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Avatar Image  by bansaisequoia Member (Level 6): 5,753 points  4 months ago          Comments 4 Comments
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It would suck as bad as Dungeons & Dragons (2000)

 

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Ambara Member (Level 2): 57 points   4 months ago

You know it could, but movie critics, and a large fraction of the general public said the same thing about LOTR!!! And in my own opinion they were WRONG!!! Also D&D was made by a terrible director, and a handful of really bad actors. The only thing good in that movie is Jeremy Irons.

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bansaisequoia Member (Level 6): 5,753 points   4 months ago

Oscar winner Jeremy Irons was unable to pump life into a movie based on a role-playing game. Ian McKellen was just one of many the facets that transformed LOTR, a great work of literature, into epic cinema. If a movie is based on a game, the formula doesn't seem to work. "Tron" and "Clue" bombed in the '80s. Even the curvaceous presence of Angelina Jolie in two "Tomb Raider" films could not breathe energy into something based on a video game. Perhaps in the 22nd Century, such a formula will work, but probably present-day cinema will have been supplanted, just as stage drama was supplanted by motion pictures in the 20th Century.

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Ambara Member (Level 2): 57 points   4 months ago

Well I wasn't talking how well Irons acted in the movie, I was just referring to the fact that hes' gorgeous! Also, even though Ian McKellen did a fantastic job, so did the rest of the cast! Another thing if you have such a strong feeling towards video game movies, brace yourself... Max Payne coming to theaters this Fall, and the makers of Devil May Cry released their rights.

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uewebawo Member (Level 6): 5,924 points   4 months ago

then we'll get to add them to the list: http://www.grupthink.com/topic/6041

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