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D&D Movie (lemmy.world)
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Anyone seen it? Is it awful?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As far as franchised products based films it's very rewatchable and I imagine will be a comfort movie on the future.

Id put it just a little below the Lego Movie for quality for what's essentially an advertisement movie. No complaints however.

As a D&D fan it hits the sweet spots of references but not to feel like it's pandering (see Super Mario Movie). For a die hard D&D fan you can feel the die rolls going on in the movie.

I imagine Hasbro will kill or ruin Studio One somehow which is a shame I would want more of these kind of D&D movies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Feeling the die rolls" is very accurate. My group of friends plays 5e pretty regularly, and we all enjoyed the movie a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Not just feeling the die rolls, I could also feel the DM going "oh crap, the bridge is gone now, how will they get across? I know, I'll give them a portal gun." And then for the rest of the movie the DM going "oh crap, they have a portal gun now, how am I going to stop them from bypassing every challenge with it?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a D&D player, that was my favorite part. The times when the party was getting creative and you could see the DM say, "Ok, roll for xyz to see if that works."

So many times when I thought, "Yeah, I could see us coming up with that." Followed by, "Oh yeah, our DM would definitely do that." And yet it managed to have enough heart and be generally entertaining enough that your non-D&D friends will enjoy it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Especially the very beginning, where they come up with the crazy plan to escape, somehow manage to actually pass the persuasion check they didn't think they would pass, then go through with the plan anyway because they worked hard on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"We were going to release you!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I felt the GM's frustration in that one!