From the film’s website, my favorite bits in bold:
Is Dark Dungeons the movie a parody?
NO! As JR Ralls has said many times in interviews and in his Kickstarter campaign; making a parody of Dark Dungeons was never, and is not, his intention. A parody is “an imitation of the style of a particular artist with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.” The writer, director, and producers of Dark Dungeons were all in agreement that they were not doing interested in doing that. Dark Dungeons the movie was thoroughly researched to ensure that various aspects of it could be directly shown to be influenced by Dark Dungeons the comic, other writings of Jack Chick, and writings by other authors that he hosts on his website. It is NOT a parody.
Is Dark Dungeons the Movie a satire?
NO! Satire is “a humorously exaggerated imitation.” The most classic example is Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, in which he mocks the English aristocracy’s indifference to the rural Irish poor by suggesting they eat Irish babies. This was an exaggeration as the English did not actually hate the Irish enough to eat their babies. By contrast, Dark Dungeons the comic shows that RPGs can lead to suicide, joining a witches coven, and gaining real life magical powers and Dark Dungeons the movie shows exactly those same things as well. The film adaptation does not exaggerate or alter those claims. It is NOT a satire.
Then what is Dark Dungeons the movie?
Dark Dungeons the movie is an adaptation of the comic Dark Dungeons that tries its best to stay true to the spirit and word of the source material given the limitations in adapting a comic to live-action and in expanding a 22-panel comic into an interesting and exciting motion picture. Many of the scenes and dialogue from Dark Dungeons the movie are lifted straight from the comic. While there are changes and differences between the two, JR considers these to be less than those found in many other comic-to-film adaptations. Dark Dungeons the movie is a serious attempt at telling the Dark Dungeons saga in live-action format with as much drama and entertainment as the artists involved could muster.
Priceless!
An excellent illustration ofPoe’s Law in action. The source material is so exaggerated to begin with that it would be pointless, if not impossible, to make it any sillier.
Probably the same reason MST 3000 never tried to lampoon Plan 9 From Outer Space .
Claverhouse:
And then nourished.
Ixnay on the ourishednay. Trying to lure dougie in.
It’s still probably better than the actual “Dungeons and Dragons” movie.
You couldn’t make a parody of Reefer Madness either.
This so has a spot in my movie collection. Right next to Chariot of the Gods .
Jragon
May 21, 2014, 6:52pm
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For a second I thought that balding guy with the magnificent beard was Paul Giamatti. Oh well, this still looks wonderful.
Well… they (sort of) did (sort of)…
But just when you think RPGs are all fun and games, something like this happens.
The last thing the woman from Northeast Portland probably expected when she got up Tuesday morning was that she would be attacked by a sword-wielding elf.
Save us, Jack Chick!
Maybe she shouldn’t have worn her “Melkor rules and Manwë drools” t-shirt then. Her “The only good elf is a live Orc” bumper sticker was just icing on the cake.
Hey…she was asking for it. She dressed too provocatively.
A Jack Chick movie? HAW HAW!
yawn Wake me when the Order of the Stick movie comes out . . .
And with that, I think it is obligatory to link to one nice bit of Fanfiction that pictured how the crew of MST3K would riff on Dark Dungeons.
