My votes is for… They Were Stoned.
When I went to the theater to see the D&D movie, I was all set to enjoy an awesome fantasy film, but instead I got – that. For one thing, the movie has absolutely nothing to do with D&D! None of the spells are D&D spells; there’s not even any fireballs or lightning bolts! The beholders are the only D&D monsters in the movie – for 5 seconds. The dragons, who in the game are super-intelligent, are reduced to growling animals in the movie. And, of course, how can anyone like a movie whose most dramatic line is: “You said you’d let them go!” [dramatic chord] “I lied.”
Here’s my take on what the next D&D movie should be – a film of the Monte Cook adventure A Paladin In Hell where the heroes have to fight their way through a ship full of demons, and then have to fight their way through a fortress full of devils, including a former arch-devil! Naturally, we’d use the full range of powers from the Book of Vile Darkness in it. We could call the movie Demons and Devils and have to submit it to the MPAA 5 times to get an R rating. Now THAT would be a movie!
In almost every way, I find huge faults with this movie…
but yet, I kinda liked it.
Brian
Dude, I am all with you, if that isnt the next summer blockbuster I dunno what is.
I put this movie in my netflix rental queue after reading this thread, and it finally showed up tonight. I think this could very well be the worst movie I’ve ever seen.
Now, I’ve seen a lot of bad movies. I saw Battlefield Earth in the theater. Mystery Science Theater 3000 is my favorite TV series, ever. For a while, I even thought it was fun to seek out bad movies. Dungeons and Dragons is bad on such a monumental scale I can’t even make fun of it.
When it started, I was all ready to make the obvious cracks like “They should’ve re-rolled for a higher acting skill,” or “this movie failed its saving throw against sucking” but then there was Jeremy Irons and the guy with the blue lips getting impregnated by a brain monster and the blue guy with the extra eye and Thora Birch with the worst accent possible and oh my dear god the Wayans, so much horrible Wayans. I couldn’t laugh anymore; I just had to sob.
And then the deleted scenes! With director’s commentary!
**Johnny Angel wrote:
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.**
This film does have one saving grace, if you need a definition of chewing on the scenery just show this film and answer all questions.
I think Irons had a great time making this film. He got a chance to really chew on the scenery but know that this monstrosity would sink like a stone at the boxoffice so he’d not have to worry about it.