Dragonlance trailer at Youtube at last!

[Baby Samurai]

painful...I'd rather the studio that does Southpark did the Dragonlance movie.

Going down to Ansalon, gonna have me a good ol' time!

 

[Anthtriel]

Hopefully, they didn't try to make a decent movie. Why?

Well, the one and only way to make a D&D movie enjoyable is to make sure it is so horrificaly bad, it is actually good again. Try to hard, and you merely land at terribly bad.

 

[sidonunspa]

You would think that after LOTR they would have made dragonlance a live action movie...

Instead; we get animation which reminds me of the old school D&D cartoon coupled with cheap computer animation.

I’ll be skipping this DVD and reading the books again, thank you.

 

[Grimstaff]

What kind of budget could they have had? 50 bucks?

Look at Princess Mononoke, that was done 10 years ago on a modest budget. Its a beautifully rendered film, and timeless.

This is simply...disrespectful? Lazy?

 

[Baby Samurai]

I’ll be skipping this DVD and reading the books again, thank you.

When was the last time you read them?

 

[Fraisala]

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[Wormwood]

A 'cue' is a hint or something you play pool with. A 'queue' is a line you wait on. Just fyi.

How embarrassing! I don't know who I could have made such a simple mistake.

My hypothesis is that exposure to the trailer resulted in short-term brain damage.

 

[JVisgaitis]

Animation is okay, but blended with that CGI it looks awful. I'll probably buy it anyway, but I am bummed. Hopefully the Conan Red Nails movie will be better. Just from looking at the website it looks head and shoulders above Dragonlance and there is no cheesy CGI that I can see...

 

[Sundragon2012]

I've been a DL fan fro decades though honestly IMO the only DL worth reading were the Weis and Hickman books. I long ago realized that DL is never getting the treatment it deserved in a movie and this confirmed it. The thing is, DL isn't just a good D&D story, its a good fantasy story. If I remember correctly, Weis and Hickman wanted to write DL in a real literary style but the idea was shot down by TSR who felt that it wouldn't attract the kiddies if it read like a novel actually written for literate adults.


[rant] I won't buy this movie because I won't support such crap. DL began with Dragons of Autumn Twilight and the Twins series of novels. Hated Summer Flame (I think that Weis and Hickman were trying to save the setting by destroying it in that book). I like War of Souls, but the setting was dead for me by that point. With the death of Tahk-Hiss-iss (that is how I pronounce it) and Paladine losing his divinity DL has lost much of of its essense. So much damage had been done via the SAGA system era that all Weis and Hickman could do was try to patch things back up by using a war to wipe out all vestiges of that period. Unfortuntely, that period damaged so much of Krynn that they basically transformed it into another setting in order to fix it.


[/end rant].


Sundragon

 

[Dragonblade]

The Dragonlance series is juvenile and has always been so. Chronicles is mediocre, Legends is a little better. The rest of the series? Meh...with one exception...

Back in the 80's, Raistlin was the original Drizzt. All the fanboys wanted to play dark brooding mages at the game table.

One of my friends is a hardcore fan and he loves the setting, but the only Dragonlance novel I ever truly enjoyed reading was The Legend of Huma. However, I read it years ago so nostalgia may be tainting my perceptions. Its really the only book I recommend to people interested in the setting.

I also think that it would make the best movie out of all the other novels.