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I think the reason people prefer Ruby Rhod over Snails despite them being very similar character is because of their place in the movie and their relationship to the main character. Ruby is *supposed* to be annoying. Corben Dallas is the protagonist, the one we're meant to identify with, and he finds Ruby very annoying, and as we do as well, we can easily identify with Corben. Thus the character of Ruby Rod works in support of the movie. Snails is not meant to be annoying. He is the protagonist's companion, and we never see him or any other character annoyed by Snails' antics. But, as we find them annoying, we cannot identify with the characters, and thus Snails works against the movie.

The empress here doesn't remind me of Amidala, she reminds me of the Empress from The Never Ending Story.

Ruby Red was only in a portion of the film and was supposed to be flamboyant and annoying. The comedy worked because we are supposed to identify with Bruce Willis, who shows nothing but disdain for Ruby Red. Snails is in almost the entire film and he's supposed to be likeable. Big difference.

" *LET THEIR BLOOD RRRRRAAAAIIIN FROM THE SSSKYYYYY!!!* " Acting.

If the budget was $36M what did they do with the other $35M????

I liked Chris Tucker's character in "Fifth Element." He seemed like a carbon copy of Prince mixed with a reality TV/gossip channel star. A a loverboy/cool persona while the cameras were on, but is really just a nerdy/awkward character playing a part. He winds up being helpful to the team that he wound up with by total accident. The main characters in that movie: Goddess/Chosen One (Jovovich), Warrior (Willis), Sage/Holy Man (Holm), Apprentice (Creed-Miles), with Chris Tucker being The Fool. Of course it is THE ONLY movie I like him in!

Casting Richard O'Brian as the leader of the Thieves Guild is a nod to The Crystal Maze, a British game show that he was the host of (hence the Thieves Guild maze). It has a terrific theme tune and he was gloriously hammy in the part. Also, NO Chris Tucker films? Not even Rush Hour 1 or 2? Really?

"You are now all equal! Except for me because I'm the queen with a magic dragon staff."

To answer your question: What have I done today? I binge watch 20 of your awesome episodes, that is what I have done today ;)

I was 13 when this came out and heavily into Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment games. I hated this movie and I still see no redeeming qualities about it.

Wayans was the Jar Jar of D&D for me, but he also represented the friend that always made every campaign difficult.

I Actually didn't mind Ruby in the Fifth element.Tucker was funnier in Friday though.

11:14 I guess the doctor decided to retire as an elven cleric.

This director made his dream true and haunted our dreams with nightmares.

Chris Tucker MAKES the fifth element

As much as I appreciate the effort people put in their movies, a bad movie is a bad movie. The "what have you done" argument doesn't justify the end result.

I honestly hope he gets another shot at a fantasy movie, especially a D&D one. let's be honest here, we all like to think our campaigns are game of thrones, but they are far more like this film. There is an honesty to it I find admirable, even if I didn't care for the movie.

Don't forget that Savinas (or what is her name) highly resembles the armor of Mordred from Excalibur. Since you are a DnD fan, I can't understand how you can like this movie a bit. Everything that is good about DnD was wrong there. And people liked Tuckers character in 5th element cause he was supposed to be an annoying ashole, bothering Bruce

The problem is that Wayans portrayal does NOT fit with the D&D world, Tucker does.

NOOW WHAAAT ABOOUUT MYYY HEEEEEADDDDD!!??

You're damn right Jeremy Irons was awesome in this! How else is a mad mage suppose to act, after all? Also, I would kill to have those Elwood fight scenes.

I personally love Ruby Rhod (even more so in his french dub by Tom Novembre), and it really when I imagine Chris Tucker being played by Daffy Duck. The world needs more Jeremy Irons hamminess though...

Wow. Hadn't realized that this movie was such a labor of love. I will say, as far as cheesy fantasy fare goes, I liked it a lot more than Eragon, which seemed very "by the numbers" and formulaic - a soulless cash-grab. At least in DnD, they tried to be funny and subvert audience expectations here and there. And it's always fun to see a serious actor pull a "Raul Julia as M. Bison" and ham up a villain role as if it's something they've always wanted to do. I think the reason Snails was hated so much was because he reminded everybody of Jar Jar Binks, who was getting a lot of flak at the time. (Both Snails and Jar Jar were thought of as "Minstrel Show" caricatures who had no place in modern movies...)

well, they just announced a new, big budget D&D with Solomon at the helm. Looks like he'll get the chance to make his dream project one more time. This time though he'll have the budget, plus the additional skills he's picked up in the 10+ years since this one. I can't wait to see how he does, I'm rooting for him.

To answer the question at the end of this video. "What have I done with my life today!" Well I haven't made a horrible D&D movie! Your Welcome All!

I enjoy these videos but, man, you have almost no standards. Just how many movies do you not like.

