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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1314637" data-attributes="member: 1656">That's the thing about the D&D movie.  I really like the dragon battle sequence.But it was on TV here a couple of weeks ago, and I spent the rest of the movie either laughing - and not at bits intended to be humorous - or yelling abuse at the television.Apart from those few minutes that are very cool, the rest is an abomination.When I saw 13th Warrior in the theatre, I wasn't really that grabbed by it.  It was kinda disjointed.I got the book out of the library, hoping that it would clear up a lot of the plot holes (like... what was the point of the jealous prince?), assuming that in the conversion to the film, certain details had become lost.But because of the book's concept - a story pieced together from fragments of journals discovered hundreds of years later (apparently for a while, some academics didn't realise that Crichton had made the whole thing up, and were quite excited) - the book has the same unresolved threads of storyline.That patchwork effect that the film gave me on first viewing, it would seem, was deliberate!And now I own the film on DVD, and it's one of my favourite movies.  I'm playing a ranger in a PbEM who I've lifted almost whole from Edgtho the Silent.  I can sit and watch the "Choosing the Warriors" scene on repeat for half an hour without getting bored.It's kinda weird, because all those annoying things that aren't properly explored are still there, and should continue to irritate me.  But they don't any more, and I love the movie.[shrug]-Hyp.</blockquote>

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