The Last Unicorn

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Lloyd was not in Legend. I have refrained from my opinion of The Last Unicorn, but I can't with Legend. Legend was pure crap. It was worse than Krull.

[Slant]

The only good thing about Legend was Tim Currey as Sata... umm, I mean "Darkness."  Tom Cruise was woefully miscast and that ten year old kid frolicking around in nothing but a tiny leaf speedo was just plain wrong on too many levels to even think about.

[fuzzyoctopus]

sorry stacer, you're obviously thinking of something extremely unconnected.

[stacer]

I'm sure someone at some point when I was a kid recommended The Last Unicorn to me, because I seem to remember renting this movie I'm remembering, thinking it was what was recommended to me. Big surprise that it wasn't a cartoon, and it was so bad we didn't finish watching it. Someone killed a unicorn in the woods, it involved Christopher Lloyd somehow, but can't remember how.... Perhaps as a father? And it's not Legend I'm thinking of, which also involved a dead unicorn in the woods, didn't it?

The world will never know.

[42]

Actually, the director's cut of Legend is pretty good, in part because it doesn't resemble the original. Mostly cause they put the plot back in and got rid of the Flash Gordon soundtrack. For some reason they thought that cutting out a half-hour of footage and having synthasized music in original was a good idea.

There are some simularities between the Last Unicorn and Legend. The writers for Legend and Ridley Scott were trying to use as many "classic" fantasy elements as possible. The Last Unicorn is definitely full of classic elements, particularly pertaining to unicorns.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I'm sure someone at some point when I was a kid recommended The Last Unicorn to me, because I seem to remember renting this movie I'm remembering, thinking it was what was recommended to me. Big surprise that it wasn't a cartoon, and it was so bad we didn't finish watching it. Someone killed a unicorn in the woods, it involved Christopher Lloyd somehow, but can't remember how.... Perhaps as a father? And it's not Legend I'm thinking of, which also involved a dead unicorn in the woods, didn't it?

The world will never know.

Is this like that Frazz comic where he tells 8-year old Caulfield to read "The Little Prince" and Caulfield instead reads Machiavelli's "The Prince" ?

[Fellfrosch]

I absolutely hated the original Legend, but the new director's cut is, as 42 says, quite good. It's really so different you have to see it to believe it.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Huh. Maybe I'll have to give Legend another look. Do they still kill a unicorn in the woods? That's when we turned off the original.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Good movie, great book. Peter S. Beagle has an amazing way with language. I wasn't thrilled with his themes in his other novels.

Tage: The Last Unicorn is about a unicorn (protectors of the forests) who hears a rumor that she is the last and goes looking for the rest of her kind. A wizard turns her into a human to protect her from the red bull, a magic beast controlled by the wizard who has captured all the other unicorns. She falls in love with the wizard's adopted son, they defeat the wizard, and free the unicorns.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

who, if I remember, then inexplicably turn into whales.

[Brenna]

turn into whales?  I don't think so.

They go off and spread around the world--they go back to their forests.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

ok, then wt heck did *I* see?

[Brenna]

I have no idea.  Perhaps you were remembering the part where the unicorns are trapped in the white froth of the breakers (well, trapped in the sense that they were too scared of the Red Bull to come out of the water)?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

c'est possible. Or maybe I'm just high. Never know with this medication.