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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1615291" data-attributes="member: 5171">I saw her on Saturday Night Live.  She was trying to act.  It was embarrassing.  I feel capable of judging her acting ability as bad.My personal feelings about the original movie were that it was definitely a movie made by a fan, but it was put through too many script-wringers to get the movie cliches, and it ended up annoying many fans with those changes.  The beholders, as one example.  My non-gaming wife caught that one.  "Wait, aren't beholders like totally scary and badass and stuff?  And they just turned them into little bouncy guard dogs?"  Its heart was in the right place -- it had the beholders in there -- but somewhere about three rewrites into it, somebody forgot what made beholders cool in the first place.Same deal on much of the other writing.  They made it into a one-man show, with Destiny Boy, his Love Interest, and all his Sidekicks.  My complete and total guess is that they did that because it's a movie, and movies need heroes (according to the people who handle script revision number four).  The movie had the requisite elf, dwarf, wizard, and rogue, but it was all about the rogue, who got turned into a rogue/fighter, and everyone else got backgrounded... when the fun of general-purpose D&D is in teamwork and camraderie and working together -- and if somebody has a destiny, everybody has that destiny.  You're the "Team of the Iron Forge" or whatever, not "Bob the Chosen One, and his sidekicks, the Bob-ettes".  Too many scenes of our hero on his own.  Too many scenes of him winning because he was the movie hero.  It lost enough of the elements of D&D that it had to be judged as an ordinary fantasy movie... and as an ordinary fantasy movie, it was moderately simplistic, fairly low-budget-looking, and poorly acted in a few key areas.That is solely my opinion, however.And it was interesting to watch the DVD with the deleted scenes and see what they took out.  Many of the scenes that were deleted were "Other-Character" scenes, developing people who weren't the hero.  (There were also two hero-heavy scenes deleted, but they were effect-heavy set pieces, and it made sense to cut them for budget reasons.)</blockquote>

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