Blockbuster tries to rewrite script in bankruptcy
Dragons Of Autumn Twilight
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Day 33 of 365 (Year Two)
We rented and watched Dragons Of Autumn Twilight the other night. It is an animated movie based on the Dragonlance books by Weis and Hickman.
When I first read the books oh so many years ago I fell in love with them. I burned through the books as soon as they came out. Then when they expanded the Dragonlance Universe and started putting out other books related to the original trilogy I burned through them as well. The Forgotten Realms series and the Dragonlance series were my favorites through most of High School and well into college. I still read them when I don’t have a new book to read and I’ve borrowed those that I don’t own from a friend who has them. So it was a no-brainer when the movie was put out that I’d rent it and watch it.
Talk about a major let down. In this day and age of Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away I cannot believe that they would take a story as well loved as this by fans of fantasy literature and put out such a piece of crap. To say the movie was bad is being kind. I’d like to meet the guy at Paramount who signed off on this and slap him. I’d like to meet the script writer and smack him to. I hope that the animators and artists who worked this project never get another gig.
To make it worse, there were some big names doing the voice overs, including Lucy Lawless and Kiefer Sutherland, and the dialog was uninspired and dull. I’m guessing, based on other work I have seen by these people that the script was to blame, but even these big names couldn’t save this movie.
It is a damn shame that somebody might pick this DVD up and watch it and be turned off to what is a fantastic fantasy series that deserves better.
Blockbuster tries to rewrite script in bankruptcy
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