Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Conan the Barbarian, Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits, Krull, some of the Harry Potter movies.

LotR, the dialogue and acting just is so off for me. It almost feels like the Star Wars prequels to me. Overly melodramatic, overly serious yet somehow corny performances with dialogue and writing that doesn't grab me.

It just isn't my thing.

While I am biased in terms of preferring weird fantasy over high fantasy, there are high fantasy (orcs, elves, wizards) that I enjoy such as Harry Potter (first two in particular) and others that I've forgotten about. I kind of put Conan the Barbarian in the high fantasy category as it's much more dungeons and dragon-y and more traditional in terms of fantasy and it's one of my favorite movies.

But there's something about LotR where I can't connect with it. There's a stuffiness to it and it presents itself as incredibly epic, but I don't resonate with the "epic grand scale" of it as much as I can tell the movie wants me to.

It's hard to explain. It's like trying to explain an intangible. I like all sorts of movies. I'm pretty wide in terms of my tastes and all that, but as much as I dislike all the Marvel MCU crap, I at least get it and see what the audience sees more than the LotR trilogy.

Sort of like the millennials love for the Star wars prequels. I'll never understand why those movies are still talked about and most video games Star wars mods for games anymore are of the prequel movies and not the originals for some reason.

It's a fundamental difference in taste.

Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Conan the Barbarian, Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits, Krull, some of the Harry Potter movies.

LotR, the dialogue and acting just is so off for me. It almost feels like the Star Wars prequels to me. Overly melodramatic, overly serious yet somehow corny performances with dialogue and writing that doesn't grab me.

It just isn't my thing.

While I am biased in terms of preferring weird fantasy over high fantasy, there are high fantasy (orcs, elves, wizards) that I enjoy such as Harry Potter (first two in particular) and others that I've forgotten about.

But there's something about LotR where I can't connect with it. There's a stuffiness to it and it presents itself as incredibly epic, but I don't resonate with the "epic grand scale" of it as much as I can tell the movie wants me to.

It's hard to explain. It's like trying to explain an intangible. I like all sorts of movies. I'm pretty wide in terms of my tastes and all that, but as much as I dislike all the Marvel MCU crap, I at least get it and see what the audience sees more than the LotR trilogy.

Sort of like the millennials love for the Star wars prequels. I'll never understand why those movies are still talked about and most video games Star wars mods for games anymore are of the prequel movies and not the originals for some reason.

It's a fundamental difference in taste.