sauromatian wrote: I'm a better writer than you are & I can handle it.
silver_beetle wrote:Getting this thread back on topic, there is a Dragonlance movie coming out next month. It's animated, though.
JohnGaunt wrote:I haven't seen any previews or read any blurbs on it, so what's the animation style? Who wrote the script?
sauromatian wrote:The problem with the D&D movie is that it's too accurate. It's like the experience of sitting through an actual grueling six-hour gaming session. Although the film itself is much shorter than that, the dramatic flair of the actors is such that you really feel like you've spent all day waiting for it to end. In fact it might even inspire a bit of nostalgia for that time in your past, perhaps ripe with young adulthood, when you decided to abandon gaming for the first time. Was it that special girl, or a favorite rock 'n roll combo, or just the realization that you were hanging out with a bunch of losers?
sauromatian wrote:I once played it often enough to know every single 1st edition rule in existence, but don't know if I can return to proper 6-hour sessions. My recent return to interest in these games is because of my son. He's played D&D for a few years but is just getting into the Players Handbook-level of gaming [11 years old]. Besides helping him out with that, I've been returning to the old books I remember from the 70s.
Aneoth wrote:Several have mentioned 13th Warrior and I must add my agreement. That movie is Classic D&D throughout and was well acted, well directed, and well written.
bclarkie wrote:Here's the IMBD page on it:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825245/I had read several months ago that is was supposed to hit theaters next month(September), but looking at its IMBD page(and its Yahoo page for that matter), it doesn't look like thats going to be happening.
improvstone wrote: I am hoping that was not your intention ...
sauromatian wrote:No it has not been, & I think I'm being held to a double standard. There are many satirical depictions of gaming on this forum which you could have chosen to police. Stuff like Knights of the Dinner Table is some of the very best there is -does it offend you?
bclarkie wrote:Here's the IMBD page on it:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825245/I had read several months ago that is was supposed to hit theaters next month(September), but looking at its IMDB page(and its Yahoo page for that matter), it doesn't look like thats going to be happening.
Kingofpain89 wrote:Why the heck cant they just get a bunch of no-names to do the voices?
FormCritic wrote:. Us losers know that intelligence and wisdom are separate attributes for a reason.
FormCritic wrote:I can't see where anyone has threatened you
FormCritic wrote:ask you why you are here, with all of us losers...which is what you called us.
FormCritic wrote:I decided to be a troll.
sauromatian wrote:Then quit being a bully, & quit ganging up on me with your friends.
improvstone wrote:Because Hollywood works on the beliefs that using big name stars will help sell the movie.
sauromatian wrote:Troll? Now I remember. Ten years ago when Quincey still ran Titan, rec.games.frp.dnd was the main board of interest. Accusations of troll-hood ran fast & thick, exponentially more so than anywhere else. Its FAQ actually encouraged members to attack each other on this basis, & there was a guy named David Broman who would do it regularly. Someone with a username like 'halitosisdingleberry' bragged that he had gotten another member's internet service cancelled.I dropped out of that board when 3.0 made it too large to download, but would hate to think that spurious 'troll' labels have become a longstanding tradition.
bclarkie wrote:You know, I have been trying really hard to be polite....