D&D General Best on screen adaptation of D&D

[Sacrosanct]

If you had to pick your top three movies/TV shows that emulate the D&D experience the most (and are also enjoyable to watch), what would they be? I limited the choices to purely fantasy era, even though movie like Ice Pirates, Aliens, or others would also fit. But due to having too many options, I want to limit them to medieval-esque fantasy only.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Raunalyn]

I'd add another.

LadyHawk. Another good one, if only because of the incomparable Tim Curry, is Legend.

 

[toucanbuzz]

Many of these would be solid, albeit a bit dated and corny by today's standards. Still...

Willow. Adventuring party + quest to remove magic curse + spells + brownies + BBEG sorceress. Sounds pretty D&D.

Princess Bride. Classic adventuring party, each with elaborate backgrounds tied to the campaign setting (more fleshed out in the novel) + classic giant rat monsters + Raise Dead spell + great use of the Deception Charisma skill, multiple times, near the end.

Witcher. Although largely solo adventuring, we've got pretty much everything you could want for a D&D setting. Monsters + magic + curses + overwhelming BBEG + a complex story that requires you to pay attention or miss out.

And for anyone who votes for the 2000 D&D movie...may whatever gods you pray to have mercy on your soul. At a whopping 10% positive critic and 20% viewer on Rotten Tomatoes, it falls in many lists for one of the worst movies of all time. I hate it...so much...

 

[Sacrosanct]

I'd add another.

LadyHawk. Another good one, if only because of the incomparable Tim Curry, is Legend.

Added. And I can't believe I forgot that one. I know I forgot a few, but I shouldn't have forgotten THAT one.

 

[Sacrosanct]

And for anyone who votes for the 2000 D&D movie...may whatever gods you pray to have mercy on your soul. At a whopping 10% positive critic and 20% viewer on Rotten Tomatoes, it falls in many lists for one of the worst movies of all time. I hate it...so much...

I think for official D&D licensed movies, Wrath of the Dragon God was the best. It wasn't a good movie, but it was a lot better than the official title movie.

 

[Nagol]

No love for Krull?

 

[lowkey13]

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[Garthanos]

Excalibur,
LOTR
Witcher
LadyHawke
and