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I saw the D&D Movie and I loved it.
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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8969373" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I saw it and enjoyed it as well. More enjoyable than <em>Quantumania</em> at least. As a D&D player and knowledgeable about the Forgotten Realms, it was fun to listen for and hear all the references, as well as the standard monsters / spells that we would recognize as players.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: My favorite bit of the film was Rege-Jean Page. His seriousness and straight-man Lawful Good paladin act was such a lovely contrast to the others who were quick to quip.</p><p></p><p>Script-wise I do think they tried to pack too much into it... and as a result there were quite a number of moments in the first act where the editing was rather abrupt-- as it seemed like they ended up having to cut down (or cut out) longer scenes because the flow and momentum was off. I noticed several places where we cut to long-shots with ADR happening where I'm guessing they were re-inserting connecting dialogue that had probably been cut out when they lost various scenes.</p><p></p><p>A couple other things that bugged me... there were several scenes with rather shoddy FX... green screen work that they didn't match very well. A lot of the film had really good FX, which is why the ones that weren't really stood out. The biggest offender in my opinion was their attempts at forced perspective in the several cases of trying to create halflings. They just didn't work at all. Unfortunately, because the LotR trilogy succeeded for the most part in using forced perspective alongside all the other tricks they did to shrink their main actors... other films try to do it as well, and it just doesn't tend to work. For my money... I just wish the directors would put out a casting call for little people and cast them in roles of halflings, gnomes, goblins, kobolds etc. With all the different sizes of people across the globe... there's no reason not to find the most effective actors at whatever sizes the roles might require. We've finally started coming around to the idea of casting for roles that have disabilities with people who actually have said disabilities and not abled actors pretending. So why they don't do the same here I don't know. But maybe that's just me.</p><p></p><p>(And my apologies if my terminology is off as I mention these things, not completely sure what the proper terms are at this point.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8969373, member: 7006"] I saw it and enjoyed it as well. More enjoyable than [I]Quantumania[/I] at least. As a D&D player and knowledgeable about the Forgotten Realms, it was fun to listen for and hear all the references, as well as the standard monsters / spells that we would recognize as players. EDIT: My favorite bit of the film was Rege-Jean Page. His seriousness and straight-man Lawful Good paladin act was such a lovely contrast to the others who were quick to quip. Script-wise I do think they tried to pack too much into it... and as a result there were quite a number of moments in the first act where the editing was rather abrupt-- as it seemed like they ended up having to cut down (or cut out) longer scenes because the flow and momentum was off. I noticed several places where we cut to long-shots with ADR happening where I'm guessing they were re-inserting connecting dialogue that had probably been cut out when they lost various scenes. A couple other things that bugged me... there were several scenes with rather shoddy FX... green screen work that they didn't match very well. A lot of the film had really good FX, which is why the ones that weren't really stood out. The biggest offender in my opinion was their attempts at forced perspective in the several cases of trying to create halflings. They just didn't work at all. Unfortunately, because the LotR trilogy succeeded for the most part in using forced perspective alongside all the other tricks they did to shrink their main actors... other films try to do it as well, and it just doesn't tend to work. For my money... I just wish the directors would put out a casting call for little people and cast them in roles of halflings, gnomes, goblins, kobolds etc. With all the different sizes of people across the globe... there's no reason not to find the most effective actors at whatever sizes the roles might require. We've finally started coming around to the idea of casting for roles that have disabilities with people who actually have said disabilities and not abled actors pretending. So why they don't do the same here I don't know. But maybe that's just me. (And my apologies if my terminology is off as I mention these things, not completely sure what the proper terms are at this point.) [/QUOTE]
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