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Metalsonic66 posted...

What's everyone's opinions on the movie Willow (1988)?

I just saw a trailer for this movie. Now, I know there are a lot of movies out there I don't know about. And a lot of movies I'm aware of but haven't seen. A big part of this is "nerd osmosis", where it's hard not to absorb bits of info when you're interacting with nerds over the years.

But somehow this one slipped through the cracks. Directed by Ron Howard, written by George Lucas, and starring Warwick Davis and prime Val Kilmer? And I've never even heard of it?

It was kind of a critical failure. It actually more than made its money back (though people at the time would have been astonished by that fact - most people thought it was a huge bomb), but it never really caught on, in spite of having a number of media tie-ins. Fantasy was kind of a dead genre in the 80s.

If you actually track it down and like it, there's a number of other things set in the world. Marvel did a comic adaptation of the film in the 80s, there are three novels set years after the film (plotted by Lucas and written by Chris Claremont, the famous X-Men writer from the 80s), and Disney+ is planning to do a series based on it next year.
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