This is an idea which I believe will provide inspiration and motivation for the Stardock developers. Basically during the lunch hour Stardock will play a fantasy movie for the staff. Since hands will be busy with their lunch their eyes can be watching one of many great fantasy movies. Why stare at the soda machine when your eyes could be watching a fantasy movie. The staff could also vote on which fantasy movies they wish to watch. Naturally a 2hr movie will be broken into two days and a 3hr movie into three days.
Even if you've already seen a great movie... watching a second time might recognize some fantasy elements otherwise missed/forgotten. Anyways I hope this makes your lunches more fun as well as inspirational.
I'm sure many on the forums will provide suggestions for great fantasy movies, but here's a few I recommend:
Lord of the Rings (all 3 movies)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (there's other sinbads too)
Clash of the Titans (packed with fantasy elements)
Conan the Barbarian
King Kong (1933 and 2005) *no magic, but great creature battles
Other suggestion I think thay are not listed. They fit with the theme but there are not necessarily block busters.
Red Sonya
conan: the destroyer (2nd movie, more magic)
Merlin
baron of maunchaussen
time bandits
Dragon Heart 1 & 2
Dungeon Siege
Dungeons and dragon, 1st and 2nd movie (the 2nd is less bad)
other ideas will eventually come in. Hope it helps
Ladyhawke, with Rudger Hauer and Michelle Pfieffer, Lord of the Rings the 1970's animated version, The Last Unicorn, and Robin Hood, the 1980's HBO & BBC series.
And for Boogiebac and Frogboy:
Monty Python's Holy Grail
No Princess Bride?
Yes and Yes
Though something that just occured to me, Does any computer geek actually eat away from their desks. I know my lunch always ends up on my desk while I continue working on whatever I was.
I have never seen a fantasy film I particularly liked, with the possible exception of Excalibur. I found Peter Jackson's LotR films to be the biggest dissapointment of the respective years of release. I'd suggest reading books.
The only think I don't like in LOTR is the lack of spell effects. I never read the book, some said that there is a lot of magic in the book while some others say that there is not.
I was waiting for a movie with good spells effect for a long time. I thought LOTR was the solution but it was not. Up to then, "Willow" was the only movie that had acceptable spell effects. Now there are a few others.
I guess this depends a lot on how you define 'Magic', I'm one of those people who would say there isn't much, and most of what there is, is more implied magic than the special effects kind of magic. In that regard, I think the movies followed the books very well.
Comparing the books with the films is a rather difficult thing to do I think, they are two completly different media and although I do have some problems with some of the story changes, I really like the movies and have the Extend Edition of all three. Hearing Peter Jackson explain some of those changes made me understand why they did them... Off course, the books are still beter...
Indeed. Tolkien's ME is not a "traditional" magic heavy world. It is not Dungeons & Dragons, if you know what I mean....
That thing was a dragon? I always thought it was just a big, flying dog....
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