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[kingandy]

Hey remember how everyone was excited when they heard there was a Dragonlance movie coming out?

WRONG^[1]

come on people why does this look like it was made in 1996.

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[1] Except vervain_, who was right

Comments

[zheers.livejournal.com]

O M G. Sucks, soo much. is it a fan flick?

[ed-fortune.livejournal.com]

Nope.

Saw it about this time last time. It really does blow goats.

[kingandy]

The decision to do the dragons as CGI was probably a good one, considering the scale and complexity and the number required. However, carrying that decision over to the dracoscions was very ill-advised.

They could at least have cell-animated them when they were disguised as monks. LOOK OUT THOSE GUYS HAVE CGI ROBES ON!

[kingandy]

I like that Sturm was acting his little heart out - omg guys I'm on -9 and if I don't make this stabilization check I'm like totally dead urk urk my father's sword - and Goldmoon was just like "Cure light wounds, or whatever" and he was all "Well thanks I guess," cause he wasted his big death scene.

[endis-ni.livejournal.com]

The Healer-Girlfriend's a bit keen on her lammied staff, isn't she?

It's such a jarring mix of CGI and cell animation.

[kingandy]

Goldmoon: I BEAR THE BLUE CRYSTAL STAFF!
Dracoscion: shut up your staff is neither blue nor crystalline

[endis-ni.livejournal.com]

*mutter* 'Tis too. The lammie says so. My boyfriend gave me this phys rep.

[amber-missy.livejournal.com]

*cries*

[areteus.livejournal.com]

Its a worse version of a cross between Ulysses 31 and Bashki's LOTR animation. Tanis even looks like Ulysses! And the dialogue is dire-logue, all - words - pro-nounc-ed so- properly with-full-enunciation. Just as seems to happen whenever Americans try to speak 'english' or write in 'fantasy language'. I don't remember the dialogue being that bad in the books but then I may have done what I sometimes do and rewrite the dialogue in my head :)

[areteus.livejournal.com]

More precisely... 'shut up! We're not supposed to be telling everyone we meet our secret background story!'

[areteus.livejournal.com]

That cast list looks good! So why is the acting so terrible? Clearly even a good cast can't overcome bad writing...

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Weird CGI. It looks as though they have blended cell-frame with the realtime output of a MMORPG engine.