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I'ma haunt your ass (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [S] 18 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I haven't seen it yet lol

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  • [–] 63 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Just to echo what others have said, it is way better than it has any right to be.

    The movie somehow manages to effectively capture the feeling of playing a casual campaign with friends. The story is played completely straight in-universe (as in, there is no outer-level frame narrative of nerds with character sheets gathered around a table), but you can just sense where the tabletop RPG tropes were woven into the plot.

    Edit: also to clarify, the specific movie others are describing is D&D: Honor Among Thieves. Not any of the bad D&D movies made in the early 00's.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I really want them to do another movie with the same cast playing different characters.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    The 00's D&D movie is bad. It has terrible writing, bad lore, a bad example of a campaign (main character syndrome like crazy), and is the bad kind of campy. That being said, there's a warm place in my heart for that movie.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    The movie was a good D&D movie, but i'm not surprised it bombed. People really don't like that opinion, but it suffers from trying to be a marvel movie so bad, and people are aick of them as well. Personally i didn't really enjoy the movie. The constant quips and disney humor was just too much, and at least for me was a huge distraction from the story and worldbuilding. The movie literally did the "i'm glad he's on our side", the movie felt like it had a laugh track. I get why people like it, i wanted to like it more, but i'll never watch it again, and i wouldn't watch a sequel

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I can vouch for the dnd movie hard, I went in because my dad made me, and I was ready for it to be garbage. My only real complaint is druid wild stape doesn't work like that RAW. It really was quite excellent.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There's definitely room for Rule of Cool. I always allow Druids to do magical beasts, with the caveat of "I can say no if shenanigans".

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yeah I feel that, I didn't want to push the rules at the time but I wanted to run a druid with a much bigger emphasis on wild shape, and the movie was pretty close to what I wanted. I'm mainly jealous.

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