doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Nope. Why would I be? The story literally makes sense. Events follow from eachother, motivations are clear and in line with human behavior, and the general story outline is both fairly well represented in past and contemporary media, and easy to follow. We can reasonably disagree on whether the story is good, but it is objectively sensible as a story.-.-
You’re joking, right?
I thought the story, characters, and setting were all crap, too. So, maybe not.
Really? What was wrong with the characters or setting? Like, what, if anything, makes you sure that you’d dislike them on paper, if given a synopsis of what/who the characters would be? Or is it the performance of the actors that you view as crap?
And especially the setting...like...it’s a better setting in terms of basic synopsis than Greyhawk of Forgotten Realms, it just maybe isn’t executed as well. But even then, I’d say that it’s the primary thing in the movie that doesn’t need changing in a hypothetical remake (worse movies have been remade for inscrutible reasons by otherwise reasonable people).
And the story, I mean...I guess if you hate fairly standard stories, it’s bad? Like, it’s not something brand new and amazingly creative, but...99% of stories aren’t? At worst, I could see it reasonably being described as cliche or bland, but even then...how many movies have ever taken “good monarch is beset by enemies posed as friends, who seek powerful magic to take over the kingdom/world, and heroes from humble origins must save the realm, and eachother” and done it with a magiocratic parliamentary monarchy that can call upon dragons to fight for them?
It’s not LoTR or Tigana, but I don’t expect most things to be in the same league as the best fantasy writers in the genre.