Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness (2011)

[OpsKT]

I saw this movie last night on SyFy. It was glorious in how terrible it was.

First off, during the knighting ceremony (err, Paladin... Knight is a fighter, no gods required) you could see the looks of the guys faces every tiime they called out to Pelor. It was the 'Who the writes this ' look.

Later on, he literally goes to a store called the Adventurer's Vault, and buys things by referencing tiers, I kid you not.

"And that suit of knight armor."

"Heroic or Paragon?"

"Paragon." {With a look that says I have no idea what this means}

Oh, yeah, whores in Points of Light must get paid really well, cause our hero gets his paid for by the helpful whore. Yeah.

How did we have a Shadar'kai with no mention of the Raven Queen once? Unless I missed it in the horrible dialog.

The SHadowfell looked cool, except for the fact that it looked more like the elemental chaos raped the abyss and then deposited their baby on the Shadowfell's doorstep. The Shadowfell is a dark reflection of the world, not floating islands, last I knew.

Yeah, it's terrible. There was a sex scene that SyFy did the blurry bits for, that implies this was supposed to be direct to video. But it still doesn't help. Also, since when were Shadar'kai females fans of 50 Shades of Grey?

 

[Gomezaddams51]

I watched it and found it to be entertaining. In watching it, I found myself thinking that it would be cool to join that little mercenary group...they were my kind of "people". It would be fun to play an D&D RPG with party members like that... I was trying to figure out what classes they were. The one was a Paladin, one was an assassin, not sure what type the two mages were though and what the blue guy was supposed to be.

I have enjoyed all the D&D movies so far. I take them for what they are, entertainment. I don't expect them to be actual D&D movies that follow the rules exactly. It would be nice for someone to take some of the modules and make a movie out of them but I doubt it will ever happen. So I take what I can get.

 

[AslanC]

Overall I preferred it to the 1st D&D by leaps and bounds, but not as much as the 2nd, which I found to be wholly entertaining. Here's to hoping we get a 4th one some time, cause really this is better than any of the post-LOTR boom of fantasy films shot in Vancouver (Can you name them all?)

 

[AslanC]

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