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[-] Flibbertigibbet@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

The Speak With Dead scene I thought was well done, and the heist and sneaking into the carriage I thought was a very D&D plan...

[-] average650@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's another scene ( the heist, especially the carriage part) that would make for an analysis of what was going on at the table.

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[-] CaptFeather@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

I fucking loved the Themberchaud scenes and Chancellor Jarnathan. Honestly the entire movie sounded like an IRL game, I think that's why I enjoyed it so much.

"Chancellor Jarnathan enters the chamber -"

"I GRAB JARNATHAN AND JUMP OUT THE WINDOW"

"...Roll a grapple check. Goddamnit.

Lmao

[-] average650@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I would love to see an analysis of all the rolls in that game... It would make a great youtube video.

[-] MikeHfuhruhurr@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

I liked the whole movie, but honestly my favorite part was the reveal at the beginning for why they were waiting for that one judge.

[-] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I also liked how the bad guy tries the same shit with that judge lol

[-] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I liked the small cameos in the maze battle scene. The characters from the 1980’s cartoon show made an appearance, even if they didn’t say anything.

[-] InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Used to watch the cartoon and recognized the characters immediately! Definitely one of the parts where I geeked out the hardest!

[-] average650@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ha! I never saw that cartoon, but it did seem like they put some thought into those characters. I may have to look them up.

[-] Elden_Potato@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

This movie made me so sad in unexpected ways. Went in blind expecting a half-assed cash in and was blown away by how damn good this movie actually was and how much I enjoyed just to be disappointed that it bombed at the box office and we will probably never see another installment.

[-] average650@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I think it bombed because there was no marketing.... I only heard of it through Reddit DND stuff.

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[-] MortyMcFry@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

I could easily watch a whole series of this format. Very well done

[-] TheOtterITGuy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

The use of the "hither tither" stick, it felt exactly how a player would use it

[-] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Also exactly how it would be introduced. Intricate puzzle the DM spent hours designing, fucking it up instantly, then just being like oh shit, lucky we had this staff the DM made during his portal playthrough

[-] TCGM@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fat dragon is what really landed the movie for me. That? That was a DM decision, based on the players and the DM being memelords. Straight from the tabletop.

It really just demonstrated that the whole movie is a DnD campaign (agglomerate homebrew) with extremely high production value, and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT.

[-] Servantoffire@mander.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

The fat dragon, Themberchaud, is actually a canon obese dragon. He's in the Out of the Abyss module and some others.

[-] TCGM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Huh, TIL.

Still, without knowing that, it looked exactly like the kind of collective meme the table would come up with and beg the DM to add.

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[-] xSPYXEx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The fat dragon made my wife lose it. She just kept saying "He looks just like the cat when he smells chicken."

[-] TommySalami@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

A lot to be said, but I think my favorite little thing was the rust monsters eating scrap for the 1.5 seconds they were on screen. Entirely unnecessary, but showed they put in a good amount of thought to the film.

[-] average650@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh I missed that! When did that happen?

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[-] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The smile that came when they showed a Harper's pin right before mentioning the Harpers never left my face. Such a subtle little thing, but they fucking nailed it.

[-] ThtCrzyBstrd@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

"But we approved your pardon!"

Simple, hilarious, and sounds like the DM response rather than the character.

[-] roboticide@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Favorite part is probably simply that they made such a good and well written D&D movie that managed to both convey the feeling of a D&D game to actual fans, and still be enjoyable and accessible to non-fans.

Favorite scene though, if I had to pick one? Probably Doric's wildeshaping chase, and the whole Underdark sequence. Themberchaud was such a chode, lol.

[-] Aubreysux@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

The chase scene where the druid constantly wildshaped was amazing. Also Themberchaud.

[-] average650@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It was! The music really made that part excellent.

Themberchaud was the fat dragon right? That was a very homebrew dnd moment... The movie was good at that.

[-] Aubreysux@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

That's right. He shows up in Out of the Abyss.

[-] Astrealix@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

BUT WE APPROVED YOUR PARDON

[-] Kempeth@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Probably the bridge. DM crafted such an amazing puzzle and the paladin being a good boy learned it perfectly. Group was like: You know it'd be fun to see what the DM does if I accidentally put my foot on it.

Also the five questions. You could see that coming from MILES away but it was still hilarious.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The bridge scene is even better when you realize the paladin is a DM-insert NPC, there to explain the overcomplicated puzzles, steer the plot, and keep the incompetent party from getting killed. Once they're back on track with what the DM has prepped, he says his farewell and disappears from the story.

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Amusingly enough, it's at the end where the Doric the owlbear ragdolls Sofina and yeets her into a building. It's exactly what I expected for a DND death. Everything else was super solid but that ending just sent me.

[-] sarahcanary@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

I loved the camaraderie of the characters. It reminded me of playing DnD when I was in middle school. It made me wish I knew people who played now, I would love to get into it again. Fun times.

[-] average650@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Is there a place on here to find dnd groups? That would be a great idea to have a community for that or start something within this community.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If there isn't an lfg@lemmy.world we should make one.

[-] Aubreysux@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

My vote would be to just use this community for that purpose until the community gets big enough to split out.

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[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I loved the build up in the beginning, the chains, all the guards looking nervously at this big brute. Then he walks in to the cell and gets absolutely destroyed by Holga.

She clearly rolled a 20 on her kick him in the knees attack, from that point on the encounter is over. Also Edgin calmly discussing the poor choice he made by touching her potato.

I also thought it was very well done, bringing the potato gag back at the end of the movie.

[-] PoetSII@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's been a minute since I saw it but I thought the humor was well executed. There's a lot of talk lately about how modern blockbusters (read: marvel) are oversaturated with humor, but I feel like Honor Among Thieves struck just the right balance for a movie about DnD.

Edot: will say that my friend still cracks up whenever he thinks of Themberchaud so that's probably where his vote goes

[-] Strangian@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I just loved that it actually felt like D&D

[-] GregoryBluehorse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Aside from the how well the humor landed I thought that the fight scenes were really well choreographed. Not this mention how every character follows the initiative order in the final fight scene. Pretty nifty. Overall it was a great movie.

[-] TimRoquette@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Loved the "fresh cut grass smell" bit. My party was grinning since it reminded them of all the shitty magic tricks I pulled off during our last campaign.

We loved the movie, it really captured the spirit of our games.

[-] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I thought they did a really good job with the choreography in the barbarian fights. Also the slap dash A plan, B plan, back up plan, back to plan B, all felt very authentic to a dnd campaign.

[-] Sanguine@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Also watched this last night and loved it. Can't really pick a favorite part. This is also coming from a non DnD playing person. Thought the film did a nice job blending in humor without it getting cheesy.

[-] simplecyphers@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

“Just because your sentence was symmetrical doesn’t mean it’s not nonsense”

“Hold this”

[-] TheOtterITGuy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The use of the "hither tither" stick, it felt exactly how a player would use it

[-] MrMusAddict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I was genuinely taken aback by when on the Nat 1 deception from major illusion. I knew something was up, but when his body started contorting like a GMod machinima, I freaking lost it!

[-] Revolutionary_Pi@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Somebody on another platform mentioned this. Every turn/move of a character in a fight takes 6 seconds, a very nice little detail imo. Edit: Grammar.

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[-] stelman3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The druid running away from the tower. Just impossible to do with in a DND game but true eye catching.

Oh and the zombie questioning 😅

[-] TheOtterITGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The Hither Tither stick, it's exactly how I expect players to use it

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