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Legend (Ultimate Edition)
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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Directed By: Ridley Scott
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Theatrical Release: April 18, 1986
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Tom Cruise, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert, Peter O'Farrell
Tom Cruise stars in this visually-stunning fantasy adventure in which pure good and evil battle to the death amidst spectacular surroundings. Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story has Tom Cruise as a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate to undertake a heroic quest. He must save a beautiful princess, Mia Sara, and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, Tim Curry, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age. Co-starring Billy Barty and Alice Playten and directed by Ridley Scott, famed for his remarkable settings and unparalleled imagery, the incredibly realized fable is the stuff movie legends are made of.
User Submitted Legend (Ultimate Edition) Reviews
October 10, 2008
Legend
This should be considered a great '80s classic! For those of you who are fans of Labyrinth or the Princess Bride, you will love this movie as well! Its a great tale about how Good overcomes Evil! There is drama, excitement, romance, & humor: something for everyone!
September 29, 2008
Brings back childhood memories
The DVD arrived promptly and in very good condition. We had a great time revisiting this movie.
September 13, 2008
Excellent Viewing For All Ages
This is an excellent movie. There is no filthy language, sex or real violance. I wish holywood would make more movies like this. All ages can watch this and it's truly enjoyable.
September 12, 2008
The musical score *does* make all the difference
Legend is one of my favorite movies. While the acting isn't great, the incredibly beautiful, dream-like fantasy world setting *more* than makes up for any negatives (IMO). I have seen both versions of the movie, the edited version with the haunting musical score that included "Loved by the Sun" by Tangerine Dream, and the the original Goldsmith musical score.
Honestly, while it sounds more "dated", I prefer the Tangerine Dream musical score as it seems more fitting to the fantasy world depicted in this movie. It has that eerie and surreal tone to the music which I felt captures what is occurring on screen wonderfully, which of course was a fantasy world come to life.
I also liked the ending of the edited version better as well, with Lily and Jack running off into the sunset and looking back to wave at their fairy friends. In the unedited version, after Jack finds Lily's ring and places it on her finger, they speak for a few minutes and Lily sings to him. Then Jack watches as she runs away, with the scene changing to Jack running off into the sunset alone, waving back to his forest fairy friends.
I'm not exactly sure why I didn't like the added footage during that scene (of Lily and Jack talking), but it felt out of place. Perhaps it could be due to the fact the version I grew up watching and enjoying as a child was the edited version. This is just my opinion, but whenever I watched the ending version where Lily and Jack run off together, I always thought they were living their HEA. It was more firm in my mind that they did have their HEA (after all, aren't fairy-tales with the hero in this case Jack, and the heroine princess, Lily, supposed to live happily ever after?), while in the original version all you get is Lily pretty much saying to Jack, "Keep my ring, remember me I'll be back" and she goes running off with him watching her. Oh well, this is my reasoning behind why I preferred the edited version of the movie.LOL.
I think Legend is still one of the best fantasy movies out there. Too bad there aren't fantasy movies being produced like Legend anymore (or Willow, The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, to mention a few more of my favorite fantasy movies). I have seen more recent fantasy movies, such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the first Narnia movie, but they miss that particular *something* the other movies I mentioned made in the 80s have. Not that I didn't enjoy the LOTR movie and Narnia movie, I did, but fantasy movies such as Legend have a magical quality of a fairy-tale come to life straight from the storybook.
There is just something about the fantasy genre (whether books or movies) that captivates me, IMO, fantasy is all about dreams, hopes, and marvelous wonders. How many of us as children were told those fairy-tale stories and we believed in our innocence that there were such creatures as elves, fairies, and unicorns? I think fantasy movies like Legend are simply those fairy-tales come to life, or as close to "real" as one can get to imagining what such a world would truly look like if it was reality.
July 27, 2008
Excellent
I love the movie. It arrived in perfect condition and I am happy with it
July 13, 2008
Tangerine Dream Does It Better
The version with the Tangerine Dream soundtrack is much better than The Jerry Goldsmith crap. That's the one I watched as a kid and that's the one I really want. This version is ruined with music that doesn't belong.
July 5, 2008
Awful
This film was awful. The special effects were good, but the acting and characters were cheesy and it had a very weak plot.
July 3, 2008
Warning about this version of the Movie
If you loved the original movie and soundtrack DO NOT BUY THIS DVD. It is altered and much of the original music is different. I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED and whomever "monkied" with this version of the movie for the DVD made it a worse production than the original.
June 18, 2008
Paid for new I recieved Used.
I recently purchased Legend from this company. I paid for it new price and I recieved a Used Copy. It was already opened and the DVD's were scratched as well as parts on inside cover were damaged. I am dissapointed with that.
June 17, 2008
2 & 1/2: A Gorgeous Disaster
If this film had been blessed with a cohesive, original plot and adequate writing to match its truly breathtaking cinematography and art direction, it could have been a classic.
Instead, it was a gigantic commercial and artistic failure for director Ridley Scott and...well, practically everyone involved. Tom Cruise--at the time hot off the 'Risky Business' craze--was lucky to have escaped with a career after this massive blunder.
The story? Well, an evil Satan-type named "Darkness" wishes to put the kibosh on sunlight (his destroyer) by killing a couple of unicorns and kidnapping a hottie-Princess while he's at it. Thwarting his plan are a scraggly "forest-child" (Cruise) and a gaggle of elvish midgets (or Little People). That's the story/plot. The dialogue is even worse. Stilted, and full of more vacuums than a black hole, the writing and pacing is hideous, under-developed, and throwaway.
Sadly, this need not have been the case. Strictly visually, this is an absolute triumph. Utterly beautiful, captivating, surreal, exquisite, almost operatic, if you will. Sets, locations, costumes, scenery--all achingly superb. To watch this film with the sound turned completely off while playing something from Mozart is to trip the light fantastic, as they say. What you "see" is the genius of Ridley Scott as a visual film-maker. What you "hear" and perceive is one of the most bafflingly awful scripts ever thrown (like cold spaghetti) against a film of this expense and presumed ambition.
The performances are at the mercy of the bad bad writing, though David Bennent as Gump manages to wield the charisma pretty well. Cruise is awful. Mia Sara briefly engaging. Billy Barty criminally underused. Tim Curry is unintentionally, hysterically hammy in his scenes as Darkness (except maybe during the otherwise badly cut "wooing" interlude with the madeover princess). Alice PLayten as Blix is impressive, but mostly because of the genuinely frightening costume. The unicorns manage to get all of their lines right. The chick who played the fairy, Oona, is convincing. Whomever was inside the Meg Mucklebones costume was VERY convincing.
Anyhow, this deluxe version features the theater-cut and the remastered Director's Cut, and it must be admitted that the added scenes in the latter DO help the story make a little more sense, flesh it out a bit more, but it's still a comparatively crappy tale. It's also debatable whether the original score is better than the cool Tangerine Dream score that was eventually used for the film's commercial release in the '80s. Both have their merits, but neither can save the meat & potatoes of this paradoxical flick.
The consolation is that it is so mesmerizingly beautiful that every fan of fantasy MUST own it and cherish it for this quality alone. It's almost Felliniesque in its power to visually entrance the viewer. I'm telling you again, if there had been a savvy story, proper pacing, and worthy dialogue, this could have been up there with Scott's immortal cult classics. But it ain't.
Get it anyway if you're a Scott and/or fantasy buff, or get it for the real young kiddies who won't care how utterly wretched the writing is, and so you can scare them senseless. Young and old will be glued to what they see on the screen and thrilled by that alone.
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