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

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[-] phrankygee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It’s a great fun movie. The plot’s great, the pacing is great, the references are great, the comedy is great. It’s a fun adventure with a relatable team of misfit heroes.

It takes some liberties with the game mechanics to accomplish this. If you can’t forgive that, you’ll have a rough time, especially if you like wildshaping druids and spellcasting bards.

[-] NumbersMan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

While it does skirt some game mechanics, probably due to it being a movie and it's a strange medium to adapt, it also does some really cool subtle things with the mechanics. For example, in the final major fight all of the characters attack in the same order. They're in initiative!

[-] FreeBooteR69@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I loved it and thought it was worth the price of admission.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 1 points 1 year ago

I saw it last week and I think it's brilliant.

[-] parallax@local106.com 1 points 1 year ago

I honestly enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. They is a chonky dragon. I repeat, a chonky dragon!

[-] IanM32@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It's fun. Don't expect anything extraordinary and you won't be disappointed.

Some of the plans they hatch really feel like the wacky stuff players come up with.

[-] overzeetop@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Definitely go in with exceptionally low expectations if you want to have a good time. I was fairly optimistic based on the ~~reviews~~ rampant shilling on Reddit and was pretty disappointed. If you’d asked me for a score right after I watched it I’d go 4/10. In hindsight it’s more of a 6 if you allow that it’s supposed to be a bit tongue in cheek and the stilted dialog is a feature rather than a bug.

With those caveats it’s a perfectly good way to waste two hours if you have nothing better to do. It has no memorable lines or scenes, and is just an average hot-topic-of-the-moment throwaway action movie.

[-] Kerred@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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). What they add is at least relevant somehow. 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

this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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