Sean Fennessey

Anything that I like about this movie is either something that I have extracted intellectually or emotionally connected to at the basest level of my undeveloped brain.

Like that's it.

And I'm okay with it as a fan.

But I can't look – I'll be going to my daughter's art show later this afternoon and I'll be talking to a lot of parents.

I will not be able to look at a single parent at that art show and be like, you got to check out Masters of the Universe this weekend.

That's not acceptable.

Yeah, mine was the exact same.

So when I was thinking about doing this episode with you, and we talked about this when we recorded the Mosquito Coast episode, like how long ago is that?

Nine months ago.

I was like, all right, I'm just going to re-watch every high fantasy movie.

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