New D&D Movie Announced

[Tewligan]

I honestly don't think it is possible to make a sequel worst than D&D: The Movie.

The only way the sequel could be worse is if the movie consists of the D&D logo projected onto the screen for 90 minutes with a soundtrack that mixes crashing cymbals and the sound of crying babies. Also, someone comes around the theater and repeatedly kicks you in the crotch while you're watching it.

 

[Welverin]

The only way the sequel could be worse is if the movie consists of the D&D logo projected onto the screen for 90 minutes with a soundtrack that mixes crashing cymbals and the sound of crying babies. Also, someone comes around the theater and repeatedly kicks you in the crotch while you're watching it.

As long as it's not Jeremy Irons doing the kicking I think that might hurt less then the first D&D movie.

 

[Zappo]

Hey, anyone got any new about this?

 

[Green Knight]

I had the good sense to stay far, FAR away from the original, and I'll likely be doing the same for the sequel. It'd take some MIGHTILY good reviews to make me even consider watching a sequel. Nevermind that they're calling it a SEQUEL! For cripes sake, just make a new movie. DON'T make a sequel to that flying turd of a film!

 

[barsoomcore]

Wait. Did you see the first film, or not? If you didn't see it, why are you calling it a flying turd? Just because lots of people hated it? Huh.

I really liked the first one. I don't for a second think it was made as a cheap grab for cash or by people who didn't care. I just think it was made by people who didn't really know what they were doing. I think Courtney Solomon really WANTED to make a cool fantasy film, and I think it stands up well enough against, say Beastmaster or The Sword And the Sorcerer. Yeah, it's bad, but it sure tries. They made a bad film, but they were trying to make a cool one.

And I give lots of points for trying.

 

[Zelgadas]

Has anyone else checked out the interactive D&D DVD referred to in the first link? It's pretty campy and not really worth repeat viewings, but it's certainly better than the 'official' movie.

As for the D&D movie, I think my favorite part was when those tentacle things came out of Damodar's ears. I just kept looking at the screen, slack-jawed, thinking, "What the hell?" Anyway, as long as the sequel has absolutely nothing to do with the first movie, it might be OK. I won't hold my breath, though.

 

[Green Knight]

Wow. Didn't realize I had already posted on this thread. I read my previous post without realizing it was me. Whoops.

Wait. Did you see the first film, or not? If you didn't see it, why are you calling it a flying turd? Just because lots of people hated it? Huh.

I certainly didn't PAY to see it. I tried watching it a couple of times when they were showing it on Encore, and I nearly coughed up a lung doing so. Couldn't bear to watch the thing for more then 5 minutes at a time. I'd flip the channels then after about 10 minutes I'd come back, again, and would have the same response. I have the same reaction to Batman & Robin, which I have never seen in its entirety due to how utterly disgusted I get every time I actually sit down and try to watch it.

That having been said, in a lot of cases, second-hand information IS good enough to tell you whether something's good or not. Especially when a movie is as insufferably bad as Batman Forever (Which is a situation in which I ignored my intuition, and actually paid to see) or the D&D movie.

 

[Ace]

I actually liked the D&D movie

I went to see it with my gaming buddy and well hey It was about what I expected

 

[s/LaSH]

Dragons in the cinema suck.

That's the disappointing conclusion I've come to. You'd think it would be the other way around - I'm a dracophile, and I'll see movies simply because they have scaly wings in 'em. But out of the three recent movies I've seen featuring prominent dragons (Dragonheart, D&D, Reign of Fire) only one of them has lived up to the promise, and that was Dragonheart (say what you will, I liked it). The other two movies portrayed them as dumb beasts. (I don't care what the ads for RoF said, they weren't smarter than me.) That was the big disappointment for me. It's like going to see King Kong and getting a guy in a gorilla suit saying 'ook ook' for 90 minutes while stomping on paper models of Tokyo - it's just not on.

Part of what makes dragons so awesome is their cunning and intellect. Why haven't they given that to us? Why didn't the D&D scripters look at a stat block and go 'huh, this thing's smarter than all members of the film crew put together'? Maybe that was the problem - maybe they just looked at all the purty pictures, and that's why they had bleeping beholder watchdogs.

Will it take PJ doing The Hobbit to make people realise how cool dragons can be? I hope not... but he'll do it right. I have faith.

 

[Zappo]

So noone knows any new? I still believe that whatever they do it can't be worse.

I don't for a second think it was made as a cheap grab for cash or by people who didn't care. I just think it was made by people who didn't really know what they were doing.

That's certain; Courtney Solomon had been working for something like twenty years towards a D&D movie. The man loves D&D and wanted to see it on the big screen. It's a pity that he had no experience or talent, but he didn't lack passion.