In my mind there is something wrong with Hollywood's latest crop of fantasy movies.  All of the movies are centered around younger (school age) children (and more importantly) with younger storylines.  It seems too long since the Lord of the Rings trilogy was in theatres.  We have these days movies like Narnia, Terabithia, The Golden Compass and, of course, Harry Potter, the reason why that teen fantasy is the de facto standard.  I would just like a new fantasy movie to not be written for the average 10 year old and potentially cater to someone who has a valid driver's license.

I never knew the golden compass was put into film. I thoroughly enjoyed that particular trilogy by phillip pullman. heck I am even waiting for the last harry potter to come out.
I am with you as far as holywood only catering to the prepubescent where fantasy is concerned. That is where all the money is after all. You can get loads of moolah out of people because the children need to be accompanied by an adult. The sales of candy rockets exponentially too causing more of your dosh to leave your pocket. I suppose they need to make a buck somewhere huh. All that Internet piracy must be killing them.

Just stick with the classics and let holywood eat itself.

I may be young, but I have read many of the classics; The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia etc., and I loved them to bits. I feel that that type of genius fantasy writing has diminished but a diffrent technique and style of fantasy writing has been born. I love all books; Harry Potter, Dan Brown's Novels, J.R.R Tolkiens many fantastic books and countless others, and I hope many more writers of this profession will began to grow in the near future.

I also watched many other classics and I think the movie business has become too comercial and it lacks the passion that so many classics had, and too few still have today.

We do need more adult fantasy movies Earl, the sad thing is they won't make them because we don't bring enough income in,as with most things profit is all.

I think they just run out of ideas. Need to come up with more ideas for video games which earn alot more. Marketeers. Sheesh....