# Why wasn't the D&D movie more "D&D"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-d-d-movie-more-d-d/260325 "2004-08-18T00:39:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-d-d-movie-more-d-d/260325/21 "2004-08-18T20:26:02Z")
They really are working on the sequel? Please, tell me you’re joking. I feel as though I have just been bitchslapped with a tome of ineffable darkness. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-d-d-movie-more-d-d/260325/22 "2004-08-18T20:42:00Z")
> **[Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (TV Movie 2005) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406728/)** > > Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God: Directed by Gerry Lively. With Bruce Payne, Mark Dymond, Clemency Burton-Hill, Ellie Chidzey. Together, four heroes build their own army to retrieve the orb, using elemental forces to defeat Damodar... Yep, a sequel all right. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-d-d-movie-more-d-d/260325/23 "2004-08-18T23:37:53Z")
> [@bughunter](#): > > It didn’t help that the dude had white lips, too… > > … okay, actually, it _did_ help. Please! The henchman had _blue_ lips, thank you very much. I mean _white_ lips? C’mon, that’d just be _stupid._ :rolleyes: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-d-d-movie-more-d-d/260325/24 "2004-08-19T00:13:40Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > I mean, yeah, everything except for the quicksand carpet sucked ass, but the quicksand carpet rocked! 😃 When everything _but_ the quicksand sucks, I daresay you have a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-d-d-movie-more-d-d/260325/25 "2004-08-19T01:20:27Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > When we saw this, the entire group of people I saw this with were cracking up at that line!!! The line that broke up me and my friends was “That’s just like you thieves. Always taking things that don’t belong to you!” Why, yes, Damodar, that is, indeed, just like thieves. In fact, I daresay that’s the actual definition of the word “thief”! And they say fighters are stupid. > [@DocCathode](#): > > However, Tom Baker had a cameo as elven cleric. The effortless grace and depth if his acting took my breath away. Yeah, he did a great job as Yoda, giving Obi Wan’s “The Force surrounds us” speech, while hanging out at the Ewok village. That’s what I loved about this movie: the originality. On the other hand, the film did lead to this [Nodwick](http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/nodwick/gamespyarchive/gspynod132.html) comic, so it wasn’t a total waste. ---
**Author:** ![BytopianDream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@BytopianDream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BytopianDream)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-d-d-movie-more-d-d/260325/26 "2004-08-19T03:20:02Z")
The biggest problem with the D&D movie is that it wasn’t very D&D at all. Low level characters don’t do that stuff. There was no party dynamics. I’m sure any amount of written current adventures would have done much better. They could have even taken any number of the current written books and done well with those. Hell, a pubescent 13 year old first time DM could have done better than that dang movie. They didn’t make a fan’s movie. They made one wanker’s movie. A fanboi’s movie would have been better than this. Elminster and “That Drow Ranger Guy I Can’t Remember Right Now For Some Reason” and Minsc would have drawn the D&D crowd. I’m hoping the second movie is a done right movie. A low level adventure introducing some characters in one of the established campaign worlds. They meet some of the luminaries in that world, they fight some monsters, they go through a dungeon, they win some phat loot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-d-d-movie-more-d-d/260325.md?page=1)