I still loved this movie because it was so cheesey and accurate to a real DnD game with all the cheap ham.

Ok, so while this channel has given me new appreciation on several films, this was not one of them. I'm a more well informed and I think the cameos (which I always miss) were fun, but I don't think I can willingly sit thur this movie again without a blood/alcohol of at least 0.15%. I mean I even like that crazy D&D cartoon, so I am easily amused. Not only was this movie really stupid, but it didn't feel like D&D to me, I got the references, and I can respect the fact that this was based in the director's own setting, but maybe that worked against him as the world felt very alien. The stakes felt really forced, and the over acting /under acting was too much for me to suspend disbelief. I felt like I was being conned into trying to feel something for the characters. I respect the effort, and have enjoyed some of his other movies , but this was a turd, and putting 10 years into it dose not make it any better. I think that most people didn't like this movie, and I have yet to meet someone IRL who enjoyed it

@24:18 Not liking this film and not liking "Jaws" are not the same thing.

"You got your hentai in my Dungeons and Dragons!" got a sub out of me.

This film deserves a cult following on par with "The Room." It's easily one of the greatest bad movies ever made.

If you want awesome fantasy watch Conan the Barbarian, its still as epic as ever :D

Jeremy Irons is amazing in everything. Just like Alan Rickman. Chris Tucker is amazing in 5th element.

The ending of this video was amazing! "What have you done?" Classic.

I loved this movie as a teen. This was a frequent rental from the video store for my friends and I.

All the things you mentioned here are all the reasons why I loved this shit. It's like the crap fantasies my friends and siblings told each other when we had blackouts as kids 😂

I'd argue that if he spent over a decade, and millions of dollars, putting together such a terrible movie, me doing nothing today was more productive.

I would answer with a shortened Kodo Sawaki's quote: "A rat also strives. We shouldn't respect It just for the fact."

I cured cancer and blindness today, I didn't waste 10 years and 45million on a piece of shit, 10years and we have that Dialog, makes sense. durrr durrrr durfff

I always thought the queen looked more like the child-like princess from Never Ending Story.

Haven't seen the film so the following is just a guess off the top of my head: possibly a reason people like Ruby Rod and dislike Snails is that RR came first and that thing Snails does vocally comes off as a bad impression. Also Ruby Rod is a character that is introduced as this 'cooler than cool' glamour object, but almost instantly gets cut down to size by Willis. The audience sees that he's flawed and more real for it; I guess it also pokes fun at celebrities with these slick personas. Obviously he's over the top, and if you don't like Tucker or the RR 'thing' then it's just going to rub you up the wrong way. I don't know if it comes across in the DnD movie but perhaps Snails doesn't have that same element so suffers for it?

I'm not the only one who loved this film! I always imagined it as an actual role-play session, overacting and all.

There is a beholder that appears in the movie a couple of times, the CGI on it may be bad but it's the closest we'll get to seeing a cinematic representation of the creature.

“LET THEIR BLOOD RAIN FROM THE SKYS!” Was legit my favorite line.

truly godawful movie

You don't get an A just for effort. Not even a B. And classical actors like Irons dont give performances like that because they are having fun. Just the opposite. They hate what they have reduced themselves for a paycheck and start f*cking with inexperienced directors that dont have balls to do anything about it.

I remember watching this, where most of the theater was trying hard not to laugh at how stupid it was. When Ridley started crying about the loss of Wayans, one viewer couldn't hold back any more, and laughed a bit. A voice in the back shouted, "Do you mind? We're trying to enjoy this film!" At that point, there was just no way to stop it, and the whole theater bust out laughing.

I love this movie! Always have. I revisit it every couple of years for some nostalgia

You mean to tell me that the filmmaker spent a decade of his life putting together this movie, only to produce one of the worst box office and critical failures in cinematic history? ... That's got to be the worst thing I've ever heard! :)

It's ICHIBAN! Lipstick for men.

kudos to your channel and its insitefulness in movies that alot of people dislike or dont give a chance. The facts along with the humor makes this a massivly underrated channel.

I actually really enjoyed the movie back when I saw it as a kid. I knew it wasn't a good movie, but I honestly had fun with it. Which is more than I can say for a lot of big budget movies nowadays.

Well, since you asked...today I've watched three of your videos (Blair Witch 2, Masters of the Universe, and now Dungeons and Dragons) and I will continue to add to this list for some time into the foreseeable future until I am motivated to do something else, which if I'm going to be honest, isn't going to happen anytime soon. Enjoy your film analysis, very interesting and entertaining. Keep up the good work!

That last part really did it for me: "What did you do today?" Good one! For what it's worth, I thought about my budget for the next few months.

Chris tucker in the 5th element felt like someone I would meet in the most intense part of a fever dream.

