Paul Farquhar
Legend
Rubbish. For a start Peter Jackson's take on LotR was quite clearly influenced by D&D.
D&D Movie/TV (Yet another) D&D Movie Speculation thread.
Rubbish. For a start Peter Jackson's take on LotR was quite clearly influenced by D&D.
Clearly. Who else would have thought of an adventuring party with four halflings, a dwarf, an elf, two fighters and a DMPC?
Parmandur
Book-Friend
The deviations from the text usually bring the films closer to D&D and even Warhammer tropes. My wife was able to stomach the Hobbit films by looking at them as Warhammer movies that happened to rip off plot elements from Tolkien, though I couldn't quite make the leap to enjoy them even with that crutch.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
You say "C-Grade" like it's a bad thing. If I get a Transformers quality movie with Owlbears in Happy Meals, then I'll be happy.
Still, one could as easily have said that any movie about Lego playtime would necessarily be terrible, and one would have been wrong. There is no necessity to the subject matter being a good or a bad movie: look at the mess Peter Jackson made of solid literary material in the Hobbit movies, versus the genius of the aforementioned Lego franchise.
A mess?
Well, they were certainly deviations from the source, which is extremely frustrating for me, but they were still (overall) very good movies.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
They got pretty bad reception from the critics, particularly as the "trilogy" dragged on an on and on for no reason. They did OK, I suppose, and I wouldn't really expect much better from a D&D movie, but it would be inherently less obnoxious to the source material.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
There are no dual wielding elves or belching dwarves in the book.
And Jackson is 57 - exactly the right age for the first D&D boom.
They were not the two movies with no love triangle that they should have been because studio committees interfered and made them worse. There may be a moral in that story. Drow would not be my go-to antagonists personally. I've had way more fun with evil clerics, orcs, ogres, demons, and giants over the years. I'd rather they saved a dragon for the third movie... How about a serialisation of the Age of Worms? The finale of that has a dracolich
and plenty of scope to shave it down to three movies.
Jester David
Hero
They were not the two movies with no love triangle that they should have been because studio committees interfered and made them worse. There may be a moral in that story. Drow would not be my go-to antagonists personally. I've had way more fun with evil clerics, orcs, ogres, demons, and giants over the years. I'd rather they saved a dragon for the third movie... How about a serialisation of the Age of Worms? The finale of that has a dracolich
Planning trilogies out from the start never works.
Almost every successful film trilogy has been an accidentally trilogy after a successful one-and-done film. LotR is a big exception, but everything about that movie was a fluke: even getting the same people together to make more movie couldn’t replicate the success.
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