The Best Fantasy Films

[Midgar Mist]

Please share with me some of your favourite Fantasy Films

This is by no means an extensive list of mine:

Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Gremlins
Marvel Avengers Assemble

[charliepanayi]

Fantasy is a pretty loose definition I guess. If we're going for traditional fantasy, then LOTR and The Princess Bride are the only logical choices. If we're looking at comic book adaptations or stuff with elements of horror/supernatural stuff, then it gets a bit more extensive.

[Night Fury]

First that came to my mind was Lord of the Rings, yeah. They're completely epic.

[Psychotic]

LotR and Princess Bride as previously mentioned leapt straight to mind but I also wanna give a nod to Stardust. That movie was a lot of fun.

[Night Fury]

Yes! Stardust was a great movie and severely underrated.

[Wolf Kanno]

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Dark Crystal
Conan the Barbarian (original) wasn't too bad.
Pans' Labyritnh

[Vasher]

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Dark Crystal
Conan the Barbarian (original) wasn't too bad.
Pans' Labyritnh


Don't take this personal, but I hated Labrynth. David Bowie stealing babies, freaky weird. The hoarder lady always creeped me out. The door riddle was fun though.

Also...



Conan the Barbarian (original) wasn't too bad.

Blasphemy, CtB is one of the greatest films of all time!


My addition to those mentioned;

Legend (ftmfw)


and a couple that I liked in childhood;

Krull
Time Bandits


Holy crap! Almost forgot;

Willow
Your Highness
Big Trouble in Little China

[Bubba]

Man I haven't seen Krull in years. Such a good film!

Early appearances in smaller roles for the British acting legends that are Liam Neeson, Robbie Coltrane and Todd Carty from Eastenders!

Seriously, it's worth watching just for those three :D

[escobert]

How has no one mentioned Willow!?

[Rocket Edge]

I can't recall ever hearing of 'The Princess Bride', but the recommendations in here make me want to watch it soon.

LotR as previously mentioned. I guess I haven't watched much fantasy.

EDIT: I forgot about one of my favourites, 'Big Fish'.

[Vasher]

I just remembered another...

The Never Ending Story

[Bubba]

Neverending Story is a great shout! I like it because even though it's a film, it teaches kids (and adults) about the importance of reading.

[Loony BoB]

I'm assuming we're restricting ourselves to live-action as the number of amazing animated fantasy films is huge.

Most of the good ones have already been named, but I also liked MirrorMask and Dragonheart.

Would you count Life of Pi or Bridge to Terabithia as fantasy? If so, them, too, definitely.

[Aerith's Knight]

Mazes & Monsters

[Miriel]

Nothing will ever top Lord of the Rings.

I'm also super partial to A Little Princess. It was a favorite movie of mine as a kid and I re-watched it again thinking it probably wouldn't be as good watching it as a grown up, but it was still phenomenal! Held up super well after 20 years.

The Golden Compass movie broke my heart, I loved the book so god damn much. And it just didn't do it any justice. :(

[Freya]

Nothing will ever top Lord of the Rings.

I'm also super partial to A Little Princess. It was a favorite movie of mine as a kid and I re-watched it again thinking it probably wouldn't be as good watching it as a grown up, but it was still phenomenal! Held up super well after 20 years.

The Golden Compass movie broke my heart, I loved the book so god damn much. And it just didn't do it any justice. :(
I heard netflix picked it up and is making a series for it though, so maybe you'll get a justified viewing of it!

[charliepanayi]

It's not Netflix doing The Golden Compass and its sequels, it's the BBC I think. They are good at doing TV series like that though so fingers crossed.

[Freya]

It's not Netflix doing The Golden Compass and its sequels, it's the BBC I think. They are good at doing TV series like that though so fingers crossed.
Ahh yes! Someone picked it up! I knew that. Thanks for clarifying

[escobert]

Hopefully they don't go the dumb things down and not offend anyone route. I'd love to see His Dark Materials done properly as it's my favorite trilogy.

[Vasher]

Bob brought up animation, and though there are so many, there are two I feel deserving nb;

The Hobit
The Last Unicorn (I really doubt anyone has seen this)



Back to "Legend", Tim Curry as Satan, come on!


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Only, we have to be careful with our pronunciation.


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[Laddy]

Pan's Labyrinth
Lord of the Rings
How to Train Your Dragon
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Princess Mononoke
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Princess Bride
Edward Scissorhands

[Midgar Mist]

67888

Dang, I forgot about Labyrinth. Its brilliant.

And yes, there's so many subgenres of Fantasy......I was going for a "anything but Sci Fi" definition for this thread.