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It's not like that doesn't have precedent for Dungeons and Dragons as a franchise. And besides, I imagine given it's a deliberately generic fantasy setting, and that D&D characters are literal self-inserts, it probably needs a gimmick like that.
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The final reveal is that it's actually a game of dnd being played and Vin Diesel is the DM behind the cardboard screen with the cool dragon painted on it.
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feedmyleg posted:That aside, what a boring-looking party. No crow people? No lizard men? Tossing a pair of horns on someone is no substitute I feel like the fatal flaw of D&D as a setting is that over the years they have added literally everything you can imagine into D&D, but if you show a scene and it's a bunch of wolfmen fighting levitating evil embryos with shotguns and a robot is there that might be cool, but no one will register it as D&D. Like it has to be a wizard/fighter/cleric/rouge fighting a red dragon or there is no real signifier that it's D&D instead of any other fantasy setting ever made. Like D&D despite being the broadest thing imaginable is only recognizable as itself by being the most generic thing.
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That's why they should do a Spelljammer or Dark Sun movie, that way it's a specific D&D setting instead of generic D&D movie.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:The final reveal is that it's actually a game of dnd being played and Vin Diesel is the DM behind the cardboard screen with the cool dragon painted on it. One member of the party is Dame Judi Dench still trying to learn the game since he first told her about it on the set of Riddick: Chronicles of Riddick.
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ButtWolf posted:Just catching to the thread but why does everyone compare it to John Wick, when it is clearly Taken? Baken
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This looks worse with each trailer: https://twitter.com/ign/status/1410629552087445505
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feedmyleg posted:poo poo. That umbrella picture makes me think they're doing the meta "players get sucked in the world" nonsense rather than just giving us a straight fantasy movie. I mean, it could just be goofing around on set, but I don't have high hopes. or you know it's hot out
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I have concluded that the Space Jam 2 creative team's entire understanding from Looney Toons comes from Walmart t-shirts in the 90s.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:The final reveal is that it's actually a game of dnd being played and Vin Diesel is the DM behind the cardboard screen with the cool dragon painted on it. In that case, every NPC character had better also be played by Vin Diesel.
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Jul 1, 2021 18:55
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Robot Style posted:In that case, every NPC character had better also be played by Vin Diesel. "I don't need gold dragons." *Vin clones come out* "I got family"
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Jul 1, 2021 18:59
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Urdnot Fire posted:This looks worse with each trailer: For some reason I thought Space Jam 2 had already come and gone. Like, there are movies you read about and suddenly you go "Wait, that came out already?" Space Jam 2 is exactly that kind of movie.
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Jul 1, 2021 19:06
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Urdnot Fire posted:This looks worse with each trailer: All of the jokes and references in one of the recent ads are fifteen to twenty years old. At one point I think it's Porky walks out dressed like loving Doctor Evil.
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Jul 1, 2021 19:45
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Alan Smithee posted:does anyone even wear puffy vests anymore Hey Biff, get a load of this guy's life preserver. Dork thinks he's gonna drown.
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MonsieurChoc posted:That's why they should do a Spelljammer or Dark Sun movie, that way it's a specific D&D setting instead of generic D&D movie. Agreed. Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Planescape, any number of specific settings. Just because the popular conception of D&D is a Tolkien-esque high fantasy setting doesn't mean that's what they have to do. But watch it be exactly what they do.
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Alan Smithee posted:does anyone even wear puffy vests anymore I wear a puffy jacket. I never saw the point of vests in general, unless they life vests.
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Jul 1, 2021 20:17
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Just give us a Pathfinder movie instead. Make it about a slave uprising against a cabal of Numerian tech-wizards, or if you want to play it safe set it in the literal ASoIaF ripoff country next door and give us an ending to GoT that doesn't loving suck.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:All of the jokes and references in one of the recent ads are fifteen to twenty years old. https://twitter.com/spacejammovie/status/1410629277947596802
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Urdnot Fire posted:This looks worse with each trailer: cool. this is the worst tweet I've ever seen. thanks E: oh, nevermind
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Jul 1, 2021 21:30
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Jul 1, 2021 21:37
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To be fair, this scene will probably still somehow be better than anything in the new matrix movie coming out.
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Who the gently caress is this movie for?
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Matrix jokes were stale when Shrek did them two decades ago.
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Seriously. This movie referencing The Matrix would be like the 1996 original referencing...I don't know, Rollerball.
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Maybe to save development time they only used discarded concepts from Looney Tunes: Back in Action which is why both these scenes feel like they time traveled directly from 2001? E: Since it’s about the internet maybe they will make a funny joke about the dial up login sound??
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Xealot posted:Seriously. This movie referencing The Matrix would be like the 1996 original referencing...I don't know, Rollerball. It'd be something even earlier from 1971, so THX 1138 or Andromeda Strain or Silent Running EDIT: or Clockwork Orange ................. which Space Jam 2 is referencing anyway.   They fuckin' saw our complaints coming a mile away and outmaneuvered us a year ago, they win this round. 
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I was on a big Joe Dante kick a few years ago and watched Looney Tunes: Back in Action blind. I found out afterwards he was miserable the whole time because of studio interference, and it pushed him into semi-retirement.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:To be fair, this scene will probably still somehow be better than anything in the new matrix movie coming out. I still lol that the two returning characters are the two that absolutely 100% zero ambiguity on-screen for a long time perished in the previous movie
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Xealot posted:Agreed. Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Planescape, any number of specific settings. Just because the popular conception of D&D is a Tolkien-esque high fantasy setting doesn't mean that's what they have to do. But watch it be exactly what they do. I have to believe that an Eberron movie would be a license to print money and not making one is the result of a curse or monkey paw situation. "Robot wizard fights dragon on back of lightning powered steampunk train" should be the starting point of every film written, including documentaries.
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"Hey kids Space Jam 2 has a Justice League reference! You remember JL don't you?" "No "naw" "no" "nope"
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feedmyleg posted:poo poo. That umbrella picture makes me think they're doing the meta "players get sucked in the world" nonsense rather than just giving us a straight fantasy movie. I mean, it could just be goofing around on set, but I don't have high hopes. It could just be umbrellas are a thing that exists in Faerun now? IShallRiseAgain posted:To be fair, this scene will probably still somehow be better than anything in the new matrix movie coming out. As long as Lana Wachowski makes it countless cyber kung fu scenes in between bizarre philosophizing... Pope Corky the IX posted:All of the jokes and references in one of the recent ads are fifteen to twenty years old. At one point I think it's Porky walks out dressed like loving Doctor Evil. If there is not a single Tails Gets Trolled reference, smh.
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Xealot posted:Agreed. Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Planescape, any number of specific settings. Just because the popular conception of D&D is a Tolkien-esque high fantasy setting doesn't mean that's what they have to do. But watch it be exactly what they do. With Vin Diesel as The Egg of Coot
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IshmaelZarkov posted:I have to believe that an Eberron movie would be a license to print money and not making one is the result of a curse or monkey paw situation. "Robot wizard fights dragon on back of lightning powered steampunk train" should be the starting point of every film written, including documentaries. For whatever reason WotC are very big on Forgotten Realms being the setting for this current edition- I've heard some scuttlebutt about needing to publish FR material to retain the rights from Ed Greenwood (who actually created the setting independent of xD&D at first) but that feels like something that would have been resolved earlier, but anyway, they don't put out a lot of books themselves because the D&D crew is kinda small so it's almost all FR, which is- I mean it's not a bad setting but it's very generic. I feel like they see it as the "traditional D&D" lens and something like Eberron or Planescape would be confusing. Which sucks. My vote would be Planescape, set it in a crowded semi-Victorian torus city full of monsters and demons and other folks just going about their day. Just have Tony DiTerlizzi do all the art direction. Make it like Labyrinth, kids love that poo poo.
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Maxwell Lord posted:My vote would be Planescape, set it in a crowded semi-Victorian torus city full of monsters and demons and other folks just going about their day. So, Ravnica?
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Neo Rasa posted:I still lol that the two returning characters are the two that absolutely 100% zero ambiguity on-screen for a long time perished in the previous movie They are locked in Samsara cycle of death and rebirth, as shown when Neo meets the architect and there's like 100 Neo's on the screen. This is just Neo(1999) + 1
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Isn’t that both Alien and Aliens though?
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