tardigrade
Explorer
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.
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.
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).
Unfortunately that sounds too much like Ready Player One to me...
Profit =/= quality.
Sure, the transformers movies make a lot of money. But, so do daytime soap operas, cheaply made toys, and sweatshop-made clothes.
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.
So what you are implying is that you should give people quality products and not the products they want?
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.
Well I guess we all know what is going to happen in the D&D movie: they are going to split the party.
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.
If they don't pull an AD&D stunt like 'trick the Hill Giant to squeeze himself into a narrow passageway then cast Enlarge so his remains shoot out like a tube toothpaste filled with beef stew' then I'm asking for my money back.
If it doesn't feature a Druid turning into a female Brown Bear in heat to lure an angry male Brown Bear out of the cavern so they can go in and loot bodies I'll be furious.
If they don't include a scene that has the party arguing over a) who draws the map, b) who keeps track of the burned-out torches, and c) why 'we have to have the damn torches at all because 5 of the 6 members have Darkvision but oh, no, the human Paladin just had to stick along so we can't even steal stuff in his presence' I'll be disappointed.
D&D is all about clever methods of murder, crazy stunts, and petty arguments. Not drama. Not emotion. Not heroism. It's about weird murderhobo shenanigans.
I don't see the movie succeeding unless they take my advice.![]()
Am I the only one that thinks a big screen feature involving a dungeon delve with the entire party and nps all having dark vision would be pretty awesome? Buy a ticket and get handed a pair oh night vision goggles.
I saw the Perfect D&D movie a couple of weeks ago. It was set in the Birthright settting. There was this kid, the lost son of a king, who grew up in a brothel, and became a conman. Eventually he aquired an OP magic sword, his past was revealed to him, and he went to fight the evil wizard in his castle.
To get there, he had to start a rebellion in the kingdom, which he enacted with a selected group of friends. The whole thing was planned in a tavern, while he and his "posse" cracked jokes. Eventually he became king, and instead of fighting his enemies, he invited them to dinner. Awesome. I'm not even joking.
The title was "king Arthur, Legend of the Sword"
Nah...you'll get 90 minutes of sound effects and a black screen (because you're human and can't see in the dark).