I don't have the same sense of time that a lot of people seem to have. Being 37yo, I consider anything made during my adulthood to be modern. I also have a broader definition of *fantasy*; technically, anything fictional should fall under that title, but I know you mean *fantastic*.
Films I consider modern fantasy classics are Primer, Audition, Unbreakable, American Beauty, Starship Troopers, Punch-Drunk Love, Minority Report, The Lion King, Kill Bill, Storytelling, Zoolander, The Machinist, Waking Life, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Novels (I am not widely read, & tend to read older books that are easier to find used previously enjoyed): Barker's The Great & Secret Show, Weaveworld, Walker's Black Box.
TV: Harvey Birdman, Brak, Spongebob, the last two seasons of Enterprise, Boston Legal.
Comics: Sin City, Marvel's Civil War event, Superman For All Seasons, The Walking Dead, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volumes I & II (PLEASE do not mistake the travesty that was the LXG film as being remotely related to the books - completely different stories), the 2004-5 series of She-Hulk.
I've left off works other's recommended, like 1st The Matrix & the Potter books, etc.
And I must disagree with the LOTR films - despite being excellently written/cast/acted/filmed, I was as bored by them as I was by the brilliant prose that Barker put into the incredibly imaginative but exhausting Imagica. Heh - do I need to duck & run, too?
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Date: 2008-05-12 02:31 pm (UTC)Films I consider modern fantasy classics are Primer, Audition, Unbreakable, American Beauty, Starship Troopers, Punch-Drunk Love, Minority Report, The Lion King, Kill Bill, Storytelling, Zoolander, The Machinist, Waking Life, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Novels (I am not widely read, & tend to read older books that are easier to find
usedpreviously enjoyed): Barker's The Great & Secret Show, Weaveworld, Walker's Black Box.TV: Harvey Birdman, Brak, Spongebob, the last two seasons of Enterprise, Boston Legal.
Comics: Sin City, Marvel's Civil War event, Superman For All Seasons, The Walking Dead, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volumes I & II (PLEASE do not mistake the travesty that was the LXG film as being remotely related to the books - completely different stories), the 2004-5 series of She-Hulk.
I've left off works other's recommended, like 1st The Matrix & the Potter books, etc.
And I must disagree with the LOTR films - despite being excellently written/cast/acted/filmed, I was as bored by them as I was by the brilliant prose that Barker put into the incredibly imaginative but exhausting Imagica. Heh - do I need to duck & run, too?