Where's all the good medieval fantasy films? We got what, fucking LoTR-trilogy and Narnia? Then some non-fantasy shit like Kindom of Heaven and Arn. Or some old Disney movies and animations.
I want to see dragons and magic and dwarves and elves and epic battles. Are there really nothing else besides LotR? Why there's 5 new superhero movies every year but not a single good fantasy film in past 10 years?
They'd need another good fantasy novel to adapt
There's literally tons of good fantasy novels
>Where's all the good medieval fantasy
It's costly and many fantasy movies fail.
Name 2 that would be suitable for cinema
In books
Did you literally just watch 4 movies in your entire life? There's tons of fantasy shit. TV shows too.
The Hobbit, you dingus. Don't let Cred Forums's shit opinions detract from great movies.
The fan-cut which made the movie more like the book was ok, but only because there's nothing else to compare it to
Abercrombie's standalones.
Best Served Cold
Before They Are Hanged
The Heroes
All would work great as films.
>suitable
What do you mean? They're all as suitable as, for example LotR which isn't that easy to turn into a movie. The only I could think of are novels where lots of stuff happens inside someone mind, but even those kind of books have been turned into films.
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Yeah thats probably a main problem..A main concern is that there is often a plot with many many different places/stops. I believe that was problem for the Eragon movie, it felt really rushed (but the books where shity children books to begin with)
>Have the technology to make movies featuring sexy dragon men
>Don't
Directed by Raimi himself.
GOAT series, well the plot was retarded but it looked amazing
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I fucking want a Silmarillion miniseries,
the Battle of Unnumbered Tears would be phenomenal to see on screen
That's a pretty good idea, user.
>series
God no
Fuck no, I take it back
Well, it couldn't really work as a film, could it?
>Narnia
>good
miniseries*
Aka the best audiovisual storytelling format
It didn't work as a book.
The first one was comfy, the rest were shit
Also Popplewell's dsl
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>The Silmarillion
>not good
It had its parts but the book was a clusterfuck and I'm not a fan of the Bible
ahem
In the 80s. Excalibur, Krull... there's loads.
>good
Son, you barely deserve a (You)
willow too desu
Excalibur
Dragonslayer
>80's
lmao top tier special effects
But it was, Gul'dan was a based villain.
The Beastmaster (1982)
Conan the Barbarian (1981)
Wizards (1977)
Exclibur (1981)
Krull (1983)
Heavy Metal (1981)
Gandahar (1988)
Legend (1985)
Time Masters (1982)
Labyrinth (1986)
Enemy Mine (1985)
>Exclibur
The best out of all of those, Conan is a close second though.
It's much easier, and cheaper to just make movies based on real life settings.
Conan is unparalleled really. The more I watch it the more drawn in I get. On the surface it appears to be a basic near B movie, but goddamn that couldn't be further from the truth.
>sexy dragon men
What the hell is wrong with you, you weirdo?
Post your Fantasyfus
80s effects were great
Hollywood can't do fantasy anymore, everything has to be grounded, and realistic.
Lotr literakly invented the fantasy genre and Narnia was just Lewis being on a bible trip after Tolkien converted him and told him that all stories should retell the values of the bible.
>The Book of the New Sun
>Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman
>Directed By Terry Gilliam
The virgin spring is violent medieval fantasy kino no dragons tho
>Adapt Conan short stories
>One or a few stories per film
>R rated, as much violence and tits as the originals
>Low budget, few special effects
>Short running time, 90-120 minutes
>Lower ticket prices than the average capeshit (if possible)
>Hyborian Age cinematic universe can be expanded with Red Sonja, Lovecraft stuff, etc
Thank me later Hollywood
Close but
>not doing it as an HBO tv series instead
>every episode is a different story
Medieval fantasy is such a terrible genre. There are like 3/4 good series and the rest is complete ogre shit. That's why you're not going to get good ones anytime soon, particularly with le edgy gritty fantasy trend of the latest decade.
Gul'dan was a really shitty villain
>HURR DURR PLS OBEY ME
He was nothing like the Gul'dan from the games
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This is germanic/nordic viking fantasy, isn't it?
This stuff predates elfshit by a couple centuries.
Why hasn't there been a proper Arthurian movie series?
REEEEEEEEEEE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BOOKS REEEEEEEEEEE.
Dragonslayer still has the definite what a dragon should look like dragon.
The Dragonriders of Pern books could be a good series but the problem is dragons are a much much bigger part of it than the dragons are in GoT and there is just no way anyone would pay the special effects to do it justice.
Hey check out the new Guy Richie movie man :^)
Wrath of the Titans is fucking GOD TIER with the sound off and the captions on.
Not even joking. The special fx are better than any fantasy movie ever and the dialogue as it is written is actually good. It's the delivery of the lines by Neeson and Fiennes that were supremely mailed in.