What was the best fantasy film before LOTR?
What was the best fantasy film after LOTR?
>>70396191
Before: Star Wars
After: Still LOTR
>>70396191
>Before
Willow is excellent.
>After
Who cares?
Disregarding Star Wars id say Krull. Willow is good too. Conan is also great.
Best fantasy after LOTR is LOTR obviously.
>>70396191
>What was the best fantasy film before LOTR
Excalibur
>>70396191
>What was the best fantasy film before LOTR?
Who cares
>What was the best fantasy film after LOTR?
Warcraft
the princess bride
honestly i can't think of any great ones since LOTR. i guess it would have to be one of the harry potters.
willow and conan are excellent choices of course
Not counting animated.
>Before
Willow probably. Can't really think of many worthwhile fantasy movies. Hell can't think of many apart from LOTR that are worthwhile period, the fantasy movie genre has really been quite shared.
>After
Stardust or Pan's Labyrinth, if that counts as fantasy.
Before: Legend
After: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
>>70396191
>before
Conan
>after
Hobbit, although it's bad
To this day nothing holds a candle to LOTR
Before: Dragonslayer or Excalibur
After: Black Death
>>70396191
Warcraft according to german reviews
>>70397279
>hobbit
>best fantasy film after LOTR
The only thing the hobbit excelled at was being shit.
>>70397636
Alfrid is the key to all of this
ITT FUCKING PLEBSyou are alright
>>70397554
>>70397717
I wouldn't even really consider Black Death to be a "fantasy" film, just a medieval one, but it does have awitch who pulls part of her face off and casts a spell, so whatever.
I watched Excalibur for the first time probably last year and it's since become one of my favorite movies.
Before: Conan or Excalibur
After: Literally fuckall
>>70396503
>Warcraft
WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE
>>70396451
>>70397890
>>70397946
my niggas
>>70396503
>Warcraft
>>70397636
It's the only fantasy film that came out after LOTR.
How about you give us your "best after LOTR" ?
>>70398114
>replying to b8
there was really only Conan
Excalibur being based on a legend i wouldnt really count as fantasy.
>>70396191
>before
The Never Ending Story
>after
Pan's Labyrinth
>after
GAME OF THRONES
>>70398356
The fantasy is the worst thing about GoT though.
willow
fury road
I can't even imagine the world before LotR where there wasn't a definitive excellent fantasy movie
>>70398332
>sorcery and magic
>not fantasy
Even if it is a legend, it's presented in as a mythical fantasy
>>70396191
it's now " for over 75 years "
>>70398389
Fury road is post apocalyptic / diesel punk
>>70398332
>legend of fucking King Arthur
>not fantasy
Nigga it's THE fantasy
jesus this board
>>70398563
>starring: robert downhere jr. as mario
kek
Post yfw you'll see a shitty remake of LOTR in your lifetime
>>70398054
Me when anybody puts down Excalibur.
>>70398674
>Laverne Cox as Aragorn
>>70398588
That movie is bad, really bad.
The girl is hot as fuck, Deathdealer is cool but absolutely unused. Story is rushed.
Damn shame, cause the art is good.
LOTR the animated movie is better choice altought it's also bad. It had a special place in my heart as a kid, but it aged bad.
If you dont say Conan for before you are completely fucking retarded
>>70398674
>>70398836
Gimli without beard like dwarves in Hobbit
Transgenders, Blacks, Asians and other minorities cast in numerous roles including lead ones
>>70398674
I fucking doubt it. I'd be fine if it was animated though.
>>70396191
Before: Willow
After: American sniper
Before: Legend
After: Still LOTR really. Never got the same feels from what I got from LOTR for anything else
>>70396309
>Willow is excellent.
mah nigga!
Probably the original Conan, or "The Beastmaster"
>>70396191
before:Conan
after:i honestly dont know..
For fuck sake, everyone posted conan, why do i check only OPs post
OP is always an faggot
>>70398856
this type of pic is probably most overused setup in fantasy(1970-2000), muscle guy with almost naked lady at his knee, he has some falusoid weapon, and hordes of enemies are coming.
I honestly think even Star Wars has one.
>>70399200
A horrible prophecy has been fortold
>>70399880
Ghibli studio animated LOTR, all the stuff from books.
Budget: 10^9 $
Release date: 2030
It would take to animate it as long as it did to write it. Probably longer
There are LITERALLY no good fantasy films besides Lord of the Rings (and by fantasy I mean medieval fantasy).
