Scorched: Mediocre Comedy Movie w/ Major DnD Refernces

[NeuroZombie]

Just wanted to gives a heads up on the movie Scorched, w/Rachel Lee Cooke, Alicia Silverstone, John Cleese & Woody Harrelson. The movie is basically a second string heist comedy, not bad, but not great either. What was cool, however, was the DnD references throught the earlier part of the movie.

A few characters (not rpg characters), return home and their roomates are playing DnD and on the table is the classic Greyhawk DM screen and the players around the tabel "talking the talk" in character, etc... Later in the movie, in two seperate scenes, Rachel Lee Cookes character gets pissed at someone (on both occasions) and has a "visio" that she is her character in full costume, flinging daggers, branishing shortswords, throwing fireballs (small ones) et, al. Al in all, the funiest parts of the movie for gamer geeks.

Check it out for a half-way decent movie, with great DnD references. WOrth it for the references alone.

 

[Ranger REG]

* does the Homer Simpson drool *

Mmm... Rachael Leigh Cook.

 

[NeuroZombie]

She is kinda alterna-punk in it as well, and definitely a bit off-balanced.

 

[Ranger REG]

I don't know why, but she'd make a good Lidda in leather and hair extension.

 

[NeuroZombie]

Seeing Scorched would double that vision for ya

 

[Iron_Chef]

Seeing Scorched would double that vision for ya

I posted here about the D&D references in this film over a month ago and nobody replied. I liked the film a lot.

 

[NeuroZombie]

I musta missed your post, sorry! It was decent, not great, but worth watching. I think John Cleese made the movie, he was very funny. Of course, he's John Cleese

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Seen it last night. I had forgot about this topic so all the D&D stuff was a surprise. They used a lot of the lingo and had all real D&D stuff as props.

From what I could tell, it was all 1st edition stuff. I saw the Greyhawk screen and the old core books. The battlemap they where playing on looked like the one that came with the 3.5 DM guide though. It was hard to tell for sure.

 

[Berandor]

I just saw it. I don't think the writers really played a lot, though, or a lot got cut during editing/screenwriting processes. I mean, nine languages with an intellligence of 14?!

And I didn't think the costume really worked for Cook.

I liked the interview, though: "I like to hang around, watch TV, play D&D, sleep; I eat a lot."

 

[Klaus]

Here's the DnD table scene, with DM Screen and all!

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0286947/Ss/0286947/dbscan386.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0286947