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Posted: Nov 05 2006 04:56 pm

Did anyone else catch this? It was a parody of 80s teen movies and it was actually really funny. Among its cast, it had Ben Stein, Tracy Morgan, Chris Kattan, and the super hot Dominique Swain.

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Syd Lexia wrote:

and the super hot Dominique Swain.

Shame on you, Syd.

Posted: Nov 05 2006 11:04 pm

In her defense, who DOESN'T want to bang the bad guy from Dungeons & Dragons?

And she was in Face/Off.

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Oh, that was her in Face/Off? I had forgotten that.

Taking this thread even further off-topic, one of my first-ever movie projects was an MST3K-style treatment of the Dungeons & Dragons movie. We filmed a number of "host segments" featuring a bunch of high schoolers playing D&D in their basement, and the movie was the game they were playing -- complete with riff commentary.

Highlights involved a parody of the "maze" sequence in an upstairs kitchen and swapping out Marlon Wayans's death music with the Hallelujah chorus. It was a good time.

Posted: Nov 06 2006 01:27 am

God, my friend and I nearly got booted from the theatre in D&D. It was so awesome; We brought a handheld camera to make an AWESOME BOOTLEG on opening day, in which we filmed one fourth of the screen with blurry horrible quality. Also, the camcorder's batteries died. We laughed so hard when Marlon Wayan's character died, and it wasn't staged either, we just both thought it was hilarious and awesome. Near the end of the movie the usher came down and told us to stop or else he'd escort us out! It was amazing.

As far as Totally awesome goes, it sounds right up my alley, I'd have to check it out. Does Ben Stein talk about how you can clear your eyes up with clear eyes?

Posted: Nov 06 2006 11:27 pm

DarkMaze wrote:

Taking this thread even further off-topic, one of my first-ever movie projects was an MST3K-style treatment of the Dungeons & Dragons movie. We filmed a number of "host segments" featuring a bunch of high schoolers playing D&D in their basement, and the movie was the game they were playing -- complete with riff commentary.

The idea of D&D players sitting around playing D&D which would translate into the interesting parts of the movie (ala "Princess Bride") was a screenplay myself and two others tried to write shortly after Jimmy Olsen's* "Dungeons and Dragons" came out. It was so bad, I don't think I have anything left from that draft... Except one conversation exchange about whether "12+" means "twelve or higher", or "higher than twelve"; I remember that scene following a moment where the movie/game hero gets eaten by a dragon.

Oh, and I haven't seen "Totally Awesome"... but I will check out Kiefer Sutherland's rock doc later this week.

*Also known as older Andy Barclay.

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I continued the totally off-topic-ness here:

http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=11067