What makes this even more funny: Jeremy Irons said in an interview that he took on the role only because he needed the paycheck to pay for the renovation of his newly aquired castle. After the first couple of days of shooting, he realised that this movie is gonna be a total failure and he and his co-star Bruce Payne (''Damodar'') decided to have at least some fun and hammed it up to 11. xD
Of course. In middle school we had to read and act out the exact same story every single year, so in 8th grade when I learned we were doing it again I decided to overact to 11 so I could actually enjoy doing it. Depending who you ask I deserved an Oscar or a Golden Raspberry
lol it wasnt bad it was fun and i was 10 when it came out i had a blast watching it especially since i played alot of d&d but i was 10 lol.... still tho it was a fun movie.
@@sigma804 Well you can have fun with a movie if you don't care about the insain acting or the crappy CGI you can have youself a great time but that dosn't mean the movie was good at all
Yeah, he was Dark Schneider levels of entertaining. 😎 And need I remind you, Dark Schneider is what Shawn Michaels would sound like if he played D&D. 😆
I’ve always maintained that even a bad movie can be somewhat redeemed if you can tell the actors are having fun. Just look at Daredevil. Colin Farrell doesn’t waste a second of screen time he gets.
I remember in an interview Jeremy said that once he became well known as an actor, they knew what kind of acting he suited and the specific roles he should play. Wish they offered him at least a couple comedic ones. I feel like he’d be funny as hell, especially with taking the piss in his acting for this movie
He'd honestly be less hammy and more Scar in my opinion. Besides, Ian McDiarmid already devours the scenery by existing so it's pretty hard to top that. The only actor I've seen chew scenery harder is Nick Nolte in the 2003 Hulk movie. If only because he literally chews the scenery at the end. I wish I was kidding, but the result is glorious.
The problem here is that it is very hard to work with "archetypes" characters. They are too 2 dimensional. I think mr Irons did a great thing here and tried to make that cardboard villain alive somehow.
He knew the movie was going to be pure trash, so why would he put some effort into it? He just had fun, and that's ok. I mean who would give two f*cks after watching this legit awful performance at 2:14.
The problem here is that the cardboard villian is correct, she didn't earn the scepter and thus was not going to use it for good. She would have enforced her own perceived version of good. What is the penalty for doing something wrong? Get eaten up by a gold dragon?
I am so disappointed it has taken me THIS long to discover this video... It was a damned awful film, but I just love Jeremy Irons so much and he hammed it up BIG time. Thank you for uploading this... On a side note. I like his reasoning for doing this film too. When asked why he made the film he said: "I just bought a castle, I had to pay for it somehow" (He has a pink castle in Scotland)
When he acts, it's like you're pointing a water hose as a dog's face, and he's extacitally trying to get all the water. "AHAHAAHFHEHHAGAHGHAGHAHGAH!!!!!"
i love this movie, the characters feel like real people playing characters in dungeons and dragons. i remember i saw this as a kid in my neighborhood theater with my grandma and just having a good time, even though i KNEW even as a kid that some things where really wrong about it lol
Dungeons and Dragons does not detail the epic journey of a ragtag bunch of adventurers attempting to end the tyranny of its main villain. Instead, we watch the epic battle of Jeremy Irons versus His Own Eyebrows. Everything else is just a diversion.
Irons is amazing. To be able to even chew the scenery when acting with a plastic pink scepter from the kids isle at your local $2 shop shows immense talent. The bald guy on the other hand.
There are three types of acting going on in this movie from all the performers. 1. Those who are legit trying to elevate the material (bless them). Zoe McLellan, Justin Whalen, and dare I say Marlon Wayans were all trying. Whalen and Wayans had good chemistry and McLellan really worked well with them too and if the film had been better written, and really just all around better made, these three actors would be well remembered. 2. Those who know the movie is going to suck and just have a gas with it. Irons and Payne of course. Jeremy Irons is an international treasure just like Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellan. 3. Those who know the movie is shit and just die on screen. Thora Birch. Good lord you can just watch the painful journey in her eyes as she succumbs to the garbage she is given to say. She was probably cussing her agent out when she wasn’t on camera.
I like to think this started as something similar to that commercial William Shatner was in where an inexperienced director tries to exert too much control over an experienced actor. Only neither of them were willing to back down.
When I first saw this movie at 14, I hadn't yet understood the joys of the SBIG genre. Now it's my guilty pleasure to watch travesties of film production. Jeremy Irons was giving this everything he had. It makes me wish he'd get a cameo in the new one, going full frothing mental as a locked up old evil wizard.
Its actually on the same level as some hyped modern productions these days, such as Netflix's The Witcher and vast parts of Vikings. Once a decade has passed and the outfits and haircuts are no longer fashionable, you see some things more clearly. The actors in Dungeons and Dragons are overall very good though.
To give Irons credit, this is how populist dictators of the past have acted. It seems very over the top and something that we laugh at today, but this style is very common throughout history. The more recent example is Mussolini. Go see how he used to thrash his hands around...it works for a time 💁🏻♂️
Weren't those guys coked up or opiated which warranted their podium performance? It can both drum up excitement with the right crowd or just come off as highly erratic behaviour to most.
It's my first time watching it and my God I haven't laughed like that in a while. I was crying and couldn't breathe at 3:44 - 4:05. There were no fucks to be given in this performance and I LOVE it!
This movie is like an actual D&D game where the DM is committed some characters over others. The DM is having a blast playing Profion like how Jeremy Irons is just goofing around and Empress Savina's underacting by Thora Birch is because the DM can't do her character well. Also Bruce Payne's character Damodar is high on the universe's version of ecstasy 90% of the time, the blue lips are a sign of addiction to Sannish.
Some call this one of the worst movies ever made. I call it a MasterClass in acting presented by Oscar, BAFTA, SAG, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony award winner Jeremy Irons
According to Irons, he had just bought a castle and needed a role to pay it off, so he took the role in D&D. After reading the script, he knew the film would be hamball garbage, so he just fucked around and overacted the shit out of it. And here we are.
