Captain Tagon
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Rackhir said:
Good deal. I'll throw that in my Netflix Queue for once I finish up watching Alias and Babylon 5.
Where are all the fantasy movies?
Good deal. I'll throw that in my Netflix Queue for once I finish up watching Alias and Babylon 5.
Desdichado
Hero
Not bad, especially if your expectations around it are low.Captain Tagon said:
It got a lot worse word of mouth than was deserved, though. As a straight-up S&S but set in space flick, I can see how that works.
Gentlegamer
Adventurer
That EN World thread is where I brought up the "well-wrought tale" . . .Captain Tagon said:
Captain Tagon
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Gentlegamer said:
Well your posting ability has mystified my google-fu. I bow to you.
Warrior Poet
Explorer
My experience on leaving the theater was, "That was kind of fun, but I don't need to see any more movies related to this franchise."Captain Tagon said:
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Warrior Poet
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Agreed. I'd get some unknown actors ('course, that's what I always say) and really do it up right: Sheelba, Ningauble, sinking lands, Gods of Lankhmar, Issek, cold women, tower of thieves, the works.Joshua Dyal said:
I'm not a fan of Feist's writing, so my opinion isn't very kind, but those books read like a recap of the previous week's D&D game in someone's homebrew. There are top-quality story hours on these boards written better than those books. But, maybe they'd make decent movies. :\buzz said:
Or as coasters.buzz said:
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Jhamin
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Captain Tagon said:
The main thing is that it wasn't Pitch Black 2. I saw Pitch Black as a character drama with a disaster setting. CoRiddick did not have alot of these elements.
Chronicles of Riddick was a S&S/Barbiarian flick set in outer space. On that level, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Kid Charlemagne
I am the Very Model of a Modern Moderator
It sounds like Swords & Sorcery can be defined as "bad fantasy."
It's not a definition that I can agree with, but it seems the popular choice. For my money LoTR is certainly S&S, though of a high level of quailty.
On another note, I think Lankhmar would work awesomely as a HBO or Showtime series. That gives you the chance to build the characters, and to have some of the R-rated elements necessary to do the stories justice. But that comes from the guy who thought the only way to do LoTR was as a big-budget mini-series...
It's not a definition that I can agree with, but it seems the popular choice. For my money LoTR is certainly S&S, though of a high level of quailty.
On another note, I think Lankhmar would work awesomely as a HBO or Showtime series. That gives you the chance to build the characters, and to have some of the R-rated elements necessary to do the stories justice. But that comes from the guy who thought the only way to do LoTR was as a big-budget mini-series...
Desdichado
Hero
Kid Charlemagne said:
Huh? What sounds like that? How are you basing that?LotR lacks the essential elements that define S&S as separate from Heroic Fantasy, so it could never be S&S.Kid Charlemagne said:
Captain Tagon
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Joshua Dyal said:
That's probably all from me as the biggest and most famous S&S is Conan and I really don't like Conan at all so there is something of a bias there when I talk about S&S.
