I haven't seen the movie and when it first came out I was not so intrested in D and D. I heard that it was very disappointing for fans is this true if so tell me.

Yes.It is very dispointing.It was an okay movie. I'd give a rating of 3 golden toilets. :D

I would say 2 golden toilet seats and a silver one with a pink seat-warmer [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Nah kiddin, it was ok, i only kinda enjoyed it cause the main characters were thieves.. And i have a weakness for thieves.

The movies not the total crap it could have been, and a lot better than the reviews said it was (Always the case with sci-fi and fantasy movies) but since Fellowship cam eout why bother with second grade movies?

But hey, its got dragons so its worth seeing for that at least.

That movie was below my lowest expectations. I can't think of any reedeeming quality about this movie. If you wish to throw caution to the wind by disregarding my advice and going to watch it then please bring a Scroll of Protection from Insanity along.

It's worth seeing just to see the Dwarf who changes size between every scene, at times he appears dwarf sized and then suddenly in the next scene he will have grown to a whooping 6 feet, and as you get to the next scene hes a dwarf again. But apart from that its just a wasted 2 hours of your life.

Also if anybody could expain the seemingly inexplicable ending of that movie I would be most appreciative.

I wish to know the meaning of the ending as well. [img]tongue.gif[/img] The movie went downhill when they-
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- killed off the best( and tolerable) character... Was his name Slug? It has been some time since I watched it. Then there are the plotholes which can get ridiculous at times. The Dragon fights were cool, but not enough to save the movie. If you have a friend with a VCD/DVD of this movie, then by all means watch it, but try not to spend money watching it. There are far better selections out there.

It should be noted that me and my friends groaned when Slug died. He was the main reason we stayed after the first twenty minutes or so, because he genuinely made us laugh. The only reason we stayed after his death, was to find out how much worse could it get, and the faint glimmer of hope that the Dragon battle would be nice( it was).

[ 09-03-2002, 02:28 AM: Message edited by: Dundee Slaytern ]

It's snails not slug

Even the special effects were poor...

Close enough. ;)

That moive was painfull to watch.

I posted my reivew on it on the 7th billion thread regarding this moive.

I found 'Snails', played by Marlon Wayans (from Scary Movie) to be downright irritating. I silently groaned every time he opened his mouth to crack a 'joke'. It's hard to tell which is worse, the acting or the script. Wayans wasn't as bad as say....Jar-Jar Binks on the irritating scale, but he came close. I felt no emotion whstsoever when he died. Although I was suprised, usually in movies the stereotypical 'funny' black sidekick always survives.
I thought the dragon battle wasn't that great. The special effects were inferior, even compared against older movies like Dragonheart which had a more realistic looking dragon. There was no real justification for the massive fight between the dragons in the first place. Why would the Empress set a heard of dragons on the evil Jeremy Irons & the sheep like governors?

Generally when somebody sends a swarm of Dragons after you, you fight back with your own swarm of Dragons. However, if I am not mistaken, the Red Dragons were more powerful, and they only managed to win because they destroyed the scepter.

Why oh why did they not just destroy it when they found it, I will never know.

On a side note, I am one of those who do not find Jar-Jar Binks irritating, much to the confusion of many people, but there you go. Neither do my friends, by the way.

It was terrible and not worth the hour and a half you would spend watching it, I'll just leave it at that

Some people must like this movie because when ever I check this forum there is always a new topic concerning it :D I found it alright..around 7/10.

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I thought it was pretty pointless how Snails died. I watched the rest of the movie intentively to see if he would somehow come back to life [img]tongue.gif[/img]

it wasnt really that bad...

I don't get why the lady could cast spells in the wizard's tower when Snails and that main character dude went to steal stuff, but later on in the movie, she had to use that stupid magic dust! I also don't get it when the things come out of that blue guy's ears. [img]tongue.gif[/img] That freaked me out! At the end, when all of that magical stuff floats around when they're near that Snails grave, I almost laughed it was so stupid. The beholders looked stupid. So did that quicksand carpet. All in all, I don't get this movie. I suggest you don't get it either. :D

*Hi folks [img]smile.gif[/img] This is my first post.*

Yea, I think the magic dust thing was kinda silly. It would have been cool if they could tie up the spellcasting scenes in the move with the actual game rules. Who has ever heard of magic dust being used anyways???

Also, if I'm not mistaken, they said the mage girl was an apprentice mage somewhere in the beginning of the movie. At best, that makes her a level 1 spellcaster.

Question: What is a level 1 mage doing casting a high level spell like Dimension Door in the first place?

actually there is a decent list of magical dust in D&D (dust of appearance-reveals invis things, dust of disappearance-only makes things invis., dust of choking and sneezing-self explanitory, check out: d&d downloads the DMG has a decent listing of magical dusts and powders.

Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy your stay here

[ 10-15-2002, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]

<font color="cyan">Thanks for the info Morgeruat. I'll be sure to check it out. However, I doubt there will be any magic dust that casts Dimension Door when sprinkled around(in one scene from the D&D movie).</font color>

what were thos ebeholders made of? Cardboard and Styrofoam? Honestly, if they used CG on the dragons coudln't they have done the same with the beholdes? or was their budget just running low?

<font color="plum">Greetings, <font color="gold">Sythe</font>.

If you have just recently developed an interest in D&D, then you might enjoy it. I think it was designed with a lot of 3rd Edition rules in mind.

I'm an "old-timer" - strictly 1st Edition type-of-guy. I've been gaming for about 15 years, so I had pretty high hopes for the movie. While I was generally disappointed with the movie overall, there WERE a few parts that I felt were excellent and well done.

One "thumbs up" were the "fights" between the main character (thief) and the one of the main henchmen (fighter). As the fight progressed, the fighter would gain a definite advantage, which holds true to the rules. There were other bright areas and an equal number of very "not bright" areas.

I won't "spoil" those (unless you ask). My suggestion...for $4.00 bucks, why not? It is no more mindless than your average Steven Segall or Van Damme movie..and like those, it provides short-term, no brainer entertainment.</font>

The taget audience was not the D&D players, it was the people who knew nothing od D&D. They just wanted to show and explain D&D a little.

Like the part where the "stupid" thief ask the elf's age saying something like this:

thief"hey! we could go out! I know you are older than me, but I could always take an aging potion!"
elf:"I am 200 years old..."
thief:"ew.... I don't want to age that much!"

You see, the way they are showing it is false. She might be 200 years old, but she is not mentally or physically older than him, she is just a young adult. They just said what they did, to show the people that don't know D&D, that elf where living longer.

There are a lot of things like that in the movie, and that is what disapoint me.

When I went to saw the movie, I thought they made a movie for ME. Not for the poeple who don't know what D&d is. That being said, I still enjoyed the movie, and still watch it from time to time.

[ 10-26-2002, 08:45 PM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

Back to the ending, what actually happened? They were at Snails' grave, one of them said, "Let's go see Snails", they turned into weird glowing ruby things, and flew away. Huh? What? How? Why? Please... someone... explain...

<font color="cyan">They were probably trying to imply that Snails wasn't exactly dead. Notice that his name on the little grave marker stone disapearing. Then they all get turned into glowing wisps and probably head on off to find Snails. As someone said before on this forum, kinda like a "Search for Spock"(ala Star Trek) thing. [img]smile.gif[/img] </font color>

How could Snails not be dead? He was hacked up by that evil dude! *sigh* I guess we'll never know...

It's called resurection... ;)

And right before they turn in to wisps the elf says "Do not question your gift" ....because the director has no answer :D

It just doesn't make any sense; resurrection. How come they turned into ruby things if he was resurrected? Why couldn't they have just... you know, gone and visited him at home or whatever? By walking, without turning into those stupid things.