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Post by calithena on Mar 19, 2009 14:35:07 GMT -6
This is a pretty good cave horror movie with lots of good stuff for thinking about dungeons. The emphasis on the vertical dimension was especially interesting. Useful DM material. The ending was unnecessarily weird and the film as a whole was sort of sad, but I enjoyed it.
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Post by machfront on Mar 19, 2009 21:32:52 GMT -6
Indeed. It is some pretty decent inspiration.
I keep meaning to do a write-up of the creatures, but it's always slipping my mind...
I bought this on DVD in late '06 (I think) when it was released. I never saw it in the theater, so I've never seen that ending, but the one on the DVD is (apparently) much darker and depressing. I guess so. But I'm not the one to ask, I guess, as I like endings to be horrible and hopeless, etc.
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Post by jimlotfp on Mar 20, 2009 1:59:44 GMT -6
This is a pretty good cave horror movie with lots of good stuff for thinking about dungeons. The emphasis on the vertical dimension was especially interesting. Useful DM material. The ending was unnecessarily weird and the film as a whole was sort of sad, but I enjoyed it. Which ending did you see? |
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Post by calithena on Mar 20, 2009 9:24:55 GMT -6
DVD. (Ending description edited to prevent spoilers.) The ending there is ambiguous in my opinion as to what actually happens to her, which doesn't fit with the definiteness of the rest of the film.
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Post by amityvillemike on Mar 20, 2009 10:14:09 GMT -6
I swiped the chasm with old piton embedded in the cave roof wholecloth for one of my dungeons from this film. I thought it was 1) a unique turn on the the standard "you come across a crevasse you need to cross" and 2) fit in very nicely with the idea that others have come this way prior to the adventurers' arrival.
If you liked The Descent, give Dog Soldiers a view, Cal. Same writer/director and I think Dog Soldiers is a better flick, albeit not one that lends itself to D&D without a little bit of work.
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Post by jimlotfp on Mar 20, 2009 12:59:15 GMT -6
DVD. (Ending description edited to prevent spoilers.) The ending there is ambiguous in my opinion as to what actually happens to her, which doesn't fit with the definiteness of the rest of the film. This forum needs spoiler tag features! I still have no idea which ending you mean. Both endings were on the DVD version I saw, but I understand the European and US endings were different and I don't even remember which region's DVD I watched.  |
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Post by machfront on Mar 20, 2009 16:34:50 GMT -6
You thought the ending was ambiguous??... How is that?
Darn. It's hard to say what I wanted to say without spoilers.... Hmm.
Perhaps if I word it carefully, it won't be a spoiler without the context of having seen it.
Having said that:
Possible Spoilers Ahead!!!
It's pretty clear that she's gone crazy and since we hear the creatures getting ever closer, not only is she insane, but her fate is also sealed.
End Spoilers
Jim,
The only difference are the US and UK endings. The US (theatrical) ending just cut off the last few minutes of the film (right when she's startled by what she sees in the car...credits, whereas the original UK ending continues to the true end).
Concerning Dog Soldiers, the second greatest werewolf movie ever lensed... in my opinion it's ready to go as an adventure. I think it's easily D&D-able myself.
Regardless... great movie!
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Post by calithena on Mar 20, 2009 20:05:50 GMT -6
Hey you people! Get off this thread and go rent the movie before continuing.
Not clear to me. If I had to bet based on the ending I saw, she made it out (though she is clearly crazy). But it's not clear.
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Post by machfront on Mar 21, 2009 3:04:55 GMT -6
So, you saw the ending that ended with her in the car, then?
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Post by calithena on Mar 22, 2009 7:54:56 GMT -6
First the car, then back in the cave. Is the cave the prison of her psychology having lost everything or was the escape the fantasy? Didn't like that ambiguity.
Anyway, the point is that there's good dungeon stuff, go rent the movie.
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