Sean Fennessey

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.

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?