With Hobbit a success, what is everyones fave fantasy movies?

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  1. Dolza_Khyron

    Dolza_Khyron Well-Known Member

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    star wars is about super powered space wizards, battling over the control over the lesser beings, who do not have superpowers.

    if the guy wants to call these things fantasy movies, let him. i don't see why there is ANY problem with it.
     
  2. Scrapper6

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    Yeah I know what a Cult Movie is, example Rocky Horror Picture Show, doesn't mean I've heard of them. Most Cult Movies get a lot of publicity after a while, if they don't... Shame on them really, as the media has a habit of expanding the cult members sometimes.

    Ghostbusters and BttF are childhood favorites of mine too, doesn't mean I'd classify them as a Fantasy, that of course is just my opinion. I'm not saying anything's flat out wrong with what you did, I'm just anal retentative when it comes to Hollywood classifications for films. But I'm closer to the source than you, or at least I think I might be, my father was a projectionist, ran loads of movies for the public for years. I still remember hanging out at the Drive-In some nights when both parents were working and a babysitter couldn't be arranged, or didn't need to be because it was the Summer. Recall that vivid nightmare I had where I thought a T-Rex was moving the trees in our little cul-de-sac duplex area... Damn you Jurassic Park for being so emotionally inspiring.

    Er anyway... Yeah... I was brought up in and around the movies, sat in the balcony some nights watching BttF part III over and over again, those were the truly great times of my youth. So I get a bit odd about things and obsessive, no fault on your end I was just doin' what I do.
     
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    Star Wars is fantasy compared to pure sci-fi like Blade Runner and Star Trek.
     
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    i wouldn't say that Flesh Gordon is a fantasy flick! more like a not quite soft porn parody one
     
  5. HordakFan

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    Well Ghostbusters is a mix of comedy-fantasy-horror as much as Army of Darkness and Hellboy 1 & 2 are. Phantasm with Elm Street, Company of Wolves, Making Contact aka Joey, Hellraiser 1 & 2, Wicked City etc. are mixes of horror-fantasy.
     
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    How dare you!
     
  7. HordakFan

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    Besides i have better film knowledge than anyone else here or Scrapper as i was born a movie geek and have a huge knowledge of films as i've seen every film all my life nearly.

    Well Brazil and Time Bandits are both sci-fi fantasy cult favorites from Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame with a nice cast in both mainly Robert DeNiro in Brazil.

    Yes Heavy Metal is that erotic animated sci-fi fantasy movie but pornographic? nah, you want pornographic animated go watch Urotsukidoji.

    Phantasm with Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions with Making Contact (aka Joey) (The one with the creepy ventriloquist dummy) are mixes of horror and fantasy.
     
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    Clearly, but are you a True Scotsman?
     
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    You've seen every film all your life!!! I bet you don't even get out of house cause you're so busy being the truest fan, watching every single movie made since you were born.
     
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    Gesundheit.
     
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    Yeeeeah... okay then. :rolleyes2 

    Then you'll get this quote that I'm about to drop on your usage of the word "favorites":

    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means".

    Listing off 99% of practically every title that could be considered fantasy and calling them ALL your "favorites" kind of defeats the point of highlighting specific ones.
     
  12. optimegatron

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    Return of the King, absolutely.
     
  13. Scrapper6

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    Wow, how have I missed this post? Dude you trollin' or something?

    Point #1) If you were born a movie geek then you would know to never mix your genres like that, it defeats the purpose of a favorites list as others have pointed out and it does a disservice to the talents behind the films who specifically wanted to tell the stories they wanted to in that genre.

    Point #2) There is no such thing as being born a movie geek, and there is no possible way you could have seen every single film since your biological birth for the plain and simple fact that, well first of all I'd love to know how you can recall movies your parents took you to while you were between 0-5 years old. No kid sits still in a movie, no matter what you might say. Even I can't remember every film I saw when I was really little and I grew up behind the scenes in projectionist booths for christs sake.

    Point #3) Another reason it would be impossible, The Film's Rating Board. No child could have sat through a PG-13 movie if they weren't 13... Or they didn't sneak in as some children are wont to do. No child would have ever 'snuck in' to an R rated film and gotten away with it, or remembered half of what was there because the nightmares would have been impossible to avoid. Destroying the fragile psyche of the child's mind, to the point where 'Hello Clarice' would have turned into Friday Night News' big story.

    Point #4) There are of course many other facets behind enjoying a good film, in order to become a 'movie geek', one must look up useless trivia about the production of the film. One must immerse himself or herself in what it means to go through the amount of work and effort it is to make a movie. Computers in this day and age make special effects simpler, rather pathetically so in most cases, however films of the past required a lot more. They didn't have digital effects, they had to rely on practical effects, do you even know what a practical effect is compared to a digital effect? Do you know what a Matte Painting is? How about the Multi-Plane Camera? Do you know why a film needs to be threaded, or even how a film winds up getting the sound mixed in? (Admittedly I don't know everything myself, but at least I'm interested enough to pursue learning more I don't just assume I already know everything there is to know.)

    Also Hollywood has produced over 800 films, probably even more than that, do you realize how many films a year are produced? You've got your typical blockbusters, your B-movie non-celebrity place hitters for the slow months, you've got your Indy movies, there's the artsy type of film, these types are rather rare, but they do come out. At any given point there must be at least over 100 films in production during the year, some of them we never even hear of because of issues that make them dismal failures, or they never make the box office because the studio making them is dedicated to the Direct-To-DVD crowd.

    The machine that is Hollywood lives on more than just the big name films. They restore, they keep films intact so we never lose them. They are an industry like any other, instead of manufacturing cars or little plastic trinkets that we develop attachments to they create escapism. They make it possible to sit down for a few hours and venture off into a world beyond what we see in reality, but they don't just make those types of films either. You've got your character dramas, your musicals, your animated kiddie fun. It's a truly wondrous industry, and you can't hope to learn it all in one lifetime, especially if you never grew up inside of the industry. Just watching a movie, that doesn't make you a movie geek, getting to know the in's and out's, watching someone like your dad cut and splice film that has gotten too damaged to work in the projector anymore and wondering why, so you ask, and he tells you why. Listening to a real showman discuss what it was like when the big studios had branch offices in your city, seeing all of the history behind just watching a movie... Those are the real movie geeks, perhaps someday I'll get to be one fully, for the time being I'm just content being a Movie Buff, who'll give a film a chance on the off-chance it's good. Who doesn't appreciate the filth and drivel Hollywood thinks is 'Good Entertainment' for movies that don't meet the quality A-Listers, I mean seriously, if you go to a B-Movie in this day and age you get drivel that the masses eat up and think is totally hilarious, something like... I don't know Hangover or something. I honestly can't say I watch most B-Movies these days, because the fun factor isn't there.

    Not that it needs to be campy or something, I mean most older B-Movies are only campy because of the era they were made in. The ones this era produces are never going to achieve that same level of cult enjoyment, no way no how... Mostly because there's just nothing that memorable about them IMO. I could be wrong, I seriously could, most people didn't think any of those classic B-Movies would be worth a plug nickel back in the day. I just honestly don't see the timeless factor these films have compared to the classics I guess. Maybe I'm getting too old or something... Uh and I'm also quite long winded by this point.

    I guess the whole point I was trying to make is this... You can't simply be BORN a Movie Geek, you need to evolve into one as time progresses. It isn't enough to say you've seen them all, hell nobody sits through every film, nobody has that kind of time or drive or determination. And until you can tell me what a Key-Grip is without Googling it! then you haven't got a leg to stand on.