Willow (1988)

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4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Super Serious Film Fest: Fantasy reaches it's thrilling conclusion with a look at 1998's Willow. The brain child of one George Lucas, directed by protege Ron Howard, and starring the delightful Warwick Davis, Willow still struggles to this day to find an audience. It suffers from simultaneously being curiously dark for a family film, but far too simple, uncomplicated, and broad to hold much interest for adults. While it boasted some cutting edge special effects for our day, the best one might be the baby Elora herself, played by a suite of infants. It shouldn't be possible for a baby to be this winsome and charming, but there it is. Stream Willow online: https://amzn.to/2w9uo1g Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Willow was a 1988 American fantasy film directed by Ron Howard with a story by George Lucas,
0:06.6	produced by George Lucas, starring War McDavis and Val Kilmer.
0:11.6	I don't know what your relationship is to this film. I was not allowed to watch this because...
0:19.0	Probably wasn't either. It was very Star Wars adjacent and I knew that when I was growing up and I really wanted to see it. All my cousins and friends were seeing it, but unlike Star Wars, which I could somehow sneak by on a science fiction exception.
0:34.0	Just blatant mysticism and magic and all the things would frighten a person like my mother.
0:39.6	So I wasn't allowed to see it.
0:40.7	I don't have any deep affectionate material. I know that one of the first
0:44.8	things I did when I moved out was to rent this movie and watch it and I remember being pretty
0:49.2	disappointed thinking that this is not star like I thought this would be like Lord of the Rings meet Star Wars and it was
0:57.3	Well, I think the key here is that you said when you moved out
1:00.7	Which to me says you were probably aged out to? Yeah, I was 21, 22. Yeah. But still this was the the E. Walk Adventures meets Lord of the Rings at best. And so but I thought like okay this will be a fun one to end the
1:16.4	super serious film fest. I actually kind of thought it was a little bit of a
1:20.0	bummer a little bit of a drag. Oh yeah I didn didn't have this I found it very hard to engage in this material and
1:27.2	wasn't pretty it wasn't super bad. It was definitely wasn't super good. There's not a whole lot to like just savage or
1:34.0	criticize because the film firmly has its heart in the right place at all times.
1:38.1	I just, yeah, it wasn't for me. What do you think, Jim?
1:43.4	I agree, it's not for me.
1:46.6	This feels more like a kids movie than any of the ones you've mentioned before,
1:50.0	aside from maybe Yuwak Adventure.
1:52.0	It's probably an apt comparison. But yeah, this movie has a lot of
1:57.2	Lucasian elements. All of his sort of big ideas that you think of from Star Wars a lot of his character
2:04.0	tropes those all spill over from Star Wars into this and I heard in an interview
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