What makes this even more funny: Jeremy Irons said in an interview that he took on the role only because he needed the paycheck to pay for the renovation of his newly aquired castle. After the first couple of days of shooting, he realised that this movie is gonna be a total failure and he and his co-star Bruce Payne (''Damodar'') decided to have at least some fun and hammed it up to 11. xD
Of course. In middle school we had to read and act out the exact same story every single year, so in 8th grade when I learned we were doing it again I decided to overact to 11 so I could actually enjoy doing it. Depending who you ask I deserved an Oscar or a Golden Raspberry
lol it wasnt bad it was fun and i was 10 when it came out i had a blast watching it especially since i played alot of d&d but i was 10 lol.... still tho it was a fun movie.
@@sigma804 Well you can have fun with a movie if you don't care about the insain acting or the crappy CGI you can have youself a great time but that dosn't mean the movie was good at all
Yeah, he was Dark Schneider levels of entertaining. 😎 And need I remind you, Dark Schneider is what Shawn Michaels would sound like if he played D&D. 😆
I’ve always maintained that even a bad movie can be somewhat redeemed if you can tell the actors are having fun. Just look at Daredevil. Colin Farrell doesn’t waste a second of screen time he gets.
I remember in an interview Jeremy said that once he became well known as an actor, they knew what kind of acting he suited and the specific roles he should play. Wish they offered him at least a couple comedic ones. I feel like he’d be funny as hell, especially with taking the piss in his acting for this movie
He'd honestly be less hammy and more Scar in my opinion. Besides, Ian McDiarmid already devours the scenery by existing so it's pretty hard to top that. The only actor I've seen chew scenery harder is Nick Nolte in the 2003 Hulk movie. If only because he literally chews the scenery at the end. I wish I was kidding, but the result is glorious.
The problem here is that it is very hard to work with "archetypes" characters. They are too 2 dimensional. I think mr Irons did a great thing here and tried to make that cardboard villain alive somehow.
He knew the movie was going to be pure trash, so why would he put some effort into it? He just had fun, and that's ok. I mean who would give two f*cks after watching this legit awful performance at 2:14.
The problem here is that the cardboard villian is correct, she didn't earn the scepter and thus was not going to use it for good. She would have enforced her own perceived version of good. What is the penalty for doing something wrong? Get eaten up by a gold dragon?
I am so disappointed it has taken me THIS long to discover this video... It was a damned awful film, but I just love Jeremy Irons so much and he hammed it up BIG time. Thank you for uploading this... On a side note. I like his reasoning for doing this film too. When asked why he made the film he said: "I just bought a castle, I had to pay for it somehow" (He has a pink castle in Scotland)
i love this movie, the characters feel like real people playing characters in dungeons and dragons. i remember i saw this as a kid in my neighborhood theater with my grandma and just having a good time, even though i KNEW even as a kid that some things where really wrong about it lol
There are three types of acting going on in this movie from all the performers. 1. Those who are legit trying to elevate the material (bless them). Zoe McLellan, Justin Whalen, and dare I say Marlon Wayans were all trying. Whalen and Wayans had good chemistry and McLellan really worked well with them too and if the film had been better written, and really just all around better made, these three actors would be well remembered. 2. Those who know the movie is going to suck and just have a gas with it. Irons and Payne of course. Jeremy Irons is an international treasure just like Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellan. 3. Those who know the movie is shit and just die on screen. Thora Birch. Good lord you can just watch the painful journey in her eyes as she succumbs to the garbage she is given to say. She was probably cussing her agent out when she wasn’t on camera.
When he acts, it's like you're pointing a water hose as a dog's face, and he's extacitally trying to get all the water. "AHAHAAHFHEHHAGAHGHAGHAHGAH!!!!!"
Dungeons and Dragons does not detail the epic journey of a ragtag bunch of adventurers attempting to end the tyranny of its main villain. Instead, we watch the epic battle of Jeremy Irons versus His Own Eyebrows. Everything else is just a diversion.
