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The D&D movie in the works looks...awful.

Started by BronzeDragon, July 21, 2022, 03:03:42 AM

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BronzeDragon

July 21, 2022, 03:03:42 AM
Get a load of this:

https://www.ign.com/articles/first-look-at-the-characters-from-dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves

Granted, these are just stills from production (before all the bells & whistles are added in post), but oooh boy.

One way to sum up the vibe is "That D&D movie + 5E awfulness + cheap as all hell production design)".

I wonder if the non-playing D&D "fans" will like it though...seems to be right up there with youtube D&D shows.
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Rhymer88

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July 21, 2022, 05:08:53 AM
Quote from: BronzeDragon on July 21, 2022, 03:03:42 AM
Get a load of this:

https://www.ign.com/articles/first-look-at-the-characters-from-dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves

Granted, these are just stills from production (before all the bells & whistles are added in post), but oooh boy.

One way to sum up the vibe is "That D&D movie + 5E awfulness + cheap as all hell production design)".

I wonder if the non-playing D&D "fans" will like it though...seems to be right up there with youtube D&D shows.

If this movie was from the 1980s, it would be so bad that it would actually be entertaining. Looking at the pics, the producers might simply be trying to make a parody of D&D.

jeff37923

#2
July 21, 2022, 05:25:33 AM
The producers might be making it look cheesy because they believe that the audience would reject it if it wasn't.
"Meh."

RandyB

#3
July 21, 2022, 07:07:16 AM
West Coast creatives, especially the LA-Hollywood folks, have always hated the D&D brand. To them, the brand is as it always was: the product of a bunch of upstart Midwesterners that dared to create - without handing it off to the LA crowd for the latter to control.

rytrasmi

#4
July 21, 2022, 09:57:51 AM
Well, it's consistent with the art they put in their books, aka, bland cosplay art.
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#5
July 21, 2022, 10:04:19 AM
Don't be churlish: it looks great.
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BoxCrayonTales

#6
July 21, 2022, 10:25:02 AM
It looks bland and generic.

Kerstmanneke82

#7
July 21, 2022, 11:50:09 AM
This does indeed make me think of "that" movie.

Ghostmaker

#8
July 21, 2022, 12:17:04 PM
This was better when it had Jeremy Irons in it.

BronzeDragon

#9
July 21, 2022, 12:43:32 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on July 21, 2022, 12:17:04 PM
This was better when it had Jeremy Irons in it.

Indeed, Irons' overacting may be the only interesting thing to have come out of that disaster.
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Omega

#10
July 21, 2022, 01:18:49 PM
Thought Paramont had dropped the movie a month or two ago?

Looks like it will be more glitz than story. And would have been nice to do something other than another thief centric show. Maybe a wizard.
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Eric Diaz

#11
July 21, 2022, 01:56:33 PM
I think they will take the Star Wars approach here: make a few movies that are terrible and most fans hate, but also maybe a few TV series and spinoffs handled by people who actually LIKE D&D and ALSO know what they are doing... so we can still get something good out of this.
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Manic Modron

#12
July 21, 2022, 05:09:59 PM
Trailer looks fine.

https://youtu.be/IiMinixSXII

Generic, goofy, but basically fine.   I like the black dragon just puking up streams of acid gloop.  Considering D&D is such a broad brush, generic is all I can hope for.  Anything more specific would probably have a more specific title.

Koltar

#13
July 21, 2022, 05:13:44 PM
Oh Wow, now that I've seen the trailer this looks like it might be really Damn Good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiMinixSXII
The return of \'You can\'t take the Sky From me!\'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-eN8mkDw&feature=rec-fresh+div

This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

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HappyDaze

#14
July 21, 2022, 05:40:28 PM
I hope they bring back Snails.
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