Legal fight over D&D movie rights

[David Lamb]

http://www.themarysue.com/dungeons-and-dragons-warner-bros-universal/

When I posted this to my G+ gaming circle I said "The legal fight might
be more entertaining than either movie" but perhaps I'm just remembering
regretting spending a couple of bucks on a used copy of the first one.
The one with Jeremy Irons chewing scenery (figuratively, though
literally might have improved the movie).

[Tetsubo]

I bought the sequel used off of Amazon. Shipping is $2.98. I paid $2.99
total. I have yet to watch it.

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[Seebs]

I know people disagree with me, but I loved that movie. It was spectacularly
bad, but it was the most true to the source material ever.

Seriously, don't think of it as a movie. Think of it as a D&D game. And
in particular, a D&D game with players who are still sort of new to the
whole RPG thing. And... it really works. It's exactly what they are imagining
as they play their game. And it makes no sense, and the GM is clearly new
at worldbuilding, and the NPCs might as well all be the same person doing
different voices. But I think that is very true to the source material.

This is much like the thing that convinced me to toss the D&D Online people
some money; multiple different GMs who do the voices for the mobs and don't
agree how to pronounce "sahuagin". It works really well.

-s
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[Justisaur]

Oh no, that D&D movie is immensely entertaining. It is a horrible
embarrassing travesty of a movie however.

- Justisaur

[Ubiquitous]

I remember an issue of Dragon Magazine that covered the movie and
included stats of people and things from it. We all had a good laugh at
the warning that the artifacts that summon 100 dragons "could ruin your
game campaign".

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[Ubiquitous]

Wasn't there a second (or third?) made by The SciFi Channel?

[Magewolf]

On 5/24/2013 12:15 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> just...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On May 12, 9:57 am, David Lamb<dal...@cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>
>>> http://www.themarysue.com/dungeons-and-dragons-warner-bros-universal/
>>>
>>> When I posted this to my G+ gaming circle I said "The legal fight
>>> might be more entertaining than either movie" but perhaps I'm just
>>> remembering regretting spending a couple of bucks on a used copy of
>>> the first one. The one with Jeremy Irons chewing scenery
>>> (figuratively, though literally might have improved the movie).
>>
>> Oh no, that D&D movie is immensely entertaining. It is a horrible
>> embarrassing travesty of a movie however.
>
> Wasn't there a second (or third?) made by The SciFi Channel?
>
>

Yes, and it was one of the better SciFi original movies which is damming
it with faint praise.