List by Ryan
Sword & Sorcery (recommendations needed!)
Recommend some medieval sword & sorcery movies that are actually good. Guilty pleasures are acceptable as well. :)
Recommend some medieval sword & sorcery movies that are actually good. Guilty pleasures are acceptable as well. :)
MIGHT I RECOMMEND KRULL?
Krull is so bad it's good! Or is that the other way round? Or is it just really good. Maybe it's all of the above.....
Any more that are actually good, or is this genre really that dry?
Excalibur
Ladyhawke
Princess Bride (if it counts)
It hasn't aged brilliantly but I also have a soft spot for Flight of the Dragons.
A couple more:
Siegfried (1924)
Ruslan and Ludmila (1972)
Hard to be a God (1989) - not great but Werner Herzog in a freaky wig makes it worth a watch.
I'll check them out. Thanks!
"Any more that are actually good, or is this genre really that dry?"
I don't think the genre is dry, is just that is hard to measure this kind of movies by Quality (acting, direction, photography, etc).
A good Fantasy movie needs: A great lead actor/actress, good villian, a solid second act, great music and a true sense of Adventure. Like Conan the Barbarian.
I do recomend Krull and if you are into, Ronal The Barbarian.
A good fantasy movie needs what a good comedy or romance or drama needs...fundamental competence.
Every movie begins on paper, and going by the merits that you judge a screenplay by, in terms of plotting and character development and stakes and goals and urgency and reversals and dialogue and actions and relationships and subtext and subplots and all the stuff that is universal to practically every narrative movie ever made, you can make any genre of film you want and it will be good. Or at the very least, not bad.
So...why can't these types of movies be *good* on their own merit? Some are, but not many.
There is no such thing as the 'it's only a _____ movie' excuse. That's a cop out for 'they made a bad movie'. All types of movies can be good. Every one lines up at the same starting line - the screenplay. It's up to the film-makers to put forth the effort to make something of the story at that point, but so few in this genre have.
Why?
Excalibur from 1981 is a great movie. If you have not seen it,Find it and enjoy
Your request for: "actually good" films makes this category a little tougher for me. :-)
I would second(third) "Ladyhawke" "Legends" and "Excaliber".
You could try "Voyage of Sinbad" (middle one of the series)
Check out:"Jason and The Argonauts" or "Prince of Persia"
Maybe "First Knight"? or "Prince Valiant".?
How about "The Sorcerer's Aprentice" . Can you stand Nick Cage?
I enjoyed quite a few of the suggestions from the others!