Most of the time I’m left bitterly disappointed by the state of modern movies. But sometimes, just sometimes, along comes a film …
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Not sure what the Winterfell things was about. It is beat by almost 10 years by Neverwinter. Glad you like the movie.
Just saw it was terrible and GIGA woke. Super anti men maybe the most anti men movie ive ever seen. This is a terrible review and im not sure I can take Drinkers opi seriously anymore if he thought this nonsense was decent.
It helps when the source material already pokes fun at the genre and identifies itself with shenanigans to justify that in this movie. So, if something doesn't make sense or isn't taken seriously, no one's upset because that's how you play D&D.
I liked it. Really fun to watch with the kids
Neverwinter likely PREDATES Winterfell in a creative timeline, and drew nothing from the latter setting… at least not initially.
Damn, i didnt know critical drinker was a creative way to say that your that guy who is not fun to drink with! 🤦♂️
it would be even better without freaking Justice Smith in it
I found the barbarian girl surprisingly good. She made it believable somehow. Takes a lot for me to find a female character beating up males believable.
Ebola Gay is my favorite airplane
Basically copycat of guardians of the galaxy
I was worried when I saw Chris Pine was supposed to be the weak smart one and Holga the strong one. But my worries were shattered when Holga was feeling down and Chris Pine started singing and instead of the usual marvel quip about Pine sucking at singing or something Holga actually smiled and joined in. It showed that they were long time allies who understood and cared for each other. I can't think of any scenes of emasculating. Maybe the wizard dude getting rejected or having self esteem issues but that was his character flaw and he got over it. It's weird how refreshing it is to see the classic cookie cutter rpg characters done right.
Movie was fantastic. Seemed like you were desperately searching for flaws.
If you go into this movie expecting The Lord of the Rings you’ll be disappointed, but if you go in expecting to watch a D&D TTRPG campaign unfold, with a few laughs and thrills, you’ll be very satisfied. It’s a good movie, a solid B. What I call a “popcorn” movie. Get some popcorn and chill for a couple hours, you’ll have fun.
Have to admit I really enjoyed the movie and have watched it a few times in the last year. The style reminds me of the B movie, Beastmaster, for its tone and action. A loveable cult classic and homage to D&D which I've played for over 40 years.
It sucked. But then again, ive been playing D&D for 40 years so yeah it still sucked.
It's a fun movie. It doesn't need to be more than that. The graveyard scene alone is comedy gold!
My only complaint would be that the illusion spell wasn't cast by the bard. Unless he's just a rogue with a lute rather than an actual bard, which is basically a singing wizard with some rogue skills in D&D terms.
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One of the most painfully unfunny movies I've seen in years. This is the perfect example of other studios trying to copy Marvel movies. Awful script, bad acting, weak villain, poor special effects. Just simply terrible.
Usually, I agree with the drinker, but this film was just awful. I managed to make it about 20 minutes in before the overwhelming weight of wokeness, just crushed any joy out of this thing. The male Harper lead was about as weak and foolish as possible while the ethnically diverse strong empowered women kicked badguys as unstoppable feminine juggernauts. 20min was more than enough of this.
First time i saw this i was alright its okay.
Then i rewatched it and thought alright pretty good. Then i watched it on shrooms and o my fucking god i fucking loved it.
Michelle Rodriguez is way too butch
You expected it to be totally shit, but your expectations were subverted when you realized it was just mostly shit.
Shit is shit.
It was an entertaining movie.
My foremost gripe with it is that the antagonist plots and plans very meticulously, yet when she exacts her plan she's surprised that the people she "captured" simply run away… because she didn't bar ANY exit…
The plan wasn't foiled by the heroes in any way.
The antagonist was somehow too dumb to figure out she should really capture these people by, you know, preventing them from escaping.
Pine is incoherent and clearly screws up his lines, at 1 point he says "plan A has a sink" a sink? Magically no one notices apart from mis-cast more talented, younger old sorcerer who luckily rectifies his error saying "plan C has a stink" Stink. Funny as that perfectly describes 90% of the movie.
A year later: Too bad it didn't do better, you might be right on how the marketed this to try to get that "mysterious" market of non invested proffesional victims. I know everyone that went to this fan or not liked this movie alot, even if they didn't understand everything. It's just that D&D isn't as mainstream as they thought it was.