Fantasy Films

Fantasy

Author George R.R. Martin has a rundown of the top 10 Fantasy films of all time....in his opinion, at The Daily Beast.  Keep in mind this is his stuff....I question, for example, why there is no Harry Potter film among these.  Ladyhawke better than the earliest Potter flicks??  I mean, have you heard the soundtrack?  Dragonslayer is here, but no one ever seems to think of the action packed Reign of Fire as a fantasy film.  Dark City a fantasy film??  It's a space alien film--it's really strays into the realm of pure horror, much like R. Scott's Alien.  I see there is a mention of various Arthurian films, but none of other poetic epics that have recently found themselves all the rage of film makers, like, for example Beowulf.  Of all the recent film strolls into Viking epics, Icelandic filmmaker Sturla Gunnarson's Beowulf and Grendel, starring Stellan Scarsgård, Ingvar Sigur∂sson, Sarah Polley and  Gerard Butler (who is "Creedy" in Reign of Fire),  is rock solid.  Is it too "realistic" to be considered "fantasy"?   Even IMDb doesn't list it so.  Yet there is a sea hag, plain a day, in it.  In any case to each there own.  It's still a fun read.






Of course nothing beats the silliness below for me personally: