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Big Mean Jerk posted:In fairness, pulling a Jumanji and starting with the characters as actual players and doing a fish out of water thing would help it set the movie apart from your typical action-fantasy flick. D&D's settings are about as interesting as you (or the DM) writes it. Even the 'default' Forgotten Realms has enough weird stuff like the interdimensional illithid-gith conflict and demon politics. Still, I am disappointed WOTC doesn't do more with Eberron. A world undergoing magic-based industrial revolution with trains, aircrafts and sentient robots have so much potential.
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Gonz posted:My knowledge of D&D is limited, but even I know that it’s not really a D&D movie without a gelatinous cube. Those mad lads at Kid Robot have done it They've made gelatinous cubes ADORABLE!!!    These are apparently actual licensed D&D : Honor Among Thieves merchandise. Or if mimics are more your thing, they've got that covered too. Did I mention they glow in the dark?    e: unrelated but too good not to share 
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It's a big pet peeve for me when you have a fantasy world and every character just talks like they stepped out of a Marvel movie. Yeah, I kind of actually do want it to take itself seriously - doesn't mean it can't have any comedy in it, but it just looks like generic blockbuster pap to me and not the cool fantasy epic that I would ideally want a DnD movie to be. Like aside from production values being much higher and some better casting, it practically looks identical in style to the 2000 DnD movie. Maybe it'll still be alright for what it is, but you ain't getting me into the theater for that poo poo.
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HJE-Cobra posted:You could use the players at the table as a framing device for the story, do like a Princess Bride kind of thing where you show players around the table occasionally, have the DM as the narrator. The Gamers: Dorkness Rising did that and it was quite good for what it was. Honestly, that's probably the best D&D movie we're ever going to get.
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Vandar posted:The Gamers: Dorkness Rising did that and it was quite good for what it was. The six minute BG3 intro has got to be the best D&D movie out there. Leaning straight into the weird.
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Great now all I can think about is the PS2 game summoner with the D&D animated skit.
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Did they ever call back to that in Harmontown?
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The Gamers (that's the 2000's era student film that cuts between nerds in a dorm and larp level cosplay of their adventure, right?) is exactly that, yeah. It's also, anecdotally, quite amusing to people that play and a complete dud for everyone else.
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I feel like most movies, television shows, etc about roleplaying games use the framing device of showing people playing the game around a table. If anything the first D&D movie is an anomaly at this point.
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Tarsem Singh's Dungeons and Dragons (2006)
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Here are my issues with the D&D movie trailer: 1) The humor blows 2) World-ending stakes blow blow blow 3) A better D&D movie would lean into a retro 80s look and feel in its vibe and production design The third one is my problem, the first two are the movie's problem. For once I just want the stakes of one of these fantasy properties to be about stealing a treasure or killing a big skeleton guy in a dungeon. I guess that just doesn't feel "epic" enough to justify a movie in the eyes of some studio executive, but it's way closer to what an average D&D campaign's story and scope is. First season of The Witcher kinda had that vibe, but jettisoned it for subsequent seasons. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Feb 21, 2023 |
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One of the issues with any kind of D&D movie is you're going to get wildly different takes on what a D&D movie should feel like.
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HJE-Cobra posted:You could use the players at the table as a framing device for the story, do like a Princess Bride kind of thing where you show players around the table occasionally, have the DM as the narrator. I would hate this. Enough with the meta poo poo (as I continue to read and write meta poo poo lol)
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feedmyleg posted:For once I just want the stakes of one of these fantasy properties to be about stealing a treasure or killing a big skeleton guy in a dungeon. I guess that just doesn't feel "epic" enough to justify a movie in the eyes of some studio executive, but it's way closer to what an average D&D campaign's story and scope is. You know, I agree with this, it's not even a fantasy thing either. Everything these days needs to be a big epic that leads to several sequels. It would be nice to have a "small" self-contained story, without a sequel hook.
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Jack B Nimble posted:The Gamers (that's the 2000's era student film that cuts between nerds in a dorm and larp level cosplay of their adventure, right?) is exactly that, yeah. It's also, anecdotally, quite amusing to people that play and a complete dud for everyone else. The sequel, Gamers 2, is also pretty solid. Never saw the third one and learning that the creators did like 10+ minute walk n talk at a convention about Firefly I sorta passed on anything else they did after that. Also I still like the third D&D movie, because it's 100% "GM's first evil campaign" right down to all the clichés of a Paladin masquerading as an evil guy (and forced to do eeeeevil things), and that one player who really, really loves playing evil characters. The story is naff but it's so fun seeing all the clichés being played seriously that I can't help but to love it.
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This discussion is making me remember how much I enjoyed Zero Charisma. If they were ever to do a "players get sucked into the game" thing, basing it on that sort of group dynamic would be the only way I think I'd be able to enjoy it.
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That asking questions scene is 1000x better than any quippy Marvel dialogue. Quip is fine! All of our beloved Harrison Ford and Arnold characters had quip, moxy, spunk, etc. The difference is when you use the humor to undercut any dramatic or tense moments and pull the viewer straight out of the movie, which is running the Joss Whedon playbook - something Marvel just can not stop doing.
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Cooked Auto posted:The sequel, Gamers 2, is also pretty solid. The third was poo poo, it was about a tcg tournament and just didn't work. The second one (the aforementioned Dorkness Rising) is really good though.
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I’d like an epic World’s Largest Dungeon movie with the climax being that end boss in the dungeon. It seemed amazingly epic
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Ocean's Eleven, But It's The Tomb Of Horrors. ...it's gonna take a lot more than eleven guys, isn't it?
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as long as we keep getting a steady supply of fantasy movies, i'll take some "hey what's up guys" as long as i get "greetings traveler, long hath i awaited thee" sometimes too
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:as long as we keep getting a steady supply of fantasy movies, i'll take some "hey what's up guys" as long as i get "greetings traveler, long hath i awaited thee" sometimes too How about you get it in the same scene, and the first guy then says "Oh right, we're in the North now!"
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Just give me a brand new 80's style sword and sandals movie, that's all I want
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:as long as we keep getting a steady supply of fantasy movies, i'll take some "hey what's up guys" as long as i get "bear seek seek lest" sometimes too
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Big Mean Jerk posted:In fairness, pulling a Jumanji and starting with the characters as actual players and doing a fish out of water thing would help it set the movie apart from your typical action-fantasy flick. True of Forgotten Realms, but D&D has actually cool and funs ettings that for some reason they don't use as much as loving Forgotten Realms.
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MonsieurChoc posted:True of Forgotten Realms, but D&D has actually cool and funs ettings that for some reason they don't use as much as loving Forgotten Realms. I like my halflings cannibalistic and my thri-kreen psionic
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Dark Sun movie when, you cowards? RAVENLOFT MOVIE WHEN?
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:as long as we keep getting a steady supply of fantasy movies, i'll take some "hey what's up guys" as long as i get "greetings traveler, long hath i awaited thee" sometimes too "You did NOT just say that." *"Back in Black" starts playing*
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MonsieurChoc posted:True of Forgotten Realms, but D&D has actually cool and funs ettings that for some reason they don't use as much as loving Forgotten Realms. Is Spelljammer part of Forgotten Realms? I’d be down for a wild sci-fi/fantasy blend with living organic ships and colonial space hippos.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Is Spelljammer part of Forgotten Realms? I’d be down for a wild sci-fi/fantasy blend with living organic ships and colonial space hippos. Spelljammer lets you fly your space catamaran between settings if you feel like it
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Grab a Bloody Mary with Strahd, then hop over and humiliate the Red Wizards of Thay on your way to recruit some copper draconians
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Figure out how to adapt Planescape Torment and then do that.
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Featuring Kevin Hart as Morte
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Vandar posted:Dark Sun movie when, you cowards? Just two hours of the party trying to convince Strahd to work on himself and maybe he could get the girl
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Grendels Dad posted:Zack Snyder's Darths & Droids bowl of white cheddar cheese puffs goes flying slow motionishly
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Featuring Kevin Hart as Morte 
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