what are some good medieval fantasy movies youve seen?

pans labyrinth was indeed an awesome movie

i'm not a huge sword and sorcery fantasy fan, did like LOTR, and would very much like to see a live action Hobbit movie

omg i havent seen the hobbit

somethin good right of the bat.

You would like "Flesh and Blood", very gory, lots of graphic sex and other than the fact everyone has haircuts from the 1980's, it's fairly accurate in it's overall feel. Rutger Hauer is in it. He is also in one of my favorite medieval fairy tale movies - "LadyHawke", but that is more of chick flick. You can get either from NetFlicks and I think Youtube has scenes from both of them.

For even older flicks you can check out "The Vikings" with Kirk Douglas and "The Warlord" with Chuck Heston.

You might also like the Cadfael mysteries from PBS. It's about a medieval monk detective. What's not to like?

i quite liked the Cadfael series

i like my medieval stuff to be more documentary, recently caught a few episodes of terry jone's medieval lives, funny and informative

Here's the first battle scene from "Flesh and Blood" from Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuqx1Wm9f0&feature=related

Warning, Warning : disturbing scenes of bloody heads, bloody necks, bloody bodies, violent people hitting each other with sharp objects and some nudity thrown in for the heck of it.

Yes, I also liked the Terry Jones look at the medieval world. I didn't think documentary and Og in the same thought, but I should have.

gory, pans labrynth..

first 15 minutes some dude has his nose smashed in witha pistol, most gory movie ive seen lately, people getting shot thru the mouth, craziness, has to be the director tho, his style i suppose.

yay i get to check new movies out..

Stardust was entertaining, if not exactly Timeless Literature.

I just read Golden Compass, and plan to rent the movie at some point.

better book than movie, as is often the case

actually the graphic novel is the best representation, it's basically the novel with lots of great illustrations by charles vess, a first rate illustrator

I'll have to check that out.

I have probably 1400 fantasy and sci-fi books. And there are lots of great movies out there.

Check out the Highlander, original one is great.

Also, try the Japanese medieval movies - Kurosawa is the best! The Seven Samurai is one of my all-time faves.

Here -

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medfilms.html

Big list, with lots of foreign films. There are a shitload of European films set in this time period.

Cheers
Cycloptichorn

My favorite is the part serious, part spoof movie "A Knight's Tale" (Keith Ledger). Great fun and still one that evokes sympathy and has you cheering at the end.

"There are a shitload of European films set in this time period."

Excalibur !!!!
i haven't watched that for years.... great film

I liked all of the above.
I'm a big Cadfael fan as well, but I agree that that's not really fantasy.

Two others:
Dragonheart (I thoroughly enjoyed Sean Connery's voice for the dragon)
Dragonslayer (sensing a trend here...)

that was badass..

John Boorman's "Excalibur" is my favorite movies of the Arthurian legend. It was one of the first to use the now overdone music from "Carmina Burana" along with Wagner's "Siegfried's Funeral March" for the sword theme. Musically very well done, and the ending will break your heart.

Terry Gilliams take on the Brothers Grimm is quite good
The Brothers Grimm

Wait, WTF has Pan's Labyrinth to do with medieval times?

Ok that the Franco regime was backwards, but...

I always thought the movie _DragonSlayer_ was vastly underrated.