Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Looks as bad as it sounds.

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrOfJ8_D0o

Oh dear god

[J-Kitty]

I disagree, I have the trailer you posted,and i thought the movie sounded awesome I can't wait to see it

[starlac]

Oh cripes! :yuck:

Terrible art design, choppy animation and horribly clashing – and dodgy on it own anyway – CGI do not a animated film make. Sounds like they might of spent their entire budget on the voice cast (Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon, hmm, the word typecast comes to mind). Rastlin’s voice doesn’t sound anything like the described in the books (a barely audible, raspy whisper), it sounds more like the person voicing him is bored.

Judging by this you can’t wonder why it lost its theatrical status can you? It definitely has the look of a DTV and a bad one at that, I don’t hold much hope for this, it looks a complete mess.

[GrafSpee]

When I looked at the trailer, the first thing that popped into my mind was that it reminded be a lot of "He-Man". That stuff was bad quality in the 1980s. It's unbelievable that given todays technology that the trailer looks as bad as it does.

[Magnus]

I can't understand why this storyline hasn't had a decent movie release by now. It seems to me that the Dragonlance Chronicles are a likely candidate for the most read books by fantasy readers under J.R.R. Tolkien and Harry Potter. The latter two now have fantastic and wildly successful movie series. Why not Dragonlance?

Photorealistic draconians fighting flat-shaded, hand-drawn elves and humans on the same battlefield?? I guess I expected they'd use CG, but at least they could have flat-shaded their 3D models, like they do in "Futurama", "What's New, Scooby-Doo", and several Disney films as long ago as "Beauty and the Beast", to name a few. Then I could have given them credit for TRYING to make the movie look good, if nothing else. Bleh.

[athena]

The 80s called... they want their movie back...:rolleyes:

[GrafSpee]

I can't understand why this storyline hasn't had a decent movie release by now. It seems to me that the Dragonlance Chronicles are a likely candidate for the most read books by fantasy readers under J.R.R. Tolkien and Harry Potter. The latter two now have fantastic and wildly successful movie series. Why not Dragonlance?

The Dragonlance books don't have the prestige that the LOTR or Harry Potter books have (and certainly nowhere near the amount of books sold). The Harry Potter books and LOTR have been widely read, even by those who are not necessarily interested in the fantasy genre of books. The same can't be said for Dragonlance, which is seen more as a Dungeons & Dragons offshoot.

[Magnus]

The Dragonlance books don't have the prestige that the LOTR or Harry Potter books have (and certainly nowhere near the amount of books sold). The Harry Potter books and LOTR have been widely read, even by those who are not necessarily interested in the fantasy genre of books. The same can't be said for Dragonlance, which is seen more as a Dungeons & Dragons offshoot.

True; and when authors like C.S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll are considered, the genre of popular high fantasy grows even more -- and once again, those authors have had their works made into movies. But at least as far as influential book series, even those that appeal especially to fantasy fans, Dragonlance has to be at the top of the charts. It's been a prominent force in fantasy publishing for twenty years, and even today books are still being written under its name.

Perhaps it's not the kind of franchise that can afford to make a blockbuster. But it seems to me if they can't make a good movie for it they shouldn't make a movie at all. Granted - that is still a "rough" trailer. But I've seen enough Conan: The Barbarian to know better than to get my hopes up.

[Inkwolf]

The 80s called... they want their movie back...:rolleyes:

"Quoted for great justice."

To rip off a friend's favorite catchphrase... :D

[lonely_princess]

i agree with graff as soon as i saw the first charector i thought it was he man movie and the cg sticks out like a sore thumb