First Knight! Ha Har! That had to be one of the worst Medieval themed movies ever made.Sean Connery aside alarm bells started ringing for me when i first learned Richard Gere (yawn) was in it. Now i have  a particular love for fantasy and Medieval themed movies.The worst thing for me in that abomination of a movie was the rediculous costumes and wardrobe.It was like versace designed the Armour! Poncey little shields on their silk robes as decoration? Please! Enough said.

Now thirteenth warrior was a movie! Excellent in every respect!

The main problem with any Dungeons & Dragons movies is they make them for kids and they turn out like a bad version of Hercules(ooerr).
You know the movies when you have a sword but instead punch or kick someone instead of stabbing/mutilating/decapitating or dismembering them.Dungeons & Dragons purists know well that D&D is far removed from a light hearted romp within the confines of the game.Your characters are constantly exposed to great dangers and possible horrid death at every turn.We want a proper adult D&D movie (cant see it happening though).All the light hearted kids D&D movies do is adversely effect the proper D&D game, as it puts off new interest in the game because young people then judge it like the silly movies!

FormCritic wrote: What are you doing here then, sauromatian? I'll have to call all the engineers, officers, executives and professionals I played D&D with and let them know I won't be at this year's party because they are losers. Don't blame everyone else just cause you couldn't get a girlfriend.

Oh yeah, & school-yard bullies, that brings back a lot of nostalgia too. 1981 forever!

Every fantasy novel and movie follows the concept of leveling.

The heroes start out tentative and then do things like stab the Witch King of Angmar or gut a troll.

5 pages and not a single mention of

Robin Hood....

That adventure has been made and remade so many times as to make it seem common. Personally, I always liked the ancient Errol Flynn version best. Sure the story is missing fantastical monsters and magic, but it has all the medieval themes in their entirety. It features a young warrior type whose family was done wrong by a villainous system, a damsel in distress, villains galore with one truly powerful evil villain, thieving from the rich, giving to the poor (and the robbers keep some too of course).

Another oldie…. What about Chuck Heston in the Ten Commandments?
Sure it was a highly religious movie based on the bible (King James Version of course), but who can deny that he played a high level Priest? Do you remember the scene when he defeated several other priests in the famous Throne Room Battle of Sticks to Snakes (Using Staves)? Chucks snake ate the other priest's snakes.

There were many other magical actions as well. Almost by himself, with Gods help of course; he freed an entire nation from slavery, while his people were still slaves he helped them make bricks without straw (Transmutation: earth or mud to stone), he turned the river into blood, created an Insect Swarm, a plague of Frogs, the death of all first born with a seeping moving fog of death (some form of selective Cloudkill?), boils on the Egyptians skin (Cause Disease) (Along with many other plagues).

He parted the Seas and then drowned an entire army of Egyptians by canceling the spell after his people made it across, he even created an earthquake near the end when he brought the tablets down from the mountain and saw the people worshiping a false idol.

Appocalypto is a well done flick with many aspects of D&D, but do NOT allow kids to watch.

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.

A new movie came out that is most excellent IMO: Pathfinder.

It has shamonistic magic and fighting action along with some romance; it features a hunter gatherer nomadic people (American Indians) being sorely abused by villainous invading barbarian warriors (Vikings). There are swords, bows and arrows, daggers, knives, axes, and maces, traps and pitfalls and plenty of action.
OH MY!!!!!!!

The first 15 miutes or so is a bit slow; but it sets up the story background and is actually needed. Hang onto your seats for the rest of the film and dont go to the restroom. This movie is far better than the critics say.

Been meaning to pick up Pathfinder myself.  I was originally going to rent it but now I may just buy it and be done with it.

And although it has little to do with D&D I had to mention Dino de Laurentiis' epic masterpiece Flash Gordon with the incomparable acting skills of Timothy Dalton, Max Von Sydow, and Sam J. Jones.  Galactic amounts of swashbucking action, magic mimicking technology, and high octane adventure enough to quench even the most die-hard action fans thirst.  The movie coupled with the unforgettable soundtrack by the band Queen is a classic.

Damn...I should be a movie critic.     I did however pick the dvd up last week and it is still as fun a movie to watch as I remember it to be.

Personally I think it would make more sense to make an AD&D television series (not that it will ever happen) rather than an actual movie.

Even hoping for such a series is more fantasy than the fantasy itself but I think an ongoing AD&D campain would be better suited for a TV series.  The series Lost seems to work.  

I wouldn't mind seeing a television adaptation of something like In Search of the Unknown (with a plot of course).  I can't think of many movies with dungeon exploring other than Moria in LOTR.

But even if they could produce such a show I'm sure they would want to use the 3rd edition    rules with a party of superheroes.  Best to be careful what you wish for.

sauromatian wrote:
Isn't this a contradiction in terms?

No.

sauromatian wrote:
I mean besides "Fear of Girls."

So are you here for some other reason than just to bait people or is that it?

sauromatian wrote:
Exactly who is baiting who, & why? That sounds like a threat to gang up on someone for no reason at all.

No threat at all.  I will say that the crap you keep posting, insinuating that D&D is "only" for kids and that gamers are all losers who also can't get laid is getting mighty tiresome, mighty quickly.  Thats also not a threat, but if you continue at this pace, people around here are either going to start treating you like a troll or they will flat out ignore you.  Or both....