D&D Movie/TV Do you think the D&D Movie will be good?

[Mallus]

I expect it will be as good as a mall bookstore fantasy paperback. Which is as good as I need it to be.

(it’s not going to be House of the Dragon good)

 

[Benjamin Olson]

The 'speak with dead' clip was already better than the entire previous D&D movie.

Certainly better than any scene featuring the protagonists of that movie. I could have forgiven the dumb plot and terrible dragon cgi, but what absolutely kills the 2000 movie is that I find the adventuring party annoying and unlikable.

While you can never judge a movie for certain based on trailers and clips, even in its trailer the 2000 movie protagonists come of as tedious to watch for 2 hours. Several other major faults with that movie are also prominently featured in its trailer, including stilted line deliveries from a horribly miscast empress and laughable-even-in-2000 dragon effects. Whether Jeremy Irons' scene-chewing is another flaw, or far and away the best part of movie, is a matter of personal taste.


So at the very least this new movie has vastly more effective marketing.

 

[Burnside]

I think it'll be bad, but it might be the good kind of bad, like Jean-Claude Van Damm, not the bad kind of bad, like Steven Segal. I'm definitely seeing it.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Yeah, the San Jose one is close enough, and bugs aren't a big problem in the car, with the radio serving as the speakers.

Well, it looks like it has been a few years since my last visit to the local drive in: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/gatineau-drive-in-theatre-closes-after-45-years-1.5102746

I don't remember this place having an in-car sound system... like I said, it's been a while.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I think it'll be bad, but it might be the good kind of bad, like Jean-Claude Van Damm, not the bad kind of bad, like Steven Segal. I'm definitely seeing it.

Van Damme isn't the good kind of bad, he's the stupid kind of awesome.

Your evaluation of Steven Seagal is accurate.

 

[Gammadoodler]

I mentioned Fast and Furious movies earlier and I swear that Vin Diesel used to be able to speak clearly enough to be understood. Now he might as well be a mime for as much good his dialogue does.)

Man I hope this is a twist his career takes. Not enough mimes in action movies. Could easily be a franchise..

Mime Hard. ..or something

I don't know the exact number of dollars I'd be willing to pay for such a thing but it'd be an embarrassing number of dollars.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Van Damme isn't the good kind of bad, he's the stupid kind of awesome.

Your evaluation of Steven Seagal is accurate.

I'm not 100% sure what this means, but maybe it's this: Bloodsport was definitely a stupid kind of awesome.