Simple question with hefty answers.

What film in history best relates to your sense of the word "Magic?"

For me it was 'Pan's Labryinth', it carried so much myth on it's back but never waned. Really amazing visions of the strange and beautiful things we have yet to discover on this planet or even beyond.

Peter Pan

Lord of the Rings

Pan's Labyrinth.

Too many to list one:

- Legend
- Labyrinth
- The Princess Bride
- The Last Unicorn
- Wizard of Oz
- Night Breed

Great List! Yeah, even though I can't stand Cruise, Legend is such an awesome movie, and it really is magical to me. I also love Dragon Slayer.

Alice in Wonderland
Pans Labyrinth
Bridge to Terrabithia
Lord of the Rings
Ella Enchanted

Edit:

Oooh. I watched Legend for the first time last month. It was beautiful.

Big Fish.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Lady in White.

Legend ROCKS! I love that movie... and of course I love Wizard of Oz... I think my band's name says it all.

OH Alice in Wonderland

Alice in wonderland
Never ending story
I know there are some more just gotta let it marinate on the brain for a while.

Now I'm so watching Legend tonight.

I think I must be the only fantasy fan on earth who does not like Legend.

Alice in Wonderland is up there for me. Narnia movies. Did not see Pan's Labyrinth yet. Labyrinth. The Dark Crystal. Ladyhawke.

I've thought about this one for a while, and though there are many worthy choices, the original post asks for just one, and that is..... *drum roll, please* ...... :

Alice In Wonderland!!!

Based of Lewis Carol's writings, this piece of cinematic history (the cartoon, not the other live-action films, though they were also magical - except for that cringeworthy stop-motion movie "Alice", by Sven Jurgenmeister, or whatever his name was) fits the bill in every conceivable way in terms of its magical qualities, both in its action and its feel.

Wow! No one knows that movie! I love that show, but have never found it in the stores to buy.

EXCALIBUR

Beastmaster

Highlander

Never ending story.

Care bears the movie

"What Dreams May Come"...I think thats it..stars Robin williams
an amazing movie special effects are awesome..but I rate this a 10 / 10 kleenex movie

My favorite is "Somewhere In Time", with the late Christopher Reeves...It is a magical and beautiful story..

I gotta add 'The Spiderwick Chronicles' to my list. The more I see of it, the more I wish it were a true story. (Maybe it is )

Princess Bride.

Covers everything in my mind, after a bit of thought.

Although Pans Labyrinth is a close second.

I loved the movie "Legend."

OMG I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!! I found it on ebay and got it at a really good price! I have to agree. . .there was just something about Lady In White that really gets to you. . .

I'd have to say that The Labyrinth is WAAAAY up there for me. . .that movie is always the first one I think of when people start talking about fantasy movies. . .

Then, of course, even though I despise Tom Cruise, Legend is a very beautiful film. . . And Alice in Wonderland. . .I have to say I might possibly be more obsessed with the whole Alice in Wonderland thing than the Labyrinth. . .I actually preferred Through the Looking Glass (I think that's what it was called) with Kate Beckinsale in it to the disney version. lol.

Then, its not really "magic" so to say. . .I think "wonder" would be better, and I know I'm gonna get laughed at. . .but The Goonies was also one of my favorites. . .not fantasy or anything, but it sort awakens that childlike wonder in me again.

I hate to admit it, but I would have to say Sorceror and the Stone because it came out when I was so young and it had a HUGE impact upon my life....

Props to goalienan and "Somewhere in Time" starring the not-so-late Jane Seymour

Princess Bride was a good choice too

Excallibur

Mary Poppins.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Most of the old Disney films seem to be magical movies to remember .

Field of Dreams. I'm a 45 year old male, but end up a blubbering wreck every time i watch it. But my wife just doesn't get it at all. She just stares at me & says 'What'. Guess it's a guy thing.

The Star Wars Trilogy, classic of course.

I'm a woman and it's definitely not a guy thiing I have watched that movie over and over...Maybe you just have to have a dream and be a big baseball fan

I LOVE that movie and also another that is very like it and very wonderful.
It is almost impossible to get now though. If you love Somewhere In Time then you will be very lucky and happy if you ever get to see The Two Worlds of Jenny Logan

I would have to say Narnia, or Willow...

Time Bandits and Dark Crystal were two of my favorites.

No it's not the baseball (not a huge sports fan) I think it's the father thing, & all the things that should have been said.

Legend, Labyrinth and Willow are my favorites I remeber watching then when I was little and now as a grown women I own them all and still love them, even though they aren't very popular. Who can beat Bowie though

Hrmmm.... pretty much all of my thoughts are already in this one... Hrmmm....need to think of new ones that haven't been said...

Krull (Not to be confused with Kull the Konqueror <Kevin Sorbo is and always will be Hercules>)

Ummm Ummm.... The Conan movies (The guvenator at (IMO) his best)

oooo! I think it was called Little Monsters... you know...with Fred Savage (I think) God it's been so long since I've seen that one.


But yeah... It took me years to figure out the name of Legend Saw it all the time when I was a kid and could never remember the name. Always remembered the Big horned Devil though.

There was another one... was a cartoon... but involved a kid named Nemo...or Nero... or something... Flew around on his blanket into dream land... can't remember anything more about it, but remember loving it as a kid.

Ok, I think that's good enough for me

-C

Flash Gordon. *giggles*

Pan's Labyrinth, Bridge to Terabitha, and Lady in the Water.

Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Something About Mary

Another is Tuck Everlasting.

Dude....those are completely in the wrong genre here....

Unless Brad Pitt's lines in Snatch were actually wizard spell casting

-C

Umm..sorry..


But Pulp Fiction was magical to me...

Maybe when Vincent and Jules survived the barrage of bullets, in the "that's a tasty Big Kahuna burger" scene.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Jacket, Frailty, 12 Monkeys, The Prophecy, American Gothic (the series) Oh,one more movie:Donnie Darko