Sean Fennessey

I'm going to situate myself inside of that 80s period where there was this enormous number of movies, mostly, you know, kicked off by the success of Conan the Barbarian.

But there were just so many films in that period of time, some of which I'd seen, some of which I hadn't.

And I'm going to be like, I'm going to do the ultimate list and I'm going to love it and it's going to be so great.

And I watched a bunch of them and I, you know,

I watched Krull and I watched Dragon Slayer and I watched The Sword and the Sorcerer and I watched Deathstalker.

And, you know, I'd already seen, of course, like Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and all these other films.

And I came away not really loving as many of them as I had hoped I would.

I admired a lot of them because there's a lot of really cool practical stuff in them.

But then I went to go make a list of my favorite movies like this and I was like, these are all movies that I've –

known and have seen and were a part of my childhood or a part of my daughter's childhood now and there's something like that kind of masculine

man defending his castle and ravishing damsel aspect of it that has actually just kind of never been my thing despite having this attraction to He-Man.

Yeah.

I'm just like, I don't know if this was an easy exercise or not to just come up with favorite fantasy movies, but to me, very quickly, I'll just tell you the movies.

They don't need much explanation.

The NeverEnding Story, which is I probably saw at a very similar age and that I'm about to show my daughter.

The only very recent film is The Green Knight, which I think, you know, Lowry's movie, which I think really kind of like tries to simultaneously explore like Arthurian legend and a kind of mystical legend and blend those two things together and draw you out with a much more folkloric exploration of the ideas.

Princess Mononoke, which I just watched with Alice, which is...

Still unbelievable in a movie with a very, very big idea on top of it about ecology and the future of the planet.

Willow, which changed my life.

And The Fellowship of the Ring, which is just like, to me, one of the most pitch perfect.