Had anyone saw The Labyrint with David Bowie,
I remember it as a kid, it was kinda dark fantasy?!
but conan is still better , also animated LOTR had better Orc March song
>>70401112
>quads off by one
Axe is not a phallusoid weapon, it cleaves, it doesn't penetrate per se
>>70396191
>Before
Conan The Barbarian
>After
Still Conan
>>70396191
GOT
>>70398674
>starring an all-female cast
>Emma Watson as Aragorna
>Amy Schumer as Legolass
>Leslie Jones as Gimlia
>John Boyega as Armen (elf prince and Aragorna's love interest)
>Morgan Freeman as Gandalf
>Adam Driver as Saruman
Directed by JJ Abrams, coming summer of 2025
Before: Heart of the Dragon
After: Stardust.
Before: Dragonslayer.
After: Nothing yet has rivaled LOTR.
>>70396191
LEGEND DC IS STILL GOSU FANTASY.
>>70396191
excalibur
nothing really
>>70396292
>inb4 redditors crying "b-but SW is science fiction"
No you fuckers its not. Its fantasy in space.
Before: lotr animated
After: Dungeons and Dragons
>>70402364
>Dungeons & Dragons (2000) - IMDb
nice one retard
>>70401408
>morgan freeman
>alive in 2025
Don't kid yourself man
>>70398332
It is literally that which all modern western fantasy is based upon.
Nigga you dumb.
>>70402434
I like dragonheart
>>70401408
>legolass
kek
>>70396309
>Willow
Medieval Star Wars?
> Before
Thundercats
> After
Thundercats
>>70398856
Yeah, I watched it recently and the entire final act is anticlimactic as fuck. Every attempt to stop the ice-faggot fails and then Deathdealer just goes in and singlehandedly slaughters everyone with an axe.
I feel like the movie is so stupidly simple it's almost deep.
>>70398856
>LOTR the animated movie is better choice altought it's also bad.
I like the beginning
>>70397279
>Defending the Hobbit
k
>>70403560
What videogame is this from?
>>70403649
early alpha of sotc
>>70396191
>What was the best fantasy film before LOTR?
Dragonslayer
>What was the best fantasy film after LOTR?
Dragonslayer
>>70396191
>before
Conan
>after
Still Conan
When the fuck is arnold going to finish his new conan movie.
I want to see the old fucker slicing people with giant swords and shit.
>>70396191
before: Excalibur
after: Warcraft
>>70398674
You mean shittier than the last one?
>>70403649
>actual image from Desolation of Smaug
does it only have to be features? because that black angel short film is pretty fucking cool
>>70398674
Feels like the LOTR films were made just in time.
However I still can't get over how much the first film overshadows the second and third films.
>>70396191
Before: Conan The Barbarian
After: ???
>>70403649
Dynasty Warriors 6
>>70398356
(farts)
Fantasy is a horrible genre anyway
It's perfectly suited for children's novels and video games, but not in movies. They need something more than the same old fantasy tripes over and over and over again
This is why Warcraft will fail. We already know what it's about. Knights in shining armor and the orcish muh people in big trouble are going to overcome the bad guys in the end.
>>70400106
underrated post
>>70400213
>>70402171
This. I nominate Legend as well. Absolutely great film.
>>70396532
my nigga
Before: Army of Darkness
After: ???
>>70402253
>fantasy in space
so, science fiction?
>>70403979
Just watched it. Explain it to me, please. I genuinely didn't get any of the symbolism in it.
>>70405708
I don't think you know what science fiction means.
>>70396451
Fuck yes.LOOK INTO THE EYES OF THE DRAGON AND DESPAIR
>>70401408
>morgan freeman
>not eddie murphy
one job anon
>>70396191
>Before
Excalibur
>After
TBA still
>>70406469
>WELL WHAT IS IT
>>70398588
>>70398856
>>70403470
Fire and Ice is great. It doesn't need a good story or good speech (although it would be better with those) it is an amazing movie with amazing animation and atmosphere.
>>70406338
>>70406338
>THE WORDS SAY THE WORDS
Has there ever been a more hype sequence before a battle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1MuvvS_xSw
Before: Star Wars for sure.
After: Stardust/SW:VII
>>70406529
>Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha
80s fantasy is the fucking worst.
>>70409099
reddit is the fucking worst.
>>70406718
Seconding Stardust.
Top tier shit right there.
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throwing this one in
>>70409274
>Sam Neil
>James Earl Jones
where can I watch this?
Better than LotR 2bh.
>>70409274
what a ridiculously good cast, pity that means nothing.
>>70405687
Came here to post this
>>70409345
kat. quality ain't great though. it has cheesy 90s tv show computer effects so you probably don't want it too high fidelity anyway.
>>70404234
are you daft?
>>70398674
While I share many of these other posters' fear of them ruining LOTR, it honestly won't happen.
Thematically LOTR espouses what you might call 'Aryan' values, such as honor, courage and the will to resist invasion. If you tried to pick away everything good and wholesome from the trilogy in order to create a more 'progressive' version there would be practically nothing left.
>>70410197
>thinking the current trend will last for more than 15 years
Nice one my friend.
>>70410197
Neverending Story deserves a nod.
>>70410197
>honor, courage and the will to resist invasion
These are values espoused by countless cultures you fucknut.
>>70410399
Not in ours. Not anymore.
Just take a look at the Warcraft movie. The entire point is that we shouldn't fight back the invading horde, but instead should forgive them every aggression and be best friends forever.
What sword and sorceries movies actually have a TON of sorcery instead of just 99% sword with 1% mage casting shitty spell and dieing in 1 hit to a sword?
![Excalibur.1981.1080p.BluRay.x264.anoXmous_.mp4_snapshot_02.02.04_[2015.05.26_21.11.24].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/HmYDZz1.jpg "Excalibur.1981.1080p.BluRay.x264.anoXmous_.mp4_snapshot_02.02.04_[2015.05.26_21.11.24].jpg")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE9fN89Jc0Y
>Are you just a dream, Merlin?
>>70399880
>>70401160
Oh fuck, son.
>LOTR Animated
>200 episodes
>entire episodes where they're just walking through spooky landscapes and singing to get their spirits up
>incredibly detailed and atmospheric drawings throughout
>only Bombadil excluded because fags who overemphasize his importance have to learn that they're faggots looking for something to complain about
>>70411048
Which dnd game is this?
>>70398588
Wizards is Ralph Bakshi's best fantasy film.
>>70411664
>Must watch this video on youtube
No thanks jewtube
>>70396191
>Before
Conan and I personally really like the Dark Crystal.
>After
Really none that comes to mind. I liked that Beowulf movie I guess, but other than that all we've been getting shitty adaptions of fantasy tween books.
Has /tv/ ever done a legit critical analysis into why the trifecta of fantasykino here is ALWAYS Conan Excalibur and LOTR? What qualities do those films have that put them so far above everything else?
>>70412121
Conan, at least, was written and directed by John Milius. It took our expectations of traditionalist sword and sorcery fiction so prevalent in the rest of the fantasy genre and gave it depth, meaning, and drive. The Riddle of Steel, while fairly simple, is still executed very well with regards to the main character's coming to understand it over the course of the film.
>>70412121
They're the only films that actually "got" it. The bombastic hyper masculinity of Conan, the honorable extravagance of Excalibur and the epicness of Lotr all get one thing in common, they're simplistic. Black and white themes, clear cut heroes and villains and deeply personal moments. It's all very easy to understand and deal with pretty basic human emotion, but the epic cinematography and scores raise them above and beyond.
Plus they're not catering to immaturity and modernity, so everything feels pretty alien. Star Wars got this down as well, great masculine simplicity. Very traditionalist films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exjwsyN4PPQ
>>70402171
this, but only tangerine dream version.
>>70403560
Why not? First 2 movies was pretty nice with comfy spirit of adventure and travel. A lot of great scenery and decorations. High fells of Rhudaur was a great moment.
>>70397554
Dragonslayer was so amazing every time I watched it when I was little. I just remember being in awe when the dragon finally appeared. I'm scared to rewatch it now that I'm older because I'm afraid it will ruin my memory of it
>>70396845
>>70400213
>>70402171
>>70405485
>Legend
Still the GOAT fantasy film
>>70412634
Fuck the Tangerine Dream version, the pacing is shit and the score doesn't fit the film at all. It's supposed a dark fairy tale, not a 90 minute music video. It was literally forced on Ridley by the studio
>>70396191
before was conan
after was conan
Before - pic related
After - TBA
>>70415293
The other night I rewatched this for the first time since it came out. Hot damn what a piece of shit
>>70396309
The love potion parts kills it if you watch it as an adult.
>>70405708
no it's space fantasy
There is nothing """scientific"""" about it
![latest[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bo0Eu9s.jpg "latest[2].jpg")
>>70396309
I'm not looking forward to the day that Disney realizes they have to rights to it
>>70415402
that, and all of the film's attempts at humor which were only funny when I was 10
Honestly it's pretty shit except for the special effects and Kilmer's performance
Before: Excalibur
After: I can't think of anything. Warcraft?
Before: Dark Crystal
After: Pan's Labyrinth
>>70396191
>What was the best fantasy film before LOTR?
Star Wars (1977)
>What was the best fantasy film after LOTR?
Legitimately having a lot of trouble here. My first instinct was the first Pirates of the Caribbean film but that was released a couple of months before RotK.
Maybe the first Hellboy? Or if you're allowing animated films, then Howl's Moving Castle.
>>70405708
It's wizards, castles, princesses, magic and swords.
Sticking it in space doesn't change it from fantasy to sci-fi.
Space is a setting, not a genre.
Before: Legend
After: Legend - The Director's Cut
