It was one of the ones that I never got around to watching growing up in the 80s/90s, and I still have quite a few to go through (especially 80s rated R movies I wasn't allowed to watch but thankfully Tubi exists).
The movie was fine, but unfortunately I couldn't help but think about how Disney totally butchered the IP. I cancelled D-Plus in 21 but I heard about the Willow tv show and while watching the movie I couldn't help but say "you really couldn't come up with some sort of family friendly followup without injecting gay crap or current year nonsense into it". They constantly talk about diversity but it seems like the writer rooms are people with the exact same worldview off of a factory conveyer belt. Best example is an article I read when Star Trek Discovery had first started about how the writing room had to do a Star Trek boot camp because they didn't have any knowledge of the IP.
I just feel awful for Val Kilmer.
Great actor who lost his voice to throat cancer.
He met his wife working on Willow.
He chose not to get treatment until last minute due to religion. I can't remember who convinced him to get treatment, but it was another actor.
This is why "Christian Science" (that's the name of his sect) has always rubbed me the wrong way.
We live in a fallen world. You're going to need medicine. Get it.
At least, do your research first. I don't trust doctors now either.
Pro tip: fenbendazole.
It's all about choices. I'm glad he made a choice he could live with. I was sad that they hyped him up for the second Top Gun, and then he didn't speak. He has a documentary that uses all of his movies to use his own voice. And, they could use him silent ?! I did not like that choice.
I like him in ,"The Saint" the best I think.
Yea, he was in a lot of great movies. I was thinking about his portrayal of Jim Morrison the other day when I was listening to some Doors music. He did a great job. Also that one movie with Denzel about time travel was really good. To name a few of course.
Fun fact: He imitated Jim Morrison's voice so well that he fooled the surviving members of The Doors into thinking it was actually Morrison.
"I love you Sorsha?" I don't love her, she kicked me in the face!
In real life her and Val Kilmer were married right?
Warwick Davis was super young, i think around 18 filming this. But he was already in a few movies by then. I have the strangest memory of getting a willow coloring book at a Wendy's when they still had the taco buffet, and coloring the brownies.
I played the Willow NES game. It was actually pretty good. It had a mechanic where you had to equip special swords to defeat the ghost enemies in the game. Took me a long time to figure that out but once I did the game was great!
He was one of the Ewoks too. Wendy’s back then was awesome along with dine in Pizza Hut. I also loved the story of the founder of Wendy’s
Pizza Hut, that brings back memories. With the sit down Tetris table, red cups, and personal pan pizzas with books read sheets
The Tetris Table!
Wendy's always had those tables with old newsprint/articles designs under acrylic. Pizza Hut dine in was peak times. Ironically the last good one I went to was in Redwood Shores, Cali, in like 2006. Still had the full salad bar, huge variety, etc. Table top arcade cabinents.
I wonder why Pizza Hut stopped dine in. They could be like Cicis
It's been 15-20 years since I've eaten at Pizza Hut. Did they all stop dine in? There are still two near me that are full buildings with dining rooms that are open. Are they just not using them anymore?
Oh wow. I haven’t seen a dine in since the 90s. But most of my life has been in Oklahoma and Texas
Yeah, I just checked the local place on the Pizza Hut website, and it's not immediately obvious because they present you the options to order for delivery or carry out pretty prominently, but under the list of "Services" for the location it says dine in.
So I guess they still operate the dining room at the ones that are full size freestanding restaurants. They used to do lunch buffet there as well, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere.
Pizza hut has a set of locations now called "pizza hut classic" that is like a time capsule of the way they used to be
Decent fantasy flick, Val Kilmer makes the movie.
I remember when they'd make a movie. You'd watch it. And that was that. Next year, they would make different movies, with different people and ideas and shit.
Star Wars nerds fucked everything.
I enjoy pre Disney Star Wars and am a big fan of the expanded universe books and comics. I remember thinking in the 90s that the future of stars was novels which I was fine with. I’m all for making different movies since reboots or remakes are being done all the time but having books for the more hardcore fans is fine.
Out of the way, peck.
Whatever you do Smith, don't try and read the sequel book. You don't deserve to do that to yourself.
I heard about it. Dose it follow Willow’s story?
Nope. The baby. Who grows up to be a fully validated spoiled bitch.
Wtf lol. I was looking up willow yesterday because i got something related to it to sell. I was wondering what it was. Sorsha figure.
'Willow' was a movie for little kids. It worked for the target audience but is now dated and doesn't really resonate with older audiences. It's still leagues beyond that cringe tv show. That goes without saying.
It's still as great as it was over 30 years ago. Doesn't have many CGI effects, mostly everything is made with practical effects. It's a fun well made fantasy movie to watch with your kids.
Willow was always a three stars out of five movie. Mostly due to the acting and experimental special effects. It was flawed but charming.
Sailor Moon was an anime for little kids, but it still fucking resonated.
Are you really watching it as an adult?
Recently finished the second season.
Well I’m pretty retro so I find very little dated. I still enjoy Jack Benny or the George Burns show. This was a movie that I just never got around to seeing.
I was thinking about doing this for the tv show Blade. I skipped it because it wasn't Wesley Snipes.
I vaguely remember that tv series. You'd think Disney would work on some sort of "old man Blade" type story due to the positive reception his cameo got.
What happened with their planned Blade movie is yet another example with everything wrong in mainstream entertainment. A story about a vampire hunter shouldn't be hard to write, but they couldn't resist making some women the center piece.
He refuses to work in the US because the IRS tried to illegally steal his wife and kids money. Sylvester Stalone is his friend, and works with that for Expendables.