Purchased the movie a couple of days after it came out, finally watched it....prepared for the worst....it still wasn't enough...words cannot express my disappointment.
you can borrow some of my words if you like....
A highly disappointing movie. The whole gully dwarves section was reduced to 2 minutes max of screen time. Utterly inexcusable.
The horror, the horror.
Seriously, though, what the hell happened with this project?
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Wow.. just watched the preview on YouTube...
They must have gotten the artists from the old Dungeons & Dragons cartoon and some of the early Atari animators to make this film. To be honest and I am really serious here, they should have handed it out to Film School students and it would have been better.
So, one must now assume that no one associated with RPGS has a clue how to make a movie at all. *sigh*
sad so sad.
Speaking of atari animators, has anyone seen the opening cut scene from the PC game "temple of elemental evil" why couldn't someone do the dragonlance like that (yeah I know cost prohibitive, but I bet the story board or wire frames of that were better than the "Drag-onlance")
I was very excited when I heard about this. After seeing the preview I knew not to put my hopes *too* high.
All in all, I enjoyed the movie a good bit.
Hopefully this is a first step towards better budget or live action versions, but either way I'm satisfied.
Speaking of atari animators, has anyone seen the opening cut scene from the PC game "temple of elemental evil" why couldn't someone do the dragonlance like that (yeah I know cost prohibitive, but I bet the story board or wire frames of that were better than the "Drag-onlance")
Have that game here at home!
I'm sure this is disrupting thread continuity, but I like that game (having a soft spot from DMing the original) even tho it's buggy and crashes..I tried the patches from atari but couldn't seem to get it to work right ever. It was a test platform for what was to become Neverwinter Nights I believe...ok jack over back to Drag-onlance movie poor, waaaa! etc...
here' the "movie" I refered to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLR-05TSC9U
That link crap never works for me!! *&%$$&%*^&(_%$^%#!!!
ok, just something I recall hearing...they are both released by Atari (I thinkk they hold the worlds most popular roleplaying game license) It's really not worth a whole new thread though. just don't bother with the Dragonlance movie...find Hawk the Slayer from the 70's and you'll be way more satisfied.
We watched this movie at last Monday's Monday Night Movie Chat. All I can say is that is was very bad.
.find Hawk the Slayer from the 70's and you'll be way more satisfied.
Hula Hoops and superballs as magical components? Pure genius that.
Not to mention a dwarf armed with a whip and an Elf that makes Mr Spock look like one of the Wiggles.
plus an improved manyshot feat, and before I get called on the carpet again...it's from 1980
I was at Gen Con talking to the authors and even Eddie Munster sorry I really can not remember his name. They had me so excited about this movie it was suppose to be the greatest thing ever made. I found it at a local store I bought for my friend and me. I was so excited the books were the first introduction to D&D I had ever had. They are what got me to play it. I a grown man nearly cried after seeing this movie. To keep it short and clean all I can say is I returned my copy to the store and I had to bite the bullet on the other one. It will never be watched in my house again.
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Not worth the effort of walking to the mailbox to get the package. I really thought, since they were making this in three parts, there would be some LotR-like justice done to the story...no. None. Nada. Anyone get that tear in their eye over the relationship between Raist and Bupu? No? yeah, me neither.
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So, I guess that it's not worth getting. I was seriously tempted to order it from amazon, but the bad reviews it was getting made me think twice. Does anyone recommend this movie?
If you have read the books, I do not recommend it. Also, the animation is a clunky mix of CG and traditional--not well-done.
I was at Gen Con talking to the authors and even Eddie Munster sorry I really can not remember his name.
Butch Patrick
Sorry, it's the thing I can contribute to the thread.
Beyond, perhaps "smurf".
and yet despite all the bad review it continues to show in my Netflix queue as a very long wait??
and yet despite all the bad review it continues to show in my Netflix queue as a very long wait??
Its like the Star Wars holiday special I guess.
Everyone says its bad (and oh lordy it is!) but theres the trainwreck syndrome that makes you want to see it anyway.For those that say things like "its not THAT bad" or "it has its good points"...do not be deceived.
A friend of mine loves Dragonlance so will see it dispite my warnings. I had to explain it to him this way.
"I want you to imagine it being terrible. Just expect the worst and bring your expectations as low as possible.
When you see this you will STILL be blown away by how bad it is. It will be worse that what you pictured in your head.
