Anyone else ever get nostalgia for the bygone genre of 80s fantasy movies? Legend, Dragonslayer, Willow, Company of Wolves, Ladyhawke, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen etc, etc. They weren't all good movies (most of them were pretty flawed, actually) but there was a strange aesthetic about them that was compelling. Lush color palettes, beautiful matte paintings and miniatures, all paired with a certain grimy realness that made the worlds they created feel much more lived in than modern CGI backdrops.
They don't make 'em like this anymore.
Elijah Myers
jesus christ how old are you
Caleb Lewis
all the time. if i had millions of dollars i'd make one outside of hollywood
Nicholas James
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Tyler Diaz
They invoked the imagination, that's the difference. imo
Adam Morris
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Noah Jenkins
CONAN O N A N
Easton Green
I watch the Neverending Story at least once a year. I just love everything about it.
Gabriel Peterson
POO IN LOO
Gavin Jones
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Luis Gutierrez
I wasn't born until the very end of the eighties, but I also love fantasy/sword-and-sorcery from that period. Pic Related is a personal favorite
Juan Thompson
Yes. Here's my go-to list (Not all are 80s.):
======= Dragons, Sword, Muppets, and Magic!
The 13th Warrior Pan's Labyrinth Dragonslayer Stardust Star Wars movies Legend The Princess Bride Willow Krull Neverending Story Neverending Story 2 (not part 3) Troll Conan the Destroyer Conan the Barbarian Kull the Conqueror Red Sonya The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Labyrinth The Dark Crystal Highlander Excalibur The Sword and the Sorcerer Hawk the Slayer The Goonies Wizard of OZ Return to OZ Ladyhawke Deathstalker Jason and the Argonauts Sinbad movies Clash of the Titans (new and old) Lord of the Rings movies The Hobbit movies Narnia movies Harry Potter movies Dragonheart (only part 1) The Secret Of NIMH The Last Unicorn Bedknobs & Broomsticks The Witches The Watcher in the Woods Van Helsing The Black Cauldron Army Of Darkness Monty Python & the Holy Grail The 10th Kingdom Redwall (1999) Beastmaster Erik the Viking Ice Pirates
Jack Ortiz
no love for time bandits or jabberwocky?
Brandon Ross
Hi
Hunter Robinson
None what so ever.
Hudson Jones
This is a great list. Krull is my favorite. Please add pic related
Tyler Rodriguez
Older fantasy movies portrayed 'fantasy' much better than modern fantasy movies.
Setpieces actually looked like they came out of a dream and fueled the imagination. Modern fantasy is too grounded in gritty reality.
Neverending Story is one of my favourites. Also the Hallmark Entertainment miniseries are amazing as well, like Gulliver's Travels, Merlin etc.
Juan James
Time Bandits 4 life
>STAND BY FOR MIND CONTROL
Christopher Gray
And yet the thing is, I find older fantasy to be much more grounded in reality. The miniatures and mattes feel much more real and grounded, while a lot of CGI armies/monsters/backdrops just feel sort of lifeless and sterile, or so light and airy it's like they're not there.
Cooper Price
i will tell you why movies made before 1990 are so often better or more 'lived in' then after the 90s. production values I don't mean budgeting, I mean take a look at the show Dinosaurs, everything not on camera was a vehicle for the scene. Today the production is just riding around on a horse in a california desert for the same price and with half the set design.
John Clark
The main reason for that is because the mattes where painted by tried and true artists. The CGI stuff is currently done by people with a different type of artistic brain that involves computers. If you want true art that speaks to you in a number of ways, use a real artist that uses a real medium.
In 100+ years, artists in the CGI medium may finally have the tools and skills to make competent art.
Daniel Carter
Warcraft is pretty much this.
Ryder Martinez
You actually like Neverending Story Part II? Or Red Sonja? Seriously?
Chase Baker
Have you seen it?
They are fine, but never ever watch NS3.
Cooper Collins
The great thing about the time is that you could have even the most bizarre shit in the movie and everyone just accepted it. It was a great time for movies because nothing was too weird for audiences to understand. Hell, they made a fantasy movie with no humans, all done with puppets with the Dark Crystal and people loved it.
Lord of the Rings has done well to get audiences to accept weird things again, but for the most part fantasy movies now need a heaping bowl of tongue in cheek humor to get audiences to accept them and having lots of action helps too.
Elijah Foster
The aesthetic you're referring to is the analogue film they were filmed in. The same can be said of that "odd aesthetic" in 80's horror movies that just makes them a little more scary.
Having crystal clear epin HD video isn't always a wonderful thing.
Thomas Diaz
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Jeremiah James
>forgetting Dark Crystal
Shame on you.
Isaac Martinez
That's a bunch of bullshit. The medium has nothing to do with it. The reason is that big companies prefer craftsmen over artists because they think they are easier to handle.
Nolan Nguyen
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Thomas Sullivan
Fuck this movie was amazing.
Better than any of the Lord of the Rings movies.
Elijah Morales
This thread gets my stamp of approval. Willow, Labyrinth, Munchausen, Legend, Conan, and Neverending Story were all childhood favorites of mine. Holy shit I miss this stuff.
Samuel Wilson
FotR comes kinda close to the feel of some of these old movies.
