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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6678983" data-attributes="member: 37579">D&amp;D is a game and games are meant to be fun. Plus, serious movies can be tricky. Lord of the Rings can take itself seriously.&nbsp; It's based on literature after all. And with the amount of lore and sales it has, Warcraft can be played straight. D&amp;D isn't art or a massive worldwide phenom, and hasn't earned the right to be dark or gritty or serious. Playing it completely straight just seems pretentious. Serious movies *need* to be good. Because people want to be entertained and they can be entertained by a goofy good movie, or a serious good movie, or a goofy bad movie. But a serious bad movie is just depressing and long and awkward. And D&amp;D doesn't have the reputation for people to risk seeing it if it doesn't look entertaining. That said, this doesn't mean the movie can't take itself serious at times. The D&amp;D cartoon did. The stakes can be real (lives at risk, a real villain, with an evil plot) and the general story can be played straight, with real drama and character conflict. It's just the protagonists that are funny. Like Ghostbusters or Get Smart. The heroes crack wise and are irreverent, but Gozerh is still planning on destroying the world and things are scary. Heck, &quot;the Ghostbusters meet the Hobbit&quot; might be the best well of selling such a movie.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6678983, member: 37579"] D&D is a game and games are meant to be fun. Plus, serious movies can be tricky. Lord of the Rings can take itself seriously. It's based on literature after all. And with the amount of lore and sales it has, Warcraft can be played straight. D&D isn't art or a massive worldwide phenom, and hasn't earned the right to be dark or gritty or serious. Playing it completely straight just seems pretentious. Serious movies *need* to be good. Because people want to be entertained and they can be entertained by a goofy good movie, or a serious good movie, or a goofy bad movie. But a serious bad movie is just depressing and long and awkward. And D&D doesn't have the reputation for people to risk seeing it if it doesn't look entertaining. That said, this doesn't mean the movie can't take itself serious at times. The D&D cartoon did. The stakes can be real (lives at risk, a real villain, with an evil plot) and the general story can be played straight, with real drama and character conflict. It's just the protagonists that are funny. Like [i]Ghostbusters[/i] or [i]Get Smart[/i]. The heroes crack wise and are irreverent, but Gozerh is still planning on destroying the world and things are scary. Heck, "the Ghostbusters meet the Hobbit" might be the best well of selling such a movie. [/QUOTE]

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