# Finally saw Dungeons and Dragons the Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116 "2003-02-10T15:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/41 "2003-02-12T17:19:48Z")
These are great. I loved your D&D rules review, tracer. That almost made the movie worth seeing. As for the accusation for the director being drugged during the making of the movie, well, it would explain a lot. Personally I think he was kicked in the head by some errant horse one too many times. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/42 "2003-02-12T17:21:17Z")
Um, sorry, I’m sleepy. Paul Verhoeven did Total Recall and Robocop. I don’t know if he and James Cameron ever did each other, but it’s none of my business if they did. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/43 "2003-02-12T17:51:46Z")
I only have one question about the movie- why the HELL did that guy have BLUE LIPS? How could anyone take him seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/44 "2003-02-12T22:06:13Z")
Either it was very cold in Fantasyland or he was addicted to raspberry kool-aid. Either way the movie was the suckiest suck that ever sucked a suck. A friend of mine forced me to see it opening night (at full price no less!) and I still contend she owes me. She says we’re even because I made her see Mulholland Drive, but I think she still owes me. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/45 "2003-02-12T23:07:04Z")
**Lightnin’** wrote: > [@](#): > > I only have one question about the movie- why the HELL did that guy have BLUE LIPS? How could anyone take him seriously? I imagine there was a converstation something like: **Solomon:** Dude, you know what would be fucking funny as hell? **Solomon’s Stoner Friend:** What? **Solomon:** Like, if Domodar’s lips were fucking periwinkle or some shit. **Solomon’s Stoner Friend:** Like what, he’s been eating out Smurfette or some shit? **Solomon:** No, man, we don’t even try and explain it. Then the audience will be like, “What the fuck?” **Solomon’s Stoner Friend:** Like, do not adjust your screen, or some shit. Dude’s lips are really fucking periwinkle. Fuck yeah, man. **Solomon:** And the whole audience will be, like, “What the fuck, man?” **Solomon’s Stoner Friend:** Far fucking out. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/46 "2003-02-12T23:54:04Z")
IIRC the empress, or queen, or whatever fulfilled her pledge to make everyone equal by standing on a podium and saying, “You’re equal.” What a great speech! It makes the Gettysburg Address look wordy by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/47 "2003-02-13T23:30:31Z")
Personally, I’m with **Bubba Ray** here. I would have been sorely dissappointed if the movie were _not_ incredibly campy. I mean, have any of you naysayers ever actually played D&D? Did you hire a speechwriter for when your NPC monarch gave a stirring speach? If you did it the way my group did, then you just give some off-the-cuff thing like “Congratulations, you’re all equal now”, and told the players that it was, in fact, inspirational. And I thought that the dragons were pretty good, in appearance at least. ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/48 "2003-02-14T01:07:52Z")
**Chronos** you can’t possibly be talking about the same D&D movie that the rest of us saw. The dragons in the movie I saw sucked displacer beast nuts they were so poorly animated. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/49 "2003-02-14T01:31:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phoenix Dragon \* > **But no, nothing could save this movie.** Well, for myself, the only saving grace was [Zoe McLellan](http://us.imdb.com/Name?McLellan,+Zoe), who I thought was hot. 😃 (And looks like she should be the younger sister of [Kristin Davis](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Davis,+Kristin) of _Sex and the City_) But, yes, the rest of the movie sucked… and not in a good way. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/50 "2003-02-14T02:28:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SC\_Wolf \* > \*\*The dragons in the movie I saw sucked displacer beast nuts they were so poorly animated. \*\* _snigger_ ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/51 "2003-02-14T09:11:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I would have been sorely dissappointed if the movie were not incredibly campy. _Army of Darkness_ was incredibly campy. It didn’t suck. That’s the difference. > [@](#): > > I mean, have any of you naysayers ever actually played D&D? Did you hire a speechwriter for when your NPC monarch gave a stirring speach? If we had millions of dollars with which to write out a campaign, then yes, we would have hired a speechwriter to write flowing verse that was more eloquent than Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I have a dream” speech. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/52 "2003-02-14T15:28:03Z")
I still think they should’ve hired the guys who write _Knights of the Dinner Table_ to write the dialog. The feel would’ve been totally authentic. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/53 "2003-02-14T15:33:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > **Personally, I’m with Bubba Ray here. I would have been sorely dissappointed if the movie were _not_ incredibly campy. I mean, have any of you naysayers ever actually played D&D? Did you hire a speechwriter for when your NPC monarch gave a stirring speach?** Uhhhh… Well, in my games, we also rolled dice to determine the outcome of combat. This does not mean that in the movie, I would have found it acceptable if two people faced off, and then pulled out d20s and rolled them to see who hit who. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/54 "2003-02-14T15:41:27Z")
Profion seemed pretty much spot-on for the way the Bad Guys get played in games I’ve been in. I always figured the dungeons were littered with rubble and debris because of all the time they spent chewing up the scenery. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/55 "2003-02-14T19:10:59Z")
Profion was the saving grace of the film. Sure, we all knew Jeremy Irons could act. But not everybody can really overact. That’s a different talent altogether. Unfortunately, they didn’t really give him any lines worth busting a face vein over. But Irons is a consumate professional, so he nearly sacrificed a few anyway. What a guy. He’s definitely going into my D&D movie. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/56 "2003-02-14T20:02:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Legomancer \* > \*\*Well, in my games, we also rolled dice to determine the outcome of combat. This does not mean that in the movie, I would have found it acceptable if two people faced off, and then pulled out d20s and rolled them to see who hit who. \*\* Are you kidding? That would have been **great!** Imagine it: As Ridley sees Snails die at the hands of Damodar, he cries “Nooooo!” and points his sword threateningly at Damodar. Damodar folds his arms and replies, “You have **got** to be kidding.” Ridley swooshes his sword though the air as he charges Damodar and, when he’s less then three feet away, drops the sword and pulls out a cheap plastic d20. He rolls it on the ground in full view of Damodar. The die shows a 15. “Hah!” Ridley cheers triumphantly, “THAC0 17!” Damodar, though, is unimpressed. “AC -1”, he calmly replies. Ridley’s eyebrows go up in amazement. “Holy cats, I **missed!** ” With a sneer, Damodar pulls a pricey, marble-surfaced d20 out of his silk dice bag, and rolls it on the ground in full view of Ripley. The die shows a 12. With a grunt, Damodar intones, “THAC0 10.” Ridley gupls uncomfortably. “AC 8.” He curses himself under his breath for not wearing his leather armor on this quest, which would have reduced his AC to 6 – not that it would have made a difference against **that** attack roll. Damodar non-chalantly replies, “That’s a hit.” Suddenly, an enrmous, bloody gash appears in Ridley’s side. He’s been hit. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/57 "2003-02-14T20:58:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tengu \* > Since the last few scenes seemed to indicate that Snails can be rezzed (and the rest of the party has been given that information), their next step, in a normal (or even badly designed) campaign, would be to go on whatever quest was neccessary to do it. ) Possible setup for **Dungeons & Dragons II : The Search for Snails**? ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/58 "2003-02-14T21:16:11Z")
_fetal position_ ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/59 "2003-02-14T22:49:15Z")
They did say they had everyone signed for two more movies. I am hoping that because the first one sucked so bad that they changed their minds, or they have completely different writers. Or something. It won’t have JI so I don’t care. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116/60 "2003-02-15T20:55:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > **They did say they had everyone signed for two more movies.** But … then … **why** did the original ending (as appears in the “deleted scenes” section of the DVD) only show Ridley walking sullenly away from Snails’ grave marker, with no **hint** that anybody was going to cast _raise dead_ on him? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-saw-dungeons-and-dragons-the-movie/154116.md?page=4)