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Due to popular (oink's) demand. Go for it. I'll be cooking up a list presently.
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Thank you.:grin:Due to popular (oink's) demand. Go for it. I'll be cooking up a list presently.
I was thinking this way too.I'll try for obscure titles when there are a lot to choose from. In later decades one could just list Disney and Pixar stuff and nothing else, so I have resisted animation. Vampires too, whenever possible.
I'll follow the previous thread's format:
The 50s
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
The Seventh Seal
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Black Orpheus
The 60s
Jason and the Argonauts
Marry Poppins
One Million Years B.C.
Doctor Dolittle
Yellow Submarine
The 70s
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Planet
The Land That Time Forgot
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
The 80s
(OK, now it gets hard)
Clash of the Titans
The Dark Crystal
Legend
Excalibur
The Neverending Story
The 90s
Edward Scissorhands
Beauty and the Beast
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Toy Story
Babe
The 2000s
Harry Potter Movies (counts as one)
LOTR (counts as one)
Shrek
The Fall
Pan's Labyrinth
The 2010s
Hugo
Alice in Wonderland (Burton)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Curse of the Cat People
A Matter of Life and Death
Eyes Without a Face (NOT suited for children)
Jason and the Argonauts
Spirits of the Dead- a triple; only the Fellini episode is any good, but it's a doozy
Dragonslayer
Jason and the Argonauts
Fantastic Planet
Excalibur
Harry Potter Movies (counts as one)
In The Company of Wolves
-BillBubba HoTep
Fantasy is hard because the style drifts into so many other genres. Modern action films are a type of fantasy in that the human body cannot take the violence shown in those stories.
Just to supplement what has been posted above:
1930s
- Lost Horizon (1937)
- Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
1980s
Adventure-fantasy was big in the 1980s. I have a bunch and enjoy them, but none are entirely satisfactory. I don't believe these have been mentioned yet:
- Ladyhawke (1985)
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- Brazil (1985)
- Princess Bride, The (1987)
- Willow (1988)
- Wings of Desire (1987)
2000s
- Stardust (2007)
-Bill
True. Some titles I placed in Essential Science Fiction would have been more appropriate here.I tried to resist those that straddle Sci-fi, Superheroes, and Action & Adventure genres and focus on pure fantasy, but it is hard to draw a clean line.![]()
This is the big problem.True. Some titles I placed in Essential Science Fiction would have been more appropriate here.
For example, James Cameron's classic Aliens...
I have seen it classified as a Sci-fi, or a Horror, or an Action & Adventure.
It's hard to argue with someone's classification of this movie because it actually has elements of all 3.
True.I say don't get bogged down in boxing movies up. There's enough out there already trying to kill the fun of everything.