All the movies you named were based on video games. Table top games would have much more versatility. For example, there is a movie in production that is based in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Go check out some of the test shots at Exile Films. It looks to be awesome. And the Animated Street Fighter II movie was absolutely wonderful. It had great fight scenes and a cool story(not to mention so pretty cool music).
Then we go to comic book-based movies. Batman was cool, but the sequels were awful. I decided to stay away from Spawn. Oh, well. At least we have X-men. X-men is good. X-men is the way.
If you want to see what I really thought of D&D, though, see my other post.
From the previews, I knew that this movie had the potential to suck really horribly, but I was hoping for the best. I thought Marlon Wayans would ruin the movie, but he was the only interesting character. I was expecting more actual dungeon crawling with parties and monsters in the dungeon. I was hoping for more cool looking spells and stuff. I was actually hoping for Dungeons & Dragons. I swear, the director must've gotten everyone together before filming and said "Don't act." I suppose it was good if you discount the dialogue, plot, characters, and directing, but the 5 minutes of dragon CGI was not enough to save it. In short, this movie sucked so much ass that I now have big black hickeys on my butt.
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Then we go to comic book-based movies. Batman was cool, but the sequels were awful. I decided to stay away from Spawn. Oh, well. At least we have X-men. X-men is good. X-men is the way.
If you want to see what I really thought of D&D, though, see my other post.
From the previews, I knew that this movie had the potential to suck really horribly, but I was hoping for the best. I thought Marlon Wayans would ruin the movie, but he was the only interesting character. I was expecting more actual dungeon crawling with parties and monsters in the dungeon. I was hoping for more cool looking spells and stuff. I was actually hoping for Dungeons & Dragons. I swear, the director must've gotten everyone together before filming and said "Don't act." I suppose it was good if you discount the dialogue, plot, characters, and directing, but the 5 minutes of dragon CGI was not enough to save it. In short, this movie sucked so much ass that I now have big black hickeys on my butt.