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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7537339" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I don't agree with any of these assertions. Events seem to happen completely at random. The dwarf joins the heroes because they fell on him. At one point they get sucked into a map with no explanation. Why does the skeleton who's supposed to protect the magic dragon-control staff just give it to the protagonist? What the hell was up with that scene where Jeremy Irons puts brain snakes in blue-lip man's ears?</p><p></p><p></p><p>The protagonist is inoffensive but boring. Snails is obnoxious. The mage girl is boring <em>and</em> obnoxious. The dwarf is pointless, obnoxious, and has unclear motivation. Jeremy Irons was cool, I liked his character. His blue-lipped minion had potential, but was under-utilized, which they tried to fix in the sequel but in doing so they completely changed his character, as in the original he was seemingly motivated by... Wanting the brain snakes out, I guess? Where in the sequel he worshiped dragons, I think. Don't remember that one as well.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I agree that the setting was pretty cool.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The problem isn't that its cliche, it's that it's totally unfocused, meandering, and things seem to happen just because it's a D&D movie and you've got to have a thieves' den and an Indiana Jones puzzle trap trial in a D&D movie.</p><p></p><p>EDIT:</p><p></p><p>I'll grant you that. It was an excellent cast, and the very, very basic outline of the plot sounds fine on paper. The problem is all of the things that actually happen in the movie.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7537339, member: 6779196"] I don't agree with any of these assertions. Events seem to happen completely at random. The dwarf joins the heroes because they fell on him. At one point they get sucked into a map with no explanation. Why does the skeleton who's supposed to protect the magic dragon-control staff just give it to the protagonist? What the hell was up with that scene where Jeremy Irons puts brain snakes in blue-lip man's ears? The protagonist is inoffensive but boring. Snails is obnoxious. The mage girl is boring [I]and[/I] obnoxious. The dwarf is pointless, obnoxious, and has unclear motivation. Jeremy Irons was cool, I liked his character. His blue-lipped minion had potential, but was under-utilized, which they tried to fix in the sequel but in doing so they completely changed his character, as in the original he was seemingly motivated by... Wanting the brain snakes out, I guess? Where in the sequel he worshiped dragons, I think. Don't remember that one as well. Yeah, I agree that the setting was pretty cool. The problem isn't that its cliche, it's that it's totally unfocused, meandering, and things seem to happen just because it's a D&D movie and you've got to have a thieves' den and an Indiana Jones puzzle trap trial in a D&D movie. EDIT: I'll grant you that. It was an excellent cast, and the very, very basic outline of the plot sounds fine on paper. The problem is all of the things that actually happen in the movie. [/QUOTE]
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