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Post by buttonpresser4815 on Nov 2, 2006 7:44:50 GMT -5
If you have a large group of friends or are aware of some kind of fanclub for the books, maybe you can alert them of this and get them to do something about it. If they know that a fan club(if there is one) id complaining about it, how are they supposed to appeal to the public? Try and find one if you dont already know of one. Who knows..you could at least get them to change it to better animation....
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Nov 3, 2006 16:25:21 GMT -5
You misunderstand. I am not part of some "fanclub", nor do I associate myself with those who are. I find it repulsive, and demeans both the members who would join it and whatever they are "fans" of. No, this is not an option. Besides, some group of "fans" protesting wouldn't likely make the slightest difference. Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if the "fanboys" out there approved the animation.
This statement might sound contradictory, but it isn't necessarily so. I read the DragonLance books, and I very much enjoy them. I like many of the characters, and Raistlin in particular--enough to use his name as my profile, but there is a difference between this and a "fan". Another example, I enjoy the show Lost, and I'm involved in this forum, but I haven't ever considered this forum a fanclub, where people can discuss when there will be a convention, or what character to dress up as. I view this forum as a more intelligent place than that, am I wrong? The same is true for my affinity for DragonLance. I enjoy the books, and favor them above others, but I view being a "fan" as a step in the wrong direction, but that all depends on your viewpoint of what a fan is. My view of a fan is someone who goes around dressed up as a character, making a fool of both himself and the character, not taking it seriously at all and living merely for the sake of conventions. My respect and affinity for the character Raistlin is not, I repeat, not, in question, but I can't see any "fanboy" of Raistlin truly understanding the character. I see most fans in a Trekkie-style light, and can anyone honestly say that they don't disgust you? Sure, if the character is great, and the costume is great, and its taken seriously, then that isn't so bad. TMP, thanks for the advice, and that advice would normally be sound, but I can't see that happening. I'm sure there is a fanclub out there, but I doubt my opinion is typical among them. I am somewhat interested in seeing what they can come up with, how they could interpret many of the books' finer points into a movie--an animated one at that. There is, of course the opportunity for a huge failure. My concern is whether or not they will actually pay attention to the best parts of the books, and allow Raistlin to play the pivotal role that he plays, and to play it very, VERY well. We'll see. I'll post future updates I find as they come.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Nov 4, 2006 17:14:28 GMT -5
Excuse the double post. Let us move on from this point, I think we'll agree. I have a shred of news from the imdb website, but I can't say that its great news. These are some quotations from the production: " * Due to the small budget, getting Kiefer Sutherland to play the voice of Raistlin was a long shot and not really expected to the production crew until the day he said he would do it.
* Kiefer Sutherland actually looked into the whole background his character, Raistlin, before showing up on the set to do the recording. He was continuously worried about the pronunciation of the magic spells that they had to retake multiple cuts in the recording around his spell casting."
While there is some encouraging news that at least Raistlin's spellcasting will have some detailed attention given to it, but let us not forget five particular words from there: "due to the small budget". The SMALL BUDGET. I suppose this could explain why the early animation (or rather the concept art) is of such poor quality. I also looked around and found out that they were actually going to make a DragonLance, or DragonLance-based movie sometime during the 1990's, while they were being published by TSR, but this project was dropped when TSR was bought out by Wizards of the Coast. A bullet may have been dodged by that, though. That movie was, as I've read, was going to be made by the Jim Henson company. If I recall correctly, isn't that the company that made THE MUPPETS?! I suppose this new movie could potentially be a step up from a Jim Henson film, but. . . it still looks like a cartoon.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Nov 5, 2006 18:07:46 GMT -5
The same company as the Muppets? Was Dragonlance bought out or did it just willingly leave?
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Post by Reno on Nov 5, 2006 18:18:10 GMT -5
Wow, lack of budget, thats no good...
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Post by Jarlaxle on Nov 5, 2006 18:26:26 GMT -5
I'm not so sure you want to see this movie Ras.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Nov 7, 2006 17:20:30 GMT -5
Despite whatever faults the movie will likely have, I'll see it anyway, if only to see what they did RIGHT, as well as wrong. But the news seems to just get worse, doesn't it? Low budget AND cartoon animated, but one probably led to the other, anyway.
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Post by Reno on Nov 7, 2006 21:46:28 GMT -5
|It mgiht even look like the megaman animation... WOW, that only works with Megaman, nothing else!
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Post by Jarlaxle on Nov 7, 2006 23:39:29 GMT -5
Or maybe it will be an Anime cartoon. For Dragonlance I can't really see that being the smartest move.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Nov 8, 2006 11:57:59 GMT -5
I don't think it will be as bad as all that. One thing, though, I don't remember EVER hearing about any notworthy movie or show done by Asian animation. Just the cheapest they could find, or maybe, somehow, that's the look they WANT. My point is that I would like them to use the best, top-of-the-line in animation for this movie. If they don't it either means that they don't have enough money, or they don't take it seriously, its just to get a bit of money. It could be a combination of both. If they're not taking it seriously, or if it would take a couple more years to build up enough money, I think they should just do it. I would wait.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Nov 8, 2006 23:39:21 GMT -5
It would be the best idea. Rushed products are never as good as carefully planned product.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Nov 9, 2006 9:54:02 GMT -5
I hope you didn't have to think about that one for too long. It's odd, though, since I'm under the impression that the makers of this movie have a lot of money, as do the publishers of the actual books. Either that assumption is wrong, or they're just not investing very much into the project. Bad idea, if you ask me. If the movie turns out to be terrible, everyone involved in the movies stands to lose some money and the publishers stand to lose some buyers. If they'd put a lot of money into this and take the risk, it would probably pay off for them in the end, if money is all they're concerned about.
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