http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.935266-Dungeons-Dragons-Movie-Will-Be-Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-Style-Romp#23541510

Quote from the guy who made this statement:

This new Dungeons & Dragons will be a Guardians of the Galaxy-tone movie in a Tolkien-like universe." Lee would go on to say that the film will have the "earnestness" of The Lord of the Rings but will feel closer to a "romp" akin to [Raiders of the Lost Ark]. "I feel [that's] something the audience has not seen before."

Why not just have the complete tone of the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movies?

Or hell Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, The SSI Goldbox games?

Or if you want that light hearted comedic tone, take notes from the First 2 Harry Potter movies?

Anything but Guardians of the Galaxy or Raiders of the Lost Ark please.

My goodness talk about following a trend in movies :P

Don't really have any investment in the D&D movie, but what's wrong with Guardians of the Galaxy or Raiders of the Lost Ark?

I found Harry Potter (all of the movies, to be honest) to be huge snorefests.
I did like the Lord of the Rings, but every fantasy movie need not be them.
I thought the Hobbit movies were incredibly wasted potential- the first movie almost hinted at what it could've been, with the sense of childlike adventure, budding friendships, character interactions...
and then they went the way of the bland and boring "epic battle to save middle earth" HRROM HRROM I'M SO SERIOUS NOW.

Ahem. Yeah, so I'm not quite sure what's wrong with trying something a little different. Don't quite see how YET ANOTHER generic fantasy epic would be an improvement on a "romp".

Oh, so it's going to be like the Hobbit movies? Yikes. :D

Those two do not belong in the same sentence.

Anyway, yeah, it's not news to me, I just didn't feel like it's worth making a thread. It happened to Star Trek, now it's D&D. Stupid juvenile humor is selling well, let's make everything Guardians of the fucking Galaxy.

The problem isn't making D&D not serious. A D&D movie should not be serious. In a way Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the closest a movie can get to being like a game of tabletop Dungeons & Dragons. The problem is choosing the direction of juvenile humor instead, and trying to mimic a already shitty movie by studio mandate, in a desperate attempt to cash in on something elses success.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a good movie, I just would not use it as a template for a Fantasy Epic like D&D.

I've forgotten almost everything about the first D&D movie, which I thought a much worse movie than Guardians of the Galaxy, but wasn't it full of stupid juvenile humor as well?

Why? Good guy hears that bad guys look for an artifact, has to find the artifact before them. Follows bunch of clues taking him all over the world, meets up with estranged family, differences cause trouble, reaches the site at the same time as the bad guys, bad guys use family as leverage to cause good guy to recover and hand over the artifact. Lovely D&D storyline.

I never said this going to be any worse than the first one :D Just that it's on a good way to also being crap.

How much worse could they screw it up than that fecal-fest that had Thora Birch, one of the two irritating Wayans brothers, some bald guy wearing blue lipstick and totally wasted the talents of Jeremy Irons? I wonder what they are going to attempt instead of going the easier & obvious route of of adapting one of the classic module series?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV3roWM0DSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL4w__Vqdjg

EDIT: Example videos

It's quite amazing that no matter how many times staying true to the source material will prove to be the way to success, hollywood will always go back to trying to reinvent the wheel with whatever it's adapting next.

Yeah but D&D deals in parties with various skills. How about The Princess Bride? It has a group of distinct individuals with their own motivations, a duel, an evil prince with a huge castle, giant rats, a game of wits, anything you could want out of a traditional D&D adventure.

I haven't read any of the Potter books (except the last page from one of the books, just to annoy someone who was about to read the book...), but I always wondered whether the books were as boring and stupid as the movies, and the characters as irritating.

And if yes, why were they so popular? Ok kids read whatever, but I knew also adults who read them, like the one I tried to annoy by reading the end of the story. And then they act like I should be ashamed for liking computer games, tsk tsk...

Like the end of the first movie where the results for the contest were announced... WTF was that all about? The teachers and even the head of the school being openly partial, clearly favoring the team where Potter is by giving them extra bullshit points out of thin air so that they would win the contest? The movie teaching kids that winning, and seeing your adversaries lose, by any means necessary is the most important thing in life that gives you pleasure? Ha ha, see those losers weep, victory is ours!

At least the new D&D movie doesn't have to try to live up to the high quality of the previous D&D movies.

I wonder why it's so cursedly hard for them to make it good.

No, yes, and no. At least as far as the first four books go, I gave up after the foruth one. They were not boring, at least the first three ones, the pace was rather brisk, and back when I was at the right age I had fun with them. And the characters were not nearly as bad as in the movies. I pretty much hated the movie versions of the main characters, especially Ron. In the books Ron and Hermione are rather likeable. But yes, the books are stupid, and by the time we reached Goblet of Fire the stupidity levels went through the roof. I always considered Potter to be very simple entertainment, even back as a kid reading the first book, but it went downhill even from there. The movies however managed to be dumber still. God I hate those movies. Utter shite. And a waste of so many good actors.

I mostly prefer the first 2 movies because of their colorful, whimsicle tone and the music helped I mean the trailer for the first movie is how I see Harry Potter as it should be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyHV0BRtdxo

It just felt like an appropriate Children's Fantasy.

Then the emos/goths corrupted it and thus produced garrish shit like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLDqRiguEJk
Now this is a stance I like to know why you hate the Harry Potter movies?

Got any criticisms about the Philosipher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets? My two favorite movies?