Best Fantasy Movie?

[PreciousGollum]

Princess Bride.Almost forgot that one!

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"It hurts us,it hurts us.It freezes,it bites!"

[Azlan]

These are all great, Excalibur was definetly up there... LadyHawk was cool, the other one's too. I liked DragonHeart. The Princess Bride...lol.


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"You want some? Come get some."

[Erekose]

D&D movie was pretty bad for quite a number of reasons. On the WOTC site there is a huge archive of what the fans felt was wrong with the movie....

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"You all wished me to arouse the blade and use it. Now, I think, we begin to understand the consequences. The Black Sword must be fed. It will feed on friends if it cannot feed on enemies......"

[slackerboy]

The last unicorn

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[Erekose]

Ok it's not a medieval fantasy but I enjoyed In the Mouth of Madness. It's difficult to think of one that was better done than the Conan one. Although Jason and the argonauts gets quite a few points for its skeletons. Come to think of it Evil Dead 3 wasn't bad though more of a comedy.....

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THE RUNES ON THE SWORD ARE THE WORMS THAT ARE WISE
THE NAME OF THE SWORD IS THE SAME AS THE SCYTHE

[Memnoch]

Gladiator (OK, I know, not really fantasy). For swordplay, can't go past Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Here's a review of the AD&D movie from MrCranky.


In the review that ran in my local newspaper, Bob Thomas of the Associated Press describes Dungeons & Dragons as a board game. This sort of comment should give people pause in thinking of film critics as journalists, which is a word I consider an insult in the first place. Journalists are basically the scum who couldn't make it in the real writing classes. However, imagining that couchbound, donut-inhaling Bob couldn't even lift up his hand to spend all of five seconds to find out that D&D isn't a board game really brings new meaning to the words "lazy, fat, haven't seen my genitals without a handheld mirror in the last twenty years, bastard." You know, if you're going to belittle something, get your facts straight. As we all know, Dungeons & Dragons is played with life-size dolls by participants wearing adult diapers.
Apparently, the director of this film, Courtney Solomon, has spent the last ten years of his life trying to get this film made. Given the timelines of his little crusade, one wonders whether his next project, "Pet Rock: The Movie" will ever get off the ground. This movie contains writing so bad that it forces normal people to curse God for allowing human communication to even exist. The acting is so bad that one assumes that the actors were all separated from each other and forced to stand in front of a green screen and pretend there was stuff going on. This combination is the Hollywood equivalent of farting into an open flame -- it all seems kind of harmless until you realize the effect feels exactly like being sodomized by the Heat Miser.

Do actors even read scripts anymore? How did Jeremy Irons end up in this thing? He plays the evil Profion, who's trying to take over Empress Savina's (Thora Birch) kingdom by getting control of dragons. Almost every emotional scene Irons does is accompanied by putting both hands up in the air and waving them around for dramatic effect. Thora Birch is so bad that I actually felt glad for her having taken off her shirt in "American Beauty", else this would certainly spell the end of her career. She runs around cooing about making everybody in her kingdom equal and then, when she wins the fight in the end (big surprise), she pronounces everybody equal. "You're all equal," she says. For his part, Justin Whalin, who plays the hero-thief Ridley, uses the dramatic head turn to simulate despair as well as any porno actor who has ever walked the planet. When things get really bad for him, he drops to his knees and screams "Noooooo!" at the top of his lungs, as though he'd just discovered that somebody had taken a dump in his Chalupa.

Funny, that was exactly the same reaction I had when I heard this movie was coming out.


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[RudeDawg]

OK, lessee.

Highlander (c'mon, you've gotta count it. Immortals & swords) -The Original movie, and the series were good. The other movies should have never been made. I know someone who worked on the special effects team of the second movie. He told me, months before it was released. "If there is a god, this movie will never be seen."

LadyHawke - Good concept. Horrible sound mix (finally remade and fixed in the DVD release) Rutger in armor and a sword. AWESOME. (plus, I have a wolf fixation.)

Princess Bride - Wonderful fencing choreography. And some immortal lines. "As you wish." & "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." come to mind.

Conan the Barbarian - What else needs to be said?

now, the sleeper. I know NONE of you have ever seen it, and you may never be able to. It's been out of print for ages, but available on VHS in the UK. (BTW, If anyone wants to help a fan get theis movie, email me.)

Hawk the Slayer -OMIGOD love this movie. Elven archers, giants, heros battling evil twin brothers. It is THE ultimate fantsy camp movie. I mean, JACK PALANCE is the bad guy. JACK PALANCE! 'nuff said.

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The RudeDawg
Known in these Forgotten Realms as Perin LightEyes


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[Draconia]

Willow, love that movie.

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Draconia, Dragon Queen

[John D Harris]

#1 Dragon Slayer
#2 LadyHawk
#3 Highlander
Antimated
#1 Heavy Metal
#2 Watership Down
#3 Lord of the Rings
#4 Wizards
And taken of the list because it's in a CLASS all by itself "Fanstasia"

[sageridder]

watership down
lord of the rings
conan
highlander
heavy metal
krull
the list could go for a while.
But one I must add.D&D the movie.NOT what we got but what it COULD have been and SHOULD have been.I bought a copy of the original screenplay off ebay about four years ago.Before hollywood "Fixed" it and made it to "appeal to a larger audiance" it actually was a good read.This would have added at least 45 mins to help flesh out the story,made big changes in interactions.Not have given us that everybody lives forever in happyness crap,(the end was quite different) .
I suspect the comic sidekick was an attempt to copy the hercules and or zena following.Many will dissagree but if you read what it could have been you would see how the it's downfall was the allmighty dollar.They never understood how this kind of movie isn't about opening weekend,but about fan loyality,and repeat viewings.
***off topic is there a spell check we could add to this site?***

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