Well I've been watching a lot of your reviews today, thus adding value to your dedication!

i happened to have liked this movie too, however my knowledge of D&D was severely limited, so i wasnt judging it in that way, i judged it as a swords and sorcery film, for me i found it exceptional.

The only disagreement I have ever had with you is I think Chris Tucker and Marlon Wayans are awesome and you apparently do not... at all haha

snails feels like an actual D&D character that someone would roleplay as, and i love it

0:49 almost brought tears to my eyes... I need a minute it just sounds so beautiful.

Ruby Rhod is awesome. You get a downvote from me for that.

Wow i am amazed! You really have high tolerance for really bad movies! Dungeons and Dragons is probably one of the worst fantasy movies I've ever seen. Horrible dialogue, overacting from most of the cast especially Irons, the odd editing choices, horrible CGI (even for its time it looks bad, if you can't have good CGI maybe reduce the number of effects shots?) and no, the movie does not have good fight choreography; the list goes on. I hated Wayans not because he's annoying, his performance seems out of place in the D&D universe and more suited to movies like Robin Hood Man in Tights. No amount of cameos and references to the games can redeem this horrible movie.

one good thing came from this film: Jeremy Irons in an acting competition with his eyebrows!

Hi, Cecil, is it? I just came across your channel today, completely enjoyed your work. It cause me many ROFLMAO with lots of LOLz spattered throughout. Thank you for giving me a laugh today, I really needed it. Oh, I've subscribed and look forward to more of your funny funny critiques. X-D Oh, I'm with you 100% on WAYANS vs Tucker.

@Cecil: I really like what you do here on your channel - acknowleding movies that are not great or masterpieces, but entertaining and kind of guilty pleasures nonetheless. Especially when you deliver background information I hadn't heard or read before... sometimes this alone makes me curious to re-watch or rent a movie. I saw 'Dungeons & Dragons' in cinema with some friends back then. Although we all agreed it was not the fantasy movie we hoped for, we had a fun evening with it. I had read about Director Courtney Solomon being a fan of the game and going on a Quest (so to speak) to get this movie made, and the fact that he SUCCEEDED really impresses me! Filmmakers with that a rocky road behind them and so much drive and passion always make an impression, be it Jim Cameron, Guillermo del Toro, Gareth Edwards or in this case Solomon.

The casting for the main hero's was terrible.

I think I remember hating this when I saw it opening night, but have changed my mind in the past 22 years. I played a bit of D&D as a kid, so looking at it now, it makes me smile a lot.

Wow i just started playing D&D this year and should probably go back and watch this. After knowing everything that went into making it i'll probably appreciate it more

What have I done today? Haven't made a shitty movie

They dragged poor Tom Baker into this didn't they?

Thanks, I appreciate when folks enjoy that stuff. It is a ton of extra work.

Oh man. I love the corn/maze(maize) joke. I use that every chance I get and have since I was young and those commercials were prevalent. I have been binge watching your videos since I discovered your channel. These are very well done and often times very humorous. I like the little Easter egg type comments you put in. Good stuff. Seems we have quite a bit in common with likes on a lot of these with a few exceptions. This being one of them. Once more into the breach you mother grabbers!

The problem I have with the Wayan´s character is that he does not fit into the movie at all. That being said; I really like how positive this channel is. I am so tired of people who seem to think they are better than the creators of movies cuz they find flaws with the film. I never thought that the creator of this movie shouldnt make movies again, but the movie is bad. But I guess I can admire the creator´s passion, not that it helps the quality of the film itself.

what a complete abomination disgrace of a movie, i forgot how how bad it was until i saw this

'The blue screen's reflecting off Savina's armor' How the fuck did you notice that?! Mind blown. And god damn...this review was hilarious.

"What have I done today?" What have I done for 10 years?

I've been binging your videos recently, and even though I disagree from time to time I've enjoyed your insight. I don't like this movie, but I agree that people not wanting Solomon to ever direct again is asinine. However, so is your closing statement. Fighting one ridiculous thought process with another isn't the way to go about that. Solomon may have worked his ass off, but he clearly had some money and connections to give him a decent head start. His mother, as you said in your own video, was a production coordinator on several projects. She knew people, and that no doubt helped Solomon. What have I done today? I rewatched Freaked, worked a twelve hour shift, and fed my cat. A better question would be what I've done in the last decade, or within a decade. The same period of time Solomon had. Between sixteen and twenty four I wrote a book. I couldn't get it published. I hired an agent to help. He conned me. As I got older I started hating my manuscript, it was never good enough and I constantly found flaws in it. When I was twenty four, I got really drunk and in a fit of rage deleted the whole thing and gave up. In hindsight, if I had been published it would have been terrible. Maybe it Courtney is better than me because he wasn't held down by crippling self-criticism. Maybe I was just decent enough not to put yet another shitty product out. But that isn't really the point. Imagine a professional heavy weight boxer tripping over his own feet and falling over, this fuck up costing them a match. It would be outrageous to tell them to stop boxing, but lets say a 4'11" bean pole of a woman says as much in their irritation of their fuck up. Someone turns to them and says "I'd like to see you do better." That is one of the worse cop outs of criticism I think I have ever heard. You have to have similar accomplishments to be able to critique someone else's work? Should this apply to politics too? Should Hillary and Trump never face any kind of public scorn from people who never graduated college, aren't lawyers or business moguls? Yeah, I know, it was something you said four years ago. But it is something that bothers the shit out of me every time I hear it.

