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Certainly looks better than the last mainstream D&D movie.Looks fun to me
100%Certainly looks better than the last mainstream D&D movie.
I used to feel that way too. After a Knights Tale using modern music (which is similar) and it working IMO? I don't mind as long as it's not historical. It doesn't hang me up anymore.I'm still trying to figure out this new fad of using modern language in historical-type movies. The word "OK" wasn't even invented until 1838 and is American in origin.
I get that this is Dungeon's & Dragons and isn't meant to be any kind of historically accurate, but nothing takes me out of movies set in what appears to be a middle ages time quite like bad writing does.
I'm still trying to figure out this new fad of using modern language in historical-type movies. The word "OK" wasn't even invented until 1838 and is American in origin.
I get that this is Dungeon's & Dragons and isn't meant to be any kind of historically accurate, but nothing takes me out of movies set in what appears to be a middle ages time quite like bad writing does.
And then there is the opposite, like Romeo + Juliet - did that bother you?I'm still trying to figure out this new fad of using modern language in historical-type movies. The word "OK" wasn't even invented until 1838 and is American in origin.
I get that this is Dungeon's & Dragons and isn't meant to be any kind of historically accurate, but nothing takes me out of movies set in what appears to be a middle ages time quite like bad writing does.
Wow, what a false equivalency. That said, I didn't care. Modern movies with that kind of language are few and far between. Hell, you had to go back almost 30 years to find that example.And then there is the opposite, like Romeo + Juliet - did that bother you?
Wow, what a false equivalency. That said, I didn't care. Modern movies with that kind of language are few and far between. Hell, you had to go back almost 30 years to find that example.
I would enjoy Dungeons & Dragons if it had the language of say, Deadwood, instead. At least it would be different.
+1 This has been driving me crazy in a bunch of new titles. It always makes me feel like the writers didn't care enough to use appropriate language.I'm still trying to figure out this new fad of using modern language in historical-type movies. The word "OK" wasn't even invented until 1838 and is American in origin.
I get that this is Dungeon's & Dragons and isn't meant to be any kind of historically accurate, but nothing takes me out of movies set in what appears to be a middle ages time quite like bad writing does.
American accents certainly didn't exist in this "time period" either.I'm still trying to figure out this new fad of using modern language in historical-type movies. The word "OK" wasn't even invented until 1838 and is American in origin.
I get that this is Dungeon's & Dragons and isn't meant to be any kind of historically accurate, but nothing takes me out of movies set in what appears to be a middle ages time quite like bad writing does.
Please illuminate us on the dozens of other properties that use old language in a modern context.How is that a false equivalency - it is a modern movie with historical language, so the same language disconnect you mentioned.
And it was just the first one that popped into my head.
Chap, you're kinda coming off as the aggressor here. and still condescending with that opening line when Jon literally has done nothing but chime in with an opinion opposite yours.Please illuminate us on the dozens of other properties that use old language in a modern context.
Because there are quite a few I can come up with the opposite off the top of my head. I’m not sure what you’re arguing. Wouldn’t saying, “I’m cool with it. It doesn’t bother me,” be enough?
Not arguing anything. Just curious as to how you felt about the opposite.Please illuminate us on the dozens of other properties that use old language in a modern context.
Because there are quite a few I can come up with the opposite off the top of my head. I’m not sure what you’re arguing. Wouldn’t saying, “I’m cool with it. It doesn’t bother me,” be enough?
I'm not saying they have to speak in Old English, I'm saying STOP using modern vernacular. That's it.Not arguing anything. Just curious as to how you felt about the opposite.
As for modern language in an old setting, I'd rather that than a butchered or poorly executed version of what someone thought older language was (and if you go too far back, you'd need subtitles, anyways.
We all have different things we wished a movie "got right".I'm not saying they have to speak in Old English, I'm saying STOP using modern vernacular. That's it.
Look at the Lord of the Rings -- that language was perfect for that kind of movie. It's understandable and doesn't sound like it's written by someone who grew up on MTV.
Why are you making this such a big deal? You don't know that "OK" wasn't an actual word in the Middle Ages? I know how intelligent you are, so I know you know that it wasn't.We all have different things we wished a movie "got right".
Does it bother you that Lord of the Rings had bird calls and songs that wouldn't exist in a Middle-Earth based on Europe?
Or bird songs in a movie that is set in North Carolina that only occur on the West Coast?
Or would you even notice?
How many of the target audience for this movie would know when the term OK came into the vernacular?