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    Posted: April 18 2022 at 04:07
Oh, I missed this one when I first glanced through the list, so here's a second vote for The Spirit of the Beehive! Wonderful film by a wonderful filmmaker (unfortunately he's not very prolific...).

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Voted Harry Potter and super classic Jason and the Argonauts. I just scored a beautiful book on Ray Harryhausen from a second hand store. 

Very good list of reminders of what films I need to see, either again or for the first time. 
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666, the number of the beast!



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Will try to find it
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^ Tin Man's mini-series (2007) is excellent. I recommend it. Yet, don't expect a "faithful" adaptation.
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He should have been resivee honerable oscar forcthat feet, the Tin man and the isolated acting preformancecof Tinman, extrordionary piece of mime acting.
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^ No--  but I do know Buddy Ebsen, the original Tin Man, nearly died from the aluminum powder they covered him with.   Nasty stuff.


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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
I wonder how many people here even know this movie?
I remember having nightmares about this one after I saw it on a Saturday afternoon movie show in the mid sixties. I was probably 7 at the time. It has always stuck with me. Maybe it's why I'm into keyboard music so much. LOL

Oh we know it... at least those of us who watched old movies in the '70s,

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In general the LOTR-films is a rare gem and a pinickle of fantasy film production. It is what Ridley Scott did with Gladiator but tenfolds more grandiose. But the most importnt film.to me is The Neverending Story, it is the most important and impactfull film since The Wizard of Oz. So my vote is the Neverending Story andits early impact on me.

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Pan's Labyrinth and Spirited Away. Other good ones here, but these 2 are outstanding.
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
I wonder how many people here even know this movie?
I remember having nightmares about this one after I saw it on a Saturday afternoon movie show in the mid sixties. I was probably 7 at the time. It has always stuck with me. Maybe it's why I'm into keyboard music so much. LOL

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Lord Of the Rings
Princess Bride
The Wizard of Oz

Apparently Dr. Seuss wrote the 50,000 of Dr.T. 
Oh how I never seen this movie.
Oh how if I saw it. 
Then this movie probably is a hit. 
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^ Pity me, then. Wink
Fantasy films are not my preferred genre. Actually, in general all those Lord of the Rings and Harry Potters, be it in literature or in film, leave me completely indifferent. But from this list, there is an all time classic that easily stands above all of the rest, in my humble opinion: Ugetsu monogatari!

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I pity the fool who doesn't vote for The Dark Crystal.
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 Hard to beat the Lord of the Rings movies but I'm going to throw a bone to Excalibur here. I thought that was a pretty good version of the King Arthur story. 
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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
I wonder how many people here even know this movie?
I remember having nightmares about this one after I saw it on a Saturday afternoon movie show in the mid sixties. I was probably 7 at the time. It has always stuck with me. Maybe it's why I'm into keyboard music so much. LOL

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Lord Of the Rings
Princess Bride
The Wizard of Oz
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I can't be much of a fantasy movie fan as none of these would get in my top 20 films of all time. I voted for Time Bandits as that's a hoot.
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Spirited Away is my favorite movie of all time, so I have to go with that one Smile
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Pan’s Labyrinth was very excellent I think, and quite horrific at times but then the fantasy world of that was more the girl's escapism and I think of it as more of a drama than fantasy genre in a way, in that I don't think of it as really being of a magical world but more along the lines of a Walter Mitty kind of fantasising scenario.

Lots I like here, but I will vote for my top three, all of which are amongst my very favourite films.

Pan’s Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Time Bandits

And actually, I will give Spirited Away a vote as well. I have watched that many times. And I will give Excalibur a vote as well.
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