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Favorite Fantasy Films

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Posted on September 11, 2021 at 13:24:03
Vegman70
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 My picks:

Lord of the Rings
Wizard of Oz
Thief of Baghdad
Harry Potter
A Christmas Carol (Sim)
Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Midsummer Nights Dream (Cagney, Rooney)
Time Bandits
Wings of Desire

Your favorites?

 

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RE: Favorite Fantasy Films, posted on September 11, 2021 at 13:46:22
pictureguy
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 Forbidden Planet MUST figure in all this, no?

Just saw 'Transatlantic Tunnel' from 1935 ......WAY ahead of its time......and a movie I'd never heard of before. 1935!

The Alastair Sim version is good, but I tend to prefer the 1930s version starring Reginald Owen and a YOUNG Gene Lockhart.....
Something about the honesty of presentation gets me....
Too much is never enough

 

RE: Favorite Fantasy Films, posted on September 11, 2021 at 14:11:36
Chris from Lafayette
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  • Zardoz (greatest film of all time - "The penis is evil!")
  • The original Indian Jones Trilogy (Raiders, Temple of Doom*, Last Crusade)
  • The Indiana Jones supplement (i.e., Crystal Skull - you don't agree? Bring it on!)
  • Any fantasy film with music by Bernard Herrmann (Journey to the Center of the Earth, 7th Voyage of Sinbad, etc.)

*Any movie with a kid saying a line like, "You call him DOCTOR Jones, DOLL!" will forever be on my list!

 

RE: Favorite Fantasy Films, posted on September 11, 2021 at 16:43:56
Vegman70
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 Thanks. Zardoz is on my list. Not sure why I've never seen it. Good thing I can get dvds of most movies from our library system.

 

RE: Favorite Fantasy Films, posted on September 11, 2021 at 16:59:13
Vegman70
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 Re: Alastair Sim version, the additional story line expanding on what Dickens wrote helped me to better understand how Scrooge became the monster he was before the spirit visitations. Sim does get a bit over the top at times, but I'm able to overlook that.

Forbidden Planet would be on my list of science fiction movies. For me, Blade Runner. takes the lead of must see flics in that genre. Transatlantic Tunnel is a new one for me, I'll check it out. Thanks.

 

RE: Favorite Fantasy Films, posted on September 11, 2021 at 18:36:24
pictureguy
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 All the 'categories' are to me, somewhat offputting.

is something like the Gene Wilder take on Willie Wonka a fantasy?

So I'm less concerned with calling something 'X' or 'Y' than simply 'Is it well done?'

My brother didn't like SciFi. I couldn't get him to sit thru Forbidden Planet! 'THEM' was out of the question. Yet he found 'The Martian' to be engaging.

The reason I find categories weird is I can't figure out where MANY movies fit. For example? Clint Eastwood did 'Unforegiven'. Western? Morality play? Fantasy, even? Historical Drama?

Directors Cut of Blade Runner is terrific. That my be yet ANOTHER category: 'Dystopian Future'. Stuff like Arnie in Running Man (the?) and Idiocracy (funny stuff) both qualify.

No, for ME, categories is a tough sell. Just entertain me!
Too much is never enough

 

RE: Favorite Fantasy Films, posted on September 11, 2021 at 19:21:12
rivervalley817
 'Just entertain me!'

I'm here for you man. click on the link!

; )

 

RE: Favorite Fantasy Films, posted on September 11, 2021 at 23:37:23
Rod H.
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 Not a big fantasy film fan. Must say I really like Wings of Desire. Never thought of it as a fantasy film, but I guess it must be...

Also really like The Red Shoes.

 

Some repeats...., posted on September 12, 2021 at 06:39:31
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 Star Wars Saga (especially #'s 3,4,5,6,7 & 9)
Raiders Saga (all but especially 1 & 3)
Wizard Of OZ (any movie with Garland)
The Fifth Element (shame he never did the planned follow-up)
A Christmas Carol ( I especially like the George C Scott, Sim and the fabulous Albert Finney musical)
Harry Potter series (especially 1,2 & 7. Richard Harris was a GREAT Dumbeldore!)
Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder version... Johnny Depp was a waste of film)
Batman (Tim Burton's but take out the God awful Prince music! Michelle Pfeiffer is the HOTTEST thing to EVER wear spandex!)
Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews.. my first movie star crush!)
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Beauty and the Beast (both versions)
Aladdin (both versions)
Cinderella (both versions but especially the live action with the beautiful Lily James and the TV movie musical with the beautiful Lesley Ann Warren)
Excaliber
Ghost
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Jungle Book (both versions)
The Bishop's Wife (LOVE Cary Grant in ANYTHING!)
It's A Wonderful Life (the Jimmy Stewart AND the Marlo Thomas versions)

 

All Miyazaki ("Spirited Away"); "Zardoz:" Connery brilliant in mind-altering role/film. Also, strong, posted on September 12, 2021 at 07:22:14
tinear
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 agreement on the Jones' archeological films, especially the first two.

"Beauty and the Beast:" only the French original.

 

RE: Favorite Fantasy Films, posted on September 12, 2021 at 07:23:46
tinear
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 "Solaris" must be on any "greatest Sci-Fi" lists, I'd argue. Only the original Russian one.

 

RE: Favorite Fantasy Films, posted on September 12, 2021 at 11:34:03
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 Erin Brockovich.







'A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on'. -Mark Twain

 

The Fifth Element ..., posted on September 12, 2021 at 14:10:30
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Dean.




reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.


 

Clockwork Orange . . . , posted on September 13, 2021 at 12:10:25
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 and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.

 

Whenever I see that title, I always think of the Mad Magazine parody of it, posted on September 14, 2021 at 01:05:55
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 "A Crockwork Lemon" ;-)

And, yeah, I like EWS too. (Ms. CfL hates it for some reason!)

 

Jason & the Argonauts, posted on September 14, 2021 at 04:39:24
dwill123
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Yes - I was going to add that one too, but. . . , posted on September 14, 2021 at 11:46:55
Chris from Lafayette
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 . . . it crosses the genre into "gladiator movies". I guess there are certainly enough fantasy elements though to make it a valid choice for the fantasy genre.

"Joey, do you like. . . gladiator movies?" ;-)

 

"I'm here for you man" - Me too!, posted on September 14, 2021 at 11:52:42
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For the hard core Ray Harryhausen fans out there, posted on September 14, 2021 at 13:41:40
mbnx01
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Mine is on order.








'A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on'. -Mark Twain

 

. . . and the winner is . . . ., posted on September 14, 2021 at 19:19:32
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A Matter of Life and Death, posted on September 14, 2021 at 20:01:41
ArdRi
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 The Last Wave

The Lathe of Heaven

 

RE: A Matter of Life and Death, posted on September 14, 2021 at 21:06:24
rivervalley817
 'The Lathe of Heaven'

with a Dr. William Haber James Caan? I will offer:

Through A Scanner Darkly ... Robert Downey Jr. + Keanu Reeves!

great soundtrack

; )




 

I had the original with Kevin Conway as, posted on September 14, 2021 at 22:03:43
ArdRi
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Haber in mind. I've seen the remake...

How about the original 'She' with Randolph Scott?

 

RE: Herrmann soundtrack, posted on September 15, 2021 at 07:35:17
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for 7th Voyage

 

There were also excerpts of that score on one of Herrmann's Phase-4 albums [nt], posted on September 15, 2021 at 11:41:48
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RE: I had the original with Kevin Conway as, posted on September 17, 2021 at 11:25:37
rivervalley817
 nice! I think the original had better pacing and actors ... the effects were better in the re-do though neither film gets props for those

I agree that the original She was very good

regards,

 

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