Deep Hurting

[ebonlock]

Sometimes getting advance notice of DVD releases is a bad thing:


Dragonlance Standard DVD Widescreen

Street Date: January 15, 2008

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Lucy Lawless, Michael Rosenbaum

Genre: Animation

Synopsis: After 300 hundred years of peace, the world of Krynn has descended into darkness as the evil goddess Takhisis and her army of dragons threaten to dominate the lands. Can a small band of heroes, including the wizard Raistlin (Kiefer Sutherland), the priestess Goldmoon (Lucy Lawless), and the half-elven warrior Tanis (Michael Rosenbaum), save the world before all is lost? Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, DRAGONLANCE: DRAGONS OF AUTUMN TWILIGHT is an epic tale of might, magic, and monsters!

PRODUCT INFO:
Runtime: 1 Hr. 40 Min. Sec.
Languages: English Subtitled
Audio: 2.0 Surround, 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital
US Rating: PG-13 - For Fantasy, Action and Violence.
DVD Features:
• Other: Original Test Animation
• Other: Initial Character Design


Yes my friends, the longest hour and forty minutes of your life plus a few pointless drawings and some animation that we didn't end up using in the actual feature so you know it's got to be worth the price of the DVD.

*sob*

Why must you producers rape my childhood and then slap it on a DVD to mock me with? Why?

Should you wish to see what abomination they've gone with on the cover, click here. Raistlin looks like a spastic, Tanis looks like a greeter at a goddamn Renaissance Faire ("What ho, good pilgrim! Seekest thou fresh ale or a hearty peasant bread?"), and Goldmoon, much as she was in the books, is just kinda there.

At least it's coming out after Xmas so nobody can buy it for me as a gag gift and I won't be forced to then beat them to death with the nearest blunt object after I receive it. So I guess that's something.

Comments

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

The first two trilogies were written by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, the first book was actually played before it was written and it definitely reads that way. If you've ever played D&D you can't help loving the first six books. But after that it turned into this money making organism, mostly because Raistlin developed a huge cult following (well deserved, I might add) and anything they slapped his face or name on would make scads of cash. And of course when it got to that point the quality of the work went straight to hell.

So, again, read the first 6 books then don't pick up anything else with the DL logo on it.

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Ah, understood. But what about if I HAVEN'T ever played D&D? Are they too far out there for commoners like moi? :)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

If you're even vaguely familiar with the tropes of D&D (which were stolen whole cloth from LOTR, of course) you'll be fine. It's just there's a certain added element to the books if you were a gamer.

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Well, I do know my LotR. Maybe it's about time I started gaming; I mean, most of my friends are the sort of people who will, for example, walk around with a hat on, and on the hat will be a little pin that says "+5 Hat" on it. :)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's pretty inevitable then :)