Just when I thought there might have been hope for the second D&D movie...

[crazedmilk]

Forgotten Realms: The Simple Life

Someone's leaked some of the dialogue from the highly anticipated upcoming D&D sequel! Let's take a peek, shall we?

Paris: (holding pitchfork and wearing +4 thong of abject sluttyness) There's that <hmmph> Midnight. Ever since she got control of the weave, she has been such a bitch. what-ever.

Nicole: Yeah, like, just about anybody can wield spellfire. I mean, like, look! (blasts hole in nearest barn, and ogling redneck child)

Paris: I just hope that something changes soon before I tell the producers to send me back to Krynn. I mean, those Minotaur Paladins are SO hot.

 

[Mystery Man]

Someone's leaked some of the dialogue from the highly anticipated upcoming D&D sequel! Let's take a peek, shall we?

Paris: (holding pitchfork and wearing +4 thong of abject sluttyness) There's that <HMMPH>Midnight. Ever since she got control of the weave, she has been such a bitch. what-ever.

Nicole: Yeah, like, just about anybody can wield spellfire. I mean, like, look! (blasts hole in nearest barn, and ogling redneck child)

Paris: I just hope that something changes soon before I tell the producers to send me back to Krynn. I mean, those Minotaur Paladins are SO hot.

*shudder* Please, I beg of you. Never mention ...that girl... and the Forgotten Realms in the same sentence again.

 

[Arnwyn]

Well, then please elucidate.

Done already, and multiple times. See below.

With the exception of takyris,

And Jeremy. And Henry. Note that others have also had (the misfortune?) to see some of the noted movies, etc. If you need others to concur, well then -
"I concur".

If you want to ignore the given evidence for whatever reason, it's your perogative. But given the "roles" that she's been in, the strikes are against her so far. The negative reactions are both perfectly understandable and perfectly reasonable.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

I see a few people with the opinion that D&D simpy cannot be used as the basis of a good movie. I disagree, and I back up my opinion by saying this:

If you changed the title of the Lord of the Rings movie to Dungeons and Dragons, most people would have said it was a wonderful movie that was faithful to D&D.

Change a few names and the title, and LOTR is the best D&D movie you'll ever see. It can be done. It just takes passion and talent. Passion alone isn't enough and can in fact be a detriment.

 

[Desdichado]

Done already, and multiple times. See below.

And Jeremy. And Henry. Note that others have also had (the misfortune?) to see some of the noted movies, etc. If you need others to concur, well then -
"I concur".

If you want to ignore the given evidence for whatever reason, it's your perogative. But given the "roles" that she's been in, the strikes are against her so far. The negative reactions are both perfectly understandable and perfectly reasonable.

No, it hasn't been done. I've seen pointed out to me a number of cameos where, if she was lucky, she had one line. In a "role" where she essentially either played herself or a parody of herself. I'm not ignoring any evidence, because I haven't seen any.

 

[WayneLigon]

But the Chicken Little-ness of this thread is absolutely astounding.

And is there any corroboration of this casting from a place other than an anonymous tipper to Dark Horizons? Generally it's a good idea to disregard all casting rumors until contracts are signed.

 

[Enchantress]

Man, that's the weirdest typo I've ever seen. Somehow you typed "porn video scandal" when you meant to type "porn video publicity stunt."

...or maybe I'm just being overly suspicious. Maybe there's no connection between her amateur porn tape making front page news just before her crappy reality TV show came on. Maybe the entire world knew who she was and was fascinated by her and she didn't need any publicity to drum up interest in her TV show. After all, she was already internationally recognized and universally famous just because she was the heir to the Hilton fortune, did occasional and fairly marginal modeling jobs, and...uh...went to a lot of parties.

I'm sure the fact that she went from "Paris Hilton? No, I've never been to France, and I think I'd probably stay somewhere else when I went" to having her picture (with or without grainy nightvision) slapped across every magazine and celebrity gossip show in creation was an entirely unintentional side effect of the "accidental" release of a video showing her having bad sex. It's just funny how that worked out, huh?

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anyway, it's not like a second d&d movie would be more doomed with her in it
ryan

Hmmm...... You make a good point, though I can't remember feeling this sheepish since first grade. I still think that she must have some kind of alterior motive for taking such a sudden interest in the nerds and geeks of the world. Does she really seem like the kind of person who has anyone's but own best interest in mind? :\

 

[Someone]

When I read "Paris Hilton" in the first page, at first I beieved you were talking of an hotel.

 

[Mercule]

and Orlando Bloom has gotten quoted as saying some fairly stupid stuff,

I'm always curious about this sort of stuff. What did he say?

If it's political/otherwise in appropriate, could you drop me an email @yahoo.com.

 

[barsoomcore]

Actually, the production companies that is funding your film care how talented you are.

I never said I didn't care about how talented somebody is. I said that if I had to CHOOSE between talent and passion, I'd choose passion. I'd rather watch somebody who really CARES about what they're doing make a hash of it than watch somebody do something really well without giving me any sense that they care about it.

Best, obviously, is watching people who are really good at something do it with loads of passion.

As for the level of determination, trust me, that is a big difference between Courtney Solomon and Peter Jackson, whose only common ground is passion.

I would say that Jackson has reserves of passion over Solomon. I mean, the amount of effort and faith it took to get LotR made the way he made it blows me away. I can still wish that big parts of it were done differently, and I think on any scale it fails at points, but it's still a magnificent achievement. If I've ever given the sense that I think the D&D movie compares at all to LotR, I apologize. I think the D&D movie is a very typical bad fantasy movie, nearly on a par with, say, The Sword and the Sorcerer, or The Beastmaster. The acting at its worst is worse than either of those films, but the leads in the D&D picture were better, I thought. The story was no stupider and the effects significantly better, and a couple of the fight scenes actually worked.

Yeah, it was lame. It was obviously made by people possessing very little experience or talent. I find that endearing. It find it far more appealing than many of the slicker, big-budget pictures that leave me with no sense of the people who made them. I don't think Courtney Solomon's much of a director, but I do feel like I kinda know him, and I think we'd get along just fine.

I bet he likes Beastmaster, too.