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Hey all, let's share some fantasy movies that have you thinking of gaming while/after you watch them. I will put my list below. I have heard some terrible things about some of them, but I love them all, even today.
Beastmaster (the first)
Ladyhawke (The scene where he is sword fighting and throws his dagger, clasic)
Krull (classic D&D themes there)
Willow
Conan
Clash of the Titans (The original, the new one ws just a generic action movie to me)
Hawk the Slayer
Dragon (~2000 movie that is low budget but not bad)
For low budget slock:
Deathstalker
Gor
Barbarian Queen
Vampire Hunter D
Shogun Assassin
Ninja Scroll
Seven Voyages of Sinbad
Dragon Slayer
hehe am all old school
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I have to agree with some of these.
Beast master {freaking classic}
Ladyhawk {also classic and must watch}
Willow
Conan
Clash of the titans
dragon slayer
sinbad
Stardust{ fantastic }
I would add in no order
300
Jason and the Argonauts
Troy
The Princess Bride
How to train your dragon
Labyrinth
Monty Python and the Holy Grail [yep comic but makes me wanna play)
The Dark Crystal
Treasure planet
Pirates of the Caribbean {all of em}
Another one
Reign of fire
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A Flight of Dragons
Probably one of the most influential movies of all time for me.
The idea that logic and rational thinking will allow you to vanquish the BBEG but also shut you away from the world whence that BBEG came from left a huge impression in the child that I was... even to this day.
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Caligula. The uncensored version, of course.
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When people say "Conan," I assume they're referring to the 1982 Conan the Barbarian movie. I never saw it. (It's one of the many, many movies on my "to-see" list, but so low on that list that I'll probably never get around to it. :( ) But once, I happened to catch Conan the Destroyer on TV, and it gave me an urge to play an RPG like I had never felt before.
And yeah, I remember seeing A Flight of Dragons, while I was running my first successful D&D campaign ever. I felt that if I ever got around to creating a pantheon for my D&D world at that time, I would make it consist of 4 gods, based on the 4 magic brothers.
And yeah, at that time I thought that the idea of denying magic giving you the ability to defeat it was neat. But later I dismissed the idea. If defeating magic is that easy, EVERYONE would do it, and that would be that. (And presumably, in the "Flight of Dragons" story, many people were denying magic, as evidenced by the diminishing power of the brothers.)
Alot of good movies, and anime mentioned.
Here is a few I would like to add to the list.
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Rune Soldier
Prince of Persia
Beowolf
300
Flesh and Blood
Brotherhood of the Wolf
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Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King
the Hobbit (cartoon)
Fire and Ice
Gladiator
Ironclad
1st Conan movie
Kingdom of Heaven
Braveheart
Centurion
The Eagle
Highlander
Rob Roy
Robin Hood with Errol Flynn
Captain Blood with Errol Flynn
All 4 PotC
Beowulf and Grendel
Ivanhoe original and remake with Steven Waddington
The Vikings
13th Warrior
Excalibur
King Arthur
Dark Crystal
Triston and Isolde
Outlander
Pathfinder
How to train your dragon
The Sinbad movies like the one with Patrick Wayne and Jane Seymour
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Red Sonja is the movie that got me to buy the D&D Red Box.
Other films that I consider important:
And I know I am forgetting at least a dozen or more titles.
Animated Films
There are so many that do & I'll forget many, & some of these are not just medieval fantasy, but here I go:
-THIRTEENTH WARRIOR - Such a classic
-Red Sonja - So bad it's good. & the sets & costumes are out of this world amazing. Pity they're the beautiful frame for a (fun) mess of a film.
-Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - the weirder, better, sequel. ("To the moon, Charlotte"..)
-Seven Voyages of Sinbad
-Willow
-The first Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (for some reason the other two don't get me all Pathfinder-y like this one does)
-The Dark Crystal
-Pitch Black
-Brotherhood of the Wolf
-The first Pirates of the Caribbean (the only good one)
-ALIEN
-The Black Cauldron (though the movie strays quite a bit from the wonderful book)
These:
Ladyhawk
Willow
Conan (both)
Clash of the titans (the original, not the new crappy movie)
dragonslayer
Jason and the Argonauts
The Princess Bride
How to train your dragon
Labyrinth
Monty Python and the Holy Grail "RUN AWAY!"
The Dark Crystal
Pirates of the Caribbean (The Original Only)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
1st Conan movie
Kingdom of Heaven
Braveheart
13th Warrior (THE Movie IMHO)
Dark Crystal
The Never-Ending Story
The Princess Bride (Worth mentioning a second time)
Really? All those movies and no one mentions these?
