Last time I watched the entire trilogy, I came to the same conclusion. I used to like them but... last time I just couldn't do it anymore. So bloated, so corny... and the Hobbit movies are even worse.
The whole fantasy film genre is cursed. So few actually good moives.

Now, now. We'll always have Deathstalker 2.

Not in the slightest, you're just a normie.

I've seen some terrible, obscure 80's fantasy, but never that one. I think the one's I did see convinced me to stear clear.

My list of good fantasy films is quite short:

- Labyrinth
- Legend
- Fire & Ice (animated movie, if that counts)
- The Golden Compass (I liked it, so of course they cancelled the trilogy)
- plus a bit of anime and maybe a thing or two that I forgot

Everything is relative. I probably have the least normal bookshelves in town.

Ftfy

I think it's because they rely on fantastical characters and worlds as opposed to making their material interesting.

The same old "heroes journey"/genre trope stuff does get old pretty quickly. Both in movies and games; when they starting rammbling on about about ancient evils and chosen one's, my eyes glaze over and my brain feels tired.

It's odd that I like Fire & Ice so much. The narrative is the least inventive, most trite fantasy plot ever conceived. I think it works more as an audiovisual experience than on a story level. It would probably be about as enjoyable to me with Hebrew language and subtitles.

:beer:

Thinkin' I'm gonna see The Post sometime this weekend, maybe on a Saturday matinee for the sake of money. Anybody else gonna see it?

I am a really big fan of Inception.

In the interests of accuracy though, there is no difference between what the artist has identified as levels 4 and limbo. They're the same place, just, Ariadne left it before she had the opportunity to lose herself there. I'm glad she paid off her student loans though.