30 DoM: Day 17
17. A movie that disappointed you the most
Well, I know that I can't count The Last Airbender, I had absolutely no hopes at all for it, so there was nothing to be disappointed in.
Probably at the time it would have to be Dungeons & Dragons. I mean, here's a movie based on a franchise that is almost pure imagination. The world for this is huge, characters that practically roll themselves, epic level adventure, how do you screw this up? You make this movie.
The whole thing just felt so underwhelming. Characters you don't care about are thrust at you with little introduction. The villains are stereotypical and have traits that, instead of making them badass-er, seem tacked on because "this is D&D" and become the butt of every joke (Mr. Blue Lips, I'm looking at you). Special effects that in no way look matted to the scene. Dragons with strange, blunted noses. And I know that for the most part the world of D&D is kinda generic, but that doesn't mean you have to translate that genericness to the screen. Elves, dwarves, thieves, princesses, monsters (all two of them, dragons and one beholder), nothing says "awesome" it just says "meh".
And the characters they come up with aren't exactly worth much either. Black, goofy sidekick character who whines a lot and dies (and is the really the only one to do so). Princess is a bad rip-off of the Child-like Empress from Never Ending Story. A dwarf who isn't; you can't give a burly guy a long beard and an axe and call it good. A token elf who does nothing. An apprentice mage who throws genertic balls of light that do whatever needs to be at that moment, does the melting-ice queen routine, and generally does nothing. And Jimmy from Lois and Clark. Wonderful.
You know it's bad when a freaking Syfy(*sigh*) Channel Movie can do better than you did.
Well, I know that I can't count The Last Airbender, I had absolutely no hopes at all for it, so there was nothing to be disappointed in.
Probably at the time it would have to be Dungeons & Dragons. I mean, here's a movie based on a franchise that is almost pure imagination. The world for this is huge, characters that practically roll themselves, epic level adventure, how do you screw this up? You make this movie.
The whole thing just felt so underwhelming. Characters you don't care about are thrust at you with little introduction. The villains are stereotypical and have traits that, instead of making them badass-er, seem tacked on because "this is D&D" and become the butt of every joke (Mr. Blue Lips, I'm looking at you). Special effects that in no way look matted to the scene. Dragons with strange, blunted noses. And I know that for the most part the world of D&D is kinda generic, but that doesn't mean you have to translate that genericness to the screen. Elves, dwarves, thieves, princesses, monsters (all two of them, dragons and one beholder), nothing says "awesome" it just says "meh".
And the characters they come up with aren't exactly worth much either. Black, goofy sidekick character who whines a lot and dies (and is the really the only one to do so). Princess is a bad rip-off of the Child-like Empress from Never Ending Story. A dwarf who isn't; you can't give a burly guy a long beard and an axe and call it good. A token elf who does nothing. An apprentice mage who throws genertic balls of light that do whatever needs to be at that moment, does the melting-ice queen routine, and generally does nothing. And Jimmy from Lois and Clark. Wonderful.
You know it's bad when a freaking Syfy(*sigh*) Channel Movie can do better than you did.