Board 8 > The Dungeons and Dragons movie is much better than it has any business being.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I dont have any familiarity with the source material except knowing the basic premise of the game, and this movie just kinda manages to capture a lot of stuff very well.

Id love to see more of this series but I kinda feel like the movie didnt do well enough?

solid 8.5 film

It's great. Unfortunately got buried by the Super Mario movie + Hasbro controversy at the time.

Hasbro controversy?

also, chris pine doing his best jason bateman throughout the film but i actually really liked it

At the time Hasbro was trying to fuck with / monetize D&D in really scummy ways. Pissed off the entire fanbase big time. Probably didn't matter that much in regards to the movie's success, but negative goodwill never helps when you're already getting Goomba stomped by Mario at the box office.

This deleted scene of the corpse listing books is killing me.

also i am crushing on doric

It was a really fun movie. I really liked that one shot shape-shifting bit with the thing going out of the window

Best gag was the super powerful heroic guy who is an obvious stand in for a DM's player character. Comes in, sets the party on the right track when they're floundering, then walks in a straight line towards the sunset

Also loved the portal gun, which was an item clearly meant for the party to solve one puzzle, which they then stole and used in other situations that were probably unintended

The story works great both as a self-contained fantasy story and as someone's D&D campaign

I loved it and have watched it on Paramont a few times after it left theaters. Sadly it doesn't seem like a sequel is in the cards (dice?)

But I also just generally enjoy movies written and/or directed by Daley and Goldstein. Game Night is another fantastic movie of theirs that I regularly go back to. I don't know anything about Mayday or Vacation Guide to the Solar system but will watch them if only because they are behind them.

KamikazePotato posted...

Best gag was the super powerful heroic guy who is an obvious stand in for a DM's player character. Comes in, sets the party on the right track when they're floundering, then walks in a straight line towards the sunset

Also loved the portal gun, which was an item clearly meant for the party to solve one puzzle, which they then stole and used in other situations that were probably unintended

The story works great both as a self-contained fantasy story and as someone's D&D campaign

Thank you for bringing more context to the paladin lmao

at first i was put off by how stiff and perfect the character was but it all makes sense with your comment

KamikazePotato posted...

The story works great both as a self-contained fantasy story and as someone's D&D campaign

Yup

That's pretty much why it was great. I could see a lot of things that were clearly inspired by D&D campaign silliness and the characters even fit classic tropes you'd see among a lot of D&D groups. But it was also just a subtle nod and people who don't play it (I watched with 3 people who weren't) weren't taken out by it.

I also just thought the Paladin was the power gamey min max player of the group rather than a DM insert which still works.

There's a lot of great "these people have clearly played D&D" gags in the movie. Like when the bard is struggling to get out of cuffs it's clearly supposed to be his player is just constantly failing checks.

Yea it was a fun romp. Definitely better than the other one

It was a good movie even with little to no knowledge about D&D. It's a real shame it didn't do better financially.

TeamRocketElite posted...

It was a good movie even with little to no knowledge about D&D. It's a real shame it didn't do better financially.

This. I really enjoyed it, and my friend who has no context of it really enjoyed it. It helped me convince him to play BG3 with me which he loved (he went Bard to play as "what Chris pine is")

Such a great movie. I really wish the people who wrote/made it would get the chance to make more D&D movies. They could be completely independent stories or have characters return.

RikkuAlmighty posted...

then walks in a straight line towards the sunset

I love this detail especially.

It was pretty good! I enjoyed all the nods to a typical campaign and I especially appreciate that its all done entirely in-universe with no cheeky nods to real life.

Maniac64 posted...

Such a great movie. I really wish the people who wrote/made it would get the chance to make more D&D movies. They could be completely independent stories or have characters return.

Best idea I heard was bring back the same cast, but playing completely different characters. Since it's a new campaign.

bryans7 posted...

Best idea I heard was bring back the same cast, but playing completely different characters. Since it's a new campaign.

That works great as well! There are just so many great options for a D&D movie series