Editing Dungeons and Dragons in Film (section)

== Dungeons and Dragons (2000 film) ==
[[File:Dungeons and Dragon movie guys.jpg|thumb|No, this is not a [[LARP]] photo, this is from the theatrical movie]]
In the land of Izmir the mages rule and everyone else is oppressed by them, apparently. The Empress wants to change that while evil mage-guy Profion (played by Jeremy Irons hamming it up like it's overtime at the meat smoking plant) wants to keep it this way and take over the world (of course!). Problem is that the Empress has a sceptre that lets her control Yellow Dragons. So Profion set out to get another sceptre that would let him control Red Dragons. A couple of Rogues (a white guy called Ridley Freeman and his 90s comedic black sidekick Snails, guess who dies) get caught up with a apprentice mage named Marina in a plot to get that Staff while being harried by Profion's blue-lipped minion Damodar and his discount warrior dudes. Some Dungeons and Dragons brand monsters make cameos, like [[wat|a beholder chained up as a guard dog]].

It's pretty bad. Not vile, nor godawful and it might have some "so bad it's good" charm, but it's still bad. Unsurprisingly it bombed at the box office. It also came out a year before [[The Lord of the Rings|The Fellowship of the Rings]] which blew it out of the water like a nuclear depth charge. Still, it got some Made for TV sequels.

=== Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005) ===
Also called '''The Elemental Might''' for...some reason. A straight-to-TV sequel to the above, which goes to show just how well the original film sold. That said, absolutely nobody from the last one returns except for the creepy blue-lipped lackey. Said lackey, somehow managing to cheat death via what amounts to DM fiat, manages to steal a powerful artifact and awakens a sealed dragon to destroy Izmir. To counter this, a party is assembled of the most basic variety - a [[Fighter]], an [[Elf]] [[Wizard]], a [[Cleric]], a [[Barbarian]], and a Chaotic Asshole [[Rogue]] - to find this orb and steal it back before the dragon can wake up.

Due to this having less of a budget, it's clearly got a lot less going for it, but it makes the crap we get a touch more tolerable. It feels like the people behind this one actually seemed to be more aware of D&D than the last bozos, and thus are able to integrate a lot more lore and flavor to it. That said, it's not nearly as memorable for being so awful, it's just bleh.

=== Dungeons and Dragons 3: The [[Book of Vile Darkness]] (2012) ===
Another straight-to-TV film from Germany that has absolutely no ties to the previous ones despite being called D&D 3. Considerably a lot more [[grimdark]], in a bit of a swerve. It's all focused on the titular book, which in this film was actually made when an insane necromancer wanted to become immortal and got his flesh flayed to transform into the book's pages and was then split into pieces and sealed away. In hopes of finding his missing father, a young knight of [[Pelor]] has to join with a part of various shades of [[Stupid Evil]] that are hired by a dark lord to re-create the book. Notably, it manages to portray a rather decent character arc by having him bend his morality and his code in order to survive with a party that mostly hates his guts. Mostly because the one token female of the group turns out to develop feelings for him. Somehow.