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Re: Fantasy Film Survey « Reply #15 on Jul 31, 2012, 10:49pm »
Top of my list would probably have to be Valhalla Rising, not everybody's cup of tea I know. A band of amoral adventurers out on a wilderness adventure. Warning: if you haven't seen it this movie is not an action flick (despite the depiction in the link), but an art-house film.
My favourite older fantasy film is Legend, despite a strong dislike of Tom Cruise. The cinematography is wonderful and Tim Curry in the role of the demon is something I've never seen anyone come anywhere close to topping - and done without CGI.
The movie I feel comes closest to depicting a D&D game for me is Conan the Destroyer, crap movie but boy does it cry "D&D" - a couple of fighters, a thief, a magic-user off on a raid to an evil wizard's castle.
That looks outstanding to me. I have a copy on the way. I wonder if that is where Bakshi got his idea for how to present the history of the ring at the beginning of his LotR.
So, what fantasy films have really hit the mark for you? The sky is the limit, if it is even vaguely fantasy [...]
For me, nothing tops the short film/music video for Muse's Knights Of Cydonia; it's got everything:
Post-apocalyptic, dystopian future (copyright is 2081) Spaghetti western cowboy pro- and an-tagonists Kung-fu (snake style, tiger style, flying eagle style, ...) Heavy-Metal(ish), metal-clad maiden astride a unicorn (played by the bountifully beautiful Cassandra Bell) Robot, rayguns and Star-Wars(-like) holograms cryptic, coded numerological messages Cydonia: ancient city-state (Κυδωνία) on the northwest coast of Crete, founded by King Cydon, a son of Hermes and of Akakallis, the daughter of King Minos; or the flat-topped mesa in the Martian northern hemisphere?
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Re: Fantasy Film Survey « Reply #22 on Aug 1, 2012, 12:34pm »
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Re: Fantasy Film Survey « Reply #23 on Aug 1, 2012, 1:24pm »
Gary loved The Raven.
I also HIGHLY recommend a number of "Costume Dramas" from the 30s through the 50s
Errol Flynn's "Robin Hood", which was Gary's example of what D&D combat was "Prince Valiant" "The Vikings" "The Warlord" "Black Shield of Falworth" "Knights of the Round Table" (a real gem in my estimation) "The Warrior" "Genghis Khan" "The Talisman" -- a REAL gem!
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Re: Fantasy Film Survey « Reply #24 on Aug 1, 2012, 5:23pm »
I guess for weird occult scariness,
As mentioned but one of those late night movies I happen to turn on as a teenager not knowing what it was that I was getting into,"The Raven" with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff as dueling sorcerers. Funny that a very young Jack Nicholson was also in this movie.
I didn't know at the time Vincent Price's many other movies, as mentioned "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Witchhunter General" etc. Thanks goodness, saved me some nightmares!
Another scary occult Elizabethan horror movie that I don't recommend is "Blood on Satan's Claw." someone has been perverse enough to post the whole film on youtube if you have to view. It would have aired on TV in the early 70s.
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Michael Mornard -------------------------- Played in the original Blackmoor, Greyhawk, and EPT Campaigns "Gronan of Simmerya" aka "Old Geezer" aka "LORD Grumpy"
Another scary occult Elizabethan horror movie that I don't recommend is "Blood on Satan's Claw." someone has been perverse enough to post the whole film on youtube if you have to view. It would have aired on TV in the early 70s.
I don't recall much of the movie, so I can't comment on its quality. But I remember a scene where one character is alone in a house and can hear the Devil climbing the stairs. I based a D&D monster on that (write-up on my blog, under the "wandering" label.)
Michael Mornard -------------------------- Played in the original Blackmoor, Greyhawk, and EPT Campaigns "Gronan of Simmerya" aka "Old Geezer" aka "LORD Grumpy"
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