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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Kuntz" data-source="post: 8402255" data-attributes="member: 7015759"><p>It isn't that the film industry now lacks cogent examples of good Fantasy stories, it's because they conflate D&amp;Ds rise as a game as other than influenced by serious Fantasy, a similar attitude that was defaulted to in the past before D&amp;D's rise. Myth, legend, folklore, literature, poetry, that's all fine for indexing Fantasy, but it appears that the film industry just can't wrap their collective minds around that Fantasy movies can have a great story as well, and moreso when it has been forwarded through the mostly cultural lens of a &quot;game&quot;. In D&amp;D's case they appear to be defaulting to &quot;light-heartedness&quot; once again, but the cards as finally dealt will tell. Before the advent of LotR we had IMO the best Fantasy film in Jason and the Argonauts, but even that was overlooked and we got a lot of pablum in between then and now.&nbsp; If LotR, Harry Potter and GoT haven't permanently moved that dial I don't foresee what will.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Rob Kuntz, post: 8402255, member: 7015759"] It isn't that the film industry now lacks cogent examples of good Fantasy stories, it's because they conflate D&Ds rise as a game as other than influenced by serious Fantasy, a similar attitude that was defaulted to in the past before D&D's rise. Myth, legend, folklore, literature, poetry, that's all fine for indexing Fantasy, but it appears that the film industry just can't wrap their collective minds around that Fantasy movies can have a great story as well, and moreso when it has been forwarded through the mostly cultural lens of a "game". In D&D's case they appear to be defaulting to "light-heartedness" once again, but the cards as finally dealt will tell. Before the advent of LotR we had IMO the best Fantasy film in Jason and the Argonauts, but even that was overlooked and we got a lot of pablum in between then and now. If LotR, Harry Potter and GoT haven't permanently moved that dial I don't foresee what will. [/QUOTE]

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