As a person who used to play D&D back in elementary school, I was VERY MUCH offended at the HORRIBLE job the director did with this film.
A REAL director could have made a GREAT FILM out of the D&D storyline, instead, Hollywood will NEVER TOUCH THE SUBJECT AGAIN... ....and unfortunately, RIGHTFULLY SO.
Someone has already ECHOED my setiments about this drivel, but let me re-state them anyway.
1) The film was OBVIOUSLY TOO clean... and SUNNY! Where was
the dark, misty, dank D&D atmosphere? Mr. Director, you could play Diablo or Baldur's Gate to get an idea of the setting! Sheesh!!
2) Jeremy Irons OBVIOUSLY did not take this film seriously.. ..and small wonder why.
3) Could you PLEASE stop copying (the also not good) Phantom Menace? Why didn't they just call "The Empress" Amidala?
4) Ummm.. Marlon Wayans? Why? And WHY did he have to be a cowardly buffoon? (Sensitive area to us people of color)
5) What's up with the modern CALIFORNIA accents and slang.. in
the MIDDLE AGES?!? Could someone TRY to fake an English accent? PLEASE??!? EVEN IRONS?!?!?
All in all... if I could give a NEGATIVE 1 to this film, I would.
RUN... do not WALK.. away from this INCONCEIVABLY bad film. Rent something more substantive.. like "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"
Way to waste a storyline, guys..
A REAL director could have made a GREAT FILM out of the D&D storyline, instead, Hollywood will NEVER TOUCH THE SUBJECT AGAIN... ....and unfortunately, RIGHTFULLY SO.
Someone has already ECHOED my setiments about this drivel, but let me re-state them anyway.
1) The film was OBVIOUSLY TOO clean... and SUNNY! Where was
the dark, misty, dank D&D atmosphere? Mr. Director, you could play Diablo or Baldur's Gate to get an idea of the setting! Sheesh!!
2) Jeremy Irons OBVIOUSLY did not take this film seriously.. ..and small wonder why.
3) Could you PLEASE stop copying (the also not good) Phantom Menace? Why didn't they just call "The Empress" Amidala?
4) Ummm.. Marlon Wayans? Why? And WHY did he have to be a cowardly buffoon? (Sensitive area to us people of color)
5) What's up with the modern CALIFORNIA accents and slang.. in
the MIDDLE AGES?!? Could someone TRY to fake an English accent? PLEASE??!? EVEN IRONS?!?!?
All in all... if I could give a NEGATIVE 1 to this film, I would.
RUN... do not WALK.. away from this INCONCEIVABLY bad film. Rent something more substantive.. like "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"
Way to waste a storyline, guys..