Project we have going with Dad, talking about every James Bond put to film, in chronologically order. We're starting with the 1954 made for TV Drama, staring American Barry Nelson as James "Jimmy" Bond. Yeah. But Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre is pretty good! Along the way we talk about why we're doing this, what is in store, and Dad's history with the franchise.
Farmington Martini: Pilsner, such as PBR, and 3 olives. A drink, dinner, and show.
Aug 1, 2020
Aug 1, 2020
37 min
Hello again! We're here talking about THE OLD GUARD and how we want Charlize Theron to have a long career, the abysmal AMAZONS and how we love and hate Roger Corman, Halloweens past and how it had better sound, FIRE AND ICE and adult cartoons looking the same, and the awkwardness of movies with families! Hope you enjoy!
Jul 14, 2020
Episode 23: THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
Jul 14, 2020
Jul 14, 2020
50 min
On this episode we are joined once again by our dad Bill Farabee! We talk about animals in the wild, how pretty okay BULLETPROOF MONK is, how godawful AGAINST THE DARK is and the power of spite, and how utterly, utterly astounding HIGHLANDER continues to be!
Jun 19, 2020
Jun 19, 2020
24 min
The funeral march of 2020 continues! THE LAST WITCH HUNTER kind of rules and we love it! We talk about the police protests and how we grew up and our own experiences related to that! How LANCELOT: GUARDIAN OF TIME is just the most boring thing possible and terrible hair!
May 31, 2020
May 31, 2020
47 min
Kids Running! Quarantine Stories! ALICE IN WONDERLAND's mediocrity! THE BLACK CAULDRON and the path of Disney! Discussion of Music and Emotion in Fantasy! WILLOW's utter charm! Check us out!
Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020
38 min
Our 20th Episode! Lars opens so many bags of chips! We talk about the unearned emotions of ONWARD, boredom of quarantine since we're all experiencing that in some form, how LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN is kind of okay, and how BABES WITH BLADES is a very strange piece that doesn't make sense in a lot of ways!
Apr 6, 2020
Episode 19: The Quarantine Blues LIVE
Apr 6, 2020
Apr 6, 2020
49 min
On this very special LIVE episode, live because children run back and forth and we only use minimal edits, Lars and I talk about life under Coronavirus, how ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES was a staple of our childhood, Lars steals a Bill Murray speech, how FROZEN 2 was a better sequel than we ever got, the strange things that we've been going through not going anywhere, and how THE ADVENTURER: CURSE OF THE MIDAS BOX was a very weird movie. Hope you folks stick around, we're not going anywhere for a while.

Sword and Bored
Lars and Luke, Brothers in Arms, talking about every fantasy film they've ever seen, want to see, what makes them tick, what makes them not work, what's better, what's worse.
What we define as a fantasy: If it's readily apparent, if someone could or does pull out a sword and it doesn't require additional context to make sense, it's a fantasy. Raiders of the Lost Ark isn't a fantasy. The Mummy is.
This arbitrary definition will be used and ignored at a moments notice for comedy.


