The D&D Movie vs. The D&D Game
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Golem2176 said:
Silly boy...if you were really such a D&D fan, you'd *hate* the movie.
Tisk.
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Acid_crash said:
OK 5 cool things
Tom Baker as the King of the Elves
No Clerics (YMMV of course)
Zoe Mclellan (mmm Zoe)
The end Dragon Battle (that was very cool indeed)
Elwood the Dwarf, he looked like he was a PC IMC -- and he was alittle tall for a Dwarf (5'2") this is within the Height for Dwarves IMC (Dwarves are 1 foot shorter than men) so by Modern Standards he was about 6'4" reasonble to me
Izmier -- Cool City
Damaodar, well minus the blue lipstick I liked that character
Heck I might be the only one on the boards who liked the D&D movie. JMO but it was very close to a session of D&D gaming
Was it a great movie --- of course not but it carried the spirit for the game quite well and it was about what I expected
I know ya'll wanted PJ's LOTR to be the representer for D&D but Courtney Soloman got it right The D&D Movie was well D&D in a nut shell right down to the illogical parts, ridiculous female elf ranger Norda (in gaming she would have been played by a guy) Jeremy Irons Overacting (shame on you my GM Is a better actor) traps and lame plot oh and Snails (every gaming group has a jerk)
When I sat through the movie a groaned a few times but I have to admit I got my $5 US (matine) worth out of it and frankly it was D&D in every way -- It reminds me of many many games I have played in. OH I wwish they were LOTR but the usually come out like Buffy or D&D
Your campaign may differ
Oh the Beholders still sucked
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Felon said:Bad as the D&D movie was, I have to say I don't know that anyone can really do a D&D movie right and stay faithful to the game. I think Snails' death, for instance, would lose some oomph if Ridley responded by screaming "Noooooooo!! Damn you Damodar...do you know how expensive Raise Dead spells are?"
Cheap bastard could have scraped together the funds for a True Res if he really wanted to. I think he was afraid the wizard girlie had the hots for me.
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Ace said:
Your players all like playing someone else's cohort?
It is a thankless job when Ridley takes all the credit.
Dark Jezter
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I think that, rather than making a sequel to the D&D movie, somebody should make movies out of R.A. Salvatore's Icewind Dale trilogy.
Of course, there would be a few problems. Namely, there are a few parts in the Icewind Dale trilogy that borrow very heavily from LotR... such as a halfling in posession of a powerful magic artifact, a dwarven mithril (or mithral, rather) mine that's inhabited by a dark terror unearthed after the dwarves delved too deep, a character who apparantly falls to his death battling that dark terror but returns in the next book, etc
Still, I think that the Icewind Dale trilogy would make a very enjoyable series of movies, especially if they got a good fight choreographer for the fight scenes between Drizzt and Artemis Entreri.
Of course, there would be a few problems. Namely, there are a few parts in the Icewind Dale trilogy that borrow very heavily from LotR... such as a halfling in posession of a powerful magic artifact, a dwarven mithril (or mithral, rather) mine that's inhabited by a dark terror unearthed after the dwarves delved too deep, a character who apparantly falls to his death battling that dark terror but returns in the next book, etc
Still, I think that the Icewind Dale trilogy would make a very enjoyable series of movies, especially if they got a good fight choreographer for the fight scenes between Drizzt and Artemis Entreri.
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Seule
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Nobody (at least not most people, I suppose) could argue that the D&D movie, at least as sen in theatres was a good movie. However, I did find it an entertaining movie, and certainly not deserving of the abuse heaped on it. It wasn't bland or forgettable, I'd bet everyone who has ever seen it remembers scenes, and that says something (although not necessarily always something good).
Things I particularly liked:
Zoe. 'Nuff said.
Jeremy Irons. Man can he gobble scenery when he wants to! I loved how he was so very camp, he really set the tone for the entire movie, making it clear that nobody was taking it very seriously. And I really wish I could emote that much when DMing, it would be really cool!
That carpet/trap thingy. I still have to steal it sometime. You fill a portable hole with quicksand, and whenever you roll it out, you decorate the top with sand to make it look like a rug...
The dragons. They got them right. Very right. They were seriously cool, and watching them fight was even cooler.
The sets, in general, were quite good.
I quite liked Damodar. I took it that he had reasons for looking the way he did, and the movie didn't feel the need to explain every little detail. It's a fantasy, some things can be left to the imagination.
Elwood. He had a Dwarfy attitude.
Lots of spell effects, like walls of ice.
It's a movie about two heroic thieves! That's gotta count for something!
Things I didn't like:
When only the one holding the rock can pass the magic wall, you toss the rock back through so the rest can come along. You don't give up before trying.
The ending. It needed to be cut, right before that last scene (which also didn't make any sense).
Thora Birch. I dunno about other movies, but she wasn't acting in this one.
The Thieve's Run, it seemed tacked on and unnecessary. Plus, Ridley didn't seem that good as a rogue, so why should he have succeeded where others failed?
Lots of spell effects that aren't from D&D, like that magic rope thingy the wizardess uses near the beginning.
On the whole, I place it at a 2 out of 5, a notch up from really bad. I want to get my hands on the DVD to see what they had to cut, and I'd watch it again even without, but just because it's D&D and I haven't seen it since it was in theatres.
--Seule
Things I particularly liked:
Zoe. 'Nuff said.
Jeremy Irons. Man can he gobble scenery when he wants to! I loved how he was so very camp, he really set the tone for the entire movie, making it clear that nobody was taking it very seriously. And I really wish I could emote that much when DMing, it would be really cool!
That carpet/trap thingy. I still have to steal it sometime. You fill a portable hole with quicksand, and whenever you roll it out, you decorate the top with sand to make it look like a rug...
The dragons. They got them right. Very right. They were seriously cool, and watching them fight was even cooler.
The sets, in general, were quite good.
I quite liked Damodar. I took it that he had reasons for looking the way he did, and the movie didn't feel the need to explain every little detail. It's a fantasy, some things can be left to the imagination.
Elwood. He had a Dwarfy attitude.
Lots of spell effects, like walls of ice.
It's a movie about two heroic thieves! That's gotta count for something!
Things I didn't like:
When only the one holding the rock can pass the magic wall, you toss the rock back through so the rest can come along. You don't give up before trying.
The ending. It needed to be cut, right before that last scene (which also didn't make any sense).
Thora Birch. I dunno about other movies, but she wasn't acting in this one.
The Thieve's Run, it seemed tacked on and unnecessary. Plus, Ridley didn't seem that good as a rogue, so why should he have succeeded where others failed?
Lots of spell effects that aren't from D&D, like that magic rope thingy the wizardess uses near the beginning.
On the whole, I place it at a 2 out of 5, a notch up from really bad. I want to get my hands on the DVD to see what they had to cut, and I'd watch it again even without, but just because it's D&D and I haven't seen it since it was in theatres.
--Seule
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Eldren said:
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