Monty Python's Life of Brian
The Blood of Heroes
Princess Mononoke
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Mummy
The Name of the Rose
Vampires
Strings
The Amazing Screw-On Head
Wild Hunt
The Ninth Gate
These are more SciFi than Fantasy
Serenity
Johnny Mnemonic
Equilibrium
Bladerunner
Sunshine
Terminator
Logan's Run
12 Monkeys
princess bride
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Really? All those movies and no one mentions these?
The Mummy
Vampires
Makes me want to play Call of Cthulu or some other horror based game
These are more SciFi than Fantasy
Serenity
Johnny Mnemonic
Equilibrium
Bladerunner
Sunshine
Terminator
Logan's Run
12 Monkeys
Makes me want to play a Sci-Fi based game not a fantasy based game
Princess Mononoke
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
These as well as:
Hero (the Jet Li movie)House of Flying Daggers
3 Kingdoms
The Warriors
Battle of the Warriors
(ok any Andy Lau movie)
300
all make me want to play Exalted. God I miss those days when I played that game regularly.
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Pulp Fiction
Oh my couatl how could I forget Serenity & Princess Mononoke?!?!?!
In our circle of friends, the Princess Bride and Army of Darkness are required gamer movies. You can't game till you've seen them both, and both never fail to put us in the mood to game.
In our circle of friends, the Princess Bride and Army of Darkness are required gamer movies. You can't game till you've seen them both, and both never fail to put us in the mood to game.
Interestingly enough I truly hate the Princess Bride due to overexposure during high school. Monty Python almost met the same fate, but fortunately my friends discovered MST3K just before I reached critical mass and so overexposure was avoided. Big fan of Army of Darkness, however.
In our circle of friends, the Princess Bride and Army of Darkness are required gamer movies. You can't game till you've seen them both, and both never fail to put us in the mood to game.Interestingly enough I truly hate the Princess Bride due to overexposure during high school. Monty Python almost met the same fate, but fortunately my friends discovered MST3K just before I reached critical mass and so overexposure was avoided. Big fan of Army of Darkness, however.
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail is our #3 movie :p I admit, not a big fan of the rest of the Monty Python stuff. I know what you mean about overexposure; I watched Princess Bride once or twice when I was younger, and then ignored it until I got to watch it again a few months ago. It's not something I can always watch, but there are few movies that qualify as such. LOTR, yes, probably, so long as I can fast-forward through parts of TT and ROTK to avoid dealing with Frodo. A few anime like Fate/Stay Night or Ghost in the Shell.
Great! Let's all sit down and watch it twenty times in a row!
I think the current record is 5. There was one point in my life I could do the whole Brian Griffin from Family Guy thing where I could quote the movie line-for-freaking-line while sitting there with my eyes glazed over.
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Great! Let's all sit down and watch it twenty times in a row!I think the current record is 5. There was one point in my life I could do the whole Brian Griffin from Family Guy thing where I could quote the movie line-for-freaking-line while sitting there with my eyes glazed over.
I can do that with a few movies, minus the eyes glazed over part. My wife hates it. She refuses to watch a movie more than once, unless it has been so long that she forgets details. Just watched Labyrinth, her copy by the way, for the first time since she got it 8 years ago. Mainly because the kids had not seen it.
First thing that came to mind was Stardust (which I highly recommend, by the way).
+ A million. Love the light fantasy feel of this movie. It was a nice surprise.
So many have already been mentioned already, so this might seem a bit redundant.
Excalibur
Wizards
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
Beastmaster
Sword and Sorcery
Red Sonja
Pirates of the Caribbean (the first one, especially)
Road to El Dorado
Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Dragonslayer
Disney's Aladdin
Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Brotherhood of the Wolf
The Mummy (Brenda Frasier version)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
Hero
Red Wall
Three Kingdoms
Eric the Viking
13th Warrior
Army of Darkness
Ice Man
Blair Witch Project
Paranormal Activity
Sleeping Beauty
Road Warrior
Prince of Persia and the Sands of Time
Avatar: The Last Airbender (the tv series, really. I hated the movie)
These are in no particular order of preference. I could think of more, but I have to run some errands.
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Great! Let's all sit down and watch it twenty times in a row!I think the current record is 5. There was one point in my life I could do the whole Brian Griffin from Family Guy thing where I could quote the movie line-for-freaking-line while sitting there with my eyes glazed over.
