Best/Worst Fantasy Films

This seems to be quite a sporadic genre. This year though it seems fairly prolific with Rings, Potters and Dragons. Here are my best/worst lists. What are yours?

A Kings reward to-

LOTR
Clash of the Titans
Jabberwocky
Conan the B
The Sword in the Stone
Princess Bride


A plague upon-

Harry Potter
Dragonheart
Legend
Willow
Beastmaster

I could understand Beastmaster... but the others are great fantasy films! I mean why not put the D&D movie there instead?

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death to final fantasy (well its sorta fantasy)

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sometimes it just doesnt seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps

Ooooh...bad call.

My favs:
LOTR:FOTR
The Princess Bride
The Dark Crystal
Neverending Story
The Hobbit (cartoon one)
The Dragon Slayer
Clash of the Titans

Best fantasy movie is definatly Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Legend: Bad call? As in its bad or I'm wrong? Either way I haven't met anyone who has been able to stay awake through this piss poor excuse for a film. Shame on you Ridley Scott and Tom Cruise we haven't forgotten!

How 'bout this dragon movie coming out: Reign of Fire, anyone reckon it'll do the business? Looks pretty down and dirty and no talkin' drags either!

darn it, my posts here were deleted as well! ok basically if any one can recall LOTRs is the best fantasy film and Harry Potter wants me to burn down the cinema

Why is it that when the word 'dragon' is mentioned, people automatically think fantasy? Yeah, dragons are pretty hard to come by, but why aren't dinosaur movies considered fantasy?

Sadie, I'm surprised you didn't mention The Labrynth.

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Yeah, she digs that flick. I saw it when I was a little kid and thought it was pretty cool at the time. Especially that surreal part at the end with all the funky stairs.

"Who? The babe! The babe with the power."

...What power?

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I dunno. It's from the movie, though. Bowie sings it.

"The power of voodoo. who do. you do. "

Do what? Remind me of the babe!

Quiet! A goblin babe...

My mom loved the music in that movie so much that she taped the songs onto an audiotape while the movie was playing on our TV. It sounded so crappy, but she'd listen to it for hours.

She was a big Bowie fan. I am, too, but not that big.

The old "stick a mic up to the speaker on the set and record the music" thing huh.

Anyone that tries doing that always gets a hilarious record. For instance, a family member yelling at them in the background.

Yep. It was awful!

I wonder if Mom still has that tape... The woman's a pack rat, so it's possible--and it would be so funny to hear now.

Ah, well. The sunny slopes of yesterday.

Because flying, firebreathing dragons have never existed on Earth? Just a guess.

I know, I know, but still there are komodo dragons.

Which neither fly nor breathe fire. But komodos are creepy as hell, and mean, too--didya see the Croc Hunter episode where he spent all that time with them? He nearly got eaten a bunch of times.

I will say, though, that genre-wise, Reign of Fire looks much more actiony than fantasy. It also looks d*mn cool--I'm looking forward to that one.

Me too, looks no where near fantasy.

BTW, the Komodo Dragon thing was my smart-a*s remark.

I gotcha.

You know, I'm re-reading all the movies posted, and I like them all, to some extent, (the good and the bad) excepting The Dragon Slayer, which I haven't seen (Sades, is that the one with the guy from Ally McBeal?).

My fantasy film standards are pretty low, I guess. If it's fun and/or looks cool, then I'm for it.

Oh--found one I didn't like: Dungeons and Dragons. That movie...

Sorry, I freakin' loved it. One of the best fantasy films out there...
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