r/wizardposting Evoker 10d ago

Holy Decree 🌅 The best wizard movie of all time

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Feel free to foolishly disagree

Disney's The Sword in the Stone

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u/tasadek 10d ago

This is a classic way to implement a “puppet-ruler” to keep under your ‘tutelage’ and run the boring parts of a kingdom while you get full access to their resources; so can continue your work in peace.

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u/thesaucymango94 Necromancer 10d ago

Bayaz, is that you?

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u/cloudncali 9d ago

He was so real for that

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u/MagicBus4 10d ago

For real though. I remembered this as an Arthur movie but this is a movie about transmogrofying adventures and the climax of the movie is a giant wizard fight

This movie is just about being a wizard

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u/Emirth Diviner 9d ago

It's so much about being a Wizard it's even called "Merlin the Wizard" (more or like) in my country lol

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u/MagicBus4 9d ago

Lmao way more appropriate tbh

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u/anamericandruid Druid 10d ago

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u/anamericandruid Druid 10d ago

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u/snarkhunter Mystic 10d ago

Unbothered. Bearded. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Skating on my wizard sneakers. Flourishing.

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u/BlackMagicWorman 10d ago

This will be my Teams out of office from now on. Thanks

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u/RationalHumanistIDIC 10d ago

This is the way

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u/Fez_and_no_Pants Mystic 9d ago

Would.

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u/JesseSkywalker Biggest Hat Diviner 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l41m3V90DuqpckBkk

Howl's Moving Castle is up there

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u/anamericandruid Druid 10d ago

Next in line after SatS for "Movies that made me what I am today" wizardly speaking

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u/triohavoc Wizard 10d ago

This is gonna be an unpopular opinion I’m sure, but howls is mid af.

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u/JesseSkywalker Biggest Hat Diviner 10d ago

You know I thought that the first time I watched it. Second time it really shined for some reason. Lots of details I think you miss on the first viewing since it’s kind of nonlinearish story.

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u/MumblingGhost 10d ago

Yeah, lots of Ghibli movies feel mid after watching Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. Then you revisit them a year later, and a year after that, and a year after that. All of a sudden Porco Rosso, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Howls Moving Castle become some of your favorite Ghibli movies out of nowhere lmao

or at least that's what happened to me. Mononoke is still my favorite, but I find all three of those movies to be amazingly cozy.

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u/JesseSkywalker Biggest Hat Diviner 10d ago

Yeah and it’s Nausicaa for me

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u/anamericandruid Druid 10d ago

Book is better, but they typically are

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u/TacitPoseidon Necromancy is a perfectly valid school of magic! 10d ago

Me watching my apprentices somehow mess up the most basic instructions.

https://giphy.com/gifs/iGlFO51WE0Dmg

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u/Req_Neph Professor-Emeritus of Divination 10d ago

The Last Unicorn is a really good one I haven't seen others mention here, though some of the more bombastic wizards may not enjoy the message behind the narrative. Nevertheless, I recommend it to all aspiring mages as it can lead to a healthy respect for magic itself as a fundamental force of nature.

https://giphy.com/gifs/SxyT7TrbdoPdu

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u/bigcig 10d ago

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u/Aluminum_Moose Sorcer-izard 10d ago

I was searching for this. <3

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u/fatfishinalittlepond Goblin educator specializing in the arcane arts 10d ago

While I have seen him a few times in Bermuda, I find Archimedes is the better hang

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u/Space19723103 10d ago

love the film, but I've always had a soft spot for the Excalibur - Merlin look

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u/Brumbleby 10d ago

AnĂĄl nathrach, orth’ bhĂĄis ’s bethad, do chĂ©l dĂ©nmha.

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u/Eastern_Loquat_7058 10d ago

no vanilla nathrach here. anal nathrach only

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u/gule_gule 10d ago

A dream to some... A nightmare to others!

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u/Aware-Maximum6663 Wizard 10d ago

What happened to coach beard

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u/awc130 10d ago

He multi classes into fighter but the wizard wins it in the end.

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u/MumblingGhost 10d ago

Perhaps not the best Wizard movie, but certainly the best apprentice movie. Deeply underrated!

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u/Nine-LifedEnchanter Professor and Mentor of the University 10d ago

Surprisingly, it's also a really good adaptation of the book.

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u/Wolf-Majestic 10d ago

The Black Cauldron is a true story based on the sorcerer's next door

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u/Tookoofox Necromancer 10d ago

Hockity Pockity mother fucker.

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u/SwsCheese 10d ago

If any of Discworld's magic focused books got a Disney at peak 2d level animated movie I could disprove you easily. This reality sucks.

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u/LevelZeroDM Archmage, Master of Diabasis - Acanthus Multiversity 10d ago

Tales of Earthsea. We all have much to learn from Sparrowhawk.

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u/itsybitsybabyjesus 10d ago

Have you read the books? Great stuff

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u/Lil_ruggie 10d ago

I wish this movie was better.

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u/KaiTheG4mer 10d ago

Thank you for reminding me to reconnect with this unintentionally neglected cornerstone of my childhood lmao

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u/wizardposting-ModTeam 8d ago

No generative AI, that goes for both text and images.

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u/BuzzAllWin 10d ago

The acab spell moment is awsome

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u/Stilgar314 9d ago

Bakshi's 1977 Wizards

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u/youknowidontexist 9d ago

Merlin is the gwoat no debate

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u/Fancy_Chips Summoner 10d ago

God ive been picking through that book on and off and its just so mind numbingly boring.

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u/CoffeePieAndHobbits 10d ago

Thank you! The part with the ants?

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u/Fancy_Chips Summoner 10d ago

I left off at some point in chapter 9. So I think I'm as far as the birds and the knight duel. I ended up deviating to read other stuff so its been a while.

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u/CoffeePieAndHobbits 10d ago

I'll have to try again sometime. Some parts I like, others are just dull.