Movie reviews and discussions

[GF]

Please go see Cocaine Bear. Everyone involved in this movie deserves more work, and we all deserve to see more of the movies they make.

EDIT: I refuse to review the movie at all because you should go in with whatever your expectations are, and just experience it from that place.

[Jennkryst]

@GF said in Movie reviews and discussions:

Please go see Cocaine Bear. Everyone involved in this movie deserves more work, and we all deserve to see more of the movies they make.

EDIT: I refuse to review the movie at all because you should go in with whatever your expectations are, and just experience it from that place.

+1 for Cocaine Bear. I went to an 11am showing last Tuesday and it was packed. Two 80 year old guys were there. I was tempted to watch them the whole time, just together their reactions, but I watched the screen instead.

[BloodAngel]

Glorius lives up to the title. Best Cosmic horror movie I have seen in a bit. On Shudder!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esqxTzc3lgM&t=11s

[SpaceKhomeini]

@GF I’m gonna spoil it for people,

but there’s a bear, and the bear does cocaine.

(Also, it’s fucking hilarious)

[Roz]

@SpaceKhomeini omg they JUST installed the spoiler tag plugin!

[Pavel]

I will break the forum again if I have to.

[Arkandel]

Who else has watched the Dungeons and Dragons movie?

Who else loved it? It was funnier and better-paced than it had a right to be! Also I thought they utilized (and partially made fun of) many D&D tropes while they were at it. Great chemistry between the group members, too.

[Third Eye]

@Arkandel said in Movie reviews and discussions:

Who else loved it?

Meeeeeeeeeeeeee.

It was just top to bottom really well-done and fun. Hoping it does well enough to get a sequel, I would love to see that party again.

[Arkandel]

@Third-Eye I also think, assuming this does well at the box office - which it definitely seems to be - then that success opens the door for different ‘kinds’ of movies. Same as RPGs themselves can.

So while this was an adventurous, light-hearted movie in its heart there’s no reason they can’t have other parties unrelated to it with grittier plots set in the Forgotten Realms, or which explore different corners of Faerun.

Somewhere there’s a Hasbro exec with dollar-sign-eyes smiling like a fool at the prospect.

[hellfrog]

Yeah we watched it, and found it quite fun. I appreciated how everything just worked, top to bottom. A fun flick that knew how far it could reach for humor and emotional impact and did just that.

[Pyrephox]

Watched it yesterday, loved it. Very fun, great chemistry between the characters, fun use of the IP elements without bogging things down, exciting action sequences and humor that didn’t damage the overall tone. Would love to see a sequel!

[Cobalt]

I was really surprised by how good it was. Trailers I saw made it look like it was a going to be a terrible train wreck like failed “funny d&d-like” show from syfy back in the early 00s.

But it was actually really enjoyable.

[GF]

Just got out of the theater! I love it. Opening up with a character explaining their backstory to a DM-insert NPC who’s telling them to get on with it sets the mood excellently. The characters are likeable, the story’s pretty good, the action is inventive and inspiring, and all the actors are doing good work, though I’m a bit disappointed at how little they gave Sophia Lillis to do. I think my biggest criticism is that I wonder how much this movie could possibly appeal to anyone who isn’t already a D&D fan given that the lack of exposition seems to assume a baseline amount of familiarity with the material, so in that regard the movie’s choice to omit any kind of divine magic (despite having two divine characters) feels like a craven capitulation to a group of prospective critics who already think D&D is a satanic guidebook anyway so who cares what they think?

Let’s call it 8/10. I had a good time and would definitely watch it again.

[Cobalt]

@GF Inyook my niece and nephew (18 and 20), and they both really enjoyed it despite never having touched a D&D book in their life.

Which one is Sophia Lillis?

[GF]

@Cobalt The tiefling druid. There were just a couple too many scenes for my taste where her character was standing around looking lost because the screenwriters or editors (my intuition says editors, but I can’t back that up at all) decided her primary character arc should be learning to like-like a guy she’d been too mean to.

[Cobalt]

@GF We’ll have to disagree there. I thought she was fantastic and her arc more read to me that she was learning to trust outsiders. Plus, she was just the type of sarcastic curmudgeon I loved.

Personally I found the ex-thane paladin to be the weakest character.

[GF]

@Cobalt I disagree about the paladin, but only because I found him hilarious in a very meta way. How many games I have been to where someone rolls too high for their starting stats and plays a paladin who’s literally too good for the rest of the party? It cracked me up.

[Coin]

@Cobalt said in Movie reviews and discussions:

@GF We’ll have to disagree there. I thought she was fantastic and her arc more read to me that she was learning to trust outsiders. Plus, she was just the type of sarcastic curmudgeon I loved.

Personally I found the ex-thane paladin to be the weakest character.

@GF said in Movie reviews and discussions:

@Cobalt I disagree about the paladin, but only because I found him hilarious in a very meta way. How many games I have been to where someone rolls too high for their starting stats and plays a paladin who’s literally too good for the rest of the party? It cracked me up.

These two things are not mutually exclusive.

[GF]

@Coin No, but in the context of me already saying I think the druid is the weakest character…

[Pavel]

I’m looking forward to seeing this film, but I’m worried that my absolute love of The Gamers film series will marr my appreciation.