Jiggawatts
Adventurer
I would rather watch Krull til my eyes bled than whatever the hell that piece of garbage is.
There are already a million terrible generic fantasy films. Why make one called Dungeons & Dragons unless it represents the game as actually played? I don't want to see generic human bad guys, huge pitched battles, or love interests. I want to see five PCs fighting a displacer beast in a cave somewhere. I want to see the characters perform a full cavity search on their slain opponents to recover every last copper piece. I want to see the Shrine of the Kuo-toa or the Slave Pits of the Undercity. And I want to see the PCs bickering over minutiae.
I don't know I'm not interested in a pure dungeon crawling movie. I hate it at my table, so I won't pay for such a thing.
Also making a D&D movie is quite hard since everybody has a different opinion on what makes D&D, so unless they go for an adaptation of a novel series I don't think it will work.
Do you know how to make an ass-kicking D&D movie?! Bring Vin F'ing Diessel and make him star AND direct it. He has stated before that he is a D&D fan. Also, he was on the design team of those Riddik games that got very good reviews.
Other than that, yeah, make a good Drizzt movie and watch the nerds give you money (Myself included!).
I would rather watch Krull til my eyes bled than whatever the hell that piece of garbage is.
It is like SyFy is trying to outdo D&D in the stupid monster department.Dear god I was hoping it was a prank. I mean, Syfy did just have "Piranhaconda" so it's not like another D&D movie wouldn't continue the trend of crappy movies.
I'll second the recommendation for Records of Lodoss War. The first episode is kind of an in media res standalone that chronologically fits between the 6th and 7th episode (iirc).Reading the synopsis on the YouTube page, I am curious to see what they mean by demons and how they do a Mind Flayer. Of course, the chance that the Flayer is done well is very slim.
For those who want to see a good D&D story, grab yourself a copy of the first series of the anime Record of the Lodoss War. It's based on a Japanese knockoff of Basic D&D and the party consists of a Fighter, a Mage, a Thief, a Cleric, an Elf, and a Dwarf. It is worth watching. Amazon.com: Record of Lodoss War - The Complete Series (Collector's Edition): Takeshi Kusao, Yumi Tôma, Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Tanaka, Norio Wakamoto, Takeshi Aono, Bob Barry, Fûrin Cha, Meg Frances, Rica Fukami, Simone G
And, I second the notion of a Planescape: Torment film. But first, let's get an HD or 3D remake of the game. They are doing it with Baldur's Gate, why not Torment?
Reading the synopsis on the YouTube page, I am curious to see what they mean by demons and how they do a Mind Flayer. Of course, the chance that the Flayer is done well is very slim.