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Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 12-08-2000, 09:19 PM:
This movie drew a pretty good crowd. Attendance: Regal Madison Square 12, Huntsville, AL, auditorium 1, 19:20 CST on 2000/12/08.Lots of special effects, complete with anamorphic lens flares CGI'ed into a film where every other visual clue indicated that spherical lenses were used for shooting. The round reel-change cue marks (not elliptical), the circular out-of-focus points of light in the background, and the 1.85:1 aspect ratio, with the experience all made complete with lens flares put in that were stretched horizontally by a factor of 2. Why?
The scene with all the dragons fighting and flying around was pretty impressive.
I felt the movie would have been better if it had more humor. Since many aspects of the movie were quite weak, if they'd made fun of it a bit, it would have made it better.
Posted by Erik Schill (Member # 675) on 12-10-2000, 12:25 PM:
I think this was the worst movie of the year (that we have gotten) the 5 of us that ran it down hated every minute of it, and wish we could have those 2 hours of our lives back
Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 12-10-2000, 02:08 PM:
Well, just go into it with the attitude that you know it's a bad movie and that your purpose is to make fun of it. That's exactly what my friend and I did. At least we didn't pay to see it. We used two of the four passes that Regal sent me for problems I reported to them in a comment card. What's funny is the same problems were still there after 2 months. This movie was in the same auditoriums I reported the problems for two months ago (shutter ghosting visible in lower 60 percent of image, projector aimed too far to right). There was one out-of-frame splice in the previews, too. I admit that Dungeons and Dragons is one movie I will probably not be buying on DVD when it comes out.
Maybe someday there will be an MST3K episode using this movie. :-)
Evans
Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 12-11-2000, 09:13 AM:
I heard an interesting comment about this movie from one of my friends who has played D&D in the past. He told me that the movie makes much more sense if you've played, and that if you hadn't, you wouldn't understand the logic behind some of the movie. I certainly didn't, since I've never played, but I thought this comment was interesting and I thought I'd pass it along. Have any of you played D&D and if so, does it make a difference in your enjoyment/understanding of the movie?
Evans
Posted by Rachel Carter (Member # 693) on 12-11-2000, 01:38 PM:
I used to play....but I havn't seen it yet. I'm going to see it tonight and I'll let you know 
Posted by Rachel Carter (Member # 693) on 12-11-2000, 11:53 PM:
Quoting Evans A. Criswall "I heard an interesting comment about this movie from one of my friends who has played D&D in the past. He told me that the movie makes much more sense if you've played, and that if you hadn't, you wouldn't understand the logic behind some of the movie."
I completly agree with that comment. I've played in the past (I liked it, but wasn't too crazy about it) and the whole movie made perfect sense to me. I think that people who have never played the game would just think it was another stupid movie. I really really liked it (I think I'm the only one 
).
I think the effects were great and if you payed attention to the sound track (and were in a GOOD theater) it actually sounded like things were flying past you....I JUMPED 
, and it wasn't even scary, I just thought there was something behind me.
Ok, ok, don't laugh.......I'm not just another girlie girl that jumps at every sound 
REALLY!!!
Posted by Dwayne Caldwell (Member # 417) on 12-12-2000, 08:28 AM:
My brother plays the game. He told me last night that he saw the movie and really liked it. I couldn't say. I don't play, and I haven't seen the movie. But there's obviously a correlation between playing the game and enjoying and understanding the film. That being said, I think I'll forego watching it as I probably won't have that familiarity of the RPG to work with. ------------------
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