The reason for this is because its so bad that theres a part of your subconcious that wont allow you to believe that something so unfinished, ugly, choppy and just plain terrible would be accepted as a final product and released by anyone without feeling terribly embarrased by doing so."
The next day he came to me and said I was right. He expected it to be a disaster..yet it still went beyond his bad expectations.
OK rant over...Feels better to get that out of my system :)
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and yet despite all the bad review it continues to show in my Netflix queue as a very long wait??Its like the Star Wars holiday special I guess.
Everyone says its bad (and oh lordy it is!) but theres the trainwreck syndrome that makes you want to see it anyway.For those that say things like "its not THAT bad" or "it has its good points"...do not be deceived.
A friend of mine loves Dragonlance so will see it dispite my warnings. I had to explain it to him this way.
"I want you to imagine it being terrible. Just expect the worst and bring your expectations as low as possible.
When you see this you will STILL be blown away by how bad it is. It will be worse that what you pictured in your head.
The reason for this is because its so bad that theres a part of your subconcious that wont allow you to believe that something so unfinished, ugly, choppy and just plain terrible would be accepted as a final product and released by anyone without feeling terribly embarrased by doing so."The next day he came to me and said I was right. He expected it to be a disaster..yet it still went beyond his bad expectations.
OK rant over...Feels better to get that out of my system :)
All very true...and I was in the same boat as your chum. I still can't believe just how bad it was; and lawless and Sutherland performed the worst voice acting I've ever heard from them.
here' the "movie" I refered to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLR-05TSC9U
A friend of mine returned from a trip to the US this week and brought the DVD with him... I can only add my voice to the people above who have adequately described how utterly bad it is.
I know it's kind of their "job" to do it, but it saddens me that people like Margaret Weis has fully endorsed it and said that she really liked it.As for how an animated movie should look, I found the movie in the above link to the Temple of Elemental Evil rather confusing (didn't really capture me, maybe it was the lower resolution on YouTube).
This clip, however, shows how utterly amazing a CG animated movie could look like.
This is from the game Mark of Chaos, a computer game based on Games Workshops' Warhammer world.
Although the lower resolution on YouTube doesn't do it justice, it's still pretty spectacular (IMO of course).
Warning, the clip is slightly gory!
Click here to see it (don't pay any attention to the description text as that relates to Warhammer Online).
The problem being, of course, that a full length movie like that is rather cost prohibitive, but I fully agree with others above that I'd rather have unknown voice actors (who can still do a great job) and have all the money invested in the actual visual presentation.
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here' the "movie" I refered to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLR-05TSC9UA friend of mine returned from a trip to the US this week and brought the DVD with him... I can only add my voice to the people above who have adequately described how utterly bad it is.
I know it's kind of their "job" to do it, but it saddens me that people like Margaret Weis has fully endorsed it and said that she really liked it.As for how an animated movie should look, I found the movie in the above link to the Temple of Elemental Evil rather confusing (didn't really capture me, maybe it was the lower resolution on YouTube).
This clip, however, shows how utterly amazing a CG animated movie could look like.
This is from the game Mark of Chaos, a computer game based on Games Workshops' Warhammer world.
Although the lower resolution on YouTube doesn't do it justice, it's still pretty spectacular (IMO of course).
Warning, the clip is slightly gory!
Click here to see it (don't pay any attention to the description text as that relates to Warhammer Online).
The problem being, of course, that a full length movie like that is rather cost prohibitive, but I fully agree with others above that I'd rather have unknown voice actors (who can still do a great job) and have all the money invested in the actual visual presentation.
Totally!! I was smiling all the way through! That's what DL should have looked like!I would rather have seen them junk it into a 42.6 minute TV episode than the 90-minute debacle they created.
I was so unimpressed. They skipped so many important scenes! And Tas was annoying, but not in the way he's normally annoying. A whole brand new kind of annoying. And of course, they mention the dragonlances like a bazillion times, and they show exactly zero of them.
At least I'm pretty sure they kept Raistlin's magic words the same. But why was Tas pestering him about his magic all the time? And what was with all the headbands and 80's hair?
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Didn't read the books first, so I actually enjoyed this. It wasn't up to the level of the Marvel animated films, but that aside, it was a fun Dungeons and Dragons film for me. I rewatched the live action film not too long ago and my eyeballs bled. I think we all really need to get some perspective on the difference between bad and average.
I wonder why evil cleric spells in this movie are apparently powered by proton packs. Don't cross the spells, Verminaard! It would be bad.