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[Disney's Sword in the Stone]

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I was thinking about movies from my youth the other day, and one of my favorites was Willow. But even though it got that fancy blu-ray release with nice trailer I just linked to, it's still coming up on 30 years old.

This all got me thinking about ways to spread the Willow love, and the first thing I thought of was reccing it to people who liked the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit movies. And so the idea for this was thread was born.

If you've got a favorite movie that's, say, 20 years old or older, what are some recent counterparts you could compare it to? Or, if you have a more current movie that you really love and want to explore deeper into film history for more things you might like, ask away here.

+1 on the Willow love

I got the impression it was riffing off a lot of earlier movies.

Wikipedia references these:

"The initial inspiration was the three-part horror anthology film Black Sabbath (1963), by Italian filmmaker Mario Bava."

"With work on Reservoir Dogs completed, Tarantino returned to the notion of a trilogy film: "I got the idea of doing something that novelists get a chance to do but filmmakers don't: telling three separate stories, having characters float in and out with different weights depending on the story."[44] Tarantino explains that the idea "was basically to take like the oldest chestnuts that you've ever seen when it comes to crime stories—the oldest stories in the book.... You know, 'Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace's Wife'—the oldest story about...the guy's gotta go out with the big man's wife and don't touch her. You know, you've seen the story a zillion times."[10] "I'm using old forms of storytelling and then purposely having them run awry", he says. "Part of the trick is to take these movie characters, these genre characters and these genre situations and actually apply them to some of real life's rules and see how they unravel."[45] In at least one case, boxer Butch Coolidge, Tarantino had in mind a specific character from a classic Hollywood crime story: "I wanted him to be basically like Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer in Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly [1955]. I wanted him to be a bully and a jerk".[28]"

There's a lot of Scorcese and Kubrick in there.

French New Wave and Hollywood noir, pretty much

I really loved the Ready Player One book. What are some other books I should read? I think my love of it was less to do with all the gaming stuff (though that's certainly part of it) and more to do with Wade building himself up and developing the resources to do what he had to do.

I actually loved Willow. Haven't seen it in a while. I should watch it again, though. I love fantasy so much. I need to watch more fantasy movies.

I loved Willow! I made some gifs and icons from the movie for a LJ challenge once. I also have read the novelization several times.

I can't really think of any other old movies that others likely wouldn't know. (Like I also enjoy The Princess Bride, but a lot of people already know that one.) Most of the movies I love I started watching in the 90s or later, so they don't really qualify as being more than 20 years old.

was the novelization for Willow any good? [I know my father read the sequel but that was ages ago]

I enjoyed it. It fleshed out some of the characters and motivation more and went along nicely with the story that was presented on the screen. Will it win any awards? Nope. Was it fun and something I've reread a few times? Yup.

I loved it, but I was 14 so I don't know if I would like it now. (Tastes change, etc.)

Have you ever read any of the sequels? There was a whole trilogy after Willow and I really enjoyed all of them.

I remember stumbling across a sequel when I was a kid and being too put off by Willow's sudden name change to keep reading it. Maybe I'll have to try again at some point.

has anyone besides me noticed the similarities between All About Eve and Election?

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