Why is Excalibur and LOTR the only good fantasy films that exist?

What about Conan the Barbarian?

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>>81239577

>Mordred

Zack Snyder King Arthur Kino when?

>>81239577
I remember watching this when I was younger and it spooked me so hard. There are scenes when the music swells that it gets spooky af senpai desu

>>81239577

Galadriel's riverdancing for LOTR

>>81239577

*blocks your quest*

>>81240169

Fuck that hanging tree

>>81239577
Don't forget Conan the Barbarian but the reason they are the only good ones is because they are sincere mythological cinema with the budgets, production values, and directorial talent to carry them out. Not a single other fantasy film exists with all of these factors.

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>>81239577
>not mention The Hobbit trilogy

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What was this lil fella's fuckin problem?

>>81241252
A literal inbred shit. Probably a homosexual as well.

>>81239804
He already "made" that. Snyder's "Excalibur" was 300. Watch it again. It still holds up.

>>81241252
>dat laugh
Unsettling as hell...Scared me stiff when my dad made me watch this as a kid

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>>81241207
I guess it makes sense to be a bit sillier when dealing with a sillier source material.

Can't beat the originals though.

>>81239577
wtf is that armour? did they model it off a roided bodybuilder?

>>81241647

Read a book

>>81241006

This. The fantasy genre is a playground for our deeply ingrained archetypes. When you subvert this with strong independent women, ill-fitted minorities and purposeless action it just feels wrong and becomes pointless. People might still say the movie was OK, but it's not gonna hit that sweet spot. You already know how these stories are supposed to go.

>>81241647
Google "muscle cuirass"

>>81239577
What is the significance of his mask, if any?

>>81242113
Shut up.
It looks cool.

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There's a lot of old sword and sandal movies that are pretty fun to watch desu

>>81242056
Shut the fuck up Jung there's no such thing as ingrained archetypes.

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There will be another Kino soon.

>>81241394
can't wait for his George Washington BioPic

>>81242056
Red Sonja was fine. So that blows a hole in your moronic theory. Cunt

>>81239577

why does he wear the mask?

Conan The Barbarian is a top 5 film of all time.

LotR trilogy is good but overrated to hell and back (only trilogy more overrated than LotR is Nolan Batshit).

Legend, Labrynthe, The Dark Crystal, Ladyhawke, Beastmaster, and Dragonheart are all great fantasy films though. Even Krull is interesting, OP is a giant fucking faggot.

>>81244540
Hes a big king

>>81239577
WIllow

Labyrinth

Pans Labyrinth

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kino?

>>81245780
stop being a cunt

>>81242056
What about Grace Jones as Zula?

>>81245759
wondering when someone was going to mention willow

>>81239577
If you like fantasy, I suggest you keep that shit to yourself. I don't mean that in a derogatory way but as a warning. I grew up being really into comics, I grew up liking video games, I grew up liking sci-fi and fantasy. Three out of four of those fucking things now have grown in popularity and all I hear is shit about how they need to be changed for one reason or another to make someone feel included.

The worst thing that could happen to fantasy right now is for a shit load of popular fantasy movies to come out. If you really enjoy fantasy pick up a book keep your mouth shut and pray it doesn't get a movie deal.

>>81245744
For you

>>81245759
>Pans Labyrinth
Get fucked. This sucked enormous cock. Toro is an overrated sack of used spanish tampons

>>81245847
Conan the *Barbarian* not Conan the *Destroyer*.

>>81245700
> Legend
This one might count too. Been a long time since I last saw it though.

>>81245700

Legend - SHIT
Labrynthe - SHIT
The Dark Crystal - SHIT
Ladyhawke - SHIT
Dragonheart - SHIT
Beastmaster - NOT SHIT

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>>81246642

Beastmaster is shit, and also, you cannot watch the first one because of animal cruelty. The tiger was literally covered in paint, and it died. Second one is funny though

But dont you dare shit on jimminy hensons, motherfucker. Labyrinth. is. my. shit.

>>81246642
None of these are shit though.
What I think you're confusing is the difference between high-fantasy and fantasy.

>>81244540

this looks terrible and i want to like it.

>>81246786
this sounds like bullshit, like the golden girl in goldfinger

>>81246991
no dude that tiger died. why do you think he just has a normal tiger in the second one? they literally just painted a tiger with some spray-paint, it poisoned it, and the tiger died

i cant watch that movie with a good conscience.

>>81247035
>i cant watch that movie with a good conscience.

You're on a board where a minority worship cannibal holocaust and most of the older exploitation flicks where they murder animals regularly. I respect you for holding onto your morals when surrounded by cunts.

>>81247118
i think even the worst scumbags on /pol/ arent down with animal cruelty

its like a common trait in antisocial people, i think, that they love animals. obviously, theres some exceptions, but as a whole, i think most people here arent down with poisoning tigers to death

>>81247299
Hitler loved animals

>>81247329

>implying hitler wasnt a good person

>>81239577
>LOTR, not Conan the Barbarian...

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Stardust is a great newer fantasy movie. Especially since it had Daredevil and Superman both trying to bang the same girl.

K R U L L
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>>81247374
>Peter O'Toole
>Robert DeNiro
>Ian McKellen
>Jason Flemyng
>Mark Strong
>Henry Cavill
>Charlie Cox
>Michelle Pfeiffer
>Claire Danes
>Sienna Miller

Fuck, forgot how great the cast was.

>>81247460
>>Henry Cavill
What role did he play?

>>81247460
>>Henry Cavill

yeah he was really good in................ movie?

>>81247374

this. liked it more than the book desu.

>>81247329
is this some racist-assed jesse owens reference?

>>81247701
No, it's truth. He even wanted to set-up his own Aryan Hunting Reserve, which he left up to Goering.

>>81247729
is your point that people who like animals are hitler? or that if you dont like animals, youre worse than hitler? or that hitler was cool because he liked animals?

PICK ONE, BITCH

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>>81247594
He was the chad that was dating the girl that Daredevil wanted to marry.

>>81247771
That's pretty cool. Never knew dying your eyebrows could change your entire appearance.

>>81247770
There was no point because I was the one who replied to you, not the one you were replying to.
I think maybe you read too much into things. Not everyone likes animals and not everyone hates them. It doesn't mean a thing. Now your actions towards animals does though.

>>81247880
>"4channers argue hitler is good because he liked animals"

CNNs headline tomorrow

we're right though

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>>81247624
He was good in Count of Monte Cristo.

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>>81245700
>ctrl f
>at least one Krull mention

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>>81239577
>He forgot about Stardust

>>81248057
so did the rest of the world, that movie sucks

>>81248426
Your whore mother sucks.

>>81239577
Harry potter you utter fucking pleb

>>81248426
YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU PIECE OF SHIT

THAT FILM WAS TOP TIER KINO

>>81246786
>you cannot watch the first one because of animal cruelty.
You should check out Holy Mountain. You'll really dig the abbreviated history of the americas starring gilla monsters.

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>>81248479
/thread

>>81239618
When the first post is the best post.

Conan The Barbarian is, un-ironically, to fantasy what 2001: A Space Odyssey is to science fiction.

>>81248540
Arnold is such a shitshow. Bravo /tv/

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>>81248479
Harry Potter can't be a great fantasy film because it's one of the dullest franchises in history. Seriously 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
"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.

SHE(1984) is decent enough fantasy faggotry.

Don't mess around with NORK.

>>81248057
I will never not associate this movie with fingering my ex girlfriend on her basement couch behind her boyfriend's back when she was home from Wellesley on break.

She fucking loved Neil Gaiman.

I couldn't stand any of it.

She was tight as a vice though, and once we figured out how to get it in, she couldn't get enough of my cock, and we ended up having sexual chemistry that to this day rivals anything I've had with any other woman since.

So I tolerated the Neil Gaiman stupidity because I genuinely enjoyed any opportunity to play the "what face/noise can I make Emily make tonight" game. That, honestly, never got old. Those were the days, such simpler times.

>>81239804
I would rather see his George Washington crossing the Delaware river Civil War Kino.

>>81248564
I'm flattered.

But seriously, people far more qualified than I have begun to re-evaluate Conan as a piece of high art, a masterwork of visual storytelling.

It is literally kino in it's purest form, and you're a fucking pleb if you don't see it.

>>81248605
Found the autist they are all great no matter how many times you post your shitpost

We need a Berserk movie.