Irons is amazing. To be able to even chew the scenery when acting with a plastic pink scepter from the kids isle at your local $2 shop shows immense talent. The bald guy on the other hand.
I like to think this started as something similar to that commercial William Shatner was in where an inexperienced director tries to exert too much control over an experienced actor. Only neither of them were willing to back down.
According to Irons, he had just bought a castle and needed a role to pay it off, so he took the role in D&D. After reading the script, he knew the film would be hamball garbage, so he just fucked around and overacted the shit out of it. And here we are.
When I first saw this movie at 14, I hadn't yet understood the joys of the SBIG genre. Now it's my guilty pleasure to watch travesties of film production. Jeremy Irons was giving this everything he had. It makes me wish he'd get a cameo in the new one, going full frothing mental as a locked up old evil wizard.
Its actually on the same level as some hyped modern productions these days, such as Netflix's The Witcher and vast parts of Vikings. Once a decade has passed and the outfits and haircuts are no longer fashionable, you see some things more clearly. The actors in Dungeons and Dragons are overall very good though.
Some call this one of the worst movies ever made. I call it a MasterClass in acting presented by Oscar, BAFTA, SAG, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony award winner Jeremy Irons
To give Irons credit, this is how populist dictators of the past have acted. It seems very over the top and something that we laugh at today, but this style is very common throughout history. The more recent example is Mussolini. Go see how he used to thrash his hands around...it works for a time 💁🏻♂️
Weren't those guys coked up or opiated which warranted their podium performance? It can both drum up excitement with the right crowd or just come off as highly erratic behaviour to most.
It's my first time watching it and my God I haven't laughed like that in a while. I was crying and couldn't breathe at 3:44 - 4:05. There were no fucks to be given in this performance and I LOVE it!
Dungeons and Dragons, Masters of the Universe, and Street Fighter are the holy trinity of terrible movies being elevated solely by the portrayal of their villains.
Most actors and actresses aren't as picky as you think, as long as the pay is good, they're happy. Not to mention a lot of them are bad at managing money.
This movie is like an actual D&D game where the DM is committed some characters over others. The DM is having a blast playing Profion like how Jeremy Irons is just goofing around and Empress Savina's underacting by Thora Birch is because the DM can't do her character well. Also Bruce Payne's character Damodar is high on the universe's version of ecstasy 90% of the time, the blue lips are a sign of addiction to Sannish.
Would you believe the director actually had written a script previously for this film that was MUCH more accurate to D&D and it's lore but the studio rejected it and he got landed with this pile of scop? Thankful really. Because it might be a terrible movie but it gave us Jeremy Iron's eviscerating the scenery.
The late great Christopher Lee once said: "Every actor has to play in a bad movie every now and then. The trick is not to be bad in them." I don't think this is what he had in mind but you can hardly call sir Irons' performance "lacking" or "dull". Thora Birch on the other hand...
I'm now convinced Jeremy Irons would've made a phenomenal Green Goblin.
He would have made a phenomenal Lord Vladek from Lego Knight's Kingdom.
Oh, yes. He would've been an amazing Norman Osborn. 😎
THANK YOU! I had been trying to think of who he reminded me of and it’s Willem Dafoe!!
Probably vultre 😅
@@SeanChukwueziToo British for either.
What makes this even more funny: Jeremy Irons said in an interview that he took on the role only because he needed the paycheck to pay for the renovation of his newly aquired castle.
After the first couple of days of shooting, he realised that this movie is gonna be a total failure and he and his co-star Bruce Payne (''Damodar'') decided to have at least some fun and hammed it up to 11. xD
That is hilarious!
At least they're enjoying it
It's really funny because in most of their scenes together you can very clearly see Bruce trying really hard not to laugh
You kinda get too sides of this, because Thora Birch very obviously didn't have any faith in the project and she just phoned it in.
Of course. In middle school we had to read and act out the exact same story every single year, so in 8th grade when I learned we were doing it again I decided to overact to 11 so I could actually enjoy doing it. Depending who you ask I deserved an Oscar or a Golden Raspberry
"Ok, I am in a bad movie, what do I have to lose? LETS HAVE FUN!"
lol it wasnt bad it was fun and i was 10 when it came out i had a blast watching it especially since i played alot of d&d but i was 10 lol.... still tho it was a fun movie.
XD pretty much
3:57: Bruce Payne's going "ok, if I pout here I won't look like I'm about to lose my shit laughing."
@@katherineberger6329 😂😂😂
@@sigma804 Well you can have fun with a movie
if you don't care about the insain acting or the crappy CGI
you can have youself a great time but
that dosn't mean the movie was good at all
This performance convinces me that Jeremy Irons not only plays DnD, but based his performance off of a previous character.
Well done...
Jeremy Irons was the dungeon master and periodically had to write characters out of his campaign because their players ran screaming from his house.
Yeah, he was Dark Schneider levels of entertaining. 😎
And need I remind you, Dark Schneider is what Shawn Michaels would sound like if he played D&D. 😆
Normal Jeremy Irons: Scar
D&D Jeremy Irons: Scar after a line of cocaine
You got that right in all its roaring glory!
@@JTPMalavet Literally he's gone utterly unhinged
Sometimes over acting is great. You get to see just how amped the actors can get. Fun as hell.
I’ve always maintained that even a bad movie can be somewhat redeemed if you can tell the actors are having fun. Just look at Daredevil. Colin Farrell doesn’t waste a second of screen time he gets.
LET THEIR BLOOOOOOOOOD RAAAAAAIN FROM THE SKYYYYYYYYY !!!!
To quote Nostalgia Critic doing his impression of Profion; “I’m turning into a human vibrator….”
Just got here for this scene 😂 popped in my mind out of nowhere
I love how from 3:50 to 4:01 Bruce Payne (the guy with the lipstick) is clearly trying his darndest not to laugh as Jeremy Irons does his thing.
Can you even blame him if he did?
IT's hilarious especially since Bruce Payne is usually the hammiest person in the room
I've always thought of his reaction in that scene as being genuinely happy for his master.
He'd likely play it off with his evil laugh
@@romarisrogers8005 wel, you can tell 5hat jremy and Bruce are having fun here
This movie was a buffet for Jeremy Irons.
Lol
@@superman5752 yeah jremy here sure had time of his life here
Not one scenery was left unchewed! 😂
The phrase "being extra" carries no weight in comparison to "Jeremy Irons in D&D."
I remember in an interview Jeremy said that once he became well known as an actor, they knew what kind of acting he suited and the specific roles he should play. Wish they offered him at least a couple comedic ones. I feel like he’d be funny as hell, especially with taking the piss in his acting for this movie
He sort of does this again in HBO Watchmen. It's intentional there though.
As far as I'm concerned, this is the Holy Grail of overacting.
well gay actor
@@felipebrasil5 What does that have to do with anything?
@@Guigley female minds tends to exaggerate on drama and do more face expressions isn't?
Nicolas Cage would like a word
@@vwgames49 You don't say?!?!
Another proud graduate of the Dr. Insano school of acting
,,I'm turning into a human vibrator""
And now a new reign of terror begins! MY REIGN OF TERROR! HAHAHAHAHA!
SCIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEENNNNNNNCEEEEE!!!
Imagine if he had played Palpatine (no offense to Ian McDiarmid, of course) LOL
Well if we’re talking empire and Jedi, he would’ve been amazing. If it was the prequels, he’d be a lot of fun.
McDiarmid's already hammy enough! Turn the ham ALL THE WAY UP!
UN-LI-MI-TED POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
He'd honestly be less hammy and more Scar in my opinion. Besides, Ian McDiarmid already devours the scenery by existing so it's pretty hard to top that. The only actor I've seen chew scenery harder is Nick Nolte in the 2003 Hulk movie. If only because he literally chews the scenery at the end. I wish I was kidding, but the result is glorious.
His character in this movie was basically medieval palpatine
The problem here is that it is very hard to work with "archetypes" characters. They are too 2 dimensional. I think mr Irons did a great thing here and tried to make that cardboard villain alive somehow.
