Sean Fennessey

Here's how you build a world, introduce characters you instantaneously love, and do the thing where you get excited for what's next, but you don't feel like you've been tricked into anything when you get to the what's next.

Hold on a minute.

You desperately are like, I need to go to the next stage of this journey with these characters that I love.

And like, it felt like a very kind of unoriginal list, but I couldn't talk myself into saying like, well, actually Beastmaster has some really cool effects in it and Coscarelli at the beginning of his career.

No, they didn't.

I mean, are there any other, I agree with you that Labyrinth and Dark Crystal, there's something very special about them.

And we are, you and I are both Hensonians and like very fascinated in that history and the world and the creation of all of those movies.

And I love that he pivoted into like a much darker realm of storytelling at that point in his career.

Yeah.

But are there any other titles that you're like, well, this has to be in the conversation for the best versions of these movies?

I mean, Conan, obviously.

Conan looms large.

Yeah.

The only other thing is that I thought about including the Ray Harryhausen movies and it's like, what is that?

What's the line between Greek and Roman mythology versus high fantasy?

And how much, you know, I could put the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad on a list like this.

Harry Potter.

Harry Potter is that.

Harry Potter is magic and it's also a coming-of-age drama about being a young person in school.

You know what movie Masters of the Universe has a lot in common with that is in this conversation?