Favourite fantasy film

[sixsideddice]

What number is that on the menu?

[Leon]

What number is that on the menu?

67.

[Maenoferren]

funny I had the same thought myself

[sixsideddice]

 

[Dunnadd]

I'm struck by how few fantasy films have been made (maybe there have just been very few good ones)

1) LOTR trilogy - Jackson mucked it up at some points by adding in scenes that weren't in the books (e.g collapsing bridge in Moria with the "you can't toss a dwarf line". You have a handful of people lost in an abandoned underground city, being chased by orcs, goblins, trolls and a fire demon and you think you have to add something to the scene? numpty Jackson.), but where it stuck closely to the books it was great (e.g charge of the Rohirrim, though it lacked Haradrim cavalry of the black serpent and added in a copy of the At-At scene from Empire strikes Back). Music was amazing and most of the lines that did stay in brilliant. Didn't like the orc outfits much.

However it's such a good story that with good actors and a good soundtrack it was still damn good. Hoping 'The Hobbit' will be even better as it was a better book in some ways.

2) Conan the Barbarian (i thought the Robert E. Howard books would be better, but after reading them found the film is far, far, far better than the books (though the same can't be said for Conan the Destroyer - awful w*nk). Howard's Conan stories are mostly dull, predictable and racist. His Kull the Conqueror stories (which he wrote before Conan) are actually quite good, except for Thulsa Doom, who is more like Skeletor in He Man than Thulsa Doom in the film)

3) Clash of the Titans. For the time special effects were amazing and still look good today - other than that f***ing clockwork owl - rust and die owl!. Acting and soundtrack excellent too.

4) Highlander (is it Fantasy or Sci-fi? Either way great film, great sound track, despite flaws - e.g Sean Connery is asked to do accent for a Spaniard who has spent centuries living in Egypt and Japan and rightly thinks "f*ck that" and just goes with Scottish, while the supposedly Scottish main character is a French actor whose Scottish accent is atrocious)

5) The Seventh Warrior (the neanderthals in it in dark age Scandinavia qualify as fantasy rather than history i think, well made film though)

6) Dragonslayer (only vaguely remember it, but the dragon was well done and remember feeling afraid as the character entered the dragon's lair)

7) Jason and the argonauts

Krull

9) Stardust (don't really like the world but the script , soundtrack , acting and special effects are great)

10) Story (again maybe more sci-fi than fantasy)

11) The Sinbad films - some of the creatures very impressive even now (and made in 1963) even if the acting was terrible and the script pretty poor and the soundtrack average at best

-1000) Hawk the Slayer was sh*t  Never seen Dungeons and Dragons the Movie, but am informed by those who did that it was sh*t too (with lines like 'unfortunately i can't do that as i am only a level whatever <insert D&D character class here>). Nicholas Cage fantasy film looked so bad i never watched it.