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I'm in the mood for fantasy movies. But everything I can think of that isn't Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter is either really bad (Eragon) or 80's or earlier with effects that aren't what I'm looking for. I'd prefer not animated, but animated that isn't How to Train Your Dragons, which I already have, is fine too.

Fantasy is really tricky because low budgets tend to look terrible and cringey and high budgets ... aren't a guarantee for quality either.
I think the Warcraft movie was surprisingly enjoyable. Warcraft isn't my thing at all so I didn't watch it until a short while ago and while there are probably a lot of things in there that are way more enjoyable when you know WoW but even without that, I thought it was pretty entertaining.

my bff knows nothing about warcraft except that i play it and she liked the movie a lot.

Me too. I have never played a single second of the game but I found the movie to be a pretty solid, enjoyable fantasy movie nonetheless. Better than most other fantasy movies lately (not that there were a lot).

I recall the dragon in Dragon Heart being pretty good... at the time. No idea how well that has aged. It's not an especially great movie otherwise.

Does a Series of Unfortunate Events (movie) count as fantasy enough? I really loved the art direction in that.

The 13th Warrior doesn't really have much in the way of effects, so there's certainly no *bad* effects. I like that movie, but apparently I'm the only one who does.

I love The 13th Warrior and have watched it so many times! Bought the soundtrack, too, it's so amazing.

You're not the only one who loves 13th Warrior, although in my case it's as much nostalgia as anything else. It's one of my mother's favourite movies, almost purely because it has Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif in the same movie, but I'm very fond of it as well. I mean, historically and archaeologically incredibly dodgy, but it's pretty fun, and I love the little blond Viking who befriends Ahmed.

Not entirely sure I'd call it fantasy, though, at least not in the overt sense? I mean, it does go out of its way a bit to avoid magical explanations for things. The Fire Wyrm, for example. And the whole Neanderthal thing in the book.

I was in the electronics section of Walmart the other day. On the end cap that has the newly released movies was a DVD multi pack of four Dragon Heart movies. I have the first and second movies, but I didn't know they made two more.

Have you tried:

The Spiderwick Chronicles
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416236/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Epic (animated, but really beautiful, and lovely world-building)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848537/?ref_=nv_sr_8

Ladyhawke?

You can kind of see the edges of some of the effects but they're still very pretty. Artistic, like. And I enjoy the story.

Stardust is fun. Pan's Labyrinth is visually interesting. Pirates of the Caribbean and the million sequels. Chronicles of Narnia.

I started to say something, and then realised I was having real trouble thinking of things that weren't from the 80s. A significant portion of my childhood was 80s fantasy films. I'm struggling to think of more modern ones, beyond obvious things like Stardust or Pan's Labyrinth, or more kiddy things that are probably kind of bad but that I enjoyed, like The Secret of Moonacre or Inkheart, or oddball things like The City of Lost Children, if you're in a 90s dieselpunk Roald Dahl sort of mood. Most of the others I can think of are fairytales. I actually kind of enjoyed Mirror Mirror, the comedy Snow White adaptation with Julia Roberts? I mean, again, probably bad, but I enjoyed it. Slightly more seriously, I also keep meaning to watch Blancanieves, the Spanish Snow White adaptation set in the 20s, because I've heard very good things about it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

If you wanted a miniseries instead, and like historical fantasy, the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell miniseries was pretty good too.

Winter's Tale is a gigantic guilty pleasure. This movie is insane. I can't tell if it's a so-bad-it's-good, or if it's actually kinda badly written, or if it's FUCKING BRILLIANT. But you must be in the right moood to watch that sort of thing.

Talking horse is my fave.

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