Post by wittzo on Mar 8, 2006 8:04:25 GMT -6
Finally, a movie that captures the spirit of a Dungeons and Dragons adventure!
Instead of getting a super fan boy to direct it, they got a somewhat older hand and left the fan boys to write the story and consult with the actors. What was really cool was the actors were given the game rulebooks so they could learn how their characters would act in a game.
It's nothing like that POC that had one of the Wayans in it, it's really good and the plot makes sense.
In defense of the first Dungeons and Dragons movie, they put it in the hands of a first-time director who was a huge fan of D&D, so excited about directing a D&D movie, he was constantly peeing himself...
A lot of times, a big fan of a franchise is the worst pick to direct because they want to do so much with it, they end up getting in over their heads. They saddled him with a lower budget and less time necessary to make a decent movie, much less a movie that captured the spirit of D&D. Dungeons and Dragons ended up being a hack job, even the producer admitted it in the extras. A lot of necessary plot points to make the movie make any sense at all got lost.
For example, they ended up being friends for life with the dwarf after jumping in a hole with him. In the extras, we learn that his enemy is their enemy and he joins the party after introducing himself in the sewers.
There was some confusing throwaway lines said by the the main actors that didn't make any sense at all. The two main characters had a scene where they get sucked into a scroll, the hero fights with a bad guy and talks with his father's spirit who was trapped in the scroll and finds out a lot of details about what was going on.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the money to finish the effects for the DVD, so the actors are talking to blue screens and wire diagrams. A director's cut with the finished deleted scenes edited in would make a much better movie.
That movie ended up being the same as a bad session of D&D, no plot that makes sense, no motivation for the characters, no involvement with all the characters, and dangit, all of a sudden the Princess arrives with a whole lot of dragons to save everyone's butts. Those are examples of a poor Dungeonmaster.
D&D:Wrath of the Dragon God was a perfect adventure for D&D and a perfect example of what a D&D movie should be.
Nerd Out!
Instead of getting a super fan boy to direct it, they got a somewhat older hand and left the fan boys to write the story and consult with the actors. What was really cool was the actors were given the game rulebooks so they could learn how their characters would act in a game.
It's nothing like that POC that had one of the Wayans in it, it's really good and the plot makes sense.
In defense of the first Dungeons and Dragons movie, they put it in the hands of a first-time director who was a huge fan of D&D, so excited about directing a D&D movie, he was constantly peeing himself...
A lot of times, a big fan of a franchise is the worst pick to direct because they want to do so much with it, they end up getting in over their heads. They saddled him with a lower budget and less time necessary to make a decent movie, much less a movie that captured the spirit of D&D. Dungeons and Dragons ended up being a hack job, even the producer admitted it in the extras. A lot of necessary plot points to make the movie make any sense at all got lost.
For example, they ended up being friends for life with the dwarf after jumping in a hole with him. In the extras, we learn that his enemy is their enemy and he joins the party after introducing himself in the sewers.
There was some confusing throwaway lines said by the the main actors that didn't make any sense at all. The two main characters had a scene where they get sucked into a scroll, the hero fights with a bad guy and talks with his father's spirit who was trapped in the scroll and finds out a lot of details about what was going on.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the money to finish the effects for the DVD, so the actors are talking to blue screens and wire diagrams. A director's cut with the finished deleted scenes edited in would make a much better movie.
That movie ended up being the same as a bad session of D&D, no plot that makes sense, no motivation for the characters, no involvement with all the characters, and dangit, all of a sudden the Princess arrives with a whole lot of dragons to save everyone's butts. Those are examples of a poor Dungeonmaster.
D&D:Wrath of the Dragon God was a perfect adventure for D&D and a perfect example of what a D&D movie should be.
Nerd Out!
