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<blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 7731157" data-attributes="member: 27252"><p>The <strong>Lord of the Rings Trilogy</strong> is pretty much perfect for me, and collectively counting them as one massive epic, I'd actually list them in my personal top 10 movies of all time (every time I repeat watch, I'm always totally sucked back in). </p><p></p><p><strong>Excalibur</strong> is more low key and adult orientated in an arthouse way, but I'd also rank it really highly. Ditto <strong>Jason and the Argonauts</strong>. <strong>Beowolf</strong> and <strong>300</strong> work effectively enough, the <strong>Warcraft</strong> movie wasn't as dumb as some people made it out to be, and the first <strong>Conan: The Barbarian</strong> movie can be fun. </p><p></p><p><strong>The Princess Bride</strong> and <strong>Stardust</strong> are perfectly fine as family orientated fantasy comedies, (<strong>The Gamers: Darkness Rising</strong> is also very funny) and I'd probably find some space for wuxia movies like <strong>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</strong> or <strong>Journey to the West</strong> too. </p><p></p><p>Now, I could list in <strong>The Hobbit </strong>movie series too, but this for me is an interesting case. It's actually a really good model for a potential D&D movie <em>so long as you forget that its actually supposed to be based on the book</em>. As a straight adaptation it's seriously flawed, and for me, doesn't work well as a set of prequels either really (it detracts from the qualities of LotR in my mind). I don't think it should have attempted to be a trilogy. Yet, in certain scenes its fully engaging and the world it creates on screen is rich, with some good character acting. It's this sort of thing I'd like to see in any D&D movie, without all the Bilbo baggage.</p><p></p><p>Also, with regards to the latest Star Wars movie, I don't think it's perfect by any measure, but the ways some fans have reacted to it, just because it's confounded their expectations, actually borders on being offensive to me. </p><p></p><p>If these guys were around when Empire Strikes Back originally came out, they'd be ranting about Yoda being a short green alien puppet who can't speak in grammatically correct English rather than being a great warrior ("wars do not make one great"), Luke being a petulant brat, Han being a fool to trust Lando, the weird love triangle of Hans/Leia/Luke, the drawn out cat and mouse nature of the plot, Hans getting frozen, the weak character development of Boba Fett, Luke getting his hand cut off and finding out that Darth Vader was his father...... </p><p></p><p>This is the same basic reaction we are getting about The Last Jedi. Just because a movie's plot isn't what you expected doesn't make it a bad movie. </p><p></p><p>(Is all I have to say about that...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TrippyHippy, post: 7731157, member: 27252"] The [B]Lord of the Rings Trilogy[/B] is pretty much perfect for me, and collectively counting them as one massive epic, I'd actually list them in my personal top 10 movies of all time (every time I repeat watch, I'm always totally sucked back in). [B]Excalibur[/B] is more low key and adult orientated in an arthouse way, but I'd also rank it really highly. Ditto [B]Jason and the Argonauts[/B]. [B]Beowolf[/B] and [B]300[/B] work effectively enough, the [B]Warcraft[/B] movie wasn't as dumb as some people made it out to be, and the first [B]Conan: The Barbarian[/B] movie can be fun. [B]The Princess Bride[/B] and [B]Stardust[/B] are perfectly fine as family orientated fantasy comedies, ([B]The Gamers: Darkness Rising[/B] is also very funny) and I'd probably find some space for wuxia movies like [B]Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon[/B] or [B]Journey to the West[/B] too. Now, I could list in [B]The Hobbit [/B]movie series too, but this for me is an interesting case. It's actually a really good model for a potential D&D movie [I]so long as you forget that its actually supposed to be based on the book[/I]. As a straight adaptation it's seriously flawed, and for me, doesn't work well as a set of prequels either really (it detracts from the qualities of LotR in my mind). I don't think it should have attempted to be a trilogy. Yet, in certain scenes its fully engaging and the world it creates on screen is rich, with some good character acting. It's this sort of thing I'd like to see in any D&D movie, without all the Bilbo baggage. Also, with regards to the latest Star Wars movie, I don't think it's perfect by any measure, but the ways some fans have reacted to it, just because it's confounded their expectations, actually borders on being offensive to me. If these guys were around when Empire Strikes Back originally came out, they'd be ranting about Yoda being a short green alien puppet who can't speak in grammatically correct English rather than being a great warrior ("wars do not make one great"), Luke being a petulant brat, Han being a fool to trust Lando, the weird love triangle of Hans/Leia/Luke, the drawn out cat and mouse nature of the plot, Hans getting frozen, the weak character development of Boba Fett, Luke getting his hand cut off and finding out that Darth Vader was his father...... This is the same basic reaction we are getting about The Last Jedi. Just because a movie's plot isn't what you expected doesn't make it a bad movie. (Is all I have to say about that...) [/QUOTE]
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