Starshadw at aol.com wrote: > Steve, I just read your scifi.com interview, and I'm going to link to > it on the RPG site just because I thought many of the things you said > were fecking brilliant. But that's not what this is about. > > I noted that you said you hadn't seen a single fantasty film that was > really worth watching. I'm wondering if you have seen PJ's > Fellowship of the Ring, and whether that changed your mind at all, or > whether you still feel the same way? I'm also curious what others on > the list thought of the film. > > For me, as a lover of fantasy, I have to basically agree with you re: fantasy films. Which is not to say I don't enjoy re-watching Hollywood's attempts at fantasy films, because I do occasionally re-watch them - mostly for nostalgia, I think. I can say I enjoyed most of them, but that I always felt they fell short of what they "could/should" have been. -thinking- Of course, the fact that most of the fantasy films had good-looking men in them (remembering David Bowie's codpieces in Labyrinth)...but I digress! Ahem! ANYway....heh....was just curious how you (and everyone else on the list) felt about FotR. > > I'll see what others start saying before I make any comments of my > own. > > Sheesh! I've been single waaaaaay too long. -grins- > > Stacy I tend to think of all movies as fantasy, maybe not my type of fantasy but it's someones fantasy. I think this is proven by the fact that most of america likes to see things blown up, which says something about the average movie go-er's imagination. The best they can come up with is 'chicks' and 'guns' + a few explosions. This is not reality. Hence I consider it fantasy. What generally is classified as fantasy I like to think of as 'Imaginative' What about the Princess Bride? I think of that as a comedy and the premise behind it was a grandfather reading a story (heh, a book) to his ill grandson. It's like we've submitted that any really worthwhile story is made into a book, maybe from there it will see film. film is about money most of the artistic and imaginative film never makes it through the chain of distribution to us but on rare and special occasions. Just with any media it takes quality of workmanship, and generally creative thought to do well. The movie indistry hasn't seemed to think that is what makes good movies, they've realized the stories that are original to thier genere of storytelling haven't really been as good as they could be, look over the last few years and you might spot the shift of where movies are going. Harry potter (haven't seen) and FotR (haven't seen all of) made huge ammounts of money, I think there based on that a slew of really horrible 'fantasy' films will be made in the next few years, that's hollywood's trend; milk it for every buck. I'd be glad to see them prove me wrong and produce only good movies, don't forget though that something being good is only relative, there is no accounting for the publics taste. The guys in tinsel town know where the money is at at the moment, imaginative if not good 'fantasy' stories. Looks like I went on a bit of a rant, please excuse me. heh Angelo Tripp-Russo