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It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie

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Dungeons and Dragons

Posted by: Peregrine
Date Submitted: Thursday, December 21, 2000 at 14:46:56
Date Posted: Thursday, February 1, 2001 at 13:36:16

What happens in the movie is not consistent with the rules of the game. There's an elf wearing metal armor that is so form fitted, it has a BELLY BUTTON, fer cryin' out loud. The movie was a cheap knock off of "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace." The "empress" seems to have taken diction lessons from the William Shatner School of Acting, if the sound of her monotonous voice and absurd "dramatic" pauses that occur at random are any indications.

Most of the main characters are superflouous; if we never saw the empress, the elf, or the dwarf, it wouldn't have hurt the movie any. They had no concrete dialogue and no real purpose in the story. Even Jeremy Irons, normally an extremely talented actor, was horrible. And apparently had the same diction coach as La Empressata. There were CGI dragons, who didn't really do anything except fly around, spit fire, and die, although one of them eats Jeremy Irons in a bad job of blue screening.

I saw a preview of this movie at DragonCon and was very excited to see it. Apparently the best bits of the movie ended up on the cutting room floor, because very, very little of what I saw in the preview was in this movie.

Response From RinkWorks:

I'm not sure how "doesn't follow the rules of the game" is valid criticism, nor about the form-fitting armor. But the rest is true. -- Dave.


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