Knights & Knaves Alehouse

thedungeondelver wrote:

DungeonDork wrote:The book relied heavily on the pop culture references and I'm pretty disappointed at how few I see in the preview. I hope that's not an indication that they had to change all that stuff because the licensing was too hard or whatever.

Warner will leverage their properties or associated properties in the movie so while you're going to see <$THINGS_IN_THE_TRAILER> properties, you won't conversely see any Marvel superheroes or the like which is why I think the whole D&D element will be sliced out and reduced to the "Devil face" spraypainted on the side of a character's van and that's it.

That's just it, I didn't recognize ANYTHING yet.
Maybe i'm blind. IDK.

DungeonDork wrote:

thedungeondelver wrote:

DungeonDork wrote:The book relied heavily on the pop culture references and I'm pretty disappointed at how few I see in the preview. I hope that's not an indication that they had to change all that stuff because the licensing was too hard or whatever.

Warner will leverage their properties or associated properties in the movie so while you're going to see <$THINGS_IN_THE_TRAILER> properties, you won't conversely see any Marvel superheroes or the like which is why I think the whole D&D element will be sliced out and reduced to the "Devil face" spraypainted on the side of a character's van and that's it.

That's just it, I didn't recognize ANYTHING yet.
Maybe i'm blind. IDK.

Just at a glance, I saw The Iron Giant, Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street, Kaneda's motorcycle from Akira, the Delorean from Back to the Future (that's a good sign; Warner Brothers and Universal are different entities...)

So I reckon we'll have to see.

Still no word on actual AD&D content in the film

I don't have high hopes for it.

That is cause it is a nod to PC/Arcade gaming, not RPGs..

garhkal wrote:That is cause it is a nod to PC/Arcade gaming, not RPGs..

Yeah, but one of the best scenes in the book was the hero playing Joust against Acererak in the Tomb of Horrors.

That fucking better be in the movie, or else.

garhkal wrote:That is cause it is a nod to PC/Arcade gaming, not RPGs..

Did you read the book?

The entire first quarter of the book is a "nod to...RPGs".

thedungeondelver wrote:

garhkal wrote:That is cause it is a nod to PC/Arcade gaming, not RPGs..

Did you read the book?

The entire first quarter of the book is a "nod to...RPGs".

IIRC garkahl has mixed up Ready Player One with the Adam Sandler movie Pixels and continues to confuse and conflate them despite having had it explained to him several times that they're not the same thing - very much like how he is with 1E and 2E AD&D.

thedungeondelver wrote:

garhkal wrote:That is cause it is a nod to PC/Arcade gaming, not RPGs..

Did you read the book?

The entire first quarter of the book is a "nod to...RPGs".

No i have not read the book.. Neither do i anticipate doing so.

garhkal wrote:

thedungeondelver wrote:

garhkal wrote:That is cause it is a nod to PC/Arcade gaming, not RPGs..

Did you read the book?

The entire first quarter of the book is a "nod to...RPGs".

No i have not read the book.. Neither do i anticipate doing so.

Then why the fuck are you speculating on things about which you have no clue.

thedungeondelver wrote:

garhkal wrote: No i have not read the book.. Neither do i anticipate doing so.

Then why the fuck are you speculating on things about which you have no clue.

To be an irritating ass. His sad, little world is brightened by the thought of irritating his betters.

Flambeaux wrote:

thedungeondelver wrote:

garhkal wrote: No i have not read the book.. Neither do i anticipate doing so.

Then why the fuck are you speculating on things about which you have no clue.

To be an irritating ass. His sad, little world is brightened by the thought of irritating his betters.

Funny, i don't seem to be the one consistently hurling insults at others..

I saw the preview for this, and the '80s pop culture references were nearly non-existent. I saw Freddy Kruger and maybe one other reference I can't recall right now.

Interesting review here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/j ... es-saviour

DungeonDork wrote:The book relied heavily on the pop culture references and I'm pretty disappointed at how few I see in the preview. I hope that's not an indication that they had to change all that stuff because the licensing was too hard or whatever.

TRP wrote:I saw the preview for this, and the '80s pop culture references were nearly non-existent. I saw Freddy Kruger and maybe one other reference I can't recall right now.

I am currently listening to the audiobook during my hour morning walks. Wil Wheaton is the reader. So far it is a fun book as I was born in 1974 and everything they cover from the guy's life is during my time period. Is that a spoiler? Too bad I guess.

I think if the movie sticks to the book (even a little bit), it will be fun for people my age for sure. Releasing this movie now will ensure that someone like me will go and see it since I have reached that point in my life where I wonder why my kids like certain things the way they do (they are both in high school now)...and listen to them mock me for watching Night of the Comet. I exposed my kids to Atari and 8-bit Nintendo games, D&D, and movies of the period. I think the current trailers are showing things that my kids would like to see in a movie with all of the MMO and tech stuff. I think they will eventually show a trailer for the 40-somethings to relate to...and they will need to show such a trailer if they want to entice the 40-somethings to come see it (for those that know nothing about the book that is...or garhkal).

Speaking of garhkal, I wouldn't worry about him too much. He just has a writing style that seems to portray a somewhat normal comment...with only a hint of realization that he is virtually scraping his sweaty sack across your faces while he is typing it.

My wife said that we should just take the kids and go see it together, which we probably will. My son would like it and my daughter will as well...along with all the movie snacks that seals the deal for her.

To go along with my prior response, there was one thing I was thinking about while listening to the book. Wouldn't there be some type of licensing issue if they tried to cover things in the book...onto the big screen? It is one thing to mention a show like Family Ties or Airwolf in a book, but isn't it another matter to show footage of such things in the movie? I think of shows like Miami Vice and WKRP...where they had trouble releasing them on DVD because they had to get permission to use the music that they used when originally aired.