Favourite Fantasy Films

Everyone loves Fantasy I mean who doesn't? Its amazing we all love the worlds of Fantasy, as we all go into that Fantasy world much more deep than we do with a Drama or a Romance. 

The Princess Bride

I had to put in an 80s film, as they are my one of my favourites. Love it so much, its a comedy as well as a fantasy and a kids film, it also has abit of romance in aswell. I don't need to say what the story is as everyone knows, but I love Cary Elwes in this. I mean lets face it I feel like we all had a bit of a crush on him. Loved it, the grandson hating every kissing scene, I mean I hated that when I was that age. Wallace Shawn and his posse in this film was just hilarious, and everyone wants and loves Robin Wright Wright? 

Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

Obviously going to include this, yes the LOTR trilogy is very long but its wonderful if you indulge yourself in the world, and just embrace it. Whether you read the books or not, but the Hobbit is something I'm a abit more into, its got abit more humour to it I reckon, LOTR is much more serious. Love the world, and the people who like it in the fandom, its a wonderful world. The Hobbit is amazing and I prefer the book because for me its the world I imagine thats different from the film version. I recommend you read the books because you create your own version of the world, even though they're very long and wordy. Fun fact I've read the Hobbit every year since I first read it when I was 13. 

The Neverending Story

Another 80s film, gotta love 'em! I honestly feel like the 80s started the whole 'quest world' with relatable character with something they need to find. This film was the first to make me cry over an animal, I watched alot of these films when I was about 10. I was heartbroken with the 'Swamp of Sadness' and Artax. Just harrowing, but its an amazing story and does end, full of unfunny jokes me. 

Harry Potter

Love, love it love it. The books are better than the film gonna be honest, and like 80% of the world would agree. The characters are amazing the story, back stories of everyone, I was obessed (still am) with Harry Potter and I have watched every documentary, and TV thing or Film, interview about JK Rowling or Harry Potter you can imagine. I even went to the Studio Tour in London, which is amazing and worth every penny, and if theres money invovled for a theme park in America and the Studio tour where they made it and you can visit, that must be sign of success. 

Edward Scissorhands

A Tim Burton film total must in a film person's life. With fantasies that usually are a relatable character on a journey to a mystical world, but this story as I'm sure everyone knows its a man with scissorhands from a different world trying to make sense of it all. Its just so sweet to watch and I love that Vincent Price was in it, which we all know how I feel about Vincent Price. I love,

The Chronicles of Narnia

Yes I know another series of films and books, but this again is a world that I love so so much! the books are much more interesting they are for me at the beginning amazing then they just go down hill, as they are abit more religious. I mean I know they do have a religious undertone to them, which is fine just not my cup of tea. Another fun fact is that in the book of The Lion The Witch and Wardrobe the old man that the Pevensive children stay with during WWII is basically J.R.R Tolkien because C.S Lewis and him were best friends in College I think. Wheather it'd be the cringe 80s version on the BBC or the 2005 version its a great story.

I know that half of this was series of book adaptations to films, and the other half was 80s films. But I mean this is what Fantasy films I like, and to be honest to enjoy a world thoroughly and getting deep in the film of fantasy its easier for me to like it as a series or saga. All these films are films that I watched when I was young, fantasy was a thing back when I was a kid, like most people I assume. 

Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Just got back from watching this film, and wow all I have to say. If you like the Harry Potter world or not it will blow your mind. 

The story takes place in New York in the 1920s, it's about a wizard called Newt Scamander who arrives to New York with a case filled with magical creatures, and he wants to write a book about them. Newt meets this Muggle, (in New York they call them No-Maj ) called Jacob Kowalski, then he meets this former Auror called Porpentina Goldstein which I'd like to point out amazing name, she also has a sister called Queenie Goldstein who is gifted in Legilimency, they go in this journey to find the creatures in Newt's case that have escaped. 

I love this film as I do love the whole Harry Potter Magical world, and I loved seeing a different side to it, because we all know about Harry Potter but we got to experience a completely new world, but at the same time the same world. I loved that its set in the 20s in New York, and you get to see different creatures, and a whole new outlook. I mean Queenie's character is skilled in Legilimency and as we all know from before, well what I know Legilimency is kinda the Proffessor Trelawney subject, but Queenie is nothing like Proffessor Trelawney she's a total opposite, she's very friendly and kindhearted towards Jacob the No-Maj I love that they use a different word for Muggles, because that would happen, different words for everything. Jacob's character is not dimwitted, but open and loveable. 

Newt is so amazing, he is a Hufflepuff, but he has proved that being a Hufflepuff isn't a bad thing not that it ever was but, the whole Harry Potter fandom/community does put a bad name on it, I don't have a problem with Hufflepuffs, no one should really. Eddie Redmayne at the moment has been flying, he is probably my favorite actor at the moment in the modern acting world, the things his done, he is amazing as Newt. Newt is so awkward and much more interested in creatures but not ignoring other people, he just wants the creatures/beasts to be happy, and he wants people to understand them. I love that the film doesn't necessarily revolve around Newt the other characters are brilliant. 

There will be a sequel to this film, and I am looking forward to it as there are characters in this film I'd like to get to know more. Like everyone in the MACUSA which stands for Magical Congress of the United States, which is the Ministry of Magic but in America and they are hunting down Newt to get the creatures and beasts he has. I'm interested in what happens and the background to Credence Barebone who is very troubled, and has a funny haircut. I like Percival Graves who is the director of Magical Security, they're both very intriguing characters, and I look for to what happens to them. Ezra Miller and Colin Farrel are so amazing, particularly Ezra.

 

I've heard very much 50/50 of Johnny Depp being cast as Grindelwald some love it, some don't I mean we've only seen like 5 minutes of him as Grindelwald, so again I'm looking forward to seeing Johnny Depp as Grindelwald. The creatures and beasts were beautiful, I loved the white beast thingy, worded that brilliantly this beast. Loved it I wanna take home as a pet such a gorgeous interesting thing. 

I loved watching this, I felt invested in the story, with the beasts, and creatures and magic just the whole world. I was sucked right back into the magical Harry Potter-esque world. Its worth a cinema ticket absolutely you won't waste your money.