Spoiler-free review of the new D&D movie.

[takyris]

Bah! Call that a Beholder?!

I remember when my wife and I were watching the first movie, and the beholders came on. My wife, who knows nothing about gaming except what she knows through me, heard Snails or whoever say, "Whoah, beholders! Let's distract them," and then the beholders got punked.

My wife turned to me and said, "Wait... in your game, beholders are really really scary, and your buddies all freak out when they meet one. What the hell?"

If my non-gaming wife could see the problem in taking one of the big badass evils particular to D&D and turning them into guard dogs, it's kind of surprising that the guys working on the movie couldn't.

 

[bloodydrake]

It was so much worse then the first one.
how?
because the first one was funny campy..in that omg thats so bad its funny kinda way.. this one is omg this is so bad and its taking itself serious.

horrible horrible horrible.
I've never heard dialog so bad its like 10year olds playing dnd.
"ROGUE YOU BETTER OPEN IT"
"CALM DOWN BARBARiAN"
"Wizard CAST LIGHTING BOLT"
'CLERIC BANISH THOSE UNDEAD"

It tries so hard to tie things into dnd but does to so blatently and with a sledge hammer its ridiculous.

xena was 10x as good as this thing.
Heck the cartoon version of dnd was better than this.

don't expect anything but a really bad fantasy movie ..That EarthSea miniseries seems like LOTR compaired to this.

sigh

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Yanno, for a D&D movie i really wouldnt expect any less. Its NOT LOTR, its the DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS movie, and frankly i think that fits in.

In what game DONT you hear lines like that?

Campyness like that is what made The Gamers such a good D&D film too.

I watched D&D2 this morning and I liked it. It was better then the first one, and I appreicated the level of campyness in this one.

Damodar however, really did get gimped, oh well.

 

[Fast Learner]

That Earthsea mini kicked this movie's ass in special effects, and was in every other way quite inferior.

The first one wasn't campy, it was just accidentally stupid.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

Did you all notice that the actor playing the lich had trouble talking, as if his big teeth were about to fall out?

AR

 

[Viking Bastard]

Heh, yeah.

Very Buffyesque makeup.

 

[Fast Learner]

This is the spoiler-free thread. Mentioning specific creatures like that is a bad idea, even if it doesn't specifically give away plot, imo.

 

[Felon]

For those who said that you can't make a RPG system into a movie, well, I'd say you're wrong.

Well, I don't know about RPG's on the whole, but there are those who have said you can't make D&D into a movie, and if you say they're wrong, then I would say this movie doesn't back you up. They certainly took the easy way out of a lot of the elements of D&D that don't make for good storytelling, chiefly by killing the cleric early in the story so there wouldn't be one in the party to heal or raise characters later on.

 

[Dioltach]

For those who said that you can't make a RPG system into a movie, well, I'd say you're wrong.

Yeah, that Lucas guy did a pretty good job with SWRPG!

 

[draco2005]

One question in regard to the D&D 2 movie. Where can I find a trailer for it? Also, will it be in the big screen, or just in DVD. and when is it coming out? Thanks!