Kevin's Watch

I just rented the D&D2 television movie, out of curiosity and perhaps a masochistic desire for suffering, and while watching it, I couldn't help but notice at least two obvious references to TCTC: the fact that the protagonist is called Berek, and one of the magic formulas used by the wizardess to clean the poison gas out of the mountain, which sounded like "Duras minas mill khabaal"... I'll keep an eye open for other references. Anybody else ever saw this?

They made Dungeons & Dragons movies? Wow, didn't know that. So, how would you categorize them; sci-fi, or historical epic?

Xar wrote:I just rented the D&D2 television movie, out of curiosity and perhaps a masochistic desire for suffering, and while watching it, I couldn't help but notice at least two obvious references to TCTC: the fact that the protagonist is called Berek, and one of the magic formulas used by the wizardess to clean the poison gas out of the mountain, which sounded like "Duras minas mill khabaal"... I'll keep an eye open for other references. Anybody else ever saw this?

Thats so wrong!

I actually rented the first film. I couldn't believe just how bad it was. What torture.

I'd categorize the first as "the D&D movie from Hell", and the second... I'll reserve judgment until I've seen it all In any case, they're both fantasy... although from what I've seen thus far, the second is way better than the first (not that it would have taken much...)

Very well, historical epic it is, then.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie is so bad that I had to shower afterwards. And I only watched five seconds of it.

I like the board game, though--or rather, the morbid lifestyle of geeks killing each other with summoned goblins and Chromatic Orbs.

"...No, it's a Pocket Protector +2 versus vorpal ink!"

DW

Well, I've been playing the game for 15 years now... so watch it

heheh ... well <he said in his best "one-upsmanship" voice> I've been playing D&D for 25 years and I saw the first movie and felt embarrased that I do play ...
it was horrible! Not even a good horrible. FX were neat, but nothing to support it. Jeremy Irons chewing up scenery was sad .. just plain sad ...
still, I have been curious about the second, but only in a 'rent-it-from-pay-TV-so-noone-sees-me-rent-it" kind of way ...
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Usivius wrote:heheh ... well <he said in his best "one-upsmanship" voice> I've been playing D&D for 25 years and I saw the first movie and felt embarrased that I do play ...
it was horrible! Not even a good horrible. FX were neat, but nothing to support it. Jeremy Irons chewing up scenery was sad .. just plain sad ...
still, I have been curious about the second, but only in a 'rent-it-from-pay-TV-so-noone-sees-me-rent-it" kind of way ...
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Actually, the second one was, in my opinion, definitely better than the first one. First of all, the party wasn't made of teenagers (which is good), the characters were more experienced (level 7), they didn't have the overwhelmingly annoying comic relief, and the leader of the party actually was (gasp!) a fighter. They didn't have too many different races, but there was an elf in the party, a half-orc in service to the villain, and the UNDEAD DRAGON!

The FX was also good, considering it was a movie developed for TV, and therefore without the budget of a normal theater movie. I definitely liked the actors better than those in the first movie, although Bruce Payne still went for the overdramatic villain which, at times, is just plain annoying. Nevertheless, they also made a good job of having characters using their own class skills - at one point, for example, the party is fleeing on foot, and you see that the barbarian is running ahead because of fast movement. At another point, the cleric turns undead; and so on. My only gripe is with the cleric himself - but I won't say why, lest I spoil the surprise

Did I mention there was an undead dragon?

To be honest, after the first movie I was horrified; after the second, I feel a bit more at ease and I find I wouldn't mind it if they made a third, as long as it follows in the footsteps of the second

OK, Xar and fellow D&D player, I will take your advise and check it out. HOwever if I am left with the same feeling I had with the first, I'm sending an Invisible Stalker your way!...

Xar wrote:...at one point, for example, the party is fleeing on foot, and you see that the barbarian is running ahead because of fast movement.

Having the characters using the relevant skills might actually make this worth watching.

At the end of the credits does it say how much XP they got?

LOL

Loremaster wrote:At the end of the credits does it say now much XP they got?

Unfortunately it doesn't, but one character definitely gains a level and multiclasses

They also added some little-known D&D monsters, like magmins and darkmantles; the only monster they might have done better was the

Spoiler

lich

, but since they likely blew all their FX money on the undead dragon, I'm willing to accept the somewhat shabby make-up for that other monster

Loremaster wrote:At the end of the credits does it say now much XP they got?