| Legend (Ultimate Edition) | 
| Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Tom Cruise, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert, Peter O'farrell
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (458 reviews)
Sales Rank: 993
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 204 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: D21775D
ISBN: 0783266316
UPC: 025192177521
EAN: 9780783266312
ASIN: B000063UR2
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Theatrical Release Date: April 18, 1986
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
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.
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This strange, 1985 experiment by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) starred the up-and-coming Tom Cruise in a fairy-tale world of dwarfs and unicorns and demons. After the horn of a unicorn is broken, darkness and winter descend upon the world. Cruise's character, helped along by a magic sprite played by David Bennent (The Tin Drum), descends into hell to save paradise. This movie is almost a classic case of art direction gone amok. The somewhat amorphous Cruise doesn't lend much dramatic focus or artistic definition, but the drama between Tim Curry's satanic majesty and Mia Sara's character, who becomes a sort of princess of the netherworld, is pretty captivating. A mixed experience all around that makes one wish it had been more successful. --Tom Keogh
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 Brings back childhood memories September 29, 2008
The DVD arrived promptly and in very good condition. We had a great time revisiting this movie.
Excellent Viewing For All Ages September 13, 2008
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.
The musical score *does* make all the difference September 12, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
Excellent July 27, 2008
I love the movie. It arrived in perfect condition and I am happy with it
 Tangerine Dream Does It Better July 13, 2008
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.
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