The D&D Movie vs. The D&D Game

[Piratecat]

BLUE LIPS (please tell me someone has an explanation for this one?)

He had been breathed on by a black dragon earlier in his career; it left him badly scarred, including blue lips.

I know. Don't blame me, though - that's the official explanation.

 

[Kelek72]

Weren't there other people with Norda who also had bad blue lips? Maybe the dragon cursed an entire people with funny lip colors...The Revlon Drake!

 

[handforged]

for those of you who keep mentioning Zoe as one of the good things about the movie, she has a minor recurring role on JAG. The costume is still pretty unflattering unless you are into uniforms.

another good thing:
people relaized how ridiculous a purple three-eyed guy would look walking around a medieval marketplace.

~hf

 

[Rel]

He had been breathed on by a black dragon earlier in his career; it left him badly scarred, including blue lips.

I know. Don't blame me, though - that's the official explanation.

Just when I thought that my disdain for this film was at its limit...

Damn that's weak.

Actually, let me comment just a tad further. I don't tend to be tremendously critical of a lot of movies because I used to work in a video store and I've seen a ton of bad movies. I don't begrudge a bad movie so much as I hate utterly wasted potential.

When I see somebody pan a movie that is flawed, I often think to myself, "Well then you write a better script and send it to Hollywood." But in this particular case, I truly think I could plot out a better movie in half an hour than they did with this. Including a better description for why Damodar's lips were blue. But I'm not special in this regard. Most of the population of ENWorld is capable of this.

And give somebody like Sagiro or Piratecat a week and I think we would have a contender for Best Picture or, at very least, a movie that gamers could agree was great.

 

[Hypersmurf]

He had been breathed on by a black dragon earlier in his career; it left him badly scarred, including blue lips.

I know. Don't blame me, though - that's the official explanation.

I... don't believe you.

The only way that could be true - the only way that could actually be the official explanation - is if someone 'official' wrote that down, and did not, upon rereading what they'd just written, immediately destroy all evidence and witnesses to the fact.

And nobody could be that stupid... not even the people who cast Marlon Wayans.

... right?

-Hyp.

 

[Nightfall]

First sign of any bad movie in my opinion, hiring ANY Wayans brothers to work on a movie.

Drow are over-rated. Ratmen are cooler.

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

Drizzt is overrated, IMO. Of course, I think drow are overrated period.

You can say that again.

Drow are attractive to those who were sick and tired of the endless superficial copycats of Tolkien elves rendered as supergoody good faerie humans. Or those looking for something Goth-lite. But they are not going translate well into a movie for a general public satiated with variants of the vampire schitck.

IMNSHO the Drow jumped the shark in the old Deities & Demigods. The original conception of Drow as presented by Gygax in D123 was a mysterious race that worshipped demonlords (plural!). So this city, for the most part, worships Lolth. This other drow city worships Demogorgon or a new powerful snake demon. The variety preserves an element of mystery. When Lolth was elevated from a quirky superdemon to part of an elvish pantheon, it sucked the marrow out of the drow by making them predictable. <yawn>

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I still think the magical quicksand rug was about the first new trap idea I've come across since "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

 

[Sejs]

So quicksand is now part of this balanced breakfast?



Oatmeal I tell you! He was nabbed by an Evil Oatmeal Rug Mimic!