I mean, it's not like anyone's saying Irons did a bad job. He's basically the sole reason to watch the movie!
@@Lady_in_Yearning so true my friend!
He knew the movie was going to be pure trash, so why would he put some effort into it? He just had fun, and that's ok. I mean who would give two f*cks after watching this legit awful performance at 2:14.
The problem here is that the cardboard villian is correct, she didn't earn the scepter and thus was not going to use it for good. She would have enforced her own perceived version of good. What is the penalty for doing something wrong? Get eaten up by a gold dragon?
@@AA-lz4wq I honestly thought he was snorting in derision at her acting.
I am so disappointed it has taken me THIS long to discover this video... It was a damned awful film, but I just love Jeremy Irons so much and he hammed it up BIG time. Thank you for uploading this...
On a side note. I like his reasoning for doing this film too. When asked why he made the film he said: "I just bought a castle, I had to pay for it somehow" (He has a pink castle in Scotland)
Thanks for the nice comment! Glad you enjoyed. And I'm happy he got a castle while we got a memorable performance.
My friend suggest this movie soley based on Irons acting.... Worth it, its amazingly funny
Remember doing a dnd game and trying to do the "blood rains from the sky" acting and someone spitting his drink over the table 😅
This movie is amazing. It should be placed in the National Film Registry.
Colin is that meant to be sarcasm
Jeremy made the movie worth it.
i love this movie, the characters feel like real people playing characters in dungeons and dragons. i remember i saw this as a kid in my neighborhood theater with my grandma and just having a good time, even though i KNEW even as a kid that some things where really wrong about it lol
Honestly, yeah this movie is really damn close to what an actual game of D&D feels like.
I want to have as much fun as Jeremy Irons did with this movie
Me to I will be on profion side
Pedro Pascals main inspiration for his role in WW84.
Very accurate
That scene chewing bar is so accurate🤣
Let's all pretend that Profion is Jeremy Irons' Oscar-winning role!
There are three types of acting going on in this movie from all the performers.
1. Those who are legit trying to elevate the material (bless them). Zoe McLellan, Justin Whalen, and dare I say Marlon Wayans were all trying. Whalen and Wayans had good chemistry and McLellan really worked well with them too and if the film had been better written, and really just all around better made, these three actors would be well remembered.
2. Those who know the movie is going to suck and just have a gas with it. Irons and Payne of course. Jeremy Irons is an international treasure just like Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellan.
3. Those who know the movie is shit and just die on screen. Thora Birch. Good lord you can just watch the painful journey in her eyes as she succumbs to the garbage she is given to say. She was probably cussing her agent out when she wasn’t on camera.
Eric well jremy onlyndid this fimmfir the psycheck
When he acts, it's like you're pointing a water hose as a dog's face, and he's extacitally trying to get all the water. "AHAHAAHFHEHHAGAHGHAGHAHGAH!!!!!"
Dungeons and Dragons does not detail the epic journey of a ragtag bunch of adventurers attempting to end the tyranny of its main villain.
Instead, we watch the epic battle of Jeremy Irons versus His Own Eyebrows. Everything else is just a diversion.
Irons is amazing. To be able to even chew the scenery when acting with a plastic pink scepter from the kids isle at your local $2 shop shows immense talent.
The bald guy on the other hand.
We will allow this slander of Bruce Payne, just this once.
I laughed when it turned up to 11 and was about to explode XD
Much obliged!
My eyes are watering -laughing so damned hard. Great work!
This movie came out a year before Fellowship of the Ring
And Tyrese Gibson exist for some dumb reason 🙄😒😊😅😂.
This is the funniest thing goddamn thing I've ever seen.
That was the most extreme overacting ever!
Even the bald guy was trying to hide his laugh.
@@juanfranciscocosta5387 By the way, to the bald guy, you got something on your lip.
He knew the movie was shit so he exagerated everything and had fun with it. 🤣
I like to think this started as something similar to that commercial William Shatner was in where an inexperienced director tries to exert too much control over an experienced actor. Only neither of them were willing to back down.
Much like Alan Rickman, there are very few Jeremy Irons performances that aren’t, at the very least, enjoyable
Don't be mean to jeremy irons
to steal and butcher a quote... in pretty every 1 star movie Jeremy Irons has been in, he is the reason it even got 1 star
I think Jeremy Irons knew this movie wasn't going to be successful and so just decided to go all out and ham it up.
Originally Kurt Russell was going to play this part, but couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts at the time 😊.
Yeh umgin@@bryanferratt6598imsgine if this was kurt Russell imgin how hilarious th eoud bwennu guess
Jeremy Irons is such a cartoon characters in this movie, I love it.
According to Irons, he had just bought a castle and needed a role to pay it off, so he took the role in D&D. After reading the script, he knew the film would be hamball garbage, so he just fucked around and overacted the shit out of it. And here we are.
I love how at 3:53 you can clearly see the bald guy starting to crack up
The inspiration for Albert Wesker in Resident Evil 5.
When I first saw this movie at 14, I hadn't yet understood the joys of the SBIG genre. Now it's my guilty pleasure to watch travesties of film production. Jeremy Irons was giving this everything he had. It makes me wish he'd get a cameo in the new one, going full frothing mental as a locked up old evil wizard.
Jeremy is such a great actor.😮
Jeremy Irons chewing the scenery is the only reason I want to watch it if I plan on doing so.
Originally Robert Redford was going to play this part, but couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts at the time 😊.
3:53 dude on the left can barely keep a straight face standing next to Gonzo Irons
So that’s where Eddie Redmayne based his performance in Jupiter Ascending
I guarantee NO ONE in the new D&D movie will give as memorable a performance as Jeremy Irons did in this film. It's impossible!
Edit: And I was right.
I can't think of any examples but overall it was a much more solid, whole light hearted movie that I actually enjoyed.
Jeremy Irons Was Awesome In This Movie! You Can Tell He Was Hamming It Up, & I Loved Every Bit Of It! Cool Movie!
Now I want to hear Jeremy Irons as a death metal vocalist
Jeremy "Screw The Scenery I'm Gonna Chew The Eff Out Of Everything" Irons.
Dungeons & Dragons 2000 was a masterpiece.
4:23 is my favorite part
Would of loved to see Jeremy in Lord Of The Rings
It seems like he made this film because he couldn't get into LOTR. Or Harry Potter.
I could see him as Denethor.
Its actually on the same level as some hyped modern productions these days, such as Netflix's The Witcher and vast parts of Vikings. Once a decade has passed and the outfits and haircuts are no longer fashionable, you see some things more clearly. The actors in Dungeons and Dragons are overall very good though.
Bruh somebody hated Snails 😅😂
I mean, you saw the movie, right? ;)
@@chrissantucci1279 Years ago when I was kid. I didn't hate him though. Same with Jarjarbinks.
In fact, the ending part is the best part of this overall perfect Parody. You felt me there !@chrissantucci1279
I seriously watch this and LMFAO everytime..... Chewing meter..... Priceless.
Much appreciated, Nicholas!
Jeremy Irons would've made a good Lord Voldemort
And the 2 Gruber Brothers would've been on screen together.
This movie had such potential. The setting, the secondary characters, even blasted Jeremy Irons hissing at things... bah. Such tragic loss.
Some call this one of the worst movies ever made. I call it a MasterClass in acting presented by Oscar, BAFTA, SAG, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony award winner Jeremy Irons
Haha oh thank you. I was expecting the Jeremy Irons nonsense but that last bit I almost pooped a little I laughed so damned hard.
Jeremy turned this from an awful movie into an entertaining awful movie with his overacting.
You have to respect how he knew it would be bad, so overacted so the movie would at least be memorable and fun, despite its other flaws.
Indeed, Robert Redford was great in this movie 👍 😊.
To give Irons credit, this is how populist dictators of the past have acted. It seems very over the top and something that we laugh at today, but this style is very common throughout history. The more recent example is Mussolini. Go see how he used to thrash his hands around...it works for a time 💁🏻♂️
Weren't those guys coked up or opiated which warranted their podium performance? It can both drum up excitement with the right crowd or just come off as highly erratic behaviour to most.
This may be my favourite video ever
4:10 That's a lie and you know it!
Damn! I bet he passed a shit stool straining that way!
Wished they were able to use the healing power to bring back marlon wayans if they were able to use it on jeremy irons too
Saw the trailer for Honor Among Thieves and this appeared in my reccomend.
He sounds kinda like a dalek when he's yelling
It's my first time watching it and my God I haven't laughed like that in a while. I was crying and couldn't breathe at 3:44 - 4:05. There were no fucks to be given in this performance and I LOVE it!
Glad to hear it!
Damodar was almost losing it
The only saving grace of the movie. He had a blast "sexing up" some mediocre dialogue.
4:10 That's a lie and you know it.
-Nostalgia Critic
The only saving grace of this movie.
20 Years of Dungeons and Dragons 2000 (2000-2020)
Don't care what anyone says, this movie is fuckin' great
If Hugh Grant doesn't do a note-by-note recreation of Jeremy Irons' performance in the new movie then what is the point?
This looks like an FMV video game
Dungeons and Dragons, Masters of the Universe, and Street Fighter are the holy trinity of terrible movies being elevated solely by the portrayal of their villains.
3:54 Oh, I just shit my pants. No, wait. I can work with it, my character would shit is pants! Haha! I SHIT MY PANTS!!!!
How an actor the caliber of Irons made such an awful film is mind-boggling.
Most actors and actresses aren't as picky as you think, as long as the pay is good, they're happy. Not to mention a lot of them are bad at managing money.
This movie is like an actual D&D game where the DM is committed some characters over others.
The DM is having a blast playing Profion like how Jeremy Irons is just goofing around and Empress Savina's underacting by Thora Birch is because the DM can't do her character well.
Also Bruce Payne's character Damodar is high on the universe's version of ecstasy 90% of the time, the blue lips are a sign of addiction to Sannish.
I love Jeremy Irons, but he should really fire his agent
And to think I thought I was an overactor when I was young.
Snails death was the true climax of this movie, everything else is just details.
Would you believe the director actually had written a script previously for this film that was MUCH more accurate to D&D and it's lore but the studio rejected it and he got landed with this pile of scop?
Thankful really. Because it might be a terrible movie but it gave us Jeremy Iron's eviscerating the scenery.
The late great Christopher Lee once said:
"Every actor has to play in a bad movie every now and then. The trick is not to be bad in them."
I don't think this is what he had in mind but you can hardly call sir Irons' performance "lacking" or "dull". Thora Birch on the other hand...
One of the greatest bad performances of all time.
the last part had me fuckin in stiches..
You didn't need to put in that sound effect when the bars increase on the scene-chewing meter. Otherwise good.
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The only reason I rewatched this movie.
This movie was delicious 😋.
Such a shame, since he's a great actor, but was dealing with shit directing and writing. He actually could have been a really great evil sorcerer.
I think he purposefully overacted to make the best of a bad movie.
Why have we never put Irons, John Malkovich and Tim Curry in a scene together?
Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich have been in two movies together actually. Man in the Iron Mask and Eragon.
@@bryanferratt6598 I'd forgotten about MITIM. I don't think they had a scene together in Eregon though. And both movies desire more Tim Curry 😁
@@moviewolverine89And Willem Dafoe 😁.
he SHOULD have won an oscar for this haha
You're going to regret that boy
You can run your ladyship but you can't run far enough
Let there blood rain from the sky
The best video on TH-cam. Period.
TBH same energy as "Be Prepared"
A literal cartoon!
Yeah Be Prepared!! We’ll be prepared!
I remember the Dragon scene at the beginning. Probably the worst CGI I've ever seen
i still wonder how you made the music for the last bit
The villain could have also been played by Vince MacMahon. Change my mind.