Kevin's Watch

I'm talking live-action, NOT LOTR...cause in the end I think it's easily the winner...so we're really looking for 2nd, or 4th, depending how you look at it, best.

Other options:
- Beastmaster
- Krull
- Return to Oz
- Willow
- Excalibur
- Labrynth
- Conan the Barbarian
- Time Bandits (if you count it as fantasy)
- Harry Potter X
- Prince Caspian
- Ladyhawke
- Clash of the Titans
- Dark Crystal

Growing up, I loved The Neverending Story, Labyrinth and Watership Down, and more recently, I've enjoyed Pan's Labyrinth and others that I can't think of right now.

I don't think I could choose one.

plus i love Excalibur and The 13th Warrior

Best.
Movie.
Ever.

Other:

THE BARBARIANS (1987)



www.imdb.com/title/tt0092615/

LOL!!! oh man...

Dark Crystal. No question for me.

Damn, hard choice. I like Dark Crystal, Excalibur, Legend, the Conan movies . . . but I voted for Dragonslayer.

Crap, I liked the first Highlander, too. Does that one count? Can a fantasy movie end up in modern times?

I haven't seen Pan's Labrynth. I hear it's good.

If you're going to throw Princess Bride up there, why not MP's Holy Grail?

Highlander is without question a fantasy film.

My favorite is probably Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky. Really, any Miyazaki film is great fantasy.

What? No Beastmaster? Excalibur?

Pan's Labyrinth was really good. Princess Bride is easily the most quotable of those listed. ("I do not think that word means what you think it means." Classic! ) But I'm voting in the poll for "The Neverending Story".

Malik23 wrote: If you're going to throw Princess Bride up there, why not MP's Holy Grail?

i thought about it...but it's first a comedy, then a fantasy...and it's soooooooo high up there in the comedy collumn (IMO), I just decided to leave it off this one and put it on the one I'm about to do...

rdhopeca wrote:What? No Beastmaster? Excalibur?

Oh, crap! Beastmaster!!! lol! Excalibur's on the Options list BM has been added. And I also added one of my B-movie favs.

Almost anything by Hayau Miyazaki should be topping this list, particularly Princess Mononoke. I would call him, Neil Gaiman, and Probably Phillip Pullman the greatest *fantasists* in modern narrative art. (I would consider adding Stephan King and Charlie Kaufman.) Princess Mononoke is, to me, one of the greatest works of Fantasy of the century. It's right up there with LOTR, The Wizard of Oz, The Sandman, His Dark Materials, and Thomas Covenant.

When it comes to bald fecundity of imagination, Gaiman and Miyazaki just take my breath away. They are Spellbinders.

I agree with this being a hard choice. Almost went with Dragonslayer. Liked it so much on first viewing and have liked it every time I've rewatched it. But I'll go with The Princess Bride.

Malik23 wrote:Can a fantasy movie end up in modern times?

For Donaldson it worked as a book. So it did for Mark Twain.

Vader wrote:

Malik23 wrote:Can a fantasy movie end up in modern times?

For Donaldson it worked as a book. So it did for Mark Twain.

It worked for "Escape to Witch Mountain." Actually, it works all the time in kids' movies -- what was the name of that one where the mom and the tween daughter switched bodies?

No wait, I've got a bunch of grownup movies that fit the bill: "Big", "Splash" and, um, "Cocoon"? The one where the old folks lived a really long time? Maybe that turned out to be sci-fi in the end, hmm. But the other two were definitely modern-day fantasies aimed at adults.

Freaky Friday?

danlo wrote:Freaky Friday?

That's it! Thanks, danlo!

Excaliber (so awesome)
Highlander (The First one)
Jason and the Argonauts
Princess Bride

Anyone familiar with Ilya Morametz?

Fell in love with a butchered, Americanized, B&W version of this Russian film in the sixties on late night TV.

Have since picked up the DVD of the original color version of this magnificent epic Russian folktale. The scenery alone is worth the price of admission.