I can do that with Star Wars. I've seen it close to 600 times.
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Surprised it has only been mentioned one time so far. But Legend Tom Cruises best movie to date, classic DnD feel.
DANGIT! I was gonna pull that one out, but I get to the end of the thread and the very last post has it. XD When I was younger, I swore that whoever wrote that movie stole the whole idea from The Legend of Zelda. (I was around 5 and couldn't comprehend the fact that two characters could both have swords and shields and be trying to rescue a princess while aided by faeries.)
EDIT: DOH! I missed the first mention of it. Musta' rolled a 1 on that Perception check...
The Last Samurai is a good Cruise movie, too, though. I don't *like* Tom Cruise, but I do give him props for that movie, especially the amount of work he went through to do the action scenes justice. (Ujio rocked his socks, though. XD)
I don't know why people hate on PotC so much. The first movie was probably the best, but I still really like the three sequels. I wish I could create scenarios in my games where loyalties could shift so quickly and carry so much tension, but my players would just kill everyone and be done with it.
Stardust was an excellent call. Great movie, and I admittedly enjoyed the movie more than the book. Robert DiNiro was hilarious.
Not for fantasy reasons, but for action: Taken. Liam Neeson is a BAMF, and just watching him beat on people. I hear the Count of Monte Cristo is good, too.
So many good movies...
Utterly brilliant and beautiful movie, and never fails to spark a desire to play D&D.
Love this movie, wildly underrated, much better than it's rival Pan's Labyrinth and it's in English.
Non-movie, epic series...
I think everything else that I would've mentioned, has been already.
To add to all that's been mentioned:
The Chronicles of Narnia (all three)
The Brothers Grimm
The Secret of Kells
Hellboy (both, although for different reasons)
Prince Valiant (the 1997 version [mainly 'cause I haven't seen the earlier one...])
The following, while not movies, should get a mention (& I'm not the first to mention a series in this thread...)
A Game of Thrones
Berserk (dark fantasy anime)
Shadow Raiders
the old Dungeons & Dragons cartoon (a little too obvious, but... ;p )
There are many more!
-- C.
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The 13th Warrior
In my opinion very underrated.
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I'm only naming one.
Record of Lodoss War
Granted, the whole thing is just based on one big D&D campaign so it's kind of hard not to think of gaming when I'm watching it.
I agree with this one. They did a remake of the original, which was kind of wierd it started in the middle of story kind of, but both are excellent. Many modern animes could learn a few things from this one. I saw Beserk Mentioned also an amazing piece of work, and I would add Vampire Hunter D and Vampire Hunter D blood lust.
Highlander.
Most other picks have been mentioned upthread.
Star Wars
Empire
Jedi
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I would have to add:
The Bunker - Its a World war II film but it is about a bunch of soldiers hold up in a bunker guarding a pass that was once a cave network. basically the Caves were used for this purpose for thousands of years and down in the coldest and deepest of the caves are the bodies of warriors in Medieval, Roman, and even stone age garb.
Last of the Mohicans
Brotherhood of Wolves - the pre-revolution french one like the hound of the baskervilles.
The Shadowless Sword
House of Flying Daggers
Ong Bak 1-3
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My list would have to include:
The 13th Warrior
Troy (especially the Achilles vs Hector fight and the Beach Landing)
Braveheart
Ironclad
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Conan (all 3 of them)
Stardust
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Dragonslayer
The Scorpion King (only the original)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Thor
Kingdom of Heaven
Sleepy Hollow
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Van Helsing
The Wolfman (modern version)
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton version)
The Mask of Zorro/The Legend of Zorro
Cartoons:
The Black Cauldron
Visionaries
Dungeons & Dragons
Mysterious Cities of Gold
He-Man/She-Ra
TV Series:
Game of Thrones
Dune/Children of Dune
Rome
At first I was going to say none as no movie is high fantasy, high magic enough. Most everything listed falls into the E6-E8 then I had to admit:
Legend (still arguably in that e6-e8 mode)
Clash of the Titans (original)
the miniseries The Odyssey
and Bakshi's Wizards
The Last Unicorn
Possibly The Gummi Bears
go beyond that
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Monty Python
Your Highness
Gamers
Dorkness Rising
Knights of Badassery (i hope)
Hogfather (miniseries)
Colour of magic (miniseries)
all bring some serious satire to the whole genre.
Lots of love for most of the movies on posts here but no not really do they make me want to play DnD.
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Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector.
I'd need only watch it for 5 minutes to realize I'd be better off spending my time playing an RPG.