What are some movies about wizards

40 year old virgin

That movie with Fred Savage playing Super Mario Bros 3.

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read a book desu

magic in books >>>>>> magic in films

The 1968 "Wizard of Earthsea" and its sequels are super enjoyable and a good starting point.

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>>80278335
>>80278426
not that kind of wizard

real wizard

>>80278525
didn't like the writing, and most fantasy books I've tried suck in general

>>80278525
>Wizard of Earthsea
I read this a few months back. Didn't enjoy it too much, 'the shadow was part of himself all along' is lame as fuck.

Tommy

>>80278553
chronicle

>>80278553
Harry potter

>>80278711
The summary doesn't sound like there are any wizards in it

Dr. Strange

perhaps i could recommend u sum harde wizard flicks?

>>80278553
Do witches count? Aren't witches just female wizards? If they count, then there are plenty of choices for you.

Being John Malkovich

>>80278882
Yeah maybe?

>>80278898
No I can't self-insert as a witch, and women have enough demonic powers as it is

>>80278922
The most obvious answer I can think of is Lord of the Rings, but you probably want the main character to be a wizard. I don't think we can find what your looking for, man.

>>80278847
He's a pinball wizard. Says so right in the fookin song you mongloid fuck.

The Wiz

>>80278711
>That Baked Beans scene
That's real magic.

>>80278869
That's about sorcerers not wizards

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>>80279007
Gandalf hardly does any magic though

Why are there so few movies about actual wizards?

>>80279182
This needs to be answered, for I also would like to see a movie about a wizard as the main character that isn't some shit kid.

>>80279182
same reason there are so few movies about academic researchers, stamp collectors or librarians.

wizardry is about pursuit of knowledge. 120 minutes of a bearded pensioner poring over old books does not a successful movie make

>>80279276
>wizardry is about pursuit of knowledge. 120 minutes of a bearded pensioner poring over old books does not a successful movie make

Not necessarily. HP has some class scenes but for the most part it's magical adventures.

>>80279182
Because HP was too good. They will do proper sequels soon.

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>>80278313
Does anyone else think Harry Potter has been one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises? Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>80278922
>Yeah maybe?
I change my mind
You sound like an utter fucking pleb

>>80279326
then watch HP and forget about classic fantasy and how almost every author before that hack Rowling wrote her shitbooks for ADD riddled neanderthals.

>>80279451
weak intro

now you see me / now you don't

with a harry potter cameo

>>80279407
I don't think HP was so great, I'd prefer a different setting with adult wizards and less whimsiness

>>80279451
Damn, this pasta is good. Someone pass the breadsticks.

>>80279451
if the best you can do is a non-intro don't bother

>>80279519
The entire point was that it is brazilianesque and weird. The latter ones are adult there's a tone change in 5-8

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>>80278711
you know it kind of makes me mad nobody talks about tommy or quadrophenia

they are some of the best period pieces in cinema

>that scene were tommy is running in place and the background changes from oceans to lava
>elton john being the pinball wizard
>oliver reed and jack


but to get back on topic sword in the stone is one of the best movies featuring wizards.

they really go into the magic aspect and if you haven't seen this masterpiece you are doing yourself a disservice

>>80280620
>tommy

My dad likes this movie.

Will check SitS

>>80280670
you wont regret it

the ending is fantastic

and there's some weird sexual thing with animals

>>80278313
The Wizard of Oz

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>>80281046
>book called The Wizard of Oz
>The Wizard of Oz never shows up

The Wizard of Loneliness

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>>80278313

>>80278882
:^)

>>80278313
The Prestige

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>>80278313

The danish girl