Top 10 Fantasy Films of all time!

[boldarblood]

Well, if we're going beyond the borders of Sword and Sorcery, and into the realm of Sci and Fi-ery, "City of Lost Children" is on my list. So is "The Man who Fell to Earth" and "A Boy and His Dog", which was based on a Harlan Ellison tale.

Loved City of Lost Children, very strange film and a great story. Jean-Pierre Jeunet has done a few good movies, Delicatessen and Amélie.

[Hobgoblin]

for nogistala, he-man(not that good of a movie, but i still like it for some reason)

lotr- one story all good
alladin
beastmaster(first only)
not sure if it fits but brotherhood of the wolf
red sonja

[Osharan_Tregarth]

beastmaster(first only)

I watched that one because I'd read the book by Andre Norton...

Don't remember too much about the movie, except being disappointed that it didn't actually resembled the book in almost every feature.

It was loosely based on ideas from Andre Norton in her seminal science fiction novel The Beast Master, although it did not use plot, setting, or characters from the novel.

Heh.. I guess other people agreed with me.

[LazarusPossum]

HAWK THE SLAYER.....didn't hold up so well when i stumbled upon the dvd however

YES! I saw this only one time when I was about 14, and have been desperately trying to figure out the title for the past ten years! Thank you Hammbone!

Agreed. Cheesy, but Crow rocks!

[Naash]

In no particular order;

The 13th Warrior
Conan the Barbarian
Sword and the Sorceror
Majin/Return of Majin(Japanese)
Kull the Conqueror
Beastmaster
all the Sinbad movies
Dragonlance
The Dark Crystal
Excalibur
Willow

[DoctorWhofan]

Dungeons & Dragons, the movie

if you've seen it, you know what i mean....

Outside Tom Baker was the ONLY shining moment, and the only one acting...no, I do not.


Mine: Return of the King
Fellowship of the Ring
Two Towers (Two words, Tolkein Rocks!)
Princess Bride (duh! If you don't have it or even seen it, what planet are you on?)
Willow (Wicket and Val Kilmer)
THe Dark Crystal (Jim Henson's Finest)
Labyrinth (Dance magic Dance!! David Bowie...mmmmmm)
Beastmaster (MarK Singer? First one)
Neverending Story (Every little kid's dream...)
Ladyhawke (Phiffer, Haegur, Broderick, AWESOME ACTING...I said the Mouse who shook in fright, once i knew a hansome knight. Wolf by night and man by day, a quest to win and a foe to slay...)

Honorable Mention, but never forgotton: Monty Python's the Holy Grail. To hate it is to hate all that is amusing and not French.

[Dark-Star]

HAWK THE SLAYER.....

I have been trying to remember the name of this movie for a while now, was very neat when it came out, on Showtime i think.

At the time of release, Excalibur was mind blowing in how good it was. R rated fantasy? Almost unheard of. Copared to today's standards... well.

Borderline for the genre, but Heavy Metal, specifiically the last story.

Total cheeseball flick, but anyone remember the viking movie with Lee Majors (the Six Million Dollar Man)? Who knew barbarians wore trimmed 1970's mustaches?

[gfunk]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was so good it ruined pretty much every other fantasy film for me, with the possible exception of the Princess Bride, which scores marks for humor and memorable scripting.

The other contenders all seem pretty cheesy to me.

Can't wait for the Hobbit to come out. So glad that Peter Jackson is still involved with it.

[Kintro]

How do you put powers into this sort of text? For example, 1,000 to the 10,000th power? Yeah, The Princess Bride is that good.

use the ^ symbol, for example, 1,000^10,000.

[BattleCircle]

Clash of the Titans

[toughguyjoe]

Two CLASSIC animated films from my youth:

Fire & Ice

and

WIZARDS!

Wizards was great. the little good guy dwarf wizard, and the bad guy wizard that was his brother and was using nazi propaganda films found in earths aftermath as a weapon against the peace loving elves

[BattleCircle]

Two CLASSIC animated films from my youth:

Fire & Ice

and

WIZARDS!

Wizards was great. the little good guy dwarf wizard, and the bad guy wizard that was his brother and was using nazi propaganda films found in earths aftermath as a weapon against the peace loving elves

I forgot all about Wizards.... seems like it came out a couple years after Heavy Metal, but I could be misremembering

[Tap4black]

New School:

LOTR Trilogy, nothing comes close.

Old School - showing my age

Excalibur
Dark Crystal
Dragonslayer
Heavy Metal

[DaveyCrockett]

Total cheeseball flick, but anyone remember the viking movie with Lee Majors (the Six Million Dollar Man)? Who knew barbarians wore trimmed 1970's mustaches?

The Norseman, 1978.

[PurdueDave]

Total cheeseball flick, but anyone remember the viking movie with Lee Majors (the Six Million Dollar Man)? Who knew barbarians wore trimmed 1970's mustaches?

The Norseman. It's a riot.

[DaveyCrockett]

I forgot all about Wizards.... seems like it came out a couple years after Heavy Metal, but I could be misremembering

Wizards came out in 1977, Heavy Metal in 1981.

[Osharan_Tregarth]

The Crow

[Voalkrynn2]

I'd put Record of Lodoss War in the top ten just because of the barbarian sequence the preamble leading to the battle with the dragon is also nice. I'd love to see a sequence in DDO where someone buries a great axe in Velah's schnoz.

Dragonslayer would be in my top 5.

Honorable mention Beastmaster.

For me The Barbarians would fall into the top ten worst fantasy movies along with Legend.

[skyking613]

hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare To Die.

+1

[Kruler]

hrmmm did anyone say...
jason and the argonauts
the 7th voyage of sinbad
golden voyage of sinbad

Jason and the Argonauts is my all time favorite