>>81248848
It's shitty go watch pacific rim again and michael bay.

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>>81248479
This

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>>81249013
this

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was it unironic legit kino?

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>>81246527
Destroyer is a solid fantasy adventure movie though. Also, Wilt Chamberlain looked fucking awesome.

Speaking of which, how come black guys were so much more awesome in the 70s/80s? They didn't look or act like dindus, but were instead actually dignified and proper badasses?

Warcraft was fun, or at least a lot better than most recent "fantasy" movies.

>>81239577
dragonheart you plebs

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>>81246169
>Three out of four of those fucking things now have grown in popularity and all I hear is shit about how they need to be changed for one reason or another to make someone feel included.

>>81249677
dubs of truth

>>81247035
your moral dilemma won't bring the tiger back

>>81249400
the acting is pretty fucking hammed up for most of the movie, and the story/pacing gets pretty jumbled in the second act.

but it looks fucking beautiful and is pretty damn faithful to the source material

>>81249557
golden period between the civil rights movement and the crack epidemic

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>>81249557
Love both the films

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>>81250267

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>>81250347

The Neverending Story, Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Labyrinth are the only fantasy films anybody needs.

>>81249677

Oh shit that was a good one. That final battle was so climactic.

>>81245780
I had a lot of fun as a kid, so it was ok.

It's capeshit meets fantasy, but I think Hellboy should still count.

>>81249557
>>81250267
>>81250347

You think he fucked her?
Not that it has anything to do with the whole "BLACKED" meme. Just because it's Wilt THE STILT fucking Chamberlain.

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>>81248531
Epic :DD

>>81247035
Are you a vegan?

>>81245759
Can't believe I forgot Willow.
>>81246642
Your post - SHIT
>>81249715
>>81249677
I had dubs hours ago AND I mentioned Dragonheart.
>>81250753
Maybe, being Wilt, although I think she was underaged then so he might've been watched around her (and she might've been too dumb and naive).
>>81248479
Harry Potter books were shit, and the movies mediocre at best. Take a lap.

>>81244540
Sword in The Stone? More like drumstick in the bucket of KFC

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>>81249400
that looks gorgeous

i wish they start making fantasy movies with that "classic" fantasy aesthetic again

im so sick and tired of fantasy settings trying to look "unique". So called "unique" settings are so common and "classic" ones so old and forgotten and obscure, that to me the classic ones are in fact the unique ones.

i want for once a fantasy film with shining armor and men in tights fighting trolls and ogres and orcs and shit, and princesses and medieval gothic towers, and i want them all to have medieval hairstyles like lord farquad in shrek, none of that lame ass "gritty" modernist garbage, where they all wear leather suits with dark colors and have buzzcuts and that kind of stuff

i mean you guys get me or am i not making any sense? i think what i want only exists in parodies and satire like shrek

>>81251065
The Neverending Story my man

>>81246573
>dat Tangerine Dream soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH8te9Wvi-c

>>81240169
It's on HBO if you subscribe.

>>81251787
I get you anon, grittiness can become tiresome quickly.

>>81241252
>Inbred
>His mom probably sexually services him

>>81239577
Because you've watched around 20 movies in your life.

>>81249400
yes

>>81244540
lol

>>81248535
wow

>>81244540

charlie hunnam is such a garbage actor

>>81246169
Agreed. Normies ruined ASOIAF already. At least Dune is still safe.

>>81239618
Fellowship, Excalibur, and Conan is the holy trifectia of fantasy kino.

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I'll just leave this here.

>>81251787
Totally. Everything is so goddamn dark all the time, literally. At some point subverting the "knight in shining armor" trope stops being subversion when it's being done in every film for a decade or more. But I also like Western films and apparently no one in the world gives two shits about those anymore so w/e.

>>81242056
>strong independent women, ill-fitted minorities and purposeless action it just feels wrong and becomes pointless
>he didn't like Valeria or Zula
autistic turbofag

>>81239618
/thread.

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This one should be considered a classic t b h

>>81250778
fuck no, i need meat to get burly
but i still cant movie knowing that the tiger constantly on screen is being poisoned to death

>>81249730
whatever, i dont have to justify myself to some fat nerd

>>81248426
fuck you