I was starting to wonder what I'd missed with this movie, but not any more. BTW, were the character sheets in the movie, or was that an improvement of this video? You really must hate Chris Tucker to keep blasting him in a review for an unrelated movie. You may have missed that Ruby Rhod was supposed to be annoying, not sympathetic. The comedy resulted from Rhod's interaction with Dallas, who probably hated Rhod even more than you did.

I always assumed the party topped themselves at the end to be with Snails. Looked like they evaporated themselves.

I'm not caught up to your current videos yet, but I have to say that this review had the most added touches, jokes, and effects of all, and I loved all of it. This one must have taken forever to put together.

11:15 Tom Baker?

Yeah, I get it. Will have to watch it again soon. Good job.

Ah, thank you. I really needed that today. :)

It has a third movie too, but direct to DVD. What i did today, binge watch this channel.

I love D&D. But this movie is crap. Gamers and Gamers Dorkness Rising are much better D&D movies than this and they didn't even have a million dollar budget. Horrible story and bad casting. Flat acting or over acting. This movie had horrible looking dragons and it doubled down on the dragons. Not liking this movie and making the argument that some people don't like Jaws is comparing apples to a Holy Avenger. Not even the same ball park. There are probably a handful of people who don't like "Star Wars A New Hope" but that doesn't prove a point or make Dungeons and Dragons the movie any good. Like a blind date we all had high hopes for this movie and like a blind date we were completely disappointed and were just thankful it was over. Why do I hate this movie? It was the one shot to get D&D on the big screen and it failed miserably.

Wow you and the Nostalgia Critic made a lot similar jokes. Seriously, go and watch his old review of this movie I'm seeing a lot similarities.

I didn't know the background behind this movie getting made. I've always enjoyed it and now I have more respect for it. Thanks for shedding some light.

I would like to say that Zoe McClellan was a real sweetheart. I thanked her via MySpace for portraying my childhood being brought to the big screen. She bantered back and forth with me for some time. She really made my month.

Ed Wood was determined, had moxy, drive, and a unique vision... all that doesn't mean his movies are good. This movie was cringe-worthy bad... and Marlon Wayans being only slightly more tolerable than Chris Tucker is like saying a pile of crap is better than a pile of vomit. This film proves that being a fan doesn't always make you the right person to bring a property to film. Nope, I may not have spent years to make something, but at least mine weren't wasted making shit most people with taste hate.

Ruby Rhod was awesome, I really don't understand your hate for him.

Oh man, the joke about "And they get into an epic battle" and it switches to a Larping video, that shit made my day

lol before the "tuck-a-nese" part all i could think was how hard marlon was trying to be chris tucker

If someone puts that high lvl of dedication just to end up being a massive turd like this. I say thats a fail.

I remember seeing this film in theaters back in..2000, I think. I went with a bunch of friends who I played D&D with on a weekly basis. We were laughing throughout the movie. The acting was all over the place, the D&D stuff that was in the movie was just used in such odd ways. (Like the beholder acting as some kind of sentry guard along with a human guards...would never happen.) But, despite all the flaws, you can't not love this movie just for its sheer cheesiness and ridiculous nature. To me, it felt like this was a movie that should have been made in the 80's. Jeremy Irons and Bruce Payne are pure over-acting gold, and Kristen Wilson and Thora Birch are pure under-acting gold. Lets face it, this movie is fun. And you have to respect the amount of dedication that the director Courtney Solomon had in his 10 or 12 year quest to get it made. This is most definitely a "so bad its good" film in every sense of the word.

Omg I love how savage you are sometimes! So on point!

from what I gathered it was the material component she was using that allowed her to cast spells beyond her level. Also, I believe it wasn't a lightning bolt but a magic missile. I guess it all comes down to how lenient the DM was feeling. lol It didn't bother me all that much. I would have rather they stuck to the rules but I think they erred in favor of trying to make the movie more dynamic. Either that or they just wanted to make more special effects.

You don't like Chris Tucker!? Come on, bro!!

Well said. I enjoy the movie for what it is and will continue to go back to it for that lighter, pulp fantasy feel.

Great point made at the end .... I always admired the director for never giving up

You would think that if the director was such a big fan of D&D, he would have actually made a D&D movie...