"I Have Traveled To The Floor of The Pit of My Own Free Will"

[Umbran]

Some countries have VERY generous laws about permitting huge write-offs on investments in movies that fail...

I am strongly reminded of The Producers.

Basic idea: Vastly oversell shares in your production (say, like 8,000%). Make sure your production is a flop - since it is a flop, everyone *assumes* you lost all the money, and nobody looks too closely at the books, allowing the producers to take off with a chunk of cash.

Of course, if the production is a success despite your best efforts, and everyone starts looking for their share of the profits, wackiness ensues.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The Producers is brilliant! I love the film, and have seen it on stage more than once. When it was last staged in Dallas, they had a black guy conspicuously on the front row of SS guardsmen goosestepping & singing "Springtime For Hitler."

 

[Jon_Dahl]

People are free to make bad movies because I'm not forced to watch them but still this pisses me off (just a little bit). Why? Because I feel that if they gave me the budget, made me the producer and I had to hire the film crew from Enworld (job applications via pm), I honestly doubt if I could do any worse than this.

 

[Yora]

I thought it was only Germany that had those crazy "lose your shirt to make money" movie tax credits. I should have figured Bail-Me-Out America would have started it.

Isn't that how basically all legal tax evasion tricks work? Destroy some money to get a different tax rate that nets you a plus.

 

[Sorrowdusk]

Icewind Dale : A Joss Whedon/Christopher Nolan Film
Starring Will smith as Drizzt Do'urden, Tyler Mane as Wulfgar, and Peter Dinklage as Regis.

Lol.. that would be... interesting, to say the least.

"Dont you shoot that green at me!" -Will Smith Independence Day

Am I the only person who watched Your Highness and thought to themselves, "They seriously just sat down and watched a bunch of long-friends playing a really casual D&D game and then turned it into a movie?"

From beginning to end, the movie reads like someone just had their, admittedly immature, gaming group sit down and write a D&D movie script together.

Record of Lodoss War was EXACTLY (literally) that -and it was published in text form in a Japanese magazine as a "D&D Replay" which was a popular thing to do at the time.

 

[Hand of Evil]

The other reason for bad movies; training grounds! Sure, some bad movies have good people in them but I sometimes think these MAY be scouts, that report back and rate the staff, that way studios know who to invest in.

It has to be the reason, yea, that's my line and I an sticking to it!

 

[Rune]

The Producers is brilliant! I love the film...

Which version? The 2005 remake directed by Susan Stroman or the original 1968 version with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, directed by Mel Brooks?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Both, actually!

 

[Rune]

I tend to agree.

 

[hopeless]

Dungeons and?

Am I the only person who watched Your Highness and thought to themselves, "They seriously just sat down and watched a bunch of long-friends playing a really casual D&D game and then turned it into a movie?"

From beginning to end, the movie reads like someone just had their, admittedly immature, gaming group sit down and write a D&D movie script together.

And if they had done the first d&d movie like this it would have been miles better!

Beholders as watchdogs?

A rogue who leaves his rope and grapple for someone to find?

Can't out stealth a fighter with a neglible spot check?

The second one was better, why does this latest trailer make me think they don't know better?