Didn't see anyone mention this yet. Apologies if there's a thread already, I couldn't find it.
Hold on a second there! You make it sound like...like this is a *trend* or something in films.I don't think you will hear anyone talking about it after the writers announced they purposely emasculated the male characters. Yeah that's what I want to watch...
I'll go see it, but then, I actually paid money to see the last Dungeons and Dragons movie and that stank up the theater pretty bad.Hold on a second there! You make it sound like...like this is a *trend* or something in films.
I really really hope not. The trailer has so much fan service, gelatinous Cubes, Displacer Beast (though, shouldn't they be 2 feet over?), it would be an epic waste o money
I wish someone would tell Hollywood about Forgotten Realms. Crystal Shard would be great on film and Hollywood could actually make the elf black and the fans would LOVE it. The one famous Elven main character who is SUPPOSED to be black and Hollywood won't go anywhere near him.I remember AD&D and Forgotten Realms back in 90’s when it was gritty, dark, sexual and bloody, like Conan was. This looks like a CW show. Definitely not what I was playing back in the day.
I'll go see it, but then, I actually paid money to see the last Dungeons and Dragons movie and that stank up the theater pretty bad.
I'm hopeful, but not optimistic. The fan service stuff does fill me with some hope, (although you just know there's at least one "We've got about a one in twenty chance!" joke coming). What makes me skeptical more than anything else is the tone. Like the last D&D movie the "feel" of it just screams 2023. Like Hollywood is still absolutely terrified of committing to the high fantasy tone of LOTR or Game of Thrones.
For those that missed it, the last one was closer to "Renn Faire! The Movie!" than anything resembling an actual D&D setting.
I wish someone would tell Hollywood about Forgotten Realms. Crystal Shard would be great on film and Hollywood could actually make the elf black and the fans would LOVE it. The one famous Elven main character who is SUPPOSED to be black and Hollywood won't go anywhere near him.
Baldur's Gate could work well too, but it would require a movie director as good as Peter Jackson able to explain the Time of Troubles in an opening narration and have it make sense.
I feel seen!If the goal of enforced diversity is to have characters more relatable does that mean this movie is meant to appeal to emasculated men?
I could post links to the interviews that anyone could Google, but that would be beside the point.
In essence I agree with you that getting too far off the track with a discussion o
In the case of this movie since it's only based on the D&D setting and no particular novel or established characters from the game, I'm fine with the diversity, even if I'm still not used to it in a fantasy setting. It's only when they clearly go out of their way it like in a movie baes on historical events or a historical setting, or existing story where the gender and ethnicities of character are clearly stated but ignored.of perceived agendas serves nothing and can only be divisive. I'll own up to my own contribution to it in this case.
Having seen it, it doesn't do anything emasculatibg.I think the enforcement is at the studio level, somewhere in upper management that's dictating the casting criteria. The movie does seem a bit forcibly diverse to me. But as far as emasculating, I don't get the feeling of that from the trailers. Are there some scenes where the humor comes at the expense of Chris Pine's character? Sure, but then again, he is a bard and they're hardly known for being strong melee characters like any of the various fighter classes.
How do you feel in regard to accusations/rumors of emasculating the male characters? I didn't get any impression of that based on the trailer, but I know that there had been accusations of that based on comments made by the writers or director of the movie. Did you see any sign of that in the movie or, if there was, did it fit the story? Basically, did you feel that it was a legitimate complaint or much ado about nothing?I thought it was top-to-bottom fantastic. As someone who's been playing since AD&D 2nd, back in the late '80s, I was internally simultaneously weeping and vibrating out of my skin for how much they got Faerûn. All the references, all the visual callbacks -- the ruined city where the Helm was hidden was built by the Svirfneblin -- the Deep Gnomes -- nasty as any Underdark race, plus clever as gnomes. Xenk's description of how to cross the bridge was perfect. The mechanism that concealed the Helm was perfect. Seeing all the Svirfneblin statues gave me feels. Them using a painting of Volo of Waterdeep for their portal was perfect. I loved seeing Elminster and having Mordenkainen name-dropped. The displacer beasts and mimic and gelatinous cube were perfect. All the spells and the dragon fire followed the game rules except for a couple places where they deliberately bent the rules for narrative need. The byplay and humor was exactly like what my better gaming groups were like.
I've seen it twice so far and I want to see it at least once more in the theaters before it's gone. I am well pleased with how much it's made at the box office. I appreciate that the filmmakers deliberately avoided "franchise-building". While they had notions of where things could go in a potential sequel, they focused on making this one as good as they could make it. And damn I want to see more now.
I thought it was top-to-bottom fantastic. As someone who's been playing since AD&D 2nd, back in the late '80s, I was internally simultaneously weeping and vibrating out of my skin for how much they got Faerûn. All the references, all the visual callbacks -- the ruined city where the Helm was hidden was built by the Svirfneblin -- the Deep Gnomes -- nasty as any Underdark race, plus clever as gnomes. Xenk's description of how to cross the bridge was perfect. The mechanism that concealed the Helm was perfect. Seeing all the Svirfneblin statues gave me feels. Them using a painting of Volo of Waterdeep for their portal was perfect. I loved seeing Elminster and having Mordenkainen name-dropped. The displacer beasts and mimic and gelatinous cube were perfect. All the spells and the dragon fire followed the game rules except for a couple places where they deliberately bent the rules for narrative need. The byplay and humor was exactly like what my better gaming groups were like.
I've seen it twice so far and I want to see it at least once more in the theaters before it's gone. I am well pleased with how much it's made at the box office. I appreciate that the filmmakers deliberately avoided "franchise-building". While they had notions of where things could go in a potential sequel, they focused on making this one as good as they could make it. And damn I want to see more now.
I had never heard any of that, except a couple mentions on here. I don't know what people were expecting? When I say perfect, I mean perfect.How do you feel in regard to accusations/rumors of emasculating the male characters? I didn't get any impression of that based on the trailer, but I know that there had been accusations of that based on comments made by the writers or director of the movie. Did you see any sign of that in the movie or, if there was, did it fit the story? Basically, did you feel that it was a legitimate complaint or much ado about nothing?