Escape to the Movies: Your Highness
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Seems to have more to do with the acting to me. Either they turn in dull performances, or else ham it up to the 11. The characters also tend to be cardboard cutouts of stereotypes and the scenes are cliche and paint-by-numbers. Dungeons and Dragons could've been pretty good with a better writer and better acting.Redem said:
FWIW, "Hercules" is on Netflix Instant in some territories.IndianaJonny said:
"Starcrash" is actually from the same director, Luigi Cozzi - although the U.S. prints usually said "Lewis Coates" in order to hide the fact that they were Italian productions (by the early 80s, the budget-theater circuit was so saturated with cheap Italian imports that people started getting wise to the idea that lots of Italian names in the credits probably meant low-budget knockoff.)
What do you mean "If" D'n'D had stoners? That's what the players are there for.
Thanks for the recommendations
Thanks for the recommendations
Gods... I'm so glad my players aren't stoners. They're already big enough morons as they are now...GuiltBlade said:
I honestly didn't care for this movie. I guess if you are looking for humor injected into D and D scenarios, I'd look no further than Gamers: Dorkness Rising. Your Highness had some good one-liners, but I felt pretty disappointed. I feel that every known actor in it has done better comedic work elsewhere. The movie's not terrible, by any means, but if future me (who just came out of the movie) could talk to past me (who hasn't seen it), I would recommend myself to stay clear. Maybe a rental...when drunk with my buddies.
Also, I seriously need to find and watch Hercules. It is my new quest.
Also, I seriously need to find and watch Hercules. It is my new quest.
Bob was close, real close.
Danny McBride was on Conan the other night and said that the movie came about from a game he plays where one person says some phrase and the other has to come up with the plot for a movie with the phrase as it's title.
Your Highness was "There's this prince that gets high and he has to fight dragons"
Danny McBride was on Conan the other night and said that the movie came about from a game he plays where one person says some phrase and the other has to come up with the plot for a movie with the phrase as it's title.
Your Highness was "There's this prince that gets high and he has to fight dragons"
A man chuckin' a bear into outer space. XD You made my weekend!
My favourite fantasy flick is Krull. Not because of the batshit insanity, but because it's a good movie for all of it's cheesyness.
Yet, there will be a second Dungeons and Dragons movie and I am seeing now: D&D attracts cliché. So it won't work that well on screen. -_-'
My favourite fantasy flick is Krull. Not because of the batshit insanity, but because it's a good movie for all of it's cheesyness.
Yet, there will be a second Dungeons and Dragons movie and I am seeing now: D&D attracts cliché. So it won't work that well on screen. -_-'
I have to say, Moviebob, up until this movie review...I kinda trusted your opinion. Yes I saw some movies you said sucked and enjoyed them. Yes I saw some movies you said rocked, and hated them. But I have to say. This movie. No interest in seeing, ever. Your recommendation
(of this movie) smacked of an extra paycheck you did not expect to receive whilst you were halfway through editing the review.
If it were not for knowing that you had already done an April fool's day prank; I might have
been willing to let this slide. Please. I beg of you.
Patiently await the ban hammer.
(of this movie) smacked of an extra paycheck you did not expect to receive whilst you were halfway through editing the review.
If it were not for knowing that you had already done an April fool's day prank; I might have
been willing to let this slide. Please. I beg of you.
Patiently await the ban hammer.
i'm sorry, bob but what part of "directed by kenneth brannagh" don't you get?! if that movie sucks i'll eat my hat!!!
great review as always. i'll check out hercules if i'm bored and in need of a stupid laugh. but your highness doesn't look too enticing to me... that kind of gratuitous stoner comedy just comes off as pretentious to me... and i smoke weed! kevin smith has managed to pull it off in my mind and that's because when i see it i'm given the impression that he knows how stupid the jokes are and, like with seth macfarlane's dirtier okes, does it with just enough irony to make it funny to me. anywhere else and i get the feeling that the makers are thinking "this is actually genuinely clever humour!" and i just don't think it is (though, as i said, it can be funny with the right use of it).
great review as always. i'll check out hercules if i'm bored and in need of a stupid laugh. but your highness doesn't look too enticing to me... that kind of gratuitous stoner comedy just comes off as pretentious to me... and i smoke weed! kevin smith has managed to pull it off in my mind and that's because when i see it i'm given the impression that he knows how stupid the jokes are and, like with seth macfarlane's dirtier okes, does it with just enough irony to make it funny to me. anywhere else and i get the feeling that the makers are thinking "this is actually genuinely clever humour!" and i just don't think it is (though, as i said, it can be funny with the right use of it).
Heh, that doesn't suprise me; they both have a fantastic, un/mis-directed exuberance about them. Shame the Razzies didn't arrive till after the release of Starcrash.MovieBob said:
