Matthew Hunter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:57:41PM -0400, Rick Castello > <rick at 404.978.org> wrote: >> Another beef of mine about the new version- I felt that nearly >> all of the actors (there were a couple exceptions) weren't all >> that good. Much of the time, I felt the overacting was a 7 on >> the scale where Jeremy Irons in "Dungeons and Dragons" is a 10. > > Yes, but he KNEW the movie he was in sucked, and played up to it. > > ("GIVE ME THE ROD!") > > The D&D movie is a successful comedy... when it was trying to be > a mediocre drama. That says a lot about its quality, as in, lack > thereof. I think he needed a paycheck bad and either way he didn't care. And it being a comedy had to be on purpose, you can't cast a wayans brother and expect it to be serious - EVER I could have gamed a more entertaining story than they choose to use. the real problem is I as a viewer never felt as If I was looking into a world I wasn't part of and found interesting.