How to crush LotR and SW Trilogies!

[Desdichado]

Tanis: Viggo Mortenson
Flint: John Rhys-Davies
Tasslehoff: Elijah Wood
Caramon: Orlando Bloom
Raistlin: Ian McKellen
Sturm: Sean Bean
Goldmoon: Cate Blanchett
Riverwind: Hugo Weaving

This could be big...

Yes, I suppose it could.

 

[Warrior Poet]

I can't have been the only one who thought the original DL Trilogy, well, was kinda lame.

You're definitely not the only one.

Edit: Never mind, nothing good can come of my further comment on this.

Warrior Poet

 

[Desdichado]

You're definitely not the only one.

Edit: Never mind, nothing good can come of my further comment on this.

Warrior Poet

What--don't you consider my entertainment to be something good?

The original DL trilogy is about the best game fiction I've read, though. I'll give it that much credit.

 

[Warrior Poet]

What--don't you consider my entertainment to be something good?

How could I forget?!

The original DL trilogy is about the best game fiction I've read, though. I'll give it that much credit.

Interesting. When I think of it in that qualification ("game fiction") I guess then I . . .

. . . still can't stand it. And I must loathe most game fiction. Now that I think about it, Feist's stuff reads like poorly written game sessions, and I only barely made it through two out of three, and I was cursing at it for a lot of that.

The best game fiction I've read is in the story hour section of this forum: Sepulchrave II's Wyre series. There's others in there that also blow the doors off a lot of the professionally published stuff that passes for fantasy writing.

Warrior Poet

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If a big budget D&D movie were to be done, the odds are in favour of Dragonlance, with a slight possibility for Drizzt

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The Sci-Fi version of Earthsea was a hack job that was fairly unfaithful to the source material- Ms. LeGuin's website excoriated the miniseries' producers.

That all said...

I wouldn't go out of my way to see a DL movie- heck, I didn't make time to see the D&D sequel on Sci-Fi, or many of the fantasy movies that have come down the pipe in the past decade. To me, they simply looked bad. Subseqent airings on late-night TV haven't improved my opinion of most of them. Add to that that I have ZERO interest in the D&D books. Nothing I've heard about them draws me to them.

HOWEVER- if someone were to do a good job with the classics of Sci-Fi or Fantasy, as was done with LOTR? THAT I'd go see, and there are plenty of them!

As I understand it, there is an Elric movie being made, and some others are being considered for the big screen or TV. I'd love to see a company like HBO do a Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series. CJ Cherrh's Sword of Knowledge trilogy would rock. And what about the Dragonriders of Pern as an ongoing series (animated? CGI/Live Action?)- wouldn't you go see that?

 

[Warrior Poet]

As I understand it, there is an Elric movie being made

That seems like a particularly challenging narrative to commit to the screen. But what do I know?

Warrior Poet

 

[Odhanan]

I can't have been the only one who thought the original DL Trilogy, well, was kinda lame.

I thought the novels were entertaining, and Raistlin is a great character (of the modules and/or novels). But they were no LOTR, this much is clear to me.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

I don't think DL would outperform LotR or SW either, but DL also wouldn't have the budget or power of the studios behind it. I do think, however, that DL would surprise a lot of people in terms of its success (if done well).

Define 'done well'. An exact copy of the book (as I know some around here wanted the LotR movies to be)? That would, frankly, suck. The original DL trilogy may be remembered fondly but they are far, far from great literature.

It would be cool to see these books translated to the big screen - if it was done right. It would need good writing, good acting and directing

Don't all movies need those things? I mean movies are made without them but good movies, in general, need all of those just to be good movies. I don't think being a D&D movie or not would make any difference.

You sound like a studio suit. The truth is, such things can usually never be predicted in advance. Never. N-e-v-e-r.

So it might, but to have a chance, it'd need the budget and the talent to execute it right.

Have the courage of your convictions. If you mean never just say that!

Ahh well. Maybe I should write the script!!!!

It was a good thought at 3 am. Plus, the recent 3 SW movies have just sucked.

Jar-jar was lame, Maul was the saving grace of TPM.

Episode 2 seemed to ramble on, with all kinds of useless jargon mixed with a few decent fight scenes. No one had killed Jar-jar yet!!

RotS had a better chance, and it was a good movie to me, but then it got smashed.. nay.. destroyed.. in the end.

It's like you're making out with a really hot girl, and things are goin' great. Then, you round the bases for a score and BAM.. her boyfriend walks in with a Louisville Slugger with some large (and rusty) nails driven through it. So, you stand up and go.. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

I'd like to re-state that DL wouldn't 'outsell' mighty Lucas.. but it would still be a good movie, if done right.

You have hit that 'Noo' thing a lot. I think everyone gets it now. You think one line (heck one word) ruined the entire 2 hour movie.

 

[sniffles]

I'm just curious: why is it that nowadays it seems so many people read a book and immediately start thinking of what kind of movie it would make? Like I said previously, the movie you make in your head is vastly superior to anything Hollywood could do, so why would you want them to try? (she says, despite being a total fangirl geek over the LOTR movies )

 

[Altalazar]

I'm just curious: why is it that nowadays it seems so many people read a book and immediately start thinking of what kind of movie it would make? Like I said previously, the movie you make in your head is vastly superior to anything Hollywood could do, so why would you want them to try? (she says, despite being a total fangirl geek over the LOTR movies )

Perhaps because if it is a good novel, we'd love to enjoy it in a more visual form as well. Also, many many many authors who write novels these days do so with the hope that the novel will be made into a movie, with perhaps that in mind from the beginning.

And in many cases, I think hollywood does better than the books in terms of overall enjoyment. For instance, LOTR - many sections of the book are DREADFUL and basically unreadable, and totally unnecessary for the story - the movie neatly excised those out.