@mattcolville
It's crazy because we can get movies like Lord of the Rings which is practically the same thing, but D&D has to be silly to work. D&D needs to be about settings instead of a game. A Forgotten Realms movie would have been cooler and could have told a series story without the camp
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One of the things about this hobby is that it's such a huge pain in the ass to make it work, I don't see a lot of people playing it with that sense of ironic detachment that all of these movies bank on. That GenX self-aware irony. Always winking at the audience.
I wish the Dungeons & Dragons movie had more sincere fantasy than self-aware cringe.
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@RogueScholarMDC
The Lord of the Rings was a movie (s) that Peter Jackson convinced the studios to make. It didn't start from some New Line executive seeing a line item in Excel sheet and wondering how it could better be monetized.
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Yup. It's something that can be done but rarely gets a chance to be made. Do you think the d&d movie will succeed in fulfilling that line item's purpose? I feel like it will since the "MCU formula" seems a tried and true method. It's the same reason why Transformers was a hit.
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I'd prefer a movie set in Mystara, but I'm a big fan of the Cold War vibe the setting has going on.
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@mattcolville
Some of us might say that the LOTR movies also had inappropriate humor, if not quite the direct at the audience kind...
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Counterpoint: The most famous Forgotten Realms fiction is the Drizzt books, which are intentionally campy and dumb.
Also, I'm not even a LotR fan, but comparing LotR to D&D lore is like comparing the Mona Lisa to that meme Jesus painting after the old lady "restored" it.
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