Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. These are triumphs of imagination and world-building that seem incapable of losing their power to enchant. Space-borne fantasy - “Star Wars” and its ilk, a rich enough world to inspire its own list - is excluded here, as are films in which fantasy is expressed primarily as simply daydreams. These 40 fantasy films open up new worlds and new paths of understanding and empathy. The best escapist entertainments ultimately bring us back to ourselves. Sometimes you need to step outside of yourself to look back in. The best fantasy filmmakers - Jean Cocteau, Guillermo del Toro, and Hayao Miyazaki, among so many others - understand the psychological power of escapism. But retro it was and it appealed to a lot of old gamers who missed the old sprite based games. It came complete with retro sound effects and an overall vivid color palette by passing any old limitations of old NES games though. But the cinema has a capacity for escape unlike any other medium - shouldn’t that be embraced? the World, the game was a complete throwback to the days of retro gaming. Escapism is often used as a dismissive term, even by those who use it endearingly. Tolkien’s motto in “The Lord of the Rings” also captures one of the things that’s so powerful and intoxicating about the art of movies itself: that feeling of leaping through the screen, leaving your life behind, and being immersed in something totally new.
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