Thursday, May 3, 2012

Dungeonmaster

I was looking for a T-shirt with the quote made by Adam Savage (from Mythbusters) that he said "I reject your reality and substitute my own".  I had assumed this was an original quote by him, but as it turns out, it was actual taken from the 1985 film Dungeonmaster, which inspired me to watch this film.

It was quite an odd film, as it started out with a couple, of whom the female was jealous of the amount of time the man was spending with his computer.  It rapidly switched to the couple being thrust into various situations, as dictated by Richard Moll, of Night Court fame, most of which were tests of the man's ability to resolve those situations.  This was largely accomplished by the man using his trusty computer which was part of an armband he wore.  The computer seem to spontaneously gain abilities which allowed it to resolve the situations.  Blatant case of deus ex machina.

There were half a dozen of these situations the couple found themselves in, and apparently each one was directed by a different director (as at least 3 directors were listed in the opening credits).

Overall, the film was rather unsatisfying.  Each situation was resolved fairly easily, giving little excitement to the film.

BTW, the quote comes fairly early in the film, just in case you were interested.

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