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Yes death to Snails and rogues who leave their rope behind and forget they can climb walls or go down them with rope and the fact he would have taken less damage by jumping than having purple lips beat him up first!
So who thought it was about a dragon hunt except with swordmages?
Yes death to Snails and rogues who leave their rope behind and forget they can climb walls or go down them with rope and the fact he would have taken less damage by jumping than having purple lips beat him up first!
So who thought it was about a dragon hunt except with swordmages?
I knew it would be something along those lines. Can't wait to see how it turns out!
Ok unless I fail at reading, I didnt see ANYONE mention what has the be the best part of this video: Where he goes to cross swords with Dr. Doom to defend his lady's honor, and decides "The hell with this!" and just punches him in the face. Classic. This is so bad its amazing, Ive watched it 3 times now and I feel both strangly unable to stop watching and dirty
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It doesn't work as D&D because there's just one protagonist rather than a group.
Not totally true! There is a scene somewhere in there near the end (no timer on the thing, so not sure the exact time) where our dashing young swordsman is stalking something with his band of compatriots: The Pirate, The Old Man, and some other guy I cant come up with a cheesy name for at the moment
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Has anyone tried to mute the video and play a different song to it to see how it fits? Someone on that deconstruction blog gave me the idea, it's proving difficult. Just about any song placed with the images will be amusing, but it'd be nice to find one that fits really well, synching vocals with when it shows him singing, and so forth.
I think I found a pretty good one, and unlike my other attempts, it's a song most people know! Try out Michael Bolton's "Go the Distance" with the video. Start the video when the Bolton song is 17-18 seconds in. It matches up pretty darn well, especially the middle and end portions. The videos next to each other, for ease of trial:
Notes so far, mostly for my own reference:
"Gimme Gimme Gimme" by E-Rotic synchs amazingly well if you let the video start ~8 seconds before the song. Just about every one of the triple-screen portions, where the screen fills one third at a time, even matches perfectly with the refrain "Gimme Gimme Gimme."
"Gamble Rumble" works alright if you delay the video 5 seconds, though then you have about ten extra seconds of song fade-out after the video still.
Man, I REALLY wanted "In My Dreams" by Dokken to fit. I started Dokken 4 seconds early and it synchs well, except for the vocal shots at 2:10 and 2:24, those are just impossible to fit.
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OK, I'm too lazy to read through the whole thread so I'm just gonna ask it:
Did anyone else think that the lead hero/singer looked like the love child of Ben Stiller and Legalos of LotR fame? *^
* Legalos was a chick, right?
^ And I'm by no means trying to impugn the fine body of work that has characterized Mr. Stiller's career (especially Zoolander) by mentioning him in the same breath as the pieces of crap that were the two D&D movies.
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Not totally true! There is a scene somewhere in there near the end (no timer on the thing, so not sure the exact time) where our dashing young swordsman is stalking something with his band of compatriots: The Pirate, The Old Man, and some other guy I cant come up with a cheesy name for at the moment
Oh yes, I considered that but they seem more like henchmen than fellow party members, considering the amount of solo action Mr. Blondy Man gets.
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Oh yes, I considered that but they seem more like henchmen than fellow party members, considering the amount of solo action Mr. Blondy Man gets.
But he's also clearly a Bard. So he's the one telling the story, and mostly just talked about the parts he was involved in, "writing the others out of the script," so to speak. Doesn't mean they did nothing.
In Suikoden I (video game), there's a narcissistic character who does little at a major event end-game, yet then in Suikoden III, you can find a play manuscript written by him. According to the play, he was the big hero that saved the day, and the main characters who did all the actual work were portrayed as nearly helpless side-kicks of his.
Video totally reminds me of that.
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So is there any chance if these talks Scott Rouse was rumoured to be having with Warner regarding a new d&d animated series to be shown on cartoon network next year or so will be using this as inspiration?
Come on Sword Mages are a must if they do, I wonder whether they'll use the original as a guide (ie: kids stuck in the Realms) or have an actual series where the stories have an arc?
And yes there is a rule in the book that prevents PCs gaining a villain's weapon after seeing him pull off that stunt and be able to reproduce it themselves!
But being hired to hunt down someone that turns out to be your missing wife will eventually be worked in tot the campaign if only so we can have a former ally turned rival become an enemy purely because he's protecting your wife and then have a masked character as a nemesis!
Well that last part if a definite! Been watching way too much Gundam series to avoid figuring that one out!
If there ever truly is a 3rd movie, I hope they spend money on finding a director who is known for having a love of strong and haunting visuals. That way, even if the movie sucks, I'll like watching it.
I nominate Tarsem Singh (The Cell) or Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, the Hellboy movies). Perhaps Clive Barker, he of Hellraiser fame.
Of course, to get any of those, we'd probably have to go for something in the Planescape setting, just to have a background capable of matching their taste in visuals.
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