I'd rally like to see a film or tv series based around RA Salvatore's Drizzt Do Urden. The books are action heavy, which would make Hollywood happy, and the character is interesting, if pulpy
After the horrible two D & D movies, they owe us a good movie X(
Actually there were three. Two live action ones and the cartoon based on the Dragonlance series.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Heroes of the Lance animation. That one wasn't so bad.
you contrarian you. that's the first negative word I've heard about the series. It's actually praised for it's depth and for breaking the mold. I guess I would direct anyone interested to the thoughtful reviews on amazon.
Really? I know plenty of people who found Game of Thrones to be unweildy at best.
It's not terrible - as I said. It's just not brilliant in the same vein of a CS Lewis or Tolkien. I don't think Game of Thrones will still be in mass production 50 or 100 years after Martin passes away.
Of course, I could be wrong! And if you're interested in the series, you're going to read it regardless of what I say. I often find myself playing Devil's advocate
I agree with you. As far as I'm concerned nothing will ever come close in comparison to JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Rick Riordan, Terry Pratchett and Eoin Colfer. In fact it'd be anathema to even hint at comparing Game of Thrones to Lord of the Rings or Narnia. I've also got to admit that Maximum Ride, The Hunger Games and The Twilight Saga are highly underrated because people just believe that because everyone says they are "lame" and "trashy" they shouldn't read them and therefore they miss out on some good reading material.
However, the BBC's Merlin, Sherlock and Robin Hood are some great historical fantasy dramas. I think that the BBC's Merlin is perhaps even greater than Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice movie.
@Tasuki, Jetix (now Disney XD) used to air a good quality Dungeons and Dragons cartoon.
@Mickeymac, ya I've seen those books. I think I might check out those adorable furry heroes.
Adorable isn't the word. The series can be pretty violent.
But if you're still interested, I'd just like to let you know that any one of the series will do, they're all self-contained stories and they usually fill you in on the backround stuff that you'd need. I'd still recommend trying the first, Titled Redwall, mostly because I think I liked that one the most, but honestly you don't have to.
I think my first experience with Redwall may have been with the cartoon series on PBS. I really liked it, though I'm not sure if they ever finished it.
Redwall is far from adorable. XD Did you hear that the author died a little while ago?
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Adorable isn't the word. The series can be pretty violent.
But if you're still interested, I'd just like to let you know that any one of the series will do, they're all self-contained stories and they usually fill you in on the backround stuff that you'd need. I'd still recommend trying the first, Titled Redwall, mostly because I think I liked that one the most, but honestly you don't have to.
I think my first experience with Redwall may have been with the cartoon series on PBS. I really liked it, though I'm not sure if they ever finished it.
Redwall cartoon? Link please. Please give me a link. I'm breathless with excitement. Link pleeeease!
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Oh my god! It's Rincewind! Oh, you mentioned something about watching part of Colour of Magic? I thought it was good, but I enjoyed Hogfather a lot better. Hogfather was the first one released. Really wish they brought out more and people actually knew about them
Also, fantasy movies have a tendency to be made overly childish. It is terribly frustrating. I understand that there is a lot of popular teen literature out there, but it doesn't always make a good movie when the writing was sub-par to begin with... The best fantasy movies I have seen recently have come from comic books. I'm not familiar with comic books by any means, but there have been some really great ones. Also, whatever happened to the good movies where a dragon's heart could be transplanted into a human and Highlanders could live forever?
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@Ravage, I wouldn't go so far as to say that comic book movies are good 'fantasy movies' as I consider something like Pirates of the Caribbean, Narnia, Lord of the Rings, The Twilight Saga and the Spiderwick Chronicles to be fantasy. Comic Books just don't fit into the fantasy/magic genre at all.
I'm glad to see that you're a Discworld fan though. I've been wondering if after Hollywood completes Narnia and the JRR Tolkien films if they'll go on with adapting the T. Pratchett Discworld books or will they go on to make the Children of the Red King and Artemis Fowl books in to movies?
Personally, I'd rather see Discworld be animated and Artemis Fowl get a live action movie series. It'd be better for the Children of the Red King books to get a television series like that of BBC/SyFy Channel's Merlin while I think the Jane Yolen's Sword of the Rightful King would make a splendid movie on par with the Lord of the Rings perhaps.
Twilight is basically a high school romance... Anyway, I see what you mean. I started thinking more of the sci-fi genera. I much prefer sci-fi That is really only because sci-fi movies tend to be much better... My opinion of course.
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Twilight is basically a high school romance... Anyway, I see what you mean. I started thinking more of the sci-fi genera. I much prefer sci-fi That is really only because sci-fi movies tend to be much better... My opinion of course.
Sometimes, more often then not, the genres of sci-fi and fantasy cross-over and overlap. For example: I think that SyFy Channel's Tin Man (Wizard of Oz) and Flash Gordon were very much combinations and crossings between the sci-fi and fantasy genres. Even DC Comics, Smallville, Teen Titans, Marvel's television series 'The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Cartoon Network's Regular Show and Adventure Time cross back and forth between the spheres of sci-fi and fantasy.
Perhaps, you might find solace in those shows Ravage. Personally, I like both high fantasy, historical fantasy (King Arthur, POTC) and sci-fi.
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Wait, how is POTC historical fantasy? None of the characters or locations in that film are remotely historical. :-/
Pirates of the Caribbean is considered historical fantasy because it is set in the historical 'Golden Age of Piracy' and it incorporates themes and invokes the actual historical struggle between the Royal Crown and the Pirates of the era while combining these events with fantastical elements such as ghosts ships and mythical cursed gold for instance. Jerry Bruckheimer, National Geographic and the History Channel have all referred to the Pirates of the Caribbean films as 'historical fantasy' and here is a quote from Wikipedia on the matter 'Other uncommon subgenres include Historical Fantasy and Romantic Fantasy, although 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl successfully incorporated elements of both.'
To be honest, WaltzElf, I myself, didn't know the Pirates films were considered historical fantasy until two years ago when I was doing some research on Blackbeard when National Geographic was advertising an upcoming special on their channel about the legendary 'Real Pirates of the Caribbean'.
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Wait, how is POTC historical fantasy? None of the characters or locations in that film are remotely historical. :-/
Pirates of the Caribbean is considered historical fantasy because it is set in the historical 'Golden Age of Piracy' and it incorporates themes and invokes the actual historical struggle between the Royal Crown and the Pirates of the era while combining these events with fantastical elements such as ghosts ships and mythical cursed gold for instance. Jerry Bruckheimer, National Geographic and the History Channel have all referred to the Pirates of the Caribbean films as 'historical fantasy' and here is a quote from Wikipedia on the matter 'Other uncommon subgenres include Historical Fantasy and Romantic Fantasy, although 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl successfully incorporated elements of both.'
To be honest, WaltzElf, I myself, didn't know the Pirates films were considered historical fantasy until two years ago when I was doing some research on Blackbeard when National Geographic was advertising an upcoming special on their channel about the legendary 'Real Pirates of the Caribbean'.
I still don't buy it. To my understanding of genre historical fantasy needs to include real characters from histroy, before it can be historical fantasy. Robin Hood, King Arthur, even the Warriors games.
Then again, I find how other people define genre as strange at the best of times. If I have $1 for every time someone claimed Star Wars was science fiction (which it is not), I'd be a very wealthy person.
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