Any good Fantasy/Medieval Films?

[Raven's Nest]

Depends how you define fantasy. High fantasy (wizards, dragons, knights and etc.) might not be real successful but that might be because they are real expensive to make. But the Lord of the Rings trilogy was very successful.


If you are talking fantasy pictures in general they are very numerous and very successful. Big, What Women Want and Liar Liar are all examples of fantasy. In Big a wish grants a boy an adult body. In What Women Want an accident grants a man the power to read women minds. In Liar Liar a wish causes a man to always tell the truth. In each of these otherwise mainstream movies a fantastical event provides the premise. There are many more examples of fantasy in movies.

I don't think anyone is mistaking that the OP means Fantasy as a genre, valid though your point is...

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Try Solomon Kane... I didn't like it but others I saw it with did.

 

[Vault101]

It didn't get the most amazing reviews, but I'd still recommend Kingdom of Heaven. It's pretty epic and I found it quite entertaining.

There's also Robin Hood, and if you fancy a non-Robin Hood Robin Hood film there's also the recent flick with Russel Crow. I'd rather stick to the good ol' merry Robin Hood myself, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. And of course the silly Mel Brooks Robin Hood: Men in Tights. The recent BBC Robin Hood series is supposedly also very good.

As for fantasy; Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian, maybe Van Helsing, Dragonheart, Braveheart. Most of them have already been mentioned of course.

Monty python and the holy grail

haha ok im kidding

No need to kid about that, it's friggin' brilliant.

Quick check...

Not quite medieval (Crusades, so borderline), but Kingdom of Heaven was pretty good. Half an hour too long, but still good.

The Crusades are as medieval as it gets.

true though im not quite sure its what the OP is looking for

in regards to kngdom of heavan isnt it one of those cases where its best to watch the directors cut? or somthing?

 

[SckizoBoy]

Not quite medieval? The crusades? The crusades were very much medieval, from the first right to the very last.

Nnnnn, sorry about that... for some reason I had Medieval as being 100 Years War till the Battle of Mohacs... o_0'

Anyway... trying to wrack my brains for such a period for films (made last 20 yrs) and KoH is the only one that comes to mind (except of that slew of Elizabeth I films). Perhaps Solomon Kane (for both genres...) but it wasn't that good...

 

[Ultress]

Stardust was an okay fantasy flick with a good sense of humor,plus it had Robert De niro as a cross dressing Sky Pirate.

 

[Mathak]

in regards to kngdom of heavan isnt it one of those cases where its best to watch the directors cut? or somthing?

Yeah, the theatre version was terrible. The director's cut basically fixed the entire movie.

If you live in the USA, try to catch the new Game of Thrones series coming on HBO. Premiere is april 17th. The book was brilliant, and it looks the series'll be equally good.