D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Plot Revealed

[tardigrade]

I could see a (heavily edited) OotS-like plotline working. I think it gets the ratio of character development (despite massive cliches), lampshading of obvious fantasy tropes and dramatic plot twists about right.

 

[tardigrade]

Hmm how about a bunch of teenagers in some post-apocalyptic world where their only escape is a set of musty D&D 5e books and suddenly they're transported from their sad world into a brighter more fun space. And alongside their fantasy counterparts they have some conflict to resolve back in reality.

Unfortunately that sounds too much like Ready Player One to me...

 

[gyor]

Explosions + boobs + nostalgia = bad movies that make an obscene amount of money?

Bah, everyone slams them, yet they rake in a fortune, they aren't as bad as people make them out to be, they're fun movies, that get hated on my elitist hipsters (not saying your an elitist hipster, just a general obsversation).

 

[MechaPilot]

Bah, everyone slams them, yet they rake in a fortune, they aren't as bad as people make them out to be, they're fun movies, that get hated on my elitist hipsters (not saying your an elitist hipster, just a general obsversation).

Profit =/= quality.

Sure, the transformers movies make a lot of money. But, so do daytime soap operas, cheaply made toys, and sweatshop-made clothes.

 

[robus]

Unfortunately that sounds too much like Ready Player One to me...

Good point!

 

[LordEntrails]

Profit =/= quality.

Sure, the transformers movies make a lot of money. But, so do daytime soap operas, cheaply made toys, and sweatshop-made clothes.

So what you are implying is that you should give people quality products and not the products they want?

Because these things you mention, that makes lots of money, are exactly what "people" are willing to pay for.

Generally when I hear this type of "quality" argument or demand, the product such people want are art house movies, which rarely are successful because "people" aren't willing to pay for them. (Look at all the movies that get Sundance or Caan awarded movies that barely make a profit.)

People vote with their dollars. If some product is financially successful, then it has all the right qualities, even if it's not some critic's opinion of a "quality" product.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

People vote with their dollars. If some product is financially successful, then it has all the right qualities, even if it's not some critic's opinion of a "quality" product.

I would say it is more accurate to state, "People vote with their dollars. If some product is financially successful, then it has enough the right qualities, even if it's not some critic's opinion of a "quality" product."

 

[MechaPilot]

So what you are implying is that you should give people quality products and not the products they want?

Not at all. I'm just saying don't confuse financial success with quality. Products can have both, but having one is not a guarantee that it has the other as well.

People vote with their dollars. If some product is financially successful, then it has all the right qualities, even if it's not some critic's opinion of a "quality" product.

People vote with their dollars where possible. There are some things in life where this is either not possible, or not possible to an appreciable degree.

 

[Shasarak]

Well I guess we all know what is going to happen in the D&D movie: they are going to split the party.

Or it could be worse, it could be based on the "Universal Truth" of DnD Movies.

 

[Miladoon]

So what you are implying is that you should give people quality products and not the products they want?

Because these things you mention, that makes lots of money, are exactly what "people" are willing to pay for.

Generally when I hear this type of "quality" argument or demand, the product such people want are art house movies, which rarely are successful because "people" aren't willing to pay for them. (Look at all the movies that get Sundance or Caan awarded movies that barely make a profit.)

People vote with their dollars. If some product is financially successful, then it has all the right qualities, even if it's not some critic's opinion of a "quality" product.

Gosh! Sundance ruuuules. Napolean Dynamite, 400K budget. Brings in 46M. Got on Letterman. Yada Yada.

But I pretty much agree with you.