The Blood of Heroes: A good movie?
Where to begin. Oh, The Blood of Heroes.
Lets get started with the cast and ill talk about what i remember about the movie since its been a bit since i've seen it. Ill
be very honest, the only copy of this movie i own was recorded from the Bravo Channel.
Our team of Juggers:
Sallow - Rutger Hauer - He is the obvious leader. Not a replicant in this movie.
Kidda - Joan Chen - Rutger Hauer has to have him some ass, its contractual.
Gar - Vincent D'Onofrio - You know, PYLE! from full metal jacket.
Big Cimber - ? - Some amazon bitch.
Mbulu - Delroy Lindo - The angry black guy from the angry black people movies you have seen. I think he was in Crooklyn
Dog Boy - ? - I don't know who plays this guy but he needs an oscar, he is always getting fucked up but he kicks ass for sure.
There are other people in this movie but none of them are worth mentioning except the half metal dude towards the end
of the movie, Gonzo. This guy is huge and puts the hurt on Sallow aplenty.
be very honest, the only copy of this movie i own was recorded from the Bravo Channel.
Our team of Juggers:
Sallow - Rutger Hauer - He is the obvious leader. Not a replicant in this movie.
Kidda - Joan Chen - Rutger Hauer has to have him some ass, its contractual.
Gar - Vincent D'Onofrio - You know, PYLE! from full metal jacket.
Big Cimber - ? - Some amazon bitch.
Mbulu - Delroy Lindo - The angry black guy from the angry black people movies you have seen. I think he was in Crooklyn
Dog Boy - ? - I don't know who plays this guy but he needs an oscar, he is always getting fucked up but he kicks ass for sure.
There are other people in this movie but none of them are worth mentioning except the half metal dude towards the end
of the movie, Gonzo. This guy is huge and puts the hurt on Sallow aplenty.
Sallow
Gonzo
Kidda
The Team
| I like this picture for some reason. |
Equipment
The skull (German: Jugg in "Berlin tradition", Schädel in "Hamburg/Dilettanten tradition"[1]): a "ball" made using two pool noodle connecters (not an actual dog skull as in The Blood of Heroes). In Germany and Ireland, a
dog skull made of cellfoam als latex is used.
The stakes (German: mal): an upright stake at each end (often made of pool noodle); the skull is placed on the stake to score. In germany and Ireland, a hollow-pointed pyramid is used.
Weapons: The weapons used in jugger are very similar to LARPing weapons. There are strict regulations on the length of weapon and amount of padding used. The weapons in jugger vary in type for different countries. Note
that the term "weapon" is essentially incorrect, at least for classic Jugger sport equipment, since these are neither weapon replicas - but replicas of the game gear of the movie - nor replicas of items created to actually kill or
injure others in bad blood. They originally were, and are now, sport equipment.
Australian-style weapons; each enforcer may have any of the following combinations, with at most one double-up:
One Polearm may be 150 to 200 cm in length
One longsword/flail: May be 70 -150 cm
Two short swords: up to 70 cm in length
One short sword (see above) and one shield (up to 70 cm diameter)
There is also a chain (250 cm ) which is wielded by the chain player, and not the enforcers
German-style weapons ("Pompfen"):
A staff, 180 cm in length, thrusting is not allowed
A Q-Tip, 200 cm in length, double-ended, thrusting is allowed
A longsword, 140 cm in length, thrusting is allowed
A short sword and shield, short sword 85 cm in length, thrusting is allowed; padded shield, 60 cm in diameter
A chain, 320 cm in length
The mal is not a stake but a hollow-pointed pyramid to place the skull in
A gong and 100 stones: The stones are thrown against the gong to keep time. 100 stones per third, 3 thirds per game
[edit] Roles
A team is composed of the following:
One qwik (sometimes spelled "quick"[2]): An unarmed player, and the only one allowed to touch the skull
One chain: A player armed with a chain
Three enforcers (German: Fighter[3], German term: Pompfer): Armed with their choice of weapons (except chain). May handle the skull with their weapons
Up to three substitutes, who may replace any player
[edit] Rules
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[edit] Australia
The goal of the game is to score as many goals as possible, while minimising your opposition's goals. As only the quick may handle the ball, this usually involves defending your quick, allowing them to make a goal. If a player
is hit by a weapon they are down for three stones unless it was a head or groin shot, in which case the player that hit with the weapon is down for five stones. A touch is counted as a hit and it is not encouraged to hit with full
force.
the 5 players are: the qwik
the chain
and 3 enforcers -- enforcers may use any weapons other than Chain (with up to two players using the same class of weapon)
This entire sport revolves around a kinda-of fictional sport called jugging. Ill be really rough about jugging because its a
pretty serious thing, and since the movie was a hit everywhere but america, people adopted it as a sport, made teams, and
really get into it.
Jugging is a sport invented for the movie by David Webb Peoples, the director.Its like larping, but people hit each other
with less gimmicked weapons, and there is no gay sex. Here, read the wikipedia entry:
pretty serious thing, and since the movie was a hit everywhere but america, people adopted it as a sport, made teams, and
really get into it.
Jugging is a sport invented for the movie by David Webb Peoples, the director.Its like larping, but people hit each other
with less gimmicked weapons, and there is no gay sex. Here, read the wikipedia entry:
You have to be fucking kidding me.
Yeah its a real sport, but in the movie they use real chains and they fucking kill each other to try and win this Dog Skull. The jugging teams travel all accross the Mad Max-esk
landscape visiting dusty markets and kicking the balls off the opposing team, taking their Dog Skull as a trophy. They use these trophies to get underground and play with the
big boys, hopefully to win fame and fortune and everything that goes with it, i thank you all.
landscape visiting dusty markets and kicking the balls off the opposing team, taking their Dog Skull as a trophy. They use these trophies to get underground and play with the
big boys, hopefully to win fame and fortune and everything that goes with it, i thank you all.
(Skim over this, trust me.)
| Suiting up for a session of Dogskullfuckin'. |
| The story and my thoughts |
| As far most post-apocalyptic movies go, this one is pretty good. I liked how they didnt have any modern weapons or technology and pretty much just used whatever was laying around, ie. dogskulls in the place of footballs. It appears as if they raise dogs for food, so an abundance of skulls seems pretty ironic, and why they would be treasured as trophies is beyond me. Dog meat from what i've heard is pretty good. The yellow people like it. |
| Good for eating, as a trophy, or a ticket into an underground city. |
So game on, people get fucked up, and then everyone shakes hands and goes their seperate ways, back to eating dog or
whatever.
The Dog Boy get re-injured his first fight by Kidda, our asian Quick, which is the person who gets the dog skull and runs it into
the opposing stick into the ground. So she is adament and gets into their team, which i guess is pretty good. I can't help but
notice she is in pretty decent shape, and no scars, yet she is a great player. Everyone else is full of scars, and missing eyes
and so on. Asians are pretty resiliant in that way? Whatever.
So they fight a whole bunch of different people, accumulate various injuries and fights break out between them, etc. We find
out in the course of conversation that Sallow had been to a place called the 9 Cities before, which is the underground city i
had mentioned before. So he tells them all about it, and they win some more and holy shit, they are there.
They wait for a huge elevator for what seems like days, show the operator the skulls, and they get in, going down hundreds, if
not thousands of floors/levels. It reminds me of Zion in the matrix, that it is so far down. Eventually the team ends up in the 9
cities. I think there are nine teams, with these snotty aristocrats the owners of the cities/teams. Not a whole lot is explained
here, with the exception of the Professional teams being treated like kings and living the good life, so of course our heroes
want this. badly. But first, Kiddo and Sallow have some dirty unshowered sex like 200 feet above ground.
They pay someone to sleep in a hammock a couple of hundred feet off the ground attached to a stone wall which appears to
be a dam. If i had to make something up, i would say its like the outer layer of one of the nine cities, seperating them or
insulating them from the outside world's pollution. Anyways they bang because thats what people do.
The next day they challenge one of the teams which Sallow seems to know their captain, Gonzo. This is the point of the movie
where you feel as if its science fiction. This guy is huge, maybe 6'6". (Rutger Hauer is very tall in RL, so maybe taller even) He
has metal attached to his face and what looks like electrodes or something as well. Just looking at him made my testicles
explode in wonder.
Sallow knows him from his past jugging team, and they have the only good dialog in the movie at this point.
whatever.
The Dog Boy get re-injured his first fight by Kidda, our asian Quick, which is the person who gets the dog skull and runs it into
the opposing stick into the ground. So she is adament and gets into their team, which i guess is pretty good. I can't help but
notice she is in pretty decent shape, and no scars, yet she is a great player. Everyone else is full of scars, and missing eyes
and so on. Asians are pretty resiliant in that way? Whatever.
So they fight a whole bunch of different people, accumulate various injuries and fights break out between them, etc. We find
out in the course of conversation that Sallow had been to a place called the 9 Cities before, which is the underground city i
had mentioned before. So he tells them all about it, and they win some more and holy shit, they are there.
They wait for a huge elevator for what seems like days, show the operator the skulls, and they get in, going down hundreds, if
not thousands of floors/levels. It reminds me of Zion in the matrix, that it is so far down. Eventually the team ends up in the 9
cities. I think there are nine teams, with these snotty aristocrats the owners of the cities/teams. Not a whole lot is explained
here, with the exception of the Professional teams being treated like kings and living the good life, so of course our heroes
want this. badly. But first, Kiddo and Sallow have some dirty unshowered sex like 200 feet above ground.
They pay someone to sleep in a hammock a couple of hundred feet off the ground attached to a stone wall which appears to
be a dam. If i had to make something up, i would say its like the outer layer of one of the nine cities, seperating them or
insulating them from the outside world's pollution. Anyways they bang because thats what people do.
The next day they challenge one of the teams which Sallow seems to know their captain, Gonzo. This is the point of the movie
where you feel as if its science fiction. This guy is huge, maybe 6'6". (Rutger Hauer is very tall in RL, so maybe taller even) He
has metal attached to his face and what looks like electrodes or something as well. Just looking at him made my testicles
explode in wonder.
Sallow knows him from his past jugging team, and they have the only good dialog in the movie at this point.
Ill fast forward. Rutger Hauer challenges the big fucker, and they win just but the skin of their penis. At this point the movie ends and
you can only assume that they got a penthouse in the big stone wall, or at least a better hammock, and they can go on being
successful Juggers for the rest of their lives.
I don't know how to fell about this movie. The first time i had seen it, it was late, i was in middle school, and my parents were getting
really upset at me to pick a movie to rent from our local rental place, Prime Time Video. I had always walked around the less popular
sections like Sci-Fi/Fantasy and rented the crap no one else wanted. Well i picked this, watched it, and loved it. As a matter of face i
had rented it several times after that as a standby if i could not make a choice.
I still think the movie is pretty good, but i notice more things now, and question things i never thought of questioning before. The fight
scenes could have been like 10 times better.
-The two protagonists on the screen at any given time are the focal points of the action, anyone else in the background is either
absent, or just clanging a pipe against another pipe, waiting for their turn for the cooegrapher to come over and get some work done.
-If this is in the future, where are the futuristic ruins or metal remnants of years gone by? I'm not looking for a scene in water world, i
just want some kind of closure here.
-There are turtles, a turtle shell would have been better than a dog skull.
-What is a cement wall?
-Where are the other 8 cities?
-Why are their cities underground?
I could go on, i really could. For what it is, i still can't but help to like the movie, just for its entertainment value and nostalgic appeal,
as i use to rent it pretty often.
I give this movie, 3 hitler dog skulls.
you can only assume that they got a penthouse in the big stone wall, or at least a better hammock, and they can go on being
successful Juggers for the rest of their lives.
I don't know how to fell about this movie. The first time i had seen it, it was late, i was in middle school, and my parents were getting
really upset at me to pick a movie to rent from our local rental place, Prime Time Video. I had always walked around the less popular
sections like Sci-Fi/Fantasy and rented the crap no one else wanted. Well i picked this, watched it, and loved it. As a matter of face i
had rented it several times after that as a standby if i could not make a choice.
I still think the movie is pretty good, but i notice more things now, and question things i never thought of questioning before. The fight
scenes could have been like 10 times better.
-The two protagonists on the screen at any given time are the focal points of the action, anyone else in the background is either
absent, or just clanging a pipe against another pipe, waiting for their turn for the cooegrapher to come over and get some work done.
-If this is in the future, where are the futuristic ruins or metal remnants of years gone by? I'm not looking for a scene in water world, i
just want some kind of closure here.
-There are turtles, a turtle shell would have been better than a dog skull.
-What is a cement wall?
-Where are the other 8 cities?
-Why are their cities underground?
I could go on, i really could. For what it is, i still can't but help to like the movie, just for its entertainment value and nostalgic appeal,
as i use to rent it pretty often.
I give this movie, 3 hitler dog skulls.
| If you liked this movie, watch Mad Max, Steel Dawn, Solarbabies, Rollerball, Etc. Also, kill a dog and eat it. |
| On the back of the VHS tape the review says: "After my wife watched 5 minutes of this movie, she instantly grew a penis, and a beard, and then her new formed member exploded in a shower of manly rath." -NY Times |
| The review on the DVD cover of this movie states, WARNING: "If you are in best buy, and are looking for Blade Runner, please look slightly to the left." |