I really hate the Infinity mirror quote boxes look or thing.

It makes this thread very difficult to follow or even read.

- Ed C.

Quote from: Koltar on July 29, 2022, 10:44:42 AM
I really hate the Infinity mirror quote boxes look or thing.

It makes this thread very difficult to follow or even read.

- Ed C.

It's basically just people calling each other racist for not liking the trailer. You're not missing much.

How in the heck is two posters arguing over which one is racist on the topic of this thread?  I mean, if someone wanted to post a thread in Pundit's Forum about whether Mistwell was a disingenuous knob, that would be one thing.  But to have SHARK banned (though hopefully reinstated now) for asking a question and to have this thread become unreadable from this spat...

Quote from: Mistwell on July 29, 2022, 12:47:28 AM

Yes, you're a fucking racist based on what you said. If you disagree, explain your position. We both know you won't though - because your position is "it's bad there are not more white people in this movie" which is blatantly racist. And if you disagree - then WHAT IS YOUR POSITION?

Prove I said that. What is it? You can't? And off to the ignore list you go, I'm not getting myself banned because of your lying disingenuous twat assholery.

Quote from: Koltar on July 29, 2022, 10:44:42 AM
I really hate the Infinity mirror quote boxes look or thing.

It makes this thread very difficult to follow or even read.

- Ed C.

^^THIS^^

When the mirror quotes start, I zone out.

Dudes, learn to parse your quotes.  Yes, it is a PiTA with the way this site works, but think of the children homies.

Oh, and I give this movie a 50/50 chance of doing well...

If you can tell by a trailer that a movie is going to be good, you see things I don't. I have been duped into terrible movies by great trailers countless times. We'll see when the movie hits, but I thought the trailer looked fine (and sounded great).

The only cringe was Michelle Rodriguez, but I have never liked her. Seeing some of the iconic monsters in modern CGI was cool. Pine and Grant are the lead protagonist/antagonist, and are almost always great. Justice Smith can deliver good lines ("We're not compatible" may be the best line in the second Jurassic World movie), although I'm not sold on him in a carrying role.

I sure as hell am not going to read anything on the prior couple pages that quote and look like that, but I'm not sure where race comes into that trailer at all.

That said, and admittedly without evidence, there will likely be woke crap it in because there is always woke crap in things not named Top Gun: Maverick.

Lots of time between now and March. So if the good people making the movie are reading this, and they suffered through the Great Racist Quote War, there is still time! Edit for entertainment! Nobody should fuck up a movie with that cast.

Maybe my negative reaction to the trailer means I don't actually like brand-name D&D. Movies like Conan the Barbarian, Excalibur, Krull, Dragon Slayer, or even Ladyhawke better reflect the games I play and run (D&D and other, mostly other) than this movie.

I would have much preferred practical effects. But toy/game tie-ins and CGI are bread and butter. This is a Marvel-like money making venture, not a work of art. So, my expectations are misplaced.

The monsters also seem like nothing more than cameos. How many brand-name monsters can we fit in this thing? The dragon and its acid breath, I admit is well done.

Quote from: Koltar on July 29, 2022, 10:44:42 AM
I really hate the Infinity mirror quote boxes look or thing.

It makes this thread very difficult to follow or even read.

- Ed C.

Fair point. I will make an attempt to stop quoting beyond the post I am directly responding to.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on July 29, 2022, 12:48:11 PM


Prove I said that. What is it? You can't? And off to the ignore list you go, I'm not getting myself banned because of your lying disingenuous twat assholery.

Dude, WHAT IS YOUR POSITION CONCERNING RACE AND THIS MOVIE? If you don't agree with my characterization of your position, that's fine then just say what your position is. And I have no idea why people are talking about a ban - we're talking about the movie that is the subject of this thread, which is the D&D movie. That looks like yet another excuse to not talk about your position with regard to the movie and run away. Again.

Quote from: Mistwell on July 29, 2022, 02:51:23 PM

Fair point. I will make an attempt to stop quoting beyond the post I am directly responding to.

Thank you

-Ed C.

So here is where this part of the topic started. First, SHARK said:

Quote from: SHARK on July 22, 2022, 09:46:03 PM

Of course white people are being marginalized. In film, music, in academia, business, everywhere, white people are discriminated against, and vilified.

Hell, we have an Editor at the NYT, Jong I think her name is--that wrote on her Twitter that white people are the problem in society, and that white people should be exterminated. Women everywhere should not breed with white men.

She kept her job, and was applauded and celebrated for her vicious hatred and racism.

So, yeah. I imagine the D&D movie will show all kinds of minorities and women as being "stunning and brave"--while white men especially are laughed at and depicted as incometent doofuses. Naturally, according to the Woke, if you are a minority, you are special, and uber, and beautiful, and if you are white, you are inferior.

I don't have high expectations for the D&D movie.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

To which GeekyBugle replied:

Quote from: GeekyBugle on July 22, 2022, 10:17:50 PM

Greetings hermano, well put!

I saw the trailer, let me tell you about it:

The only white (and lets be honest, he's straight) male on the good guy's side is an incompetent bufoon, constantly outshined by everybody and emasculated by the stunning and brave stronk independent wahmen who don't need no fish.

Yeah, it's also a hard pass from me. There was a time when I could overlook that because there were other stuff where it balanced out, now? They can get bent.

To me, that looked pretty racist. But, after repeated opportunities for GeekyBugle to clarify that position, he won't.

You guys are wasting too much time on this argument. It's a freakin trailer. Who knows what the actual movie holds.

Chris Pine looks like an Ocean's 11 George Clooney-esque type of leader of the party. A bit of a rascal, sometimes subject to a bit if ribbing or joking, but in the end he keeps the party on target and wins the day.

Quote from: Mistwell on July 29, 2022, 03:01:45 PM
To me, that looked pretty racist. But, after repeated opportunities for GeekyBugle to clarify that position, he won't.

It's never a good idea to get in the middle of a knife fight, but what the hell.

At this point, you need to clarify why you think he's being racist. Up here in the bleachers, it looks like you are trying to invoke the "magic R word" to win an argument.

Looks kind of fun to me, and the creatures look true to the source.

Shad/Shadiversity has the perfect reaction to the flying sword: https://odysee.com/@Shadiversity:d/they-did-it-again-!-!-dungeons-and:9

Legion of Myth guys not impressed either: https://odysee.com/@legionofmyth:c/98-2-d-d-movie-trailer-reaction-is:0