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Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 11:08 pm

That. Is not ok!

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 4:03 am

I'm normally tolerant of self-expression. Man-buns? Whatever flats your boat! Wearing a full beard and a lumberjack shirt when the most you've had to do with cutting down a tree is breaking a match when you try to strike it to light your long-stem pipe? Kinda goofy, but okay.

But that.

That.

I would mug him and cut that shit off with office scissors.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 4:29 am

Mask_De_H · Post by **Mask_De_H** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 5:00 am

Ancient History wrote:

A picture is worth a thousand words; this one is "pay attention to me" written 250 times.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:17 pm

https://gfycat.com/UglyWhiteCentipede

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:44 pm

I'm betting that Harvey Beardman there is done up for a beard competition.

There are some pretty fucking ridiculous beards in those things.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 4:36 am

Can't confirm the validity of this, but I've met him many times a few years ago when he had some down time, talked with him on numerous occasions, and not once did I think to ask Shia (Or "Shi" as he prefers) "Hey do you like D&D?"

So I guess that's on my list, whenever he gets around to responding to phone calls again. I think he's really busy. Or drunk again.

Shatner · Post by **Shatner** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 4:41 am

JonSetanta wrote:

That's basically The Gamers, but with a bigger budget and 100% more Shia Labeouf.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 5:04 am

Shatner wrote: That's basically The Gamers, but with a bigger budget and 100% more Shia Labeouf.

I realize that, but would it sell?

Hasbro would most likely not enjoy anyone else using the "D&D" label.

Maybe Paizo would agree....

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 5:10 am

JonSetanta wrote:
Shatner wrote: That's basically The Gamers, but with a bigger budget and 100% more Shia Labeouf.
I realize that, but would it sell?.

Well I have heard that there are still people out there who go to movies starring Shia Laboeuf.....but mental health treatment does seem to be improving.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 5:18 am

Hey... "Fury" was great.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 5:59 am

I think mostly Shia LaBeouf movies are terrible due to writing and direction, not necessarily him. I mean, sure, he's going through some weird performance art phase, but really that just means he's passionate about acting and realizes that he basically whored himself out to Michael Bay for some really terrible movies.

On the other hand, it means he has a track record with Hasbro licenses. So, hey, maybe he could get them to agree to it.

On the topic of the players/characters movie model, this is the exact same thing I wanted years ago in a Magic the Gathering movie back when InQuest teased the idea with a fake poster. But that was literally more than a decade ago and now I'm not sure how I feel about it for an actual movie. I suppose if it was particularly well done it could be fine, maybe even good, but I don't know if it actually would be well done.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:05 am

I feel like there are two ways to make that movie:

1) Make a movie about a DND campaign, in this one, it's basically a long form advertisement for DND, where the point is to have an interesting campaign, and show people the kinds of interesting game decisions people make when playing/running D&D.

2) Make a movie where there is some kind of interpersonal story amongst the players or whatever. This version is basically just like a shitty Last of Us style thing, where it tries to tell two stories at once, because it tries to have a character story, but it also thinks you won't be willing to watch the character story unless there are periodic fights with dragons.

In neither of those cases am I particularly thrilled by the concept.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:21 am

I don't see why spending screentime on the guys sitting around the table would add anything over the regular fantasy story they'd be telling anyway. Mostly sounds like the guy (presuming the quote is accurate) is so narcissistic that he assumes the only thing needed to make his Friday evenings into a blockbuster is a special effects budget.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:28 am

Well, like I said, when I was in high school, I thought it'd be a good way to do an MtG movie, which is definitely not narcissism on my part. I think it has more to do with "we're telling a story about the game" rather than "we're telling a story set in the world of the game." I think also probably the second thing from Kaelik's post is part of it, too.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:39 am

If you're telling an interpersonal story between real life characters, you want to go the other way and avoid depicting the game at all. The Guild works fine in the seasons where it doesn't depict the game at all, and on those occasions when they do depict it, the show usually suffers for it. Even for the handful of plotlines that do benefit from depicting the game, they benefit from depicting it extremely sparsely and even then most likely not with the same actors in both roles. For example, you could have a thing where the main character's arc is about working up the courage to actually be like the guy he wants to be (and who he roleplays as), but you'd be better off depicting that with a different actor (or better yet, a 2D animated sequence in which the character is clearly a better-looking version of the regular guy) and then finding some excuse to have him cosplay as his character in the climax when he actually develops whatever traits he's always wished he had. At best you might have a movie where one scene takes place in the game, but it wouldn't be a movie that you'd pitch by describing the transition back and forth from at the table to in the game.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:29 am

The Gamers also did the "Hands of Fate" Movie, which is, to all intents and purposes, a MTG movie . .

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 8:55 pm

I cannot begin to count the ways of how awful a D&D movie with the likes of the Beef would be.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 9:29 pm

I know, sometime within my lifetime, Dragon Ball Z will be listed as "culturally significant" in some sort of official list.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:09 pm

Shrapnel wrote:I cannot begin to count the ways of how awful a D&D movie with the likes of the Beef would be.

Of course. Untill you add in Vin Diesel, the Rock and Ron Perlman at least.
Then it should get pretty hammy awesome.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:49 pm

Well, we've already missed the chance to have Robin Williams play an orc in a Warhammer movie...

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 11:34 pm

Gretchin i hope?
Troll would have been more fitting.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 1:36 am

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 1:56 am

Chamomile wrote:If you're telling an interpersonal story between real life characters, you want to go the other way and avoid depicting the game at all. The Guild works fine in the seasons where it doesn't depict the game at all, and on those occasions when they do depict it, the show usually suffers for it. Even for the handful of plotlines that do benefit from depicting the game, they benefit from depicting it extremely sparsely and even then most likely not with the same actors in both roles. For example, you could have a thing where the main character's arc is about working up the courage to actually be like the guy he wants to be (and who he roleplays as), but you'd be better off depicting that with a different actor (or better yet, a 2D animated sequence in which the character is clearly a better-looking version of the regular guy) and then finding some excuse to have him cosplay as his character in the climax when he actually develops whatever traits he's always wished he had. At best you might have a movie where one scene takes place in the game, but it wouldn't be a movie that you'd pitch by describing the transition back and forth from at the table to in the game.

Tom Hanks already made that movie, in 1982.