D&D General Best on screen adaptation of D&D

[Sacrosanct]

If you had to pick your top three movies/TV shows that emulate the D&D experience the most (and are also enjoyable to watch), what would they be? I limited the choices to purely fantasy era, even though movie like Ice Pirates, Aliens, or others would also fit. But due to having too many options, I want to limit them to medieval-esque fantasy only.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Raunalyn]

I'd add another.

LadyHawk. Another good one, if only because of the incomparable Tim Curry, is Legend.

 

[toucanbuzz]

Many of these would be solid, albeit a bit dated and corny by today's standards. Still...

Willow. Adventuring party + quest to remove magic curse + spells + brownies + BBEG sorceress. Sounds pretty D&D.

Princess Bride. Classic adventuring party, each with elaborate backgrounds tied to the campaign setting (more fleshed out in the novel) + classic giant rat monsters + Raise Dead spell + great use of the Deception Charisma skill, multiple times, near the end.

Witcher. Although largely solo adventuring, we've got pretty much everything you could want for a D&D setting. Monsters + magic + curses + overwhelming BBEG + a complex story that requires you to pay attention or miss out.

And for anyone who votes for the 2000 D&D movie...may whatever gods you pray to have mercy on your soul. At a whopping 10% positive critic and 20% viewer on Rotten Tomatoes, it falls in many lists for one of the worst movies of all time. I hate it...so much...

 

[Sacrosanct]

I'd add another.

LadyHawk. Another good one, if only because of the incomparable Tim Curry, is Legend.

Added. And I can't believe I forgot that one. I know I forgot a few, but I shouldn't have forgotten THAT one.

 

[Sacrosanct]

And for anyone who votes for the 2000 D&D movie...may whatever gods you pray to have mercy on your soul. At a whopping 10% positive critic and 20% viewer on Rotten Tomatoes, it falls in many lists for one of the worst movies of all time. I hate it...so much...

I think for official D&D licensed movies, Wrath of the Dragon God was the best. It wasn't a good movie, but it was a lot better than the official title movie.

 

[Nagol]

No love for Krull?

 

[lowkey13]

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[lowkey13]

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[Garthanos]

Excalibur,
LOTR
Witcher
LadyHawke
and

 

[Nagol]

Another one that was D&D-adjacent was The Sword and the Sorcerer

 

[lowkey13]

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[Sacrosanct]

No love for Krull?

Laser guns. violated the "keep it traditional fantasy" rule.

 

[Worrgrendel]

Ice Pirates.

PG.

Great Kids Movie!

....

Well, it was a different time. What can I say.

Space herpes for the win.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Gradine]

For a crappy Sci-Fi SyFy movie Wrath of the Dragon God did a surprisingly good job of hewing closely to D&D tropes and traditions and even had a few little clever/cute moments, like when the gnomish rogue forces the party to close their eyes while he disarms a trap, lest he give away his rogueish "trade secrets" (he literally just flips a lever); or when the Lich teamed up with the BBEG decides to peace out when it looks like the tide is turning.

The really answer to this question, however, is the post-Tokyo Drift Fast & The Furious franchise.

 

[lowkey13]

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[darjr]

Where is Guardians?

 

[Undrave]

First season of Thunderbolt Fantasy.

 

[Yardiff]

The Sword and the Sorcerer and Hawk the Slayer and Archer: Fugitive of the Empire.