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#1 TheLyons Oct 08, 2014 10:29:08	Below is a link to an article about the Sweetpea/Hasbro trial over the movie rights which has dragged on for quite some time. The trial ended, and we have no answers yet.   http://deadline.com/2014/09/dungeons-and-dragons-trial-ends-movie-sequels-839985/   I am no legal expert, so please do not contrue this post or my comments as such.   It appears to me the judge is urging them to come to a settlement out of court rather than waiting for a ruling, which I find odd. Personally, I wish Hasbro got the rights back so that they can give them to more capable moviemakers than Sweetpea has traditionally been. Sweetpea got a 14 out of 100 metacritic score, and yes, higher is better here. Below that it defines the score as "Overwhelming dislike".  While they may exist, I've personally never met a person that liked the movie, at all, ever. Rotten tomatoes gave them anywhere between a 10 to a 19 out of 100 depending on what score you look at and again, higher is better. I can't find any of their movies, including their non-D&D movie "American Haunting" even scoring as "high" as average.   I'm not here to bash Sweetpea and I would be defending Sweetpea fervously if the movies were good and also sequels of each other. In fact, I would probably have to agree with Sweetpea on legal principle IF they were actually sequels, but they obviously are not. I feel the movies actually have deterred people from the game. When I played in college, this movie came out and a lot of us watched it. This movie single-handedly convinced several of my friends to not play, even though I repeatedly said "This is NOT D&D, AT ALL". To hold on after clearly not making sequels and very obviously making.   I wish a decision would be made, and I really wish a great D&D movie will finally be made. That's what I want. Just even an "average" D&D movie would be satisfying, while a great one would of course be fantastic.
#2 Xguild Oct 08, 2014 11:23:47	Actually as cheesy as the D&D movie was it was very D&Dish to me.  I mean it was cheesy because in a lot of ways D&D is extremely cheesy.  Its an over the top stereotypical cliche with a nerdy cherry on top and that's what the movie was including overly zelous bad guys, comedic relief rogues, doo gooder heroes who die and are reserected and grumpy dwarfs who are scared of water.  It was a pretty accurate (cheesy) depiction of D&D.
#3 Monsieur_Moustache Oct 08, 2014 11:52:48	Xguild wrote:
(Reply to #3) TheLyons	Monsieur_Moustache wrote:
#5 VanRicter Oct 08, 2014 12:25:56	In light of the success of LotR and now The Hobbitt all I can hope is that they get the rights back and push to release a big budget adaptation of the Crystal Shard series.
#6 Polaris Oct 08, 2014 12:27:59	TheLyons wrote:
#7 FFSAA Oct 08, 2014 12:37:51	They would have been better off editing the old cartoon into a movie than making the stuff we ended up getting.  A lot of millions got wasted on liquor and whores.
(Reply to #4) Timborama	TheLyons wrote:
#9 sleypy Oct 08, 2014 14:10:39	This thread has convinced me that I need to watch the 2000 movie.
#42 Mecheon Oct 10, 2014 4:23:02	seti wrote:
(Reply to #14) Cobblestein	Shasarak wrote:
(Reply to #42) seti	Mecheon wrote:
#45 Phobos Oct 10, 2014 9:17:23	I've watched all these movies, and all the non D&D movies to an extent, and I've never understood this topic.  Although LotR doesn't say "Dungeons & Dragons" in the title, it's D&D.  Same with 13th Warrior, In the Name of the King, Beastmaster, Conan, Titans, etc.     Granted I would LOVE to see a movie (storyline) that is based on a few of my favorite D&D author's books, (Paul S. Kemp, Richard L Byers, Erin M Evers, and more) I don't know that having the words "Dungeons & Dragons"  in the title does anything for any of them, or any of us.
#46 Timborama Oct 10, 2014 9:51:59	If Wizards gets the rights back, I imagine their first move would be a Driz'zt movie. For better or worse he's probably the most marketable person/story, even though his setting doesn't seem to be. They just have to do it carefully so we don't have to get into any "oops blackface" territory...
(Reply to #45) Monsieur_Moustache	Phobos wrote:
#48 Mistwell Oct 10, 2014 12:50:39	I suspect the next D&D movie will be better, as both companies (or I should say their parent companies in this matter who they are acting as a proxy for) have sunk so much money and time into getting these rights that it will feel like a waste to not pour money into the next film.
(Reply to #48) Timborama	Mistwell wrote:
#50 sleypy Oct 10, 2014 14:25:47	Now that I've gone back and watched it, the D&D 2k movie wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. It seem like a better than average syfi channel movie. I never really don't expect D&D can produce a block busters -- not with generic fantasy settings.