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The LEGO movie was a surprisingly good for a movie based on a toy franchise. What other movies have exceeded their expectations?
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The D&D movie was great too
I mean, one of them. Honor Among Thieves was excellent, the 2000 one... not so much.
Definitely!
Nothing like watching Pike jam on a lute
I'm glad that you enjoyed it, that's great, but I thought it was really bad and cringy. I'll focus on the positive, I did like the escape from jail scene at the beginning because that scene did have a genuine players-improvizing-their-ridiculous-stupid-plan-while-the-flabbergasted-DM-tries-to-keep-the-campaign-going feel to it. I wish the rest of the movie was able to capture that same D&D feeling
I thought it totally did, right down to the overpowered NPC that gets added to the party to move the plot along because the actual group seems to be unable to progress stuff fast enough for the DM.
Yeah, as a DM I totally feel that thought out the entire film as well. Another good example for me as the bit where they managed to get under the area, which felt like they skipped the entire dungeon to the boss fight and led them straight to docks.
I think they had to strike a balance of "feels like what would actually happen in a game of DnD" and "we need to streamline some things to make it work as a movie." And I think they struck a decent balance. It was fun to see the times they failed a roll/skill check, and the creative solutions to problems.