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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seule" data-source="post: 1352728" data-attributes="member: 407">